Your Tiggo 7 Super Hybrid came with more than just the car.
Nearly every one of these we see was bought new, which in this country means a price on the car and then a second conversation about everything that goes onto it.
Years later none of that shows up in a listing or on an odometer, so it gets quietly left out of what people offer you. Not here.
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The invoice
Everything that went onto it is still going to be sold with it
A new car is bought twice. Once for the car, and then again across a desk for the list of things that end up attached to it.
You will remember how it went. The number on the car is settled, and then somebody produces a page of options and the second conversation starts. Window tint, floor mats, roof bars, a cargo blind, paint or interior protection, a tow bar, and on this one usually something about charging it at home, because it plugs in. It all ends up on a single invoice, you sign the lot, and within a fortnight it has stopped being a list of purchases and simply become the car you drive.
By the time you come to sell, none of that is visible to anybody. A listing does not carry it, an odometer says nothing about it, and somebody quoting you off a description will price the shape of the car and move on. Meanwhile a good part of what you signed for is still bolted to the vehicle sitting outside, and it will belong to whoever owns the car next whether or not anybody ever mentioned it. That is the quiet leak on a car like this. It is not the valuation. It is the parts of the car nobody asked you about.
So the questions underneath are the least glamorous ones on this site and they are the ones that move real money here. We ask what was put on it, we check whether it is still there, and the car gets priced with those things rather than around them. Where something was part of the deal but is not part of the car, we say so plainly instead of letting you carry a hope about it into the conversation. The same goes for the charging side of it. Whatever is coming with the car counts, whatever is staying with your house does not, and all that is needed is for somebody to ask.
What is actually on it
What we ask about a Tiggo 7 Super Hybrid
Five questions about objects. Not one of them is a test, and the answers decide what the inspector is looking at when they walk around the car.
- What went onto it before you drove it away?
- Tint, mats, bars, a blind, a tow bar, a protection treatment, badges or trim. Reel off whatever you can remember. Every one of those is either still on the car and part of what is being sold, or it is gone and we stop wondering about it, and either answer is a useful one to have before the visit.
- Was anything else bought at the same time as the car?
- Plenty of people sign for more than the vehicle on the day and then forget the rest of it entirely. If there is a plan, a package or an agreement attached to it, dig out the paperwork and have it there. It is worth a conversation rather than an assumption, and assumptions on this always seem to go the same way.
- Is the second key still in the house?
- Have a proper look for it before the day rather than the morning of. It is a small object with real money attached to it, a pair in your hand on the day is worth more than one key and a promise, and a key that surfaces after the car has gone is worth nothing to anybody.
- Is it still on the wheels and tyres it came with?
- If the originals were swapped for something else, say so, and say whether the first set is still in the garage. Wheels are one of the few things people change on a car this young, and what is on it, plus what is sitting behind it in the shed, are two different conversations.
- Has anything been replaced or refitted since you bought it?
- A screen, a piece of trim, a bumper, glass, the little things that get sorted out and then forgotten. We are not fishing. Knowing what has already been dealt with means an inspector spends the visit looking at the car rather than working out why one part of it looks newer than the rest.
Sorting out the list
Three things that decide what comes back to you
- What is attached to the car is priced with the car. Bars, a tow bar, a blind, a second key in your hand on the day. Name it and it is part of what is being valued rather than something that leaves with the car for nothing.
- What is not on the car is not coming back. Treatments, packages and paperwork went the day you drove out and no buyer can return them to you. We would rather say that once, now, than let it turn up as a disappointment on the phone.
- The charging side of it is part of the sale. Cables, an adapter, anything you are handing over so the next owner can plug it in. It is valued along with everything else rather than treated as an accessory that came free with the car.
The awkward arithmetic
Three questions about the money you already spent
Do I get back what I paid for all the extras?
Some of it and not all of it, and it is better to hear that now than on the call. Anything physically on the car is valued as part of the car. Anything that was a service, a treatment or a piece of paper went when you drove away, and no honest buyer can hand that back to you. Anybody who suggests otherwise is managing you rather than pricing your car.
There is a charger at my house. Where does that sit?
With whoever ends up owning it, and you decide which. If it is coming off the wall and going with the car, tell us and it is valued as part of the sale. If you are staying in the house and it stays there, that is completely ordinary and the car is priced without it. It only becomes a problem if nobody mentions it until the day.
Do I need receipts for the things that were added to it?
They help and they are not a condition of anything. If the original invoice is still in a drawer, put it in the car for the visit, because it settles what was fitted at the start rather than leaving it to anybody to work out. If it has gone, just talk us through what is on the car and we will look at it.
Tell us what went onto the car and we will price all of it.
Or call us on 03 9000 0075 and talk it through first.