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hi guys, my mate is up north and he has rung me for opinions on this car - he hasnt test driven it yet, but is keen on it. the belts have been changed in april this year, so that aint no worries...

does it look like a good buy? it does to me...!?!?!?!

cheers guys

Possibly a little overpriced for a 6 year old car, but if real clean and full service history, should be OK

Guess it had a belt at 4 years old, so the next one will be due either 60,000 miles after that was done, or 4 years, whichever comes first.

cheers dude. i said to my mate that he should try barter maybe..

not a car seen on here before then?

The only option listed is the black paint, so that car would have retailed at roughly £11500. At 6 years old the owner wants 43% of new price? That's a lot. As a rule of thumb, 60% at 3 years is considered exceptional with 35-45% being good, so he really does want a lot for it. Personally, I'd pass.

I'd pay a maximum of £4500 for that

We have a slightly older 53 reg comfort estate with the 1.9tdi engine and similar mileage. It was bought when 3 years old 40k with full history, but has had some expensivwe repairs needed over the years, despite doing about 4k/year since.

Brakes and discs after first year. Last year £900 for a long delayed first cambelt change, and quite a lot for failed suspention bushes at the front. Ihave had to take apart all the doors to stop the leaks, replaced a failed window motor, and it eats tyres on the front even driven gently! I am hoping it will pass its nearly due MOT this year as the horn now works on only one corner of the wheel centre, another £150 or si if it doesn't

I would expect it to be worth around £3 to £3.5k and it is the more desirable estate version with a lot of extras from new. Cant see haow a car a few months newer can be worth much more.

We have a slightly older 53 reg comfort estate with the 1.9tdi engine and similar mileage. It was bought when 3 years old 40k with full history, but has had some expensivwe repairs needed over the years, despite doing about 4k/year since.

Brakes and discs after first year. Last year £900 for a long delayed first cambelt change, and quite a lot for failed suspention bushes at the front. Ihave had to take apart all the doors to stop the leaks, replaced a failed window motor, and it eats tyres on the front even driven gently! I am hoping it will pass its nearly due MOT this year as the horn now works on only one corner of the wheel centre, another £150 or si if it doesn't

I would expect it to be worth around £3 to £3.5k and it is the more desirable estate version with a lot of extras from new. Cant see haow a car a few months newer can be worth much more.

I am not sure that a Comfort spec estate would be strictly classed as 'more desirable' by everyone than the vRS version.

I dont think the vRS is question is mega highly priced for the age/mileage and for what they seem to sell for.

Its probably more of a £4500 - £4750 ono car in my opinion.

If you look at the retained value figures for what cars are supposed to be worth at 3, 4 & 5 yrs old then the Fabia vRS's

sell for silly money really - but its what people will pay for them.

Lewwy

The only option listed is the black paint, so that car would have retailed at roughly £11500. At 6 years old the owner wants 43% of new price? That's a lot. As a rule of thumb, 60% at 3 years is considered exceptional with 35-45% being good, so he really does want a lot for it. Personally, I'd pass.

I think it was £11990 OTR + £260 Metallic = £12,250?

Parkers website quotes an 04 Fabia vRS with 60,000 miles and standard paint at £4260 as a private sale figure for a car in good condition, at 58,000 miles and black magic paint I'd say the £4500 price is about right, for £4995 I'd expect an exceptionally good, spotless car. I'd doubt any car would be like that at that age and mileage.

Ian

Seeing this car has not yet covered 60,000 miles in 6 years, that works out approx 10,000 miles a year.

Belts could have all been done last week or two years ago, need to find-out that information.

As to the Camshaft belt all sorts of weird and wild advice out there, even Skoda can't agree amongst themselves.

Had cambelt, auxiliary belt, water-pump (recommended ) and anti-freeze G12 done at 46,000 miles approx with car 5 years old on my 2005 Fabia VRS.

Then that would put my car at ten year old or 76,000 miles (only cover 6,000 per year) to repeat the same overall.

So with this car being a year older than mine still could go till it's 10 year old or 100,000 on speedometer, again knowing when belt was replaced.

About £5,000 touches a 2004 to 2006 Fabia VRS (look on E.Bay 01/09/2010) but with the Special Edtion costing more because of the extras.

Good luck to your mate.

Edited 2 September, 201015 yr by giandougl

About £5,000 touches a 2004 to 2006 Fabia VRS but with the Special Edtion costing that little bit more because of the extras.

The SE is a "lot" more...

I paid £4400 for my 53 black magic vrs, in decent nick with 73k miles back in January. Though mine has xenons and 6cd changer too

I bought my '07 Corrida Red vRS, with Cruise this June.

It is 26,500 miles and FSkodaSH, I got it for 6600 which I thought was a good price.

The prices of vRS's seem to vary wildly though, with my local dealer having the same

reg car in black with 28,000 miles on for 8995 at the same time I bought mine.

Lewwy

Last May I got my 05 vRS with 59,000 miles on it for £4,450

Vrs prices over the last year seem to have plateau'd!

In early 2008 they plummeted! But in the last 12 months they havent rly budged!

I sold an 04 last year with 70k for 5k and im seeing them still go for that now

Prices seem to have bottomed out at 4-4.5k

I bought my '07 Corrida Red vRS, with Cruise this June.

It is 26,500 miles and FSkodaSH, I got it for 6600 which I thought was a good price.

The prices of vRS's seem to vary wildly though, with my local dealer having the same

reg car in black with 28,000 miles on for 8995 at the same time I bought mine.

That was a really good price - my vRS SE was £10k...

The SE is a "lot" more...

You're not kidding. I picked up my SE in August 2008 for £9,800, and looking at Autotrader today, the cheapest that these are going for is £8,550 and that one’s got way more mileage than mine. Even if I was to sell today, and got say £8,600, that's bloody good depreciation in my book - £1,200 over two years = £50/month - that's almost depreciation-free motoring!

I think what with the way the motoring industry/economy has been affected in the past couple of years, it's difficult to apply a rule of thumb to the depreciation of cars. It’s the market that dictates the value of second hand cars. There were some reports that due to the recent price rises that Ford applied to their new cars, that one year old Fiesta Zetec S’s were going for more than what they were bought for when new. For a Ford! How ridiculous!

But back to the OP’s query, I’d suggest a test drive of several vRS’s before taking the plunge. If it feels as tight as a drum, it’s probably been well cared for and not been thrashed. If it feels baggy, walk away. That’s what I did with the vRS that I test drove before actually plumping for my SE.

That was a really good price - my vRS SE was £10k...

I spent a LONG time looking for a Fabia vRS and very nearly bought an '05 plate with 42k from someone on here

shook on a deal at 5600. Then he had a pang of conscience after a week and told me while he had owned it , it had been

stolen/recovered. Luckily for me coughed this info before I wasted money on a HPi. Looked at several other nails,

before seeing mine on the Autotrader, up for 6995. Acted fast and had to drive over 100 miles the next day to view.

The guy had owned from new (he was 67 yo), and was getting divorced. House for sale, motor home sold just sold.

Managed to get him down to 6600. Sometimes you have to look for along time to find what you are after.

Lewwy

When I went to look at the one I've just bought I had to make the decision there and then - when I turned up they were prepping it for someone travelling over 100 miles to look at it the next day...

When I went to look at the one I've just bought I had to make the decision there and then - when I turned up they were prepping it for someone travelling over 100 miles to look at it the next day...

When we were vrs hunting for my mate, we found one, and couldn't get a single penny off, even after walking away. After juggling some dolla about, we went back in and took it, was still a good car, and the sales man said after they had done a deal over the phone, and was waiting for someone to come look at it, hence why they were so tight!

Matt