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i am looking to purchase a fabia VRS any colour (except yellow), below 150k miles and in good condition. based in the North East of England, Newcastle, but willing to drive to collect within 100 ish miles. Please send me details of what you're offering. i looked on the selling page but couldn't find any for sale so thought id try here.

Hi glen, welcome to the forum - pretty sure your posting will be fine here. I'd have thought the VRS could carry off the yellow OK.

1 minute ago, Warrior193 said:

Hi glen, welcome to the forum - pretty sure your posting will be fine here. I'd have thought the VRS could carry off the yellow OK.

I am fully split between the yellow ones between liking it and hating it, theres no in between

13 minutes ago, GlenWatson said:

I am fully split between the yellow ones between liking it and hating it, theres no in between

 

Do keep in mind there are two shades of yellow available for the vRS, as the useless fact you'll retain in your mind. Lemon Yellow, and Sprint Yellow. Sprint Yellow was a later colour for the car, such as @Lofty will be able to tell you... of which I've linked one of his photographs for comparison's sake.

 

Sprint Yellow:

 

 

Lemon Yellow:

 

 

The colour difference may appear subtle on screen*, but is more noticeable off-screen in my experience.

 

*or at least it does on my ancient computer screen.

 

Hope this helps.

Edited 1 April, 20224 yr by AnnoyingPentium
Fixed my idiocy.

2 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

 

Do keep in mind there are two shades of yellow, as the useless fact you'll retain in your mind. Lemon Yellow, and Sprint Yellow. Sprint Yellow was a later colour, such as @Lofty will be able to tell you... of which I've linked one of his photographs for comparison's sake.

 

Sprint Yellow:

 

 

Lemon Yellow:

 

 

The colour difference may appear subtle on screen, but is more noticeable off-screen in my experience.

 

Hope this helps.

 

i am only looking for a VRS so would be the sprint yellow and i think you have helped me make my mind up. not for me ahaha 

3 minutes ago, GlenWatson said:

 

i am only looking for a VRS so would be the sprint yellow and i think you have helped me make my mind up. not for me ahaha 

 

Ah hang on, I've put the wrong second picture up there. I meant to include one of a lemon yellow vRS instead.

 

I'll edit that accordingly, apologies!

2 hours ago, GlenWatson said:

i am looking to purchase a fabia VRS any colour (except yellow), below 150k miles and in good condition. based in the North East of England, Newcastle, but willing to drive to collect within 100 ish miles. Please send me details of what you're offering. i looked on the selling page but couldn't find any for sale so thought id try here.

 

Now I'm not nosey but sorry yes I am being nosey - I'd like to know the reason why you want an example with less than 150k ? And not yellow ...! 

 

At this stage in the game given the youngest Mk1 Fabia is now 15 years old its condition and regular servicing that is the yardstick but expect the unexpected - Don't be fooled into thinking that you will drive the car for 3 years and make a profit out of it !! 

 

If its a daily you are after then a well looked after example with a good MOT and service record is a better bet than an infrequently used garage queen. Regular use and sorting minor issues before they become major is key !  These examples still exist but are in a major decline. Most examples could have 170k+ at this stage which for a 2005 is 10k a year..! 

 

If its investment potential you are after then the vast majority have been put away already and you will pay very strong money for an original unmolested low mileage example if you can find one. You might be lucky but thanks to recent mentions across motoring publications has given the car quite the following and people are jumping on the bandwagon. 

 

Even in the last 5 years we have seen a sharp decline in numbers where tatty well abused and badly modified and maintained cars are getting broken up at quite a rate. 

 

So just be patient and keep an eye on the for sale in here and the mainstream market places - If its cheap there is a reason - Dont commit until you see a few and get a feel for them !! 

 

33 minutes ago, VanhireBoys said:

 

Now I'm not nosey but sorry yes I am being nosey - I'd like to know the reason why you want an example with less than 150k ? And not yellow ...! 

 

At this stage in the game given the youngest Mk1 Fabia is now 15 years old its condition and regular servicing that is the yardstick but expect the unexpected - Don't be fooled into thinking that you will drive the car for 3 years and make a profit out of it !! 

 

If its a daily you are after then a well looked after example with a good MOT and service record is a better bet than an infrequently used garage queen. Regular use and sorting minor issues before they become major is key !  These examples still exist but are in a major decline. Most examples could have 170k+ at this stage which for a 2005 is 10k a year..! 

