To be honest, all you get on Autotrader is wastrells that "Promise to get your asking price, and have buyers waiting for it". They then ask you for a

i'd say most of the mods done by those on here to their cars aren't to personalise them at all but to make them faster and go round corners better and anyone that says they get a car remapped or fit a PD160 intake or do pikey mods and say they don't use that extra bit of grunt then are simply aren't telling the truth.

and the trouble is this is how potential buyers see a modified car, if its been modified to go faster then its been used to drive fast and driven hard so they would rather have a standard item.