Best Websites for Car Valuation

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I'm trying to price out some cars just to get an idea of how much money I'll need for certain cars.

I've used Hagerty before, but they don't have a lot of older Honda, Toyotas, Nissan, ect... They are good for the normal Ford, Chevy, Dodge, so on and so forth.

I've found some others, like Classic. com, Classic car value scout, and JD Power, will there be useful and good information or is there a better website I can use?

I thought of Kelly Blue Book, but since I'm not selling and more pricing out, it really doesn't help.

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Quietus76 · 7 months ago

Ebay is sometimes useful, but everything I've bought and almost all of my friends have bought cars and parts from Facebook marketplace. I actually shopped on FB for months while I was saving up, so I got to see a lot of ads come and go, which helped me get a very good idea on condition vs value on the cars I was shopping for.

I know one or two guys that got theirs from Bring A Trailer https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://bringatrailer.com/&ved=2ahUKEwi74eCvoK-LAxVj8MkDHWcjMoUQFnoECCUQAQ&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw2BOS3mBZtgseMILvE7ckOp

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resto4406 · 7 months ago

ebay and bring a trailer in the completed sales section. actual real world sales and not estimates like online stuff

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Impossible-Key-1437 · 7 months ago

I look at bring a trailer to see what others sold for. It’s a good guide at least compared to asking prices

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r/whatcarshouldIbuy • [2]

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Best car sites

Posted by Anus_Whisperer · in r/whatcarshouldIbuy · 7 years ago

I was wondering what's the best sites to research cars. I remember stumbling upon a site that showed me statistics of most car models average mileage before they gave out, but can't remember the dang name.

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weezulmaster · 7 years ago

This sub came through for me time & again, even with statistics. After that, Edmunds and KBB.

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Sixspeed94 · 7 years ago

Carcomplaints.com is a decent way to gauge what goes wrong too!

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Anus_Whisperer · OP · 7 years ago

I just spent a while looking for it but it was dashboard light I think!

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FreedomToasts · 7 years ago

I like Edmunds- this guide by them is excellent, and their used car values are pretty realistic.

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r/Autos • [3]

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We built a free vehicle valuation calculator

Posted by cardogio · in r/Autos · 4 days ago

We just launched a vehicle valuation calculator that pulls from our database of 5+ million vehicle listings across North America.

Shows real-time market value for any make/model/year
Compares similar vehicles currently for sale
Tracks pricing trends and market velocity
Breaks down regional price differences

The data includes:

Median, average, min/max pricing
Days on market averages
Geographic pricing variations
Comparable listings with mileage/location

It's completely free to use - no signup required. We built it because we were tired of valuation tools that felt outdated or didn't reflect real market conditions.

Would love to get feedback from anyone in the market, really hope this helps the community when buying and selling.

cardog.app

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bse50 · 4 days ago

The tool seems well built, but comes with the same limitations of its kin: the prices listed online tend only to be accurate for mass produced cars with a huge market. Most listings for niche segments, from vintage to sportscars don't reflect the true prices the cars are sold for... Said tools are great for sellers and a little less so for buyers, in that case :)

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CarClimb_Cory · 3 days ago

We found the same thing, so we built CarClimb. iOS only at the moment, web coming soon and Android in the future. Not perfect (no tool ever is), but dataset is sold prices and proprietary information we gather from users when adding their cars to Garage. Hope you like it

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z_razvan · 4 days ago

Looks good but I think it’s showing me prices from Canada and I’m in US otherwise I’d be selling my cars now for amazing profits lol. I
see you mention North America but I think you have to have an option to select region of comparison

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310Nm · 4 days ago

Application error: a client-side exception has occurred while loading cardog.app (see the browser console for more information).

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cwatson214 · 4 days ago

Same here, and pretty much everything listed is super-dealer prices

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benmarvin · 4 days ago

> real time price data

Price hasn't changed the whole time I've been staring at it.

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cardogio · OP · 4 days ago

car market like molasses

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twospooky · 4 days ago

Needs to separate US from CA.

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r/cars • [4]

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What are your favorite places to browse cars for sale?

Posted by AccountantSFW · in r/cars · 3 years ago

Basically what the title says. Craigslist used to be my go to but it seems like FB Marketplace has really taken over. I browse both of those, along with BringATrailer and Cars&Bids. I've got an itch to buy something, so curious as to what other avenues people are looking at.

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https://i.imgur.com/QTygc2f.png

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TheBlackJamieDimon · 3 years ago

CarGurus is my shit. Pretty simple interface but powerful car search engine.

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NCSUGrad2012 · 3 years ago

That’s my favorite too but they have one thing I hate about them. The Carfax link isn’t built in like other sites have.

