Sounds expensive. SWMBO's was £5200 with 32k miles, FSH (a good deal IMO!) albeit not in silver, but we weren't fussed about the colour! You may have to haggle for the 12 month warranty/breakdown - stealer tried to wriggle out of supplying it.

Road tax is £115 for 12 months I believe.

Yes, it is.

also seems dear to me, for another 1,000 pounds you could get a 2004 VRS with about 40k miles..

Poor deal really you could get a 03/53 reg Golf GT TDI 130 for that money and lower.

Why have a downgrade model when you can have the real deal for the same or less ££

Poor deal really you could get a 03/53 reg Golf GT TDI 130 for that money and lower.

Why have a downgrade model when you can have the real deal for the same or less ££

Any examples of them at that price?

Any examples of them at that price?

Look on AT there are loads of GT TDI 130 golfs 02/52/03/53 starting at £4.8k in fact national search 5-6k there are 50 so you have a lot to choose from.

Look on AT there are loads of GT TDI 130 golfs 02/52/03/53 starting at £4.8k in fact national search 5-6k there are 50 so you have a lot to choose from.

Except they all seem to be 02 plates with quite a bit higher mileage for the sort of nudget being discussed here.

eBay.co.uk - gt tdi golf, golf tdi, golf gt tdi 130, Cars items at low prices

The Fabia is based on a Polo anyway

Price: I looked on AutoTrader and Exchange & Mart - given Make/Model/Trim/Engine/Mileage/Year I couldn't find a cheaper car. The price I've been given fits neatly in with the rest. I don't know where these £1k cheaper cars of the same spec are. Yes, £1k can be knocked off given the next lower spec and an extra 5k miles on the clock, but that's not like-for-like. Would love to hear of another source of used cars of course..!

Warranty: Called Skoda UK Mon morning. Their 12-month warranty applies only to dealers in their scheme, which they told me over the phone was only 6% of dealerships, and no they didn't have a list of them (yeah, right). Sounds like a Trades Descriptions Act level of inaccuracy, that. Called the dealer in question, apparently they tend to avoid anything over five years old, those that are are called Yellow Plate vehicles and they "know the previous owner(s)", therefore opt out of the Skoda warranty and have their own 3-month version which covers the essentials only.

I shall however be looking at other cars for same price and checking the insurance out too. The Autotrader quoter came up with £1000 for me! Moneysupermarket found one for £550!

Should I be worried that the cambelt didn't get changed at 4 yrs / 40,000 miles? Now 5.5yrs / 45,000 miles. They say if I buy the car they'll do it and change the water pump too.

There may be nothing around at the price in all the guides at the moment, but don't forget they would of bought the car based on Glass's figures, so there is room for movement.

The 3 month warranty isn't worth the paper it is printed on.

As for the cambelt, too right you should be worried !! for them to say

"they tend to avoid anything over five years old, those that are are called Yellow Plate vehicles and they "know the previous owner(s)"

Yet they bought a car that they knew hadn't had the correct servicing done regarding the belt, despite it being way over Skoda's recommendations!

Then to say if you buy the car they will do it isn't good enough.

How can they put there name to a car they know should of had a cambelt changed 18 months ago but didn't, yet they are happy not to do it (otherwise it would be changed before it goes on the forecourt)

So to summarize "is this a good deal" IMHO? No

Would i buy any car off this dealer? No, they sound a bit dodgy