Jimny prices

Seem to have gone crazy again, they dropped after lockdown as with most cars but looking online you'd need £30,000 for an SZ5 from a dealer.

Does anyone actually buy one for this price l wonder. Commercials seem to be IRO £25,000 which isn't much better (although good for owners l guess!)
Although there seem to be a few private sales nearer £20k

Anyone who is prepared to pay £30,000 can collect our low mileage 2020 SZ5 this afternoon lol
Although my missus loves "Kevin" and probably still wouldn't sell him.

My nearest Suzuki dealer in Exeter has been selling SZ5 at £29k-£32k and lcv at £27k..
Probably on finance packages, unbelievable really!

Prices have gone up about £2k since I brought my SZ5 2 months ago. Sold a Defender  recently for the same price I paid 15 years ago, happy days. Its the  lack of supply and the demand that is pushing prices up.

Same here, just sold my 2005 Defender for £18,500 and l had done 90,000 miles since buying it in 2014 for £14,500

It was still a lovely vehicle but had peaked in value. With 145,000 miles on the clock the dealer said if l put it up to 200,000 it would be worth £12,000.

The figures probably stack up well for the Jimny. Even at £30,000 it's probably a better bet than a new Ford or Vauxhall etc because of retained value.

Likewise I just sold my TDCI 4k more than I paid for it in 2012,

Bought my 2020 Jim at reasonably strong money ( compared to its original new price ) but I can only see them holding / climbing as they only sold about 1500 SZ5’s in the UK.

Looked at the new defender but I have lost my faith in JLR products and heard some awful stories about vehicle repair costs once they are out of warranty.

I do still have my series 1 which is how a Land Rover should be and I haven’t lost the concrete waterproofing system for the garage floor which Land Rover so kindly gave us as an extra, ( landies like to leak oil from any orifice ).

I love driving the Jim it makes me smile which is what it’s all about.

As an aside I do miss the landie wave and constantly find myself going to wave to landies despite being in the Jim.
Perhaps we should start the Jim wave …

The new Jimny being a petrol engine is compliant with most of the LEZ's that are springing up everywhere.

As is anything over forty years old, so old Land Rovers are safe.

However old Defenders are not compliant and because of this there's a lot of them on the market and prices have fallen.

l was speaking with someone the other week who lives in Sheffield, his 2012 110 is now costing him £10 every time he takes it off his drive.

Agree
Dealer/spares prices for working on the new Defender are frightening, try £4,000 to replace one headlight.

However the new Defender has already attracted an enthusiast following and there are alternatives coming through.

For instance Powerful U.K. are offering headlamps for less than 1/4 the Land Rover price, and l bought a part for mine last week which cost £200
LR wanted £850

There's now availability of the diagnostic tool, l've just ordered one and it enables you to get into the system and fault find/modify as needed.

LR want £150-250 just to plug it in to their system, for just over £400 l can now do it myself on my laptop.

Prices have definitely jumped back up again, WBAC are offering £25k for my gen4 auto, which is ridiculous for a 4 year old car.