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AaronFM3 · 3 years ago

I like Autotrader the best out of all the non auction car buying sites

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smackythefrog · 3 years ago

I like AutoTrader, too. I researched inventory for three cars over the past 4 years using the site and got a good idea of where to shop.

Never bought using the site itself but for inventory checks, I haven't found anything better.

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xeron72548 · 3 years ago

I used to love the Autotrader iPhone app, but they updated it a few weeks ago with a redesign that’s so unintuitive. They took away a lot of key search features and it’s so clunky. A shame honestly

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JohnDoee94 · 3 years ago

Lol, glad it’s not just me…

Sometimes I’ll spend an hour building cars on different websites giving myself a set budget 🤣.

“Hmm, what would I get from Mercedes if I had 75k?”

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Que165 · 3 years ago

I like the idea of autotempest, but the way they "include" results from craigslist and FB marketplace is absolutely unusable

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[deleted] · 3 years ago

You can filter out results from any of the sources they aggregate with the click of a check box:

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NCSUGrad2012 · 3 years ago

There’s a lot of cars there but their search tool has to be the worst in the market.

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[deleted] · 3 years ago

I still use it all the time but specifically for just interesting stuff I'd probably never buy.

Its fun to use search terms like "custom" "race" "fast" etc. You get a nice range of really nice stuff and some incredibly overpriced stuff you can lol at

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[deleted] · 3 years ago

Car Trek ads got me. It's now my go to.

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[deleted] · 3 years ago

+1. AutoTempest is the correct answer.

I have several searches saved that I check almost every day, sorted by 'Newest Posted.' And being able to exclude Carvana or Cars.com from the searches is really helpful.

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r/whatcarshouldIbuy • [5]

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What is the best used car website?

Posted by sirphilip · in r/whatcarshouldIbuy · 6 years ago

I am recently in the market for a used car and was wondering if anyone here has any recommendations on which website to use to search for cars. The major sites I know about are craigslist, Carvana, and carmax. Anyone have experience with these sites or any others? I'd love to get some insight.

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JP_Auto_Transport · 1 year ago

If you buy a car online and need a car shipping company to deliver your vehicle, give us a try!

We’re JP Auto Transport.

Our company was recently named Inc 5000 fastest growing companies in America.

We have 3 different priced packages that you can pick from on our website.

www.jpautotransport.com

Let me know if we can answer any questions about the process.

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AdHopeful7194 · 1 year ago

Karkiosk.com

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Mammoth-Low-3153 · 1 year ago

I am going back to China and have a second-hand Audi car for sale. It is from 2022 and has only driven for more than 5,000 miles. I only drive it when I go downtown. The car condition is very good and there is no collision. I have posted it on the cardora software. Interested friends can take a look. There are detailed car condition information and photos.

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NoGene3417 · 4 months ago

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TransportationOk4538 · 1 year ago

Carvana doesn’t show location of vehicle. Do other websites show location of vehicle within search results? Looking in Bay Area, would like to test drive before buying.

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Website that will search (aggregate) all used car sites?

Posted by meshies · in r/cars · 5 years ago

Hello all. Like the title states. Is there a website or app that will search all(most) sites for a specific car I am searching for? I have used one before that looked at ebay, cargurus, autotrader, etc. And listed them all but I cannot remember what it was called. Looking for some help.

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http://www.theparking-cars.com/

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BreathofDonut · 5 years ago

CarGurus?

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Capnserious · 5 years ago

They definitely don't aggregate other sites. What cars they do list are good, but there's a handful of dealers near me that are completely missing

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Tittie_Magee · 5 years ago

Pretty sure you have to pay to play on their platform. It’s so good but a good number of dealers don’t participate.

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RedLegacy7 · 5 years ago

This has become my favorite car search site.

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[deleted] · 5 years ago

If you do autotempest, car gurus and facebook you'll basically cover everything.

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HeatOfPassion · 5 years ago

Some older people use AutoTrader, I think because their printed books were so widespread for so long. Have to cover that one too

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K20lover199 · 5 years ago

Autotempest?

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Zappiticas · 5 years ago

For some reason I can never make autotempest work correctly. It never finds results for cars that aren’t super rare

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Alex-Gopson · 5 years ago

I have had better luck with Searchtempest for Craigslist nationwide, and then using Autotempest for quickly browsing results on eBay, cars.com, etc.

Autotempest and Craigslist has never worked reliably for me. The problem is that it attempts to fill out the make/model tags in the cars+trucks section of Craigslist, which a lot of sellers don’t fill out, or fill out incorrectly.

Searchtempest just uses whatever search term you type in. This can lead to more bullshit results (fuck the people who do the bullshit tags at the end of their post like gti/Sti/viper/Ferrari). But for me I’d rather sift through some spam than miss out on search results because of a minor misspelling in the make/model field.

