BYD Sealion 06 Price Guide for New and Used Cars

EVIDENCE FILE

Records that change the answer

Start with dated seller quotation and link it to the VIN before accepting translated trim names or catalogue photographs. Add VIN-linked specification so condition or equipment claims can be checked against the actual car. The remaining records establish how the vehicle operates, how it has been treated and whether the proposed route is credible.

1. dated seller quotation
2. VIN-linked specification
3. inspection report and repair estimate
4. freight quotation with validity
5. destination duty and compliance basis

Give each record a capture date and a defined scope. Diagnostics taken before repair, charging evidence from another car or freight priced to a different port cannot support the present decision. A replacement VIN starts a new evidence chain rather than inheriting the first candidate's file.

DECISION TEST

Test the route, not the brochure

A lower-priced EV lacks a portable cable, has aged tyres and requires body repair; a higher-priced candidate includes clean evidence and preparation. After equalising those items, the apparent bargain can disappear.

Inspection scope should follow the decision. For this route, check separate vehicle price from delivered cost, then state whether tax and freight are included. Continue with price missing keys, cables, tyres or repairs and record keep uncertain destination charges as ranges. Measurements, photographs, diagnostics and test conditions are more transferable than labels such as “excellent,” “full option” or “export ready.”

A known shortcoming can be accepted when its consequence, remedy and price are visible. An untested claim is different: keep it open in the quotation and link payment timing to the check that can close it.

VEHICLE-SPECIFIC WORKSHEET

Apply this check to the candidate

Reprice both candidates to the same handover point. Add inspection, tyre age, paint work, charging equipment, inland movement, export documents and the first destination service line by line. Keep promotional domestic subsidies or finance incentives outside the export comparison unless the actual buyer and transaction can lawfully receive them.

Close the worksheet with a short decision memo for BYD Sealion 06 Price Guide for New and Used Cars. State how “separate vehicle price from delivered cost” was verified, what record supports “dated seller quotation,” and who remains responsible for “keep uncertain destination charges as ranges.” Add the date, candidate VIN, destination and any condition attached to acceptance. If “inspection report and repair estimate” is missing or belongs to another vehicle, leave the conclusion open and price the uncertainty. This memo gives the inspector, buyer, logistics team and destination adviser the same boundary instead of allowing each participant to assume a different version of the purchase.

DESTINATION CONTROL

Carry the same facts through export

Use a dated cost worksheet with one finish line—seller yard, port, customs-cleared or road-ready. Show currency and assumptions beside every subtotal.

Before collection, read vehicle identity, propulsion, value and trading parties across the commercial and shipping drafts. Destination acceptance and carrier acceptance must both be checked; customs release alone is not proof that road registration will follow.

State where the cost calculation ends and when it was prepared. Include vehicle preparation, inland logistics, freight, insurance, duties, taxes, compliance, storage, destination transport and initial service as applicable, while keeping unconfirmed charges visibly contingent.