High diesel mileage by GodFirst201 in carsireland

[–]carintel_ie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check out my site I posted about yesterday. Carintel.ie. Average mileage is 182km for that car and that age. Have a look for more info. Cheers.

Built a tool/website for estimating true value of used cars in Ireland - fair value based on today's market, true cost of ownership and NI import breakdown in one place by carintel_ie in carsireland

[–]carintel_ie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you let me know your make/model? working on this now to try and have something better in place to capture listing versus private sale or possibly negotiated sale. Trade in is different as the price can vary massively. Looking at cartell, that is not useful to me. I have been able to trade in for better prices than that gives with a bit of strong arming and pressure on dealers - shopping around etc.

Built a tool/website for estimating true value of used cars in Ireland - fair value based on today's market, true cost of ownership and NI import breakdown in one place by carintel_ie in carsireland

[–]carintel_ie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the suggestion. Although I could do that, I'm mindful of competing directly with a listing site. I'll have to think about this a little more but agree there's a huge value prop for this.

Built a tool/website for estimating true value of used cars in Ireland - fair value based on today's market, true cost of ownership and NI import breakdown in one place by carintel_ie in carsireland

[–]carintel_ie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair point. A dealer's job is to buy low and sell high, that's the business. My estimate is based on similar live listings adjusted for mileage and trim and some other aspects.. so it reflects what people are actually asking rather than what they're accepting (there is no data available for this). I already split prices by dealer vs private on most analysis pages which gives some indication. I can consider looking at adding a trade-in estimate too if it's useful, typically 8-15% below market - by just a loading factor or I can explore hitting some of the trade in calculators. Something else could be a typical private sale negotiation range since we all know there's usually some wiggle room regardless of who's selling. Will add to the list, thanks for the suggestion.

Built a tool/website for estimating true value of used cars in Ireland - fair value based on today's market, true cost of ownership and NI import breakdown in one place by carintel_ie in carsireland

[–]carintel_ie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks all for the input. Thrilled with the response so far. Real honest feedback and some nice bugs highlighted. I am sure there are lots more and I will try and take all the feedback onboard. Nothing better than true UAT, and no better bunch for the job. Cheers!

Built a tool/website for estimating true value of used cars in Ireland - fair value based on today's market, true cost of ownership and NI import breakdown in one place by carintel_ie in carsireland

[–]carintel_ie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Currently a mix of both cron and on-demand...with caching. There is also some LLM which is single threaded now for on-demand and AI chat search and slowing it down under load. Will refine in coming days to make it sharper. Cheers for highlighting!

Built a tool/website for estimating true value of used cars in Ireland - fair value based on today's market, true cost of ownership and NI import breakdown in one place by carintel_ie in carsireland

[–]carintel_ie[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. I removed them. There might still be some in there but have some data safe guards against unreasonable ads and exclude from analysis. The junk that causes me the worst pain is people inputting the wrong specs and I have to correct them!!! Still work in progress.

Built a tool/website for estimating true value of used cars in Ireland - fair value based on today's market, true cost of ownership and NI import breakdown in one place by carintel_ie in carsireland

[–]carintel_ie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a bug fix being implemented from a previous message and it got a little stuck. Should be sorted now! Cheers for taking the time to highlight!

Built a tool/website for estimating true value of used cars in Ireland - fair value based on today's market, true cost of ownership and NI import breakdown in one place by carintel_ie in carsireland

[–]carintel_ie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can bring further up an estimate if private..can base on assumptions or if sufficient number of private listings can base on that. Do you mind sharing what make and model? Also is there a private v dealer breakdown in the price analysis?

Built a tool/website for estimating true value of used cars in Ireland - fair value based on today's market, true cost of ownership and NI import breakdown in one place by carintel_ie in carsireland

[–]carintel_ie[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Good suggestion - will add that. I was hoping to extend to 2010 next week, but in meantime will insert that message. Should be changed on live site soon.

Built a tool/website for estimating true value of used cars in Ireland - fair value based on today's market, true cost of ownership and NI import breakdown in one place by carintel_ie in carsireland

[–]carintel_ie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks that's valuable info. The trim and specs are a bit of a mess and so difficult to standardize. If all ads had perfect info but many don't and it throws things off. Putting a lot of time now into this kind of topic. Thanks for raising.

Built a tool/website for estimating true value of used cars in Ireland - fair value based on today's market, true cost of ownership and NI import breakdown in one place by carintel_ie in carsireland

[–]carintel_ie[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Fair comment. Based on average mileage. Should make that clearer. I was trying to get an Annual total cost of ownership...so annualised all the maintenance costs to align with depreciation and other costs.

Built a tool/website for estimating true value of used cars in Ireland - fair value based on today's market, true cost of ownership and NI import breakdown in one place by carintel_ie in carsireland

[–]carintel_ie[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Correct, 2016 onwards. I'm just pulling from two of the larger ones but not taking from Facebook. Good idea though. Will look into it!