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edetcnn (m)
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Good people,
Please help me with your informed contributions.
I and my brother are currently negotiating with a neighbor for some cars. I had wanted a Benz and he had offered us a 2000 model C class and E class respectively, both within 90K miles and from all observations with well functioning and desirable features. They ran well too on the test drive and the guy has no problem with giving us the VIN of the cars and even offered to pay at a nearby cafe should we want to look up the VIN then.
He fixed the last price of the C-class at 1 Mill and the E class at 1.8 Mill.
A mutual friend of ours is trying to convince us that the cars may have problems just because they are too cheap for those prices.
Please I want to ask, are the cars really cheap at those prices?
And please anyone knows the going price of an Audi A6? My bro wants one. But Please help us with an accurate price estimate here first.
Thanks.
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nkc (m)
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well i would not know about d c class, but d price does not look bad, am even saying its expensive  but for d e class, i know peeps sell naija used for 1.5m, i have a friend who got one for that price. inspired_m(auto dealer) on this site, also sold an overloaded feature full eclass of same yr for 1.5, so i guess u should price yurs from 1.5 down to maybe 1.4 or lower. oda more informed opinions still on d way.  |
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earthrealm (m)
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thats the problem, if a car is too cheap, we suspect its a lemon,
if its too expensive, we say the seller is a cheat,,,,.
well buying naija used cars, u just hv to be very careful, because most guys sell their cars when im begin give them trouble, it cud be simple probs like excess fuel consumption, to vibrations of steering wheel at high speeds, n some probs u just can't detect it by a simple test drive, u might hv to drive the car 4 days before u would be able to notice the fault,
just pric e low, bearing in mind the worst case scenario, ie changing the engine of the car if the problems start to surface,
naija used cars are best if the original owner bought it brand new,
like my colleague, he has a honda halla with 95k km on the odometer, but if u didnt know u would suspect foul play 4 such an old car to hv such a low mileage,
but the truth is the have a large pool of cars n so the car was rarely used, if u cud get such a deal, i would advice u to go 4 it
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fotodaddy (m)
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@edetcnn FYI: I sold my 1998 C200 elegance (manual transmission) in November 2007 for 900K.  You can also have a look at www.1000carsales.com for a feel of prices. Why not ask some one you know has a passion for cars to look the cars over and check. I personall have some tips that I can pass on to you for you to know if the car has been in a major accident or not. Sometimes its possible to get a deal on a car (with a monor accident). but you know, generally, my belief is that if its too good to be true then it probably is too good to be true. |
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edetcnn (m)
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Guys,
Thanks for your contributions.
However, the rides we're talking about are not Nigerian used - the neighbor in question is a car dealer (or to put it better, he imports cars).
But i think I'm getting a feel of what I wanted to know.
Please, any contributions yet on the Audi?
Thanks.
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nkc (m)
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ok, cool, if dey are not naija cars then, check d vin, if you're okay with it, then yu my go with a mechanic for final approval since u have said that u test drove it. but i guess since his your neighbour den, i think u should buy d car, yur neighbour would not like to dupe u, or because u pain, because he will be seeing u everyday and thats bad publicity, so just buy them, but haggle d price down a bit goodluck which yr of a6, do u want price, 1988 or 2008 |
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