Buying a new car is a serious decision that involves a lot of careful thinking and financial planning. If you’re thinking of getting rid of your existing vehicle and trading up for a new set of wheels, you’ll surely want to know that you spend your money as wisely as possible and get the most out of the transaction. This is why trade assistance can be of huge benefit to you and help get you the car you want at a reduced cost. If you’re looking at finding the best-used cars for sale and want to learn more about what trade assistance can do for you, keep reading.

What Is Trade Assistance?

Trade assistance is a part of what is also called deal assistance and is created to help customers achieve their goal of buying their dream car in the most affordable and financially manageable way. With trade assistance, you’ll be able to trade your existing vehicle in and have the total trade-in value of your current car added as payment towards your new car.

For example, if the car you want to buy is R200 000 and your car’s trade-in value is R80 000, you’ll only need to pay in or get a car loan for R120 000. Deal assistance takes this a step further by also offering you cashback in your pocket when you make this arrangement, allowing you the freedom to choose how you wish to spend that money.

You can either take the cash for personal use, or use that offered amount to add to your deposit on the car, or even defer payments on your loan instalments for a few months – a great option if you don’t immediately want to start paying off on your car and would rather have a bit of time to use your salary to take care of other things.

Benefits Of Trade Assistance

Aside from the benefits mentioned above, trade assistance also helps significantly simplify the whole process of selling your car and buying another. You won’t need to advertise and try to sell your car yourself, which cuts out a lot of admin and back-and-forth negotiations and discussions with several interested potential buyers. You’ll also not have to worry about getting calls back from the person who bought the car from you, making unexpected demands or claims. Unfortunately, this is something that happens more often lately, with many people trying to scam others or do them with ulterior motives. Not only this, but it’s a financially more secure decision to opt for trade assistance, as it can help reduce the amount of debt you’ll have to settle to pay off the new car.

How The Trade Assistance Process Works

Once you’re ready, you can simply prepare your car and paperwork, then have a chat with the dealership you’re looking to buy your new car from. They will assess your vehicle along with some research on the current market value of cars similar to yours that are for sale at the time, then come back with an offer on your vehicle.

Once this is done and you’re happy with the offered amount, you can begin to negotiate terms for purchasing your new car and how you’d like to arrange for financing, insurance and other costs. At this stage, depending on which dealership you’re negotiating with, you may be offered a cashback sum to either use towards paying your new car or for your purposes.

If you’re ready to trade your car in for a new model, we’d like to remind you of our special R50 000 deal assistance offer, where you can get up to R50 000 cash back in your pocket if you trade your current car in for one of our models. Check out all our best-used cars for sale, and you may just find your perfect fit among them.