onestopcaradvice

Used Car Website Redesign

2009-09-10T16:16:00.003+02:00

After months of hard work i can now reveal that http://www.onestopcaradvice.co.uk has had a complete makeover. After comparing many, many other sites out there i dediced to try and improve on what is a already steadily developed used car portal.
i am trying to give a better user experience by searching as you go. Instead of having a great list options like you do on other sites with onestopcaradvice they can get refined as you go along. There is nothing worse than getting a car and spending half hour understanding the controls when you dont like the drive!!
There used car search is very straight forward, select make and model together with fuel type, transmission and price and click search, hard bit done!! Once the search results are displayed there is an option to refine the search a little more by choosing an engine size like 1.2 or even type like zetec. So far the indications of user enjoyment are good as page impressions and searches are up on previous statistics.
There will be more improvements in time by adding extra options like colour, body style.

Is it a good time buy a car?

2009-01-13T16:31:00.003+01:00

Is it a good time buy a car?
In my opinion the answer is 'yes' over the past 6 months and more used car values have been dropping very fast.
A few years ago you could pick up a 2 year old car with average mileage for approximately 40% less than the new car price, you can now get them for almost 60% less. Although if you buy a used car now or in the future you may expect your part exchange to be worth less.
The car business is relatively straight forward and many don't understand it so let me try.

Dealers have a book that gives them an 'indication' of what the car to buy is worth. Any good sales manager will try and buy the car at a few hundred less than that price, subject to how sell able he or she thinks it is, some may pay a bit more if it were a desirable model ie A convertible at the start of summer as there is nothing better than driving around with the roof down. As an example a 4x4 currently is bad news as it may take longer to sell. In the ideal world for dealers to make the most profit they need to sell cars within 30 days of it going on to the forecourt, why? let me explain.
Without going into Vat, warranty and service, lets say that the sales manager bought a car @ £3000 and decides to sell this at £4000 the sales manager has £1000 profit if sold for the full price. Lets also say that the used car price drops by £200 each month, for every month that goes by that car drops by £200 which in theory is not the best deal for you if you bought it after it had been on the forecourt for a few months because you will be buying the car for more than what the car is worth.

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With this in mind you will need to search around various used car websites to find that deal. A dealer with plenty of used car stock i would guess is where you would find this as they will a high stock turnover therefore should have cars bought in at the right money in order to sell to you.
Right about now you may well see a flood of late used cars hit the market with signinificant savings.
Late Used Cars Find a filtered list of used cars that are less than 12 months old.
Used Car Search Find used cars by make / model / county

Pre Reg Cars - Ex Demo

2008-04-03T16:51:00.006+02:00

If your looking for a new car and are concerned about the depreciation upon leaving the showroom, then why not consider a Pre Reg - Ex Demo vehicle.
Pre Reg Cars are surplus stock from the manufacture and have delivery mileage on them typically no more than 150 miles. Ex Demonstration Cars are run by the car showroom and used by those who work at the dealer. The cars also come with remainder of manufactures warrenty.
There is a great saving on buying these cars against a new car, standard finance agreements including 3 year options type deals are typically not much different to a new car but this depends on your haggling abilities as the dealers know these types of car are well sort after.
With this in mind i have developed this feature on my website nearly new cars these cars are up too a maximum of 1 year old and a maximum of 150 miles on the clock.

Re Designed

2008-04-03T16:21:00.005+02:00

After quite some time developing this new website i am now pleased to say the refurb in now finished and open for business.
I have made the site brighter and more colourful with clear information in the top half of the page.
As with most websites these days, pages have got longer and the need to scroll up and down a page is necessary, so if you have a wheelie mice your index finger becomes tired, it is also most annoying when you scroll down and still don't find what you want at the bottom of the page. I am hoping to achieve a click, click scroll mentality with this site.
With the above in mind i have tried to develop the navigation of the site and make it as easy as possible to get to where you want. As an example by clicking on the used car dealers or new car dealers from the home page you will notice that the manufactures - Counties face you direct thus avoiding the scroll, there is more information if you scroll down but if you were looking for Audi car dealers then I'm sure you want to get straight to that page and then scroll and cut out the bit in the middle and if you found the page interesting then you are happy to settle in and look further into the site, maybe me I'm just impatient lol.
I hope that you enjoy and find what you want. there are search engines where this can be found and some examples
Mirago
Lycos

Used Car Buying - Where To Start

2008-03-05T09:30:00.003+01:00

If you are in the UK and have been actively searching for a used car then I’m sure you will know that searching for one on the internet can be hard work. You only have to do a typical search on the web for “used cars” to see those countless sites.
A typical used car search will normally consist of the procedure:
As you visit the website you then find your search boxes on the page for the used car search and then begin to select your make and model criteria followed by the choice of transmission and fuel type. Then price min and price max together with county and post code and any other keywords that the site may allow you to enter.
For this experiment I will search for:
Make: Vauxhall
Model: Astra
Fuel: Petrol
Transmission: Manual
Price Min: £3000
Price Max: £9000
County: Essex
Post Code: *** ***
Once this has been completed you then hit the search button and view the search results. Once you have viewed the used cars that are on that site you then have 2 choices give up or go back to your favourite web engine and define your search and move on to the next used car portal. You can easily end up repeating this on up to 30 different websites, if you don’t find your car on that occasion then once every three days you may end up repeating this above until you find your used car.
** No one website will feature all possible used cars in the UK
The perfect website would be one where enter your search criteria once and once only in that given session and you then get returned used car results, that website does not exist at the moment and probably never will due to the competitive nature of those data providers.
However onestopcaradvice.co.uk comes very close to being that site, you enter your search criteria once and then this used car website returns direct links to other used car websites “search page” thus saving you the effort of having to enter your search criteria over and over again. Currently the site had access to over 500`000 used cars from up to 15 different top online search portals available which in theory makes this website the biggest used car resource.
Its very simple but it works!
So make this the first place to start your search for buying your next or first car.
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Used Car Finder

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