A comparison cannot see the Seal in your driveway.
Ask what a Seal is worth and the answer arrives as a comparison, and a shortcut is always paid for by whoever owns the car.
We price the one you have, from its own reading and its own condition.
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The shortcut
What a comparison cannot know about your car
Comparing is quick and it is free, which is the whole reason it gets done. What it cannot do is look at your car.
By the time most people call us about a Seal, somebody has already explained to them what the car is not. It is a peculiar way to be bought from, because at no point in it does anyone go outside and look at the vehicle the conversation is supposed to be about.
A comparison is a way of pricing a model. It cannot know what your battery reads today, what is on the corners of your car, whether the paint has spent its life in the weather, or whether anything has been done to the body since you took delivery. Those are the things that separate one Seal from the next, and they are the entire reason two cars wearing the same name are not worth the same money.
So the questions below are about yours in particular. The inspector comes to you, reads the state of health in front of you and goes over the car properly, and the figure is assembled out of what is really there. If it lands somewhere you were not expecting, in either direction, at least it will have come from your car instead of from a general opinion about the model.
In the driveway
What we ask about a Seal
Five questions, all of them about what has happened to this particular car since it became yours.
- Has it been wrapped, tinted or ceramic coated?
- Any of the three is much better mentioned beforehand than discovered on the day. We will want to understand what sits under a wrap, and if the work was done somewhere you would recommend and you can show that, it makes for a far better conversation than us wondering why a finish looks the way it does.
- Have the tyres been replaced, and with what?
- Whether it is still wearing the set it came with, and if not, what went on and whether they were all done together. Tyres are one of the few places on a car where the difference between a considered decision and a cheap one is visible from a metre away.
- Which cables are travelling with the car?
- Worth deciding before you sell rather than halfway through. People moving from one electric car to another sometimes keep the better cable for the next one, which is fair enough, but it has to be said out loud so the car is priced the way it is actually being sold.
- Is there a record of what has been done to it?
- Servicing, any warranty work, any repairs. The point is not the folder itself. It is that a documented car answers its own questions, and an undocumented one leaves them hanging, and hanging questions are precisely what a cautious buyer charges you for.
- Did you buy it new?
- If it has been yours since new then you know its whole life, and that is worth more than it sounds. If it came to you second hand, tell us what you were told when you bought it and we will check that rather than simply repeat it back to you.
Whatever it gets compared to
Three things your car decides on its own
- The reading comes from your battery. Not from a model and not from an average of other people's cars. State of health is taken on yours, on the day, and on an electric car it moves the value more than the odometer does.
- Somebody looks at the car. The inspector travels to your home or your work, because a car that has been properly looked at does not have to be priced defensively by anyone.
- Nothing has to be cleared first. If there is still money owing, that is ours to take up with your financier as part of the sale rather than something you sort out before you ring.
Before you call
Three questions Seal owners put to us
What do you actually compare it to?
The number is built from what your car reads and what condition it is in, and an inspector confirms both in front of you. That is the part we can stand behind, and it is the only part that is genuinely about your car rather than about a model.
Does a wrap or a tint help me or hurt me?
It depends what is underneath it and how the work was done, which is exactly why we ask instead of assuming. Told before the inspection it is part of the picture. Left to be discovered on the day it becomes a question mark.
What if mine is better than the ones it keeps getting compared to?
Then it should be priced that way, and the only way to show that is to have somebody stand in front of it. The reading and the condition are recorded on the day, so a car that has been looked after is argued for by what the inspector writes down rather than by what you tell us over the phone.
Have your Seal looked at, instead of compared.
Or call us on 03 9000 0075 and talk it through first.