Has the bottom dropped out of the Disco 1 market?

[simondarby]

I have tried to sell my 1995 300tdi for over 2 months now and in all that time, I have only had 3 telephone calls and one visit.  Not one offer, silly or otherwise. Truck was in Autotrader mag and on their website so it had plenty of exposure.

I have taken the time to prep it for sale.  It comes with lots of spare original bits and has lots of upgrades, big intercooler, lift, underbody protection etc...

I don't understand it...

Anyone else struggling to sell their truck?

Si

[muddysteve]

in a word yes!


they are going for peanuts these days, unless its a minter then you need to wait for the right kind of buyer to come along

[Yoshi]

I paid £500 for me current disco with tax and test on it and in full working order.

They are going for nowt, although try ebay as they seem to be going for that bit more on there than anywhere else.

[redhand]

I've been telling people for sometime now that the 2nd hand 4x4 market was collapsing. There are a huge number of 4x4's (not just discos) flooding the market and the prices have dropped considerably. I sourced a 5 door 98 300tdi auto in vgc with 12mths MOT for £1600. last month.

[redhand]

As an after thought your probably better off selling accessories seperately if you've got the original bit to put back on your vehcle. As they don't seem to do much to increase the price and can even discourage some people from buying it in the first place.

[thermidorthelobster]

I thought the bottom fell out of the Disco market about 3 years ago.  Fortunately it was just after I'd sold my 200tdi, not just before as one would have expected.  I guess Land Rover made a fair few of them and they're just not as desireable as Defenders.  Now I can cheerfully watch the value of my TD5 slide in the same direction.

Why is it that the car you OWN is always depreciating frantically, whereas the car you'd LIKE never does, until just after you've bought it?  :?

[BigSi]

I know how you feel. Still trying to sell my Jeep. Its getting to a stage where I’m thinking of re-insuring it, as opposed to giving it away on ebay!  :?  :?  :?  :?

[bilge rat]

things definatly seem to have dropped, i remember when i got me first disco , took me ages soon as i phoned they were sold, now seems to loads on the market for low prices, think the bad press aint helped one bit. ok iff your buying but no good iff your selling, mind you saying that i wonder weather anything is selling .my house is on the market and hardly any interest, and looking on the right move sight nothing seems to be moving ?., alan....

[TDi90]

nothing is selling. my mums audi isnt... and shes asking a good price too  :shock:

[narked]

Mate of mine was looking at a Disco in a dealers near us. From what I could see, the price was reasonable, it was a tidy motor. He was told the usual "if you don't want it, it'll be gone by the end of the week". He ended up getting one elsewhere that was more suited to him, and the other is still on the forecourt, about 3 months on.

[redhand]

A lot of traders won't take a 4x4 unless they've got a buyer waiting or it's so cheap they'd be stupid to let it go. Over supply is the biggest problem at the moment.  


Now if we can just convince the defender owners to lower their asking prices mmmmhhh.

[Guardian.]

you can get a 300tdi 1995 disco from around the 800 mark, and a couple ive seen are not even that bad, not family car material anymore, but not that money either.
forget magazine prices, you will see people advertising them for upto 4k it will never happen.
i would say average price for a good disco 300tdi is around 1500quids.
and for 1800 theres millions of them.
they are megga value for money, even at a couple of grand as they are brilliant trucks and have tons of potential.

[J B]

the markets dropped generally,. when i realised how rotten my disco is, i bought a merc c class on a N plate with 130k for £1400, as a run around while i weld the disco up

[Range Rover Blues]

4x4 really aren't selling, but other stuff is for the same money.

Over supply and the panicking that the gov't is going to rape 4x4 owners I think.

Funny, my mate had a guy come in to his showroom with something like a 2.3 primera, I remeber it being a 2.3 jap car of some sort and he wanted rid of it becasue of the road tax, £300 :o

Rich upset him considerably when he told him what we both pay to tax Range Rovers :lol:

[Boggert]

I got a real good deal when buying my Terrano, they just wanted it out of the garage.

[Steven]

6k we payed for our S-reg last year with 115k odd miles on it, now I've looked at others on net and lr mags equal to ours and there going for bout 2k!  :(

[Lord Shagg-Pyle]

As long as the bottom doesn't drop out of my Disco, I'm not concerned!

[Bishops Finger]

Was shocked to see 2000+ Disco in the Shroppy Star for under 8k with 81k up

Makes the cost of owning/modding Jeeps more understandable..... :lol:  :lol:

[JumboBeef]

I bought my Disco about 5 months ago, and prices don't seem to have dropped since then (in MHO) :-k

[paul_humphreys]

Was shocked to see 2000+ Disco in the Shroppy Star for under 8k with 81k up

Makes the cost of owning/modding Jeeps more understandable..... :lol:  :lol:

Thats a lot of money, I have seen them go for as little at 5k :shock:

Paul