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HeatOfPassion · 5 years ago

I found my TT using Autotempest. I wouldn’t have found it a few states over otherwise.

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meshies · OP · 5 years ago

This is the one. Thank you

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sam5912 · 5 years ago

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r/CarDealershipTycoon • [7]

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What is the name of this site

Posted by Busy-Tomatillo-2284 · in r/CarDealershipTycoon · 8 months ago

I saw people in the discord using this site/app to look up the trading values of their cars but i couldn’t find the name and Inwas wonderin if anybody here knew it

i.redd.it

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Impossible-Arugula83 · 8 months ago

That site is unreliable btw

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Ok_Seaworthiness4742 · 8 months ago

Check your messages.

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BuffaloBills7777 · 8 months ago

Is it okay if you send me name too?

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Ok_Seaworthiness4742 · 8 months ago

Sure just add me on discord.

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Gooperss · 8 months ago

Discord

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r/cars • [8]

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Price Prediction Game for Car Auctions

Posted by michaeldeng18 · in r/cars · 6 months ago

Since we last made a tool that finds and showcases interesting cars for sale, we've been hard at work upgrading the data sources, analytics, and search.

Today, I wanted to share our newest feature: A prediction game where you can bet on the outcomes of car auctions - whether a car will sell above or below an estimated price. You don’t bet with real money, just points (you get 100 pts per day).

Since us car people love to flex our knowledge of car prices, now you can put ~~money~~ points where your mouth is. I think it’d be interesting if this could eventually become a better source of truth on car valuations than KBB, which is often wrong for high-end, classic, and enthusiast cars.

Link: https://hypercars.io/game

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Spicywolff · 6 months ago

So we’re gambling on car price? How do I get more points from my bookie?

All jokes aside it seems like an interesting way to engage the community. more fun than just scrolling on being a trailer.

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just_an_avg_dev · 5 months ago

Next step is betting. OP gonna be rich.

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flyinsharks · 6 months ago

where do the estimated values for the over/under come from?

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michaeldeng18 · OP · 6 months ago

We run past sales of that car through our model and bake in things like mileage-based depreciation and rarity of that spec. It's not perfect but we've been improving it over time, and it will get much more accurate in the future!

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mxadema · 6 months ago

It always blows my mind on what some people are willing to pay for a car. Most of the time junk.

But i also bid on a few things because it was too cheap and it stuck.

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michaeldeng18 · OP · 6 months ago

You know what they say, one man's trash is another man's treasure

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mxadema · 6 months ago

Them flip are fun. Especially when the discretion is way worse. Or is it a need to be checked because the photo dont make it justice.

But I've been burned once or twice for stuff I should have gone and see lol

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clutchdump · 6 months ago

i cannot wait to cook a parlay on 4 different 911s

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bwonymph · 6 months ago

Guess we adding parlays to the roadmap

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Hrast · 6 months ago

Interesting idea. Is the company going to use the user submitted data to train your AI/ML models?

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michaeldeng18 · OP · 6 months ago

Going off of historical sales data is way more accurate for valuing cars today, so no, we don't have any plans to utilize the user-submitted predictions and we will be transparent if that ever changes.

If a lot of people make predictions and the majority of them turn out to be right, then maybe there's something there. But tbh, if a lot of people enjoy playing, I think it'd be more fun to let people bet with real money as the next step.

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stoned-autistic-dude · 6 months ago

I got puts on this guy's bets.

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r/whatcarshouldIbuy • [9]

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Best place to search for a used car online?

Posted by McSkillet2323 · in r/whatcarshouldIbuy · 6 years ago

Basically the title says it all. I'm looking to get a new car within the next couple weeks, and I am unsure were the best place to search for a used car would be. Thanks in advance!

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https://old.reddit.com/r/whatcarshouldIbuy/comments/aig5en/what_is_the_best_used_car_website/

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DiligentAssistance · 6 years ago

I asked the same question a few days ago, the best site I've found from the answers was cargurus.com

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McSkillet2323 · OP · 6 years ago

I've just been researching for the past 20 mins there! Seriously great site. Find anything you like?

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DiligentAssistance · 6 years ago

I found a CRV but it’s pretty expensive... Honda’s are so expensive in my location (Austin Tx)

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CoomassieBlue · 6 years ago

Sorry, I've meant to update the sidebar, that's my bad.

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McSkillet2323 · OP · 6 years ago

Your alright friendo! Thank you for getting me pointed in the right direction!

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r/Golf_R • [10]

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What’s a good site for car valuation? I’ve heard KBB is not accurate now. Thinking of selling my 2013 R, 6MT with 80k miles

Posted by joeyc923 · in r/Golf_R · 3 years ago

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G3NGO · 3 years ago

Edmunds has a more realistic appraisal tool.

Another method is to looks a dealer listings in your area and subtract $4-5K

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