Cars - What is the book price

Can anyone help when people say they will check the book price on a car what book?

Karen

it's the basic price your car is worth ...dealers only give the book price when part exchanged so they can sell it for a pofit.

They usually use parkers used car guide you'll find in WH Smiths and other good shops (sound like a add with putting that)
Or here is there web page
http://www.parkers.co.uk/?frommenu=true

Hi Kazz it's the Parkers Book. It gives the dealers a guide price they should offer for a part exchange. We can use it to our advantage aswell if we go to by a car from a private seller, you can check to see if they are charging over the odds for the car

There are two types of book price.

"Parkers guide" is the sort used by your average car driver who wants to find out what they are worth when bought or sold privatley.

The other funnily enough is called "The black book" which is only available to car dealers and this shows thetrue price of a car to comercial traders.This book is updated monthly and shows how much the car should fetch on the forecourt and how much they are prepared to offer for trade-in/buy from you etc.

Hi I just asked my o/h who owns a garage and he uses the Glasses Guide, and if the person is a car dealer then he will have one of these. The Parkers Guide is for us retailers to use.

You beat me Helena
I was going to mention Glass as well

karen
you used to be able to get a valuation online

You can get the cap BLACK BOOK from here

http://www.cap.co.uk/Products_UsedVe..._BlackBook.htm

There are different prices to for part exchange, private sale and dealers price.

and differing prices for condition and mileage

The replies to this are amazing - why did I not know this is it some sort of "car fanciers secret" like the "masons"
Thank you all. Karen