"Kelley Blue Book Canada" Topic

My god, Google sucks! Trying sell my old car privately and therefore trying to find a site to give me values of used cars and all I get are stupid sites where you enter your information and they will get back to you, or want to sell you the blue book. Oh, and wikipedia. Bing wasn't any help either.

I think merchants and scammers and sellers have destroyed the usefulness of google for some things at least.

Surely this sort of thing is available somewhere?

Thanks very much in advance to anyone who can help.
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Tim

Try talking to your bank or credit union. They should have a copy a Kelley's Blue Book on hand.

They have a website. Is it not reachable from Canada?

kbb.com

You don't have to sign up for it and all the info is visible without email nonsense.

Kelly's blue book is only updated yearly so may nto refelct the current value of your car, especially in this economy.

I'd cross check it with the NADA values (the orange book). Their values are updated quarterly.

Thanks Jana, that's one I did find – it's for the US. It only allows you to put a zip in for the US and the advice for Canada is to use a state close to your province, which made me shrug and give up – not a used car, but a couple of years ago when we were looking for a Prius, in the US it was going for around 23k compared to 32k here and that was when both dollars were equal. Canadian dealers ed their customers for years using the difference in the dollars as an excuse and man, were they ever caught with their pants down when our dollar briefly caught up with yours and surpassed it… They are still sticking it to us…

Thanks though.
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Tim

Try this, call your insurance company and ask them if you totaled the car how much would it be worth. This is called actual cash value of the car. Age of the car, miles and options are the other key factors as well as body damage. Once upon a time I used to sell cars, and if you want to save yourself a really big hassle, head over to the carmax near you and just sell it to them. You won't get as much, but what it your time, energy and safety worth to you. if you have any questions just shoot me a PM.

Brent

You are in a very small market – unless you have something very VERY mainstream black book or blue book are going to be, frankly, crap for NL.

If you really want some sort of "book" value, I would be more inclined to call the Adesa in town

adesa.ca/StJohns

and see if you can charm someone into looking your vehicle up. Calling your insurance agent is not a bad idea either – they will have a black book at hand. But do not put to much faith in it. The system I supported (if I told you for who I would have to shoot you; I don't work on it anymore or I would get your car details) could predict auction results within a few dollars -- but only if the car was less than 3 years old and in Michigan or the like.

Computing market value is all about comparable vehicles sold nearby recently. In a small market (and especially isolated like an island) there is just not going to be that much trade.

My recommendation:

If your vehicle is recent enough for this to be plausible, call a few used car dealerships and see how much they want to ding you to buy what you want to sell. At least you will get a sense for the competition.