Where to sell Model-S 2nd hand?

Going to chop in my 2016 Model-S for a new one because I want the greater range, and (at the high mileage I do) the car will be over 100K fairly soon ...

My plan was that if I sold it now there would be enough miles left to give a new owner some "comfort" ...

... but ... the R. Symons price (after commission deducted) is less than Tesla Trade-in (which, itself, is pretty lousy).

So I'll just hand it to Tesla ... unless ... what if I put it on eBay for a couple of £grand more than trade in price The car is wrapped (which Tesla trade in won't give me anything for) so paint is in v.good condition etc.

I have no idea how I would do a cash sale, and be sure to get the cash and promptly, and am conscious of a fair amount of potential hassle ... and I've got about a week until new one arrives (could push that back of course)

Suggestions welcome

 

Thanks, that's exactly my expectation.

So my planned route is "Tesla are offering me £X, if it makes sense for anyone to offer me £X + £2K then let me know"

Probably will be zero takers ... in which case that's fine, Tesla can have it.

I remember

I had a look on Jon's site. None my model, vintage, and mileage, but same model on sale by R. Symons with lower mileage gives me some glossy description-wording to consider

I bought cash too, and will do this time. If there was a 1%-ish finance deal I'd take it, makes no sense to me at current levels.

I figure:

100K miles is the point to move it on, I don't want risk beyond that (but I would probably be happy with that risk, next time, with a "current" one)

I do 30K miles p.a.(car is below that by virtue of having been at Tesla's for a month at a time, here and there, in the early days when I figured they might fix some minor niggles, so I had 2 or 3 months of loaners which has reduced actual mileage.)

Going forwards my plan is to ditch the ICE backup. MS LR Raven will get me range for the few tricky business trips I currently use the ICE for.

Then I can also buy an M3 and split the business mileage between the two, so can give each car 6 - 10 years for 100K mileage, instead of 3 years on one.

Having two EVs and one of them at home, weekdays, will soak up excess PV too ...

 

66% of the Tesla trade in price I don't reckon they'll get many takers at that price (might be a shut-out bid 'coz they don't actually want them)

P.S. To add insult to injury the local address they want me to take it to is ...


... Asda !!!

 

Thanks.

81% of Tesla trade in ... which went up to 83% when I updated the details to say that it DOES have a SatNav !

 

I had that with the one, and only, car I disposed of that way (didn't mind on that occasion)

But I'm surprised that Tesla's offer to me is significantly better than any of them, and also better than R. Symons (which I wasn't expecting)

Perhaps they want it (or its ilk) for some reason ...

 

I agree ... but not sure I want the hassle though. I have a vivid imagination of the likely Punters that might turn up ...

Had an RS4 nicked off the drive by an Autotrader ad respondent ... impressive job, now I look back on it, and kids (young at the time) street cred elevated as "Police had to scramble a chopper as they didn't have anything that could catch it"

How much will Tesla add to trade in price to forecourt it? (maybe: how little can they get away with adding? do they just want very high mileage, thus cheap, trade ins to expand the Loaner fleet maybe?). There is no other car on Tesla Info of that model with similar high mileage, will be interesting to see if mine appears there and what it lists for

If someone is interested enough to pay be £2K more than Trade In I'd be happy, but I figure any less than that, coupled with a significant number of interested people, time to prepare adverts, cost of advertising, the whole "how to get money that I can be sure of" ... don't suppose anyone is going to rock up with £40K in a suitcase, and not sure I would want to receive it that way; quite a lot of hassle / risk compared to trade disposal ...

 

They gave a low/high range, and then their commission to pay. After I deduct commission. assuming the top end price, they are still £1,000 below Tesla ... and if it turned out to be the low end then that would be Ouch! Plus they aren't anywhere near me ... I know someone in specialist car trade, and he was interested but out of his comfort zone. I might put him in touch with R Symons to see if expanding his geographic network would be to his liking - WbaEV Dot Com maybe?!!

Wish I could offer easy payment terms !!

you have warranty ... but its an interesting comparison. Same sort of performance and range. Way more cargo space in the MS. Apart from latest hardware (sentry mode etc.) the software is the same. AP1 arguably good enough fro Motorway and without phantom braking and able to read speed signs. But no future improvements coming ...

I absolutely share your view that it is remarkable what Tesla achieved first time around. iPace, ECQ, eTron basically only drawing level (on technical level) with where Tesla was 5 - 7 years ago; Raven (and Model-3) is a leap ahead.

Will be interesting to see the VW ID - looks like it may compare very favourably ... when it eventually gets here.