Hi, first post so hopefuly this is the right section.

Been toying with the idea of trading in my Clio (1.2 so not very quick) that I got on the scrappage, for a turbo diesel.

Used to have a 306 DT so the Fabia VRS has caught my eye.

I've seen this at a main stealer, I suppose the attraction is it's red and it would hopefuly be easier to trade mine than sell it.

But after looking in the sale forum I can't work out if 5195 is reasonable for the age/milage or about 500 too much.

http://www.jct600.co.uk/brand/Skoda/used-cars/car-details/skoda-fabia-bradford-yr06udo-17784671

Dealer states its in VGC, skoda FSH up to 2010, where apparently it's missing a stamp. They've serviced it, but I asked about the cambelt, and was fed the line that's not due for another 11,000 miles (not particularly keen on that).

Any help gratefully appreciated.

Thanks

That's a good price id say. . i payed nearly 7k for a 56 plate nearly a year ago. . .with 39k miles

I'm not up to scratch on the latest prices, but I was looking at the for sale section an 07 plate SE is up for £5,500 & a 06 plate for less than £4k so it seems a little pricey.

Cambelt is overdue by 2 years on the 4 year rule.

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They've serviced it, but I asked about the cambelt, and was fed the line that's not due for another 11,000 miles (not particularly keen on that).

Any help gratefully appreciated.

Thanks

VAG cambelts are also every 4 years, so it has never been changed before? it is well overdue.

Seems good to me too, i paid £5250 for mine in september 2006 reg, black with 74k miles. Mine does have xenons though and i got a service, 4 new tyres, mot and got it delivered.

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VAG cambelts are also every 4 years, so it has never been changed before? it is well overdue.

Thanks all, searched on here and wasn't able to find many horror stories (though funnily enough, plenty of mentions of former 306 owners who'd overstrayed!)

Gonna wait on them to get back to me with a price for mine and see if I could negotiate a cam belt change.

Only experience to go off is parents both have A4 SEs with a similar engine (the 1.9 130), but they've been fairly robust.

Thing that's got me then, if it's a 4 year change, presumably the 2010 missed service would have been the one :/

Just one quick question, the EGR/stutter fix, is it a home DIY thing or garage job?

Edited 16 January, 201214 yr by Bossworld

I went to part x my fabia vrs the other day and they offered me £2650 although it has a full service history and only 87k and I've also had cambelt and clutch done from unit 18 too, what a joke I'm on the Market for an octy vrs as we have a 2nd child on route so need the space lol

Oh as u could imagine I turned and walked away, gutted tho as they had the car I wanted for a very good price but I wasn't letting mine go for stupid money

good price that looks like a mint standard example go for it

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VAG cambelts are also every 4 years, so it has never been changed before? it is well overdue.

Also 4k miles overdue for the cambelt if you were going by mileage. Don't no why they're saying it's not due for another 11k miles.

Edited 17 January, 201214 yr by armstrong21490

Also 4k miles overdue for the cambelt if you were going by mileage. Don't no why they're saying it's not due for another 11k miles.

Some people say 60,000 miles, others 75,000 miles. From what I can see the former comes from Skoda UK whereas the latter comes from Skoda themselves, since it concurs with the european 120,000km requirement.

I'm not up to scratch on the latest prices, but I was looking at the for sale section an 07 plate SE is up for £5,500 & a 06 plate for less than £4k so it seems a little pricey.

Cambelt is overdue by 2 years on the 4 year rule.

We're comparing with a dealer car here. £5191 doesn't sound too bad assuming you can get the cambelt done as part of the deal.

That figure of £5,500 for an SE sounds low until you realise that's a high mileage (>101k) wanting a quick sale - and surprisingly he's had to drop the price to £4,200 (wrong time of year to be selling I suppose).

A more acceptable 62k mile SE (#452) has just sold on eBay for £6,712 and that needed paintwork repairs.

There's a CatC one at Autotrader for only £5,989 (mileage not declared - the figure given is wrong).

There's another at Autotrader on 76k for £6,495.

There's then two private sellers asking rather high prices both for 41k examples - £7,500 and £7,850

And two optimistic dealers wanting £8290 (64k) and £9490 (34k)

Normal dealer prices are still around £7.5k for reasonable mileages and I'd have thought £6.5k for a private sale should be achievable to the right buyer.

Anyone want my 30k one for £7k?

Edited 17 January, 201214 yr by DRJ