Decisions, decisions…. Daily Driver

Initially got a price from WBAV, booked an appointment for 3 days in advance (the price is ‘guaranteed’ for 4 days). Got a phone call day before appointment and the lady said they needed to adjust the price down by nearly £2K due to ‘market fluctuations’. So told them to cancel the appointment as that didn’t sound like much of a guarantee!

In the meantime I setup my profile on Motorway and uploaded photos as requested. Price they offered was less than 1st WBAV price but more than revised WBAV one.

Whilst waiting for the Motorway profile to be reviewed so they could enter van into next auction, I tried another WBAV valuation and it came back with the same as the original price, so I made an appointment for 1 hours time and rushed down there before the lady could phone me up again :whistle:

Van was not knocked down on anything like bodywork, tyres etc, but they deducted £120 for not having an owners handbook :rolleyes:

I also paid £24.95 to get money next day.

Third time I’ve used WBAV and went well each time.

Main dealer trade-in against a Golf I was interested in was less than lowest WBAV price by £500.
Lad who works with me just had this same situation
Wanted to sell his well specced 3series estate to buy his first van WBAC offered him £13,000 went to appointment tried knocking him down to £10,500 he left with no deal.
Left it a week retried at a different location again £13,000 on the web so went to appointment and they agreed the full valuation bit there hand off there and then
 
I had a Mk 7.5 golf GTI Performance before my T6 was a good daily driver and in eco mode could get a decent mpg
 
What exactly are the rules around luxury car tax’ then?
Anything over 40k new and you have to pay an extra 400 quid or so a year in tax from year 2 for 5 years.

Which is a bit of a joke as £40k isn't really 'luxury' money these days. All but the base model Passat estate is over 40k!
 
As above, it was introduced in 2017 and the threshold hasn’t increased with inflation/car prices so ‘normal’ cars are being hit with the extra tax each year which is the bit that makes me most irate about it. By now it should be like £80k or something.

A 2023 Golf GTI with no options except metallic paint was just under the threshold, but add the pan roof or DCC as an option and it creeps over - a Golf GTI (or a Passat estate) is not a luxury car FFS.

Oh, and from April 2025 - electric vehicles which are currently zero road tax will be paying the same as a petrol car AND will be subject to the luxury car surcharge too - loads of electric vehicles are over £40k :confused:
 
As above, it was introduced in 2017 and the threshold hasn’t increased with inflation/car prices so ‘normal’ cars are being hit with the extra tax each year which is the bit that makes me most irate about it. By now it should be like £80k or something.

A 2023 Golf GTI with no options except metallic paint was just under the threshold, but add the pan roof or DCC as an option and it creeps over - a Golf GTI (or a Passat estate) is not a luxury car FFS.

Oh, and from April 2025 - electric vehicles which are currently zero road tax will be paying the same as a petrol car AND will be subject to the luxury car surcharge too - loads of electric vehicles are over £40k :confused:
I’ve got a Mk8.5 GTI on order, no options other than the paint to keep it under the £40k threshold. There are a fair few ‘stock’ cars in dealerships, with Drive the Deal you can get circa £5.5k discount
 
Test drives completed this morning:

2023 M135i
2020 330i M Sport
2024 Mk8 Golf GTI
 
Waiting for the end of this story…

Deposit put down on a T6.1 :slow rofl:
Unlikely ;)
As much as I loved my Transporters (and Caddy), the vanlife love affair has ended.
Have managed to refrain from waving at Transporters from the driving seat of the rollerskate since it sold too :D
My use case is much more suited to a medium sized car.
My head has been turned back to technology trinkets and petrol engined, refined, more nimble, comfort.

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Does the budget stretch to a Cayman?

This one is an almost perfect GTS spec, just missing the alcantara steering wheel. £47k, but you can get a 981 S for £10k cheaper.

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£34k for this


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Keep that for a few years an you'd probably not lose much, if any money - the prices have steadied out on these.

I'd take one of these over a brand new golf any day of the week.
 
Can you not plan a few more trips etc to get more use out of the van? I’ve had all kinds of cars Nobles, exiges, porsches and an M3 CSL and whilst I have young kids now I absolutely love my van and the cheap weekends away etc. The roads are getting harder to enjoy quick cars on so I don’t really miss it as much as I thought I would certainly not when I’m sitting in the lakes in my awning with a beer.
 
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