Hi Dean

Wow! That looks incredible. If mine was in the same condition I would be keeping it.

Sadly I have no mechanical knowhow so wouldn't know where to start when it comes to breaking a car. A shame really as there must be loads of new and/or low mileage parts.

Cheers.

John

Edited 28 May, 20251 yr by Sour

Hi, is this still available? How close are you to Essex?

edit: sorry just seen you are in Leicester, bit too far for me !!!

Edited 28 May, 20251 yr by jackgore887

Hi. I'm in Leicester LE2. About a 20 min walk from the train station. Very close to the University and Victoria Park.

Some of the more recent work and a stack of other stuff going back to 2004. You might have to download the image and zoom in to see the work.

Embarrassing how much I've spent on this in recent years.

Best offer so far is £300. Not from the forum. Will be collected this evening. So last chance if you're procrastinating.

Edited 29 May, 20251 yr by Sour
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What an absolute bargain! Very tempting

Tagging this thread with the registration just in case it turns up elsewhere in future

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AE04 FAA

Has it gone now?

Yes. I got a few calls after putting an add in Autotrader. A guy called me yesterday afternoon and said he'd come down from Leeds to pick it up that evening. So he got a coach down to Leicester, bought the car for £350 and then drove back to Leeds. Messaged me back to say he got back fine and the car drives like a dream!

I ended up buying my son a Fiesta but also want to replace my diesel A4 Avant.

Top of the list is another Octavia Estate. Petrol this time though. Although me and the other half need to work out whether we need a car each and if something smaller would do. So maybe Fabia instead.

From the new owner. Amazing what a difference a wash and some new plates can make.

Glad it was saved.

In case it's of any interest, I received 12 calls from 492 views on the Autotrader website. I suspect that I might have been able to hold out for a better price but never mind. A bird in the hand...

The buyer got in touch to ask if I'd ever had the engine remapped for more power. Said it felt far more powerful than 130 hp.

Certainly not by me and I doubt by the one previous owner as he was some sort of salesman and did 100k mainly motorway miles in his 2.5 years of ownership.

I always thought it did pull really well but assumed that was just par for the course.

12 minutes ago, Sour said:

The buyer got in touch to ask if I'd ever had the engine remapped for more power. Said it felt far more powerful than 130 hp.

Certainly not by me and I doubt by the one previous owner as he was some sort of salesman and did 100k mainly motorway miles in his 2.5 years of ownership.

I always thought it did pull really well but assumed that was just par for the course.

In standard power, it has a fair bit of grunt. If it was mapped to even 170. The torque difference is very noticeable and I would wheel spin in first and second easily with a completely standard tired setup. 60 is reached very quickly.

Edited 31 May, 20251 yr by Dean

I think I might have managed a wheel spin on the odd occasion pulling out from a junction but certainly never in second. I suspect it's just more powerful/torquey than what he previously had.