Hi all,

 

can I get some honest thoughts and opinions on this Octavia VRS please? From what the guy has told me the tyres might be due a change (and according to recent MOT) and the chain and tensioner haven’t been changed (and are apparently very unreliable on this model?)

 

so with that in mind - worth the money or is it too much?

 

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202403257961570

Parker's valuations (for 140k miles) are:

Private Price

£1,900 - £2,520

 

Dealer Price

£2,945 - £4,095

 

Based on 140,000 miles with no optional extras

 

You would uprate for the lower mileage but a 2k+ uprate feels a little steep.

 

£7.5K for a 14 year old car, 'kin ell!!!!!🤯

 

Yet Autotrader says its cheap!

 

What does

Great price

mean?

A ‘great price’ label means this car is priced slightly lower than most other cars of a similar type in the UK right now. In other words, you’re getting a great deal for this car’s age and mileage.

 

I feel like I have woken up after a world pandemic and found myself in a parallel universe, I have only ever paid £3k or so for 3-5 year old cars, when I bought my MK2 Estate (a 2006) which was in 2018 I was the highest bidder at £750, it seemed cheap to me by French standards but pals in the trade said that as soon as something was over 10 years old or over 100K miles (it was both) nobody in their right mind would pay over £1K for them.

 

Back then traders would not even want to give a PX price on something as old as this MK2, rather than lose the deal they might have offered something low and if they ended up with it they would have sold it on to another trader, a buyer like myself or sent it to the block.

Edited 6 May, 20242 yr by J.R.

That’s the trouble - the local dealers around my way are selling absolute tripe for £7-8k, literal **** boxes!! It’s embarrassing what you get for that money - so this finally looked like an “ok” one…