Just wondering what price i should be looking at getting for my car.

Its a 54 plate "Black Magic" with 45500 mile on the clock and:

Forge FMIC

Octy 17" vrs wheels with 4 brand new Pirelli PZero Nero tyres (2 weeks old)

Parking senors

Cruise Control

312mm brakes with zimmer disc's

New rear disc's and pad's

Eibach springs and dampers

Seat strut brace

Green panel filter

Sony head unit

Seat PD160 intake

Just been serviced by APS (3 weeks ago)

New header tank fitted (last week under warranty)

6 months tax

Seats have usual wear.

O/S front fog light is cracked at the moment but i have a new one to fit.

Body work is fine apart from a few stone chips.

Also i have a spare Octy VRS 17" wheel no tyre but it needs refurbing (dont know if i should sell this with the car?)

Any thoughts would be grateful.

Chop

Why are you selling it?

You have to choose whether you are going to sell it privately or part exchange it against another car?

If you are selling to a garage then I would put (as much as possible) the car back to standard. You will get a better price for it.

If you are selling it privately, then I would search the internet and look at what similar age/milage cars are going for and price it accordingly.

It looks as if you have spent abit of money on your car recently. Why dont you keep it a bit longer and get your moneys worth out of it?

Im looking to get a house in a few months.

There is the possiblity that i may keep it but just seeing what i could get? would 8k sound too much?

That figure would sound about right. You might get a bit more as you have just fitted new tyres, brakes and had it serviced.

Personally, I would keep the car as thats why I bought one. It is cheap to run and I have not had (touch wood!?) any problems with the car since buying it 9 months ago.

Better the devil you know.....

+ if you don't return it to standard anyone with any sense would guess it's been chipped / whatever as well (though you don't state it the mods are a giveaway) - thus limiting prospective purchasers to 'enthusiasts'.

Yeah i was planning on getting it chipped when i had finished accumulating the parts i had planned for it.

I understand that because of what i have done to it already im narrowing my market down.

This is why i asked for advice on here.

Cheers for the comments guys

If you are selling the car 'as is' - then perhaps if you state that the car has never been chipped / remapped, include your explanation that house etc has intervened - then perhaps you might get more interest and a better price.

From my point of view - any engine 'messing' would put me off buying a car (having said that I might be tempted in the future to have ours remapped).

Many thanks for you comments anonymouse.

I am having an internal battle at this present moment whether to sell the car or not.

It will be replace with a

Many thanks for you comments anonymouse.

I am having an internal battle at this present moment whether to sell the car or not.

It will be replace with a

If you can, then keep it.

My brother bought an old runabout a few years ago for £500, but it was nothing but trouble. This was a fiesta, and it was always going wrong and letting him down. If you buy an old banger then also factor in that it could cost £400-1K per year to keep on the road, plus the annual MOT which will always need minor work to get through. Although your vRS will need an MOT this year, it will pass it with luck. Cheap cars can be ok, but usually they are cheap for a reason and a 10 year old car will have regular issues that need sorting.

Well if you buy a £500 banger with 12 months ticket on it the following year if it fails the MOT throw it away and buy another £500 banger. There are countless great examples around.

Also if you keep the vRS for another 3 years assuming the depreciation will be 50% you will have lost £4k so if you sold it you'd have £7.5k in the bank earning interest and £500 banger the annual interest would be roughly £400 so it could cost you nothing + you may buy a car which lasts a couple of years.

A friend of mine never buys anything above £250 - he is well off too but hates the thought of investing in a depreciating asset. He gives all his cars the respect they deserve and his service (which is dont service them at all just ensure the fluids are topped up). His best buy to date was I think a Citroen Bx (QUITE A LONG TIME AGO NOW) he bought for £50 and it covered 50,000 under his ownership then scrapped it.

I think he's running Citroen Xantias currently these are terribly cheap and good drives.

I'd love to do it would be a lot of fun as I could then afford to go on 5 star holidays and buy 52inch LCD's etc. Or just dump the savings into mortgage overpayments/investments.

Sorry to slightly hijack this thread and pull it in another direction, just on the subject of car prices, i was considering a new car on august of this year, esp the vRS, and wondering what people thought roughly the depreciation values would be?

Ie with the new 07 model coming in (so hopefully some people part-ex upgrading), vs the stopping/ed vRS production, vs the euro IV stutter issue?

Would be looking for a clean vRS euro III ~ 40k miles around ~£6000 or prob not worth the switch. Realistic or pie in the sky?

What do u good folks think?

Many thanks for you responses.

Like many people have said having a