Hi - I am looking for some advice please from any forum experts - I have a 2007 (57) skoda fabia, that has been sat in my garage for the last couple of years, so MOT is currently expired. I don't need the car anymore, so I am looking to sell it, but I am not sure whether to sell as scrap value or  put through an MOT and try and sell.  It needs a new battery, and the drivers side electric window does not work, and had an advisory & minor defect on its last MOT 'nearside drive shaft joint constant velocity boot severely deteriorated' and 'offside front sub-frame pin or bush worn but not resulting in excessive movement'. I don't know enough about the MOT faults to know whether it is worth me paying to fix to try and get a better price, or whether to sell at the scrap rate of £296 without an MOT.

Any thoughts/advice gratefully received!

Hello Fabiafan6 

 

The advisories might just still be advisories, and even if they're not, they're not unusual repairs.  For the cost of a battery and MOT you'll know either way.  It'll have more value with a year's ticket on it, and people still like Fabia's.

 

Unless it's a pile of crap that no one would want, you could recoup the fairly minimal costs, and keep another Furby on the road.

 

What model, spec and condition is it in?

 

Gaz

 

Sounds like good money for scrap, I'd keep it simple and take that.

Hi - It is a Fabia 1 HTP 70 - 1198 CC Petrol. Grey/Red interior. So a basic model, but definitely got life still in it, apart from the battery and the driver electric window everything else is OK, and has never let me down (think that's why I'm so attached to it!) - thanks for your advice. 

2 hours ago, Breezy_Pete said:

Sounds like good money for scrap,

 

Certainly does 

 

2 hours ago, Breezy_Pete said:

... I'd keep it simple and take that.

 

Vehicular euthanasia 😱 😁

 

G

12 hours ago, Fabiafan6 said:

and the drivers side electric window does not work

 

Surprise surprise

...on the other hand, secondhand economy cars are fetching crazy money...

Edited 1 November, 20223 yr by sepulchrave

It's a mk2 anyway, not a mk1, and really you want to be posting in the classifieds if you're trying to sell.

For the electric window(s), probably a 50/50 between wiring damage in the door bellows or motor module failure with it being an early mk2.