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Smart Forfour Brabus on eBay £6500
« on: July 10, 2016, 03:41:58 PM »

Don't know if any of you have seen the Brabus on eBay with low miles? Looks nice with one owner but £6500?
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Re: Smart Forfour Brabus on eBay £6500
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2016, 07:27:24 PM »

True
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Re: Smart Forfour Brabus on eBay £6500
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2016, 08:32:30 PM »

Yes I nearly bought it myself to sell. If anyone is interested let me know and I'll tell you how much they paid for it  ;)
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Re: Smart Forfour Brabus on eBay £6500
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2016, 08:39:23 PM »

love the bit......'Ideal for towing behind motorhome' .........or maybe not!!!!
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Re: Smart Forfour Brabus on eBay £6500
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2016, 08:51:11 PM »

you have to remember its one of the final forfours registered, with VERY low miles (which is a good and bad thing, ill explain), from a 'dealer' who has to BY LAW put a minimum of 6 months warranty or get you to sign a waiver saying you have bought the car without a warranty and if anything goes wrong, they are not liable.

in regards to mileage low miles helps retail value, a brabus with 80,000 miles will be worth less than a brabus with 40,000 miles. but with this only having done less than 2,600 miles a year could lead to all sorts of potential problems. grease in the bearings will have possibly settled at the bottom of the bearings or congealed, leading to 'premature' wear on the bearings. the tires will have flat spots on them with being stood for so long, or worse the rubber will have degraded.
the cam belt may not have been replaced due to the mileage it has covered and not forgetting the alternator belt will want replacing also, again due to the rubber degrading over time.
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Re: Smart Forfour Brabus on eBay £6500
« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2016, 09:29:42 PM »

I agree 'more or less' with those sentiments/comments...

My first Brab; a 56 plate; that I sold with only 28k miles on it at
the time, was bought by a guy who averages 500miles a year in it !
I see him every year in it at Beaulieu, and sometimes at The Ace Café.
He drives it once a month !  I so wanted to buy it back off him....
but he will not part with it, unfortunatley.
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Re: Smart Forfour Brabus on eBay £6500
« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2016, 09:32:31 PM »

How much was paid for it Edrx7?
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« Reply #8 on: July 11, 2016, 03:21:45 PM »

pm sent!!!!
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Re: Smart Forfour Brabus on eBay £6500
« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2016, 09:57:02 PM »

not wanting to lower the prices of BRABs but thats stupid money. I only paid a few £k more than that for mine in 2008 with way less miles on the clock when it was only 18months old

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Re: Smart Forfour Brabus on eBay £6500
« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2016, 09:39:27 PM »

how much more did you pay for your 18month old brabus? and it was 8 years ago when you bought your brabus, many will have seen the wrong side of the hedge so they will be getting few and far between.

its not stupid money for the reasons i mentioned although a car is only worth that someone is willing to pay for it.
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Re: Smart Forfour Brabus on eBay £6500
« Reply #11 on: July 20, 2016, 09:55:09 PM »

I would say it is over priced,  unless you are going to keep it as a show car and maybe if you are lucky in 10 years time or so you might get lucky and your money back but the price seems to be going down on the Brabus not up. ::)
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Re: Smart Forfour Brabus on eBay £6500
« Reply #12 on: July 21, 2016, 08:39:19 PM »

look at the MINI... you could pick one up for £50 at one point and you get a bad one for around £750 now up till about £9,000+ for a good one

at one point you could pick an XJ40 for £100 and one with really low miles and has been looked after car fetch over £15,000 in the Jaguar owners world

everyone thought my SB3 was 'over priced' and i could get a brabus for what i payed for it, in fact some did say to me buy a brab... but with some haggling i managed to get it about £700 cheaper.
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Re: Smart Forfour Brabus on eBay £6500
« Reply #13 on: July 21, 2016, 09:03:05 PM »

I understand where you are coming from its still a lot of cash, found another with 44k £3450.
Anyway someone thought the 6.5K Brabus was a good deal because it's been sold  ;).

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Re: Smart Forfour Brabus on eBay £6500
« Reply #14 on: July 22, 2016, 07:38:23 PM »

I did say its only worth what someone is willing to pay... And its highly likely that someone got about £500+ off
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