Using AutoFilter
Every control in the popup, what the price labels mean, and what the status bar is telling you.
Try it on sample listings
This is a working copy of the popup, wired to twelve made-up listings. Tick labels, flip switches and press Apply to page, just as you would on AutoTrader. Nothing here connects to AutoTrader.
AutoFilter • Price Label Filter
11 of 12 listings shown
More listings are picked up automatically as you scroll.
Show listings labelled5 of 5
AutoFilter
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Great price
Hatchback · 2021
£12,995
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Good price
Estate · 2019
£9,450
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Fair price
SUV · 2022
£21,300
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Lower price
City car · 2020
£6,200
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Great price
Saloon · 2018
£8,750
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Good priceYou may also like
Hatchback · 2020
£11,400
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Higher price
Coupé · 2017
£14,900
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SUV · 2019
£16,250
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Cat S
Hatchback · 2016
£4,995
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Good price
MPV · 2021
£15,800
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Fair priceYou may also like
Convertible · 2019
£13,200
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Great price
Estate · 2022
£19,450
No sample listings match. Tick another label, or press Reset.
Every control, explained
- On / Paused
- The switch at the top right. Paused shows every listing without forgetting your choices. Switch back to On and the same filter returns straight away.
- Light / dark theme
- The sun or moon button beside it. It only changes how the popup looks. It starts with your system setting and remembers what you pick.
- “N of M listings shown”
- A live count for the tab you're on. It only covers cars AutoTrader has loaded so far, so it grows as you scroll.
- Show listings labelled
- One checkbox per AutoTrader price label, with how many of each are on the page. Untick a label to hide those cars.
- Hide listings with no label
- Hides cars AutoTrader hasn't given a price label. Write-off cars aren't affected: they have their own switch.
- Hide “You may also like” tiles
- AutoTrader mixes recommended cars from outside your search into the results. This hides them. A recommended car that stays visible still has to match the labels you've ticked.
- Show write-off category cars
- Cat A, B, C, D, S and N cars. They're hidden until you turn this on. AutoTrader gives them no price label, so this switch alone decides whether they show; the label settings don't touch them.
- Apply to page
- Changes in the popup wait until you press this. When the page matches your settings, the button reads “Filters applied”.
- Reset
- Shows everything again (every label, unlabelled cars, recommendations and write-offs) and applies it straight away. It doesn't change On / Paused.
The price labels
AutoTrader sets these labels by comparing each car's price with similar cars on the market. AutoFilter only reads them. Here's what each one means, summarised from AutoTrader's own descriptions.
| Label | What it means |
|---|---|
| Lower price | Priced much lower than similar cars on the market. Worth checking why. |
| Great price | Slightly cheaper than most similar cars on the market. |
| Good price | Priced very close to similar cars on the market. |
| Fair price | Only slightly more expensive than most similar cars on the market. |
| Higher price | More expensive than most similar cars, though it may come with extras that account for it. Rare in most searches. |
| No rating | AutoTrader hasn't labelled the car, usually because there aren't enough similar cars to compare. Write-off cars never get a label. |
The status bar
AutoFilter adds a bar directly above AutoTrader's results whenever it's hiding at least one car. It stays pinned under AutoTrader's own filter bar as you scroll. Here's what it can show:
- Showing … The price labels you're keeping, each with a dot in AutoTrader's own badge colour: the same colours used on this site.
- “You may also like” hidden. Recommendation tiles are switched off.
- Write-offs hidden. Write-off category cars are hidden: the default until you switch them on.
- Unrated listings hidden. Every label is on and only unlabelled cars are hidden.
- All price labels hidden. Every label and “No rating” are off, so only write-offs can appear, and only if you've switched them on.
- Layout changed — some listings may not filter. AutoTrader has changed its page in a way AutoFilter can't fully read. Please report it.
- Turn off filtering. Pauses AutoFilter from the page itself. The bar stays as “Filtering paused — showing all listings” with a Turn on filtering button, so you can undo it in place.
Good to know
- Out of the box every label, unlabelled cars and recommendations are shown, and write-off cars are hidden.
- Your settings are saved on this device and apply to every AutoTrader search, in every tab, until you change them.
- Just installed or updated? Reload any AutoTrader tab that was already open.
- Search results only. AutoFilter doesn't run on individual car pages or on any other site. Elsewhere, the popup says “Not on an AutoTrader search page”.
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