Facelift One example why you should not fill your car with silly options!!!

Jassyo06 · Jan 14, 2017

Here is one car/ex demo, which has more options on it than l have seen on a A3/S3...its has £9130 bangers of them fitted to it

RRP....£46,085 and its for sale now with just 1k miles on the clock....for £34,841,this car has relatively speaking, has lost £11,244......in depreciation

Ps its a gadget lover's wet dream of a car and a bargain

pburv · Jan 14, 2017

jassyo06 said:
Here is one car/ex demo, which has more options on it than l have seen on a A3/S3...its has £9130 bangers of them fitted to it

RRP....£46,085 and its for sale now with just 1k miles on the clock....for £34,841,this car has relatively speaking, has lost £11,244......in depreciation

Ps its a gadget lover's wet dream of a car and a bargain

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You doing your boys work for him again jassy....lol
Some serious drop in price though....Like you said a bargain for someone.. :yes:

DrEskimo · Jan 14, 2017

Blimey....imagine if you tried to trade that in? Most dealers add a mark-up of £5k, so would of been lucky to get £30k trade in for it!

If you were lucky you could of maybe achieved 12% discount, so thats about £40.5k to buy on a finance agreement. Still £10k lost!! And thats being optimistic...

Cracking looking car though!

Rob2k68 · Jan 14, 2017

Ouch !! Mine has around 8k of options partly why I'm holding onto it can't bear to loose so much money !!

Jassyo06 · Jan 14, 2017

Options

h5djr · Jan 14, 2017

But it does depend on what you call 'silly' options. What one person thinks are silly options may be quite important to another. I usually spent £4k on options and they are all ones I've usually had on previous A3s and would not want to be without on options related in any way to a mobile phone just don't interest me at all and are things I would never include. But in the end it's horses for courses and personal preference. I never consider the 'trade-in' value of options when I purchase a new car. All I do know is that I do get a good trade-in price because my dealer says my car is always very easy for them to sell, especially against a similar car with less options.

Bristle Hound · Jan 14, 2017

jassyo06 said:
Here is one car/ex demo, which has more options on it than l have seen on a A3/S3...its has £9130 bangers of them fitted to it

RRP....£46,085 and its for sale now with just 1k miles on the clock....for £34,841,this car has relatively speaking, has lost £11,244......in depreciation

Ps its a gadget lover's wet dream of a car and a bargain

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Doesn't look like a £46k car to me
Typical of a numpty main Dealer over spec'ing a car just because they can
I'll let you guess who'll end up paying for this piece of madness

Flying Scotsman · Jan 14, 2017

that in one reason I ordered without lane assist, adaptive cruise control, park assist, navigation ( use google auto which is way better on MMI screen via smartphone) only the stuff I actually will use and yes, no virtual cockpit :shrug:

....lots of other useful goodies though :racer:

Jassyo06 · Jan 14, 2017

Bristle Hound said:
Doesn't look like a £46k car to me
Typical of a numpty main Dealer over spec'ing a car just because they can
I'll let you guess who'll end up paying for this piece of madness

Most Audi's dont look the money mate....

Jassyo06 · Jan 14, 2017

Flying Scotsman said:
that in one reason I ordered without lane assist, adaptive cruise control, park assist, navigation ( use google auto which is way better on MMI screen via smartphone) only the stuff I actually will use and yes, no virtual cockpit ....lots of other useful goodies though

l had these driver assist gash on my Focus.....but it cost only £700...."stock vehicle"blind spot assist was the only one option that l found useful

Bristle Hound · Jan 14, 2017

jassyo06 said:
Most Audi's dont look the money mate....

@jassyo06 - At list price, I agree
My S4 was just over £42k list & i don't think it looks a £42k car as much as I love it

pburv · Jan 14, 2017

jassyo06 said:
l had these driver assist gash on my Focus.....but it cost only £700...."stock vehicle"blind spot assist was the only one option that l found useful

Blind spot assist.....Might need it I think....

Jassyo06 · Jan 14, 2017

Bristle Hound said:
@jassyo06 - At list price, I agree
My S4 was just over £42k list & i don't think it looks a £42k car as much as I love it

You have to admit though, its a bargain of a car with just a 1000 miles on the clock

Jassyo06 · Jan 14, 2017

pburv said:
Blind spot assist.....Might need it I think....

Eye Eye....Captn....lol

pburv · Jan 14, 2017

jassyo06 said:
Eye Eye....Captn....lol

Shivveerrr me timbers an all that..lol

Jassyo06 · Jan 14, 2017

h5djr said:
But it does depend on what you call 'silly' options. What one person thinks are silly options may be quite important to another. I usually spent £4k on options and they are all ones I've usually had on previous A3s and would not want to be without on options related in any way to a mobile phone just don't interest me at all and are things I would never include. But in the end it's horses for courses and personal preference. I never consider the 'trade-in' value of options when I purchase a new car. All I do know is that I do get a good trade-in price because my dealer says my car is always very easy for them to sell, especially against a similar car with less options.

Silly options = ones that cost a bundle, but dont make your car more desirable on the used car market and this car is a fine example of one, this car has over £9000 worth of them.

Bristle Hound · Jan 14, 2017

jassyo06 said:
You have to admit though, its a bargain of a car with just a 1000 miles on the clock

@jassyo06 - Nope

Flying Scotsman · Jan 14, 2017

A bargain yes, but the colour...no comment!

Jassyo06 · Jan 14, 2017

Flying Scotsman said:
A bargain yes, but the colour...no comment!

Hoy you...lol its a gash photo l admit,but Floret Silver is stunning so l think,You must be rattling like a Skint junky fe Easterhoose the noo....waiting on yer Ara Blue Saloon BABY....lol

Jassyo06 · Jan 14, 2017

Bristle Hound said:
@jassyo06 - Nope

Get with the program @Bristle Hound bet yer next move is on one of them black Edition Saloons...lol

h5djr · Jan 14, 2017

jassyo06 said:
Silly options = ones that cost a bundle, but dont make your car more desirable on the used car market and this car is a fine example of one, this car has over £9000 worth of them.

One persons silly option may be really important to someone else. To me the trade-in value of an option is not important, but having it in my car or not is important.

CraigI · Jan 14, 2017

The one option doing that car no favours is Floret.
Doesn't suit the car one bit, and I had a Floret car before.

gamegenie · Jan 14, 2017

Are those the real pics of the car jassy? I don't see the Active Lane fitted. Still not enough options.

Jassyo06 · Jan 14, 2017

gamegenie said:
Are those the real pics of the car jassy? I don't see the Active Lane fitted. Still not enough options.

lt doesnt have the full drivers assistance pack ,it has more options than yoor broon saloon.....though...lol

Jassyo06 · Jan 14, 2017

h5djr said:
One persons silly option may be really important to someone else. To me the trade-in value of an option is not important, but having it in my car or not is important.

OK....Dave....ye never get it do ya

h5djr · Jan 14, 2017

jassyo06 said:
OK....Dave....ye never get it do ya

Get what? I know what I do get. A car I like with the options I want. Better to pay £34k and get the car I want than £30k with bits missing.

gamegenie · Jan 15, 2017

jassyo06 said:
lt doesnt have the full drivers assistance pack ,it has more options than yoor broon saloon.....though...lol

I don't know about that, my car has infinite options now thanks to OBDeleven + I have Active Lane Assist.

PhatGit · Jan 15, 2017

Will be interesting to see how the new road tax rules impact on options. Adding on that £70 hill hold assist could cost you an extra £1500 in road tax. And it is list price, not what you actually pay

rcnacura · Jan 15, 2017

I saved $8k by buying ”used” with 4k miles on the car. On top if that I got a better warranty because of CPO and then bought AudiCare (since I didn't know it was an option) for $850. Such a great deal. The extra money saved, I put back in the car and love that car and the options I put in it as its so much cheaper to do retrofits yourself, if needed and if you like doing that sort of thing.

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Snake Pliskin · Jan 15, 2017

It does look epic in floret totally agree :yes:

The depreciation really is scary though.

Prior to the 3 I have always kept 'options' to a minimum for this very reason ... but the options list on pretty much all audi's now is so tempting & extensive it is hard to keep them to a small level anymore without compromising.

Black editions at least give you some retained value imo.

Jassyo06 · Jan 15, 2017

h5djr said:
Get what? I know what I do get. A car I like with the options I want. Better to pay £34k and get the car I want than £30k with bits missing.

It was just a example of how adding a lot of options on a car especially unpopular options will lose you a lot of options, it's not about your options on your car,

TDI-line · Jan 15, 2017

It's a shame, they didn't add an exclusive colour and made it £11k + of options.

They went full ******.

Simonb1975 · Jan 15, 2017

Ouch, that's gonna hurt.
Mind you I always go for what I want, my cars always get Px'd at the dealers. I know i'm technically losing out but as I always go that way, it's all worked into the numbers.

Bristle Hound · Jan 16, 2017

jassyo06 said:
Get with the program @Bristle Hound bet yer next move is on one of them black Edition Saloons...lol

@jassyo06 - S3 saloon still in my top 3 next cars to buy when I've finished with the S4 in 18 months
Could be S3 saloon part 3 for me

No BE next time. Dunna like the standard BE wheels TBH
Only colour I like in the S3 palette is ibis white at the mo & thats only because I don't want another blue car straight after owning 1. Altho' navarro & ara are rather nice tobe fair

cemerson · Jan 16, 2017

What a silly thread. I'll buy the car I want to drive thank you very much, not the car I want to sell...

Simonb1975 · Jan 16, 2017

cemerson said:
What a silly thread. I'll buy the car I want to drive thank you very much, not the car I want to sell...

Amen to that

S32B · Jan 16, 2017

jassyo06 said:
adding a lot of options on a car especially unpopular options will lose you a lot of options, it's not about your options on your car,

How many options can you get in one sentence lol

Flying Scotsman · Jan 16, 2017

cemerson said:
What a silly thread. I'll buy the car I want to drive thank you very much, not the car I want to sell...

Not a silly thread, it was just pointing out that you do not get much of a return of investment on a fully optioned car, which is true. I buy a car with options I want and will use and that is why I order a car and not what the dealer thinks I want.

h5djr · Jan 16, 2017

cemerson said:
What a silly thread. I'll buy the car I want to drive thank you very much, not the car I want to sell...

I agree completely. I buy a car with the options I want which is one of the reasons I buy an Audi. I do like the current Golf. I prefer some items on the Golf to the A3 but VW will only let me buy a Golf with the 184 engine if it's a GTD and the GTD has 'options' as standard that I would not want. Audi, with the A3, give me the choose of whether I have some of these 'options' or not. The car then becomes what I want and not what some marketing guy thinks I want. The trade-in value with or without the options is not something I take in to account. As I said in a previous post, why pay £30k for any old car when for £34k I can have just what I want.

batch · Jan 16, 2017

jassyo06 said:
Hoy you...lol its a gash photo l admit,but Floret Silver is stunning so l think,You must be rattling like a Skint junky fe Easterhoose the noo....waiting on yer Ara Blue Saloon BABY....lol

Skint junkies don't rattle Jassy, they Cluck...

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