rear and front light gaurds,side boby mouldings,upper colour coded mirror caps,silver effect dash fascia kit,privacy glass, its putting a personal mark on your pride and joy,but does not mean athing to when you want a px of the main stealers,....i spent over £800 on the above,........px price with the dealer asking what extras has it got,another dealer,i dont tell its got these extras ,............and yes you guessed,,both came out with the same price,they were the same company just 2 different locations,..but when on sale the cant rant on enought about extras, so my new one will have only privacy this time almost forgot it had a spare wheel aswell as all dealers lately seem this is an extra thats fab to have  Current: Freelander 2 GS, Orkney Grey, Factory fit privacy glass, design pack and Clearview pack. Almond Leather ,rear spoiler,rear mudflaps.my13.

Gone:Freelander 2, GS, "61"

Gone: Freelander 2, GS.e, "59"

Gone: Freelander 2, S, "08"

Either sell the extras off - or transfer them to your new one...

Calcul@tor wrote:

Either sell the extras off - or transfer them to your new one...

i wish,but cant as the light gaurds are drilled in to body panels,so would leave holes,privacy glass cant be removed ,unless i take it out and buy clear glass side body moulding would prob lift the paint off,if i tried to remove them,also may damage ,or leave marks on dash trying to remove silver dash thinggy,good thinking but no pratical anyway sold private so dont mind now so much and £3000 more in my wallet than the stealers offered  Current: Freelander 2 GS, Orkney Grey, Factory fit privacy glass, design pack and Clearview pack. Almond Leather ,rear spoiler,rear mudflaps.my13.

Gone:Freelander 2, GS, "61"

Gone: Freelander 2, GS.e, "59"

Gone: Freelander 2, S, "08"

Extras only mean, EXTRA cash from your pocket to the Dealer Pocket.

There start with the basic's, Mat & Flap, then the goody's just get more expensive,

Most Extra's just clip on screw or bolt on, and cost the earth for want there made off, most dealer's will remove all the extrs on a trade in. so the car is back to Standard. And then sale them on , or throw them to the next buyer to get the deal !!
so you get nothing for them if your trading a car in with any extra's on

Ford started it years ago with the ford Mustang in the states. BMW with the Mini ( salt and pepper pack) etc,

Similar thing has been mentioned before on here, there are a couple of threads were someone was thinking of buying a low spec model such as buying a S model and adding extras to make it almost a GS which works out a little cheaper but it is still not worth more when selling with the options they still class it as an S model.

I can confirm the above is true from the dealers given all the bits on mine!! Maybe I should do a PX of my Diamond Turned alloys to someone on here with normal HSE wheels. (Past) Freelander 2 HSE 2010 MY In Rimini Red.
(Past) RR Evoque Dynamic Lux Si4 In Firenze Red.
(Past) RR Evouque Pure Tech in Barollo Black with bespoke Firenze Red colour coding.
(Present) Freelander Metropolis 2015 MY In Santorini Black with Ivory Premium Leather.

my dealer noted my extras on trade in and included them as value added, his notes on the invoice say
side tubes
privacy
wheel upgrade (I kid you not)


He said the above means he can sell it on his forecourt rather than trade it on, confident of a quick sale.

Side tubes are bent he should have looked more carefully  At work
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Most extras add very little value to a cars px worth. Certainly cosmetic extras such as mud flaps, mouldings, side tubes and headlamp protectors do little to improve the value. Key extras are leather, sat nav, climate and wheels.

better always to buy the model that meets your requirements, ie I bought an HSE as I wanted this specification

no point in buying a lower spec and trying to bring it up to the higher spec, etc

also a lot of people prefer a standard car whether it's an S, XS, etc rather than one that has been blinged up.

Iain

on advice read here and elsewhere I went for the GS rather than S + leather (we weren't bothered about satnav) as it makes sense for second hand market searching for the spec level not the extras

I think it better to spec a model that suits your needs and wish list wheather its an s , gs , xs, or hse you should be buying for your self not the next man, , I have specced our gs out so it's like an xs inside and hse out side , it's funny how it came from the factory with no gs badge on it , and unless you knew what to look for it would pass as a hse but cost tons less.

It seems extras traded in are of use the the dealer

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Freelander-2-Use...2567b061e7

ad210358 wrote:

It seems extras traded in are of use the the dealer

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Freelander-2-Use...2567b061e7

Extras always have and always will be IMHO a purely personal upgrade to a vehicle and of little or NO value when it comes to changing. (Ok more so at a dealers, private sale might be slightly easier to highlight as a benefit) In fact now a days it’s not what extras it’s got; it’s what extras it HASN’T got that people focus on! (Typical!) I guess it wouldn’t do for them all to be the same though so c’est la vie. 57 HSE AUTO with H.I.D's - Grey with Black leather. (H.S.E. Heightadjustable Seats Extra )
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I always remove anything I have bought such as mats etc and sell them on the bay unless of course I am buying the same car again. Gone, 2007 TD4 SE Auto Baltic blue, clear side repeaters, full sized alloy spare.

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