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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2021 11:22:03 GMT
Yeah I sympathise with the point there, but there's nothing else comparable on the market in anything like that condition/mileage/history for any less money. That's the market right now. Sure, this would have been a £999 car 2 years ago, but it isn't 2 years ago anymore any more.
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Post by WDB on Nov 23, 2021 11:22:25 GMT
…I wouldn’t buy it for any amount that involved four numbers before the decimal point. No, nor would I. But you see these things differently, so maybe a total spend of £1,500 including the brakes and tyres is OK. But I agree with Humph, that it’s better to get the work done yourself, to be sure it’s done to a standard you’re happy with. That also gets the car in front of an independent pair of expert eyes, which can then tell you if there are lurking horrors that mean you ought to take it straight back. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2021 11:26:32 GMT
Well the work would be done by a back street garage, which is what the seller is proposing he uses, so what would be the difference?
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Post by Humph on Nov 23, 2021 11:29:39 GMT
WDB’s final paragraph is worth reading again…
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Post by Humph on Nov 23, 2021 11:38:37 GMT
I really am no expert in all of this, but don’t “they” say that at this end of the market it’s usually better to buy from a private seller? No retail margins involved and so on.
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Post by WDB on Nov 23, 2021 11:48:16 GMT
“Judge the seller as much as the car” seems to be sound advice — which I sort of took over the Aygo, as it came from a friend.
I’ve handed over £200 in cash for a sideboard to a private seller but I’d be uncomfortable with much more than that, especially for a car, where the potential problems are greater. That dealer margin brings at least minimal Sale of Goods Act protection — and may even be eroded by the time you sell, if old cars go on appreciating.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2021 11:48:16 GMT
Dubya stuck that extra bit of good advice in, which I shall consider, after my later post.
Yes better to buy privately of course. But nothing I fancy has turned up privately, I'm checking Gumtree, Faceache and Autotrader daily.
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Post by Humph on Nov 23, 2021 12:03:02 GMT
Christ knows how I’ve fallen down this hole, but anyway, there’s a Suzuki Swift in Wokingham…
2009 1.3 GL 65,000 miles
£1490
I guess the stickers could be removed
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2021 12:39:15 GMT
www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202011206328782Not for us I'm afraid, too small. And a Group 16 Insurance rating is far too high for such a thing. I think trying to convince me to get a micro car is a bit like trying to convince you Humph that an EV is a brilliant thing, or that you'd actually be better off with a Berlingo than the Merc E.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2021 12:47:29 GMT
Anyway you've all prompted me to run a final check on what's available, within budget and at around Group 10 insurance or not much more, in a reasonable vicinity, on a private sale. This is what I'd choose: www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202107215292406I might run this past the lad tonight in a final attempt to get him away from the Corolla. |
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Post by Humph on Nov 23, 2021 13:40:35 GMT
The Corolla is probably more than ok. But, only if it’s cheap enough. I know market forces etc have inflated car prices recently but in all conscience I’d struggle to bring myself to pay that much or anywhere approaching it for that car.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2021 14:33:00 GMT
I'm gonna sit tight for today. Show the lad that Impreza tonight, and if he's still hell bent on the Corolla after that (it has some ineffable, magical, other-wordly, only a teenager-in-a-private-school-in-the-south-of-England-would-understand coolness about it apparently) then I have an errand to run tomorrow morning (booster jab) after which I will casually drop by the bomb site and suck my teeth at him.
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Post by Humph on Nov 23, 2021 14:38:00 GMT
Good luck with the jab. Had mine 8 days ago followed by 5 days of it being really sore. My wife had hers yesterday and it is also sore apparently. No other ill effects this time but painful.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2021 14:46:27 GMT
Cheers. I'm expecting to be OK, apart maybe from a bit of arm soreness, which really won't bother me. First jab was a day of flu like stuff, second jab nothing. So hopefully nothing this time either. Mrs had hers a couple of weeks back and didn't feel a thing. I'd better be OK, I've got that trip to Wales and back and then on to Gatwick and back this weekend. Quite looking forward to a bit of me time on the road. Don't get it very often. Hope I don't have to send the Mrs to do it...
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Post by WDB on Nov 24, 2021 12:42:54 GMT
Our situation moved on this morning when Boy1 passed his test. I suppose I ought to tell our insurer and take the premium hit on the chin but since the new premium will effectively be £100 a month, I may leave it till he’s not 60 miles away.
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