 

If its investment potential you are after then the vast majority have been put away already and you will pay very strong money for an original unmolested low mileage example if you can find one. You might be lucky but thanks to recent mentions across motoring publications has given the car quite the following and people are jumping on the bandwagon. 

 

Even in the last 5 years we have seen a sharp decline in numbers where tatty well abused and badly modified and maintained cars are getting broken up at quite a rate. 

 

So just be patient and keep an eye on the for sale in here and the mainstream market places - If its cheap there is a reason - Dont commit until you see a few and get a feel for them !! 

 

 

I put 150k as a guide mark, I'm2 looking at multiple between 120 - 180k, not looking for an investment as it would be a daily correct, but up North most are molested examples with well over 150k so putting below 150k would hopefully limit the amount of bad examples out there, as for the 'no yellow' examples, well its personal preference, the yellow ones don't interest me in the slightest.

Long term vRS serial owner here, yes I have a Sprint Yellow garage ornament and for many years, along side the show pony, I also ran a Black Magic 2005 vRS.

 

The Black one was bought as a "theoretical" breaker, as it had a number of tasty bits i needed for the Yellow project, but I ended up keeping it and took it from 100k to just shy of 200k in 3.5 years.

 

Hand on heart, at 185k it drove every bit as well as it did at 100k, probably because it had been maintained on the button and if it needed replacement parts they were always fitted. Like any car, you can come across a 60k mile minter that is in all reality on the cusp of needing lots of remedial work due to age etc, so buy with your head not your heart and I wouldn't discount something with over 100k if it's got good provable history and drives well.

 

Even my Black one had no body corrosion, no scabs on the sills, no rusty arches and it stood up well when cleaned / polished.

 

A good moto to remember is "crap cars attract crap owners" so anything that's been all over the social media doing burnouts, smoking like a chimney bouncing of the limiter is probably going to give you a fiscal fingering so do some digging on the reg number etc.

 

I agree with your sentiments on Yellow, it's a marmite colour, so get one you love, there are still some lovely examples out there. 

4 hours ago, Lofty said:

Long term vRS serial owner here, yes I have a Sprint Yellow garage ornament and for many years, along side the show pony, I also ran a Black Magic 2005 vRS.

 

The Black one was bought as a "theoretical" breaker, as it had a number of tasty bits i needed for the Yellow project, but I ended up keeping it and took it from 100k to just shy of 200k in 3.5 years.

 

Hand on heart, at 185k it drove every bit as well as it did at 100k, probably because it had been maintained on the button and if it needed replacement parts they were always fitted. Like any car, you can come across a 60k mile minter that is in all reality on the cusp of needing lots of remedial work due to age etc, so buy with your head not your heart and I wouldn't discount something with over 100k if it's got good provable history and drives well.

 

Even my Black one had no body corrosion, no scabs on the sills, no rusty arches and it stood up well when cleaned / polished.

 

A good moto to remember is "crap cars attract crap owners" so anything that's been all over the social media doing burnouts, smoking like a chimney bouncing of the limiter is probably going to give you a fiscal fingering so do some digging on the reg number etc.

 

I agree with your sentiments on Yellow, it's a marmite colour, so get one you love, there are still some lovely examples out there. 

You must keep that yellow one holed up pretty good im also from stourbridge and ive not seen it out and about on my travels

16 minutes ago, Stewartasb said:

You must keep that yellow one holed up pretty good im also from stourbridge and ive not seen it out and about on my travels

 

In fairness it's been garaged since 2016 so nobody has seen it!

I'm just about to sell my beloved VRS after 15 years as my commute has gone from 30 miles on a dual carriageway to, well a lot more and I've gone electric.   I was thinking of eBay?  Or maybe I'll just keep it in the garage until I retire!  

 

I'm in West Sussex though!

 

 

I'm just about to sell my beloved VRS after 15 years as my commute has gone from 30 miles on a dual carriageway to, well a lot more and I've gone electric.   I was thinking of eBay?  Or maybe I'll just keep it in the garage until I retire!  

 

I'm in West Sussex though!

 

 

It's done 166,343 miles.

14 minutes ago, liftfan said:

I'm in West Sussex though!

 

You say that like it's a bad thing, I'm in West Sussex as well, PM me if you like, I might buy it and take mine off the road for some engine mods if your price is fair.

Brighton! You are practically round the corner!

 

I've just listed it on eBay if you wanted to check it out.  I'm around most of this week if you wanted to take a look at it.