Free tool for UK independent dealers
Aged stock calculator

What is your aged stock costing you?

Every day a car sits on your forecourt it costs you money in funding, lost value, advertising and upkeep. Put in your own figures and see what the cars over 60 days are really costing, and how long it takes them to eat their profit.

Your forecourt

Your stock
£
What you have tied up in each one: purchase plus prep.
days
£
What holding a car costs
% a year
Stocking plan rate, or what your own cash could earn.
% a month
Typically 1–2% a month. Older and high-mileage cars can lose more.
£/month
Your listings package divided by cars listed.
£/week
Re-valets, battery care, insurance, space.

The figures shown are an example forecourt. Change any of them to match yours; the results update as you type.

Your aged stock is costing you
£0 a month
£0every day, across 0 aged cars
£0per car, per day it sits
£0already lost since they passed 60 days
£0of your cash tied up in them

The profit clock

Profit left on an average car after holding costs, by days in stock. Holding costs start the day a car arrives, so the line falls from day one.

If an event cleared some of them

4
Gross profit from those cars£0
Holding costs you stop paying each month£0
Move Metal Weekend Event fee−£1,750
Facebook ad spend (mid-range)−£875
Better off in the first month£0

An illustration using your figures, not a promise of results. On your numbers, selling 2 cars covers the event and ad spend. It also frees £0 of cash to buy fresher stock.

Free stock audit

Want us to run the numbers on your live stock?

Send us your website or listings link. Within two working days you'll get back:

  • Your aged-stock figures, car by car, from your live listings
  • The cars costing you the most to keep
  • The 10 cars we'd build your next sales event around, with suggested event pricing

Free, with no obligation. Done by a person, not a bot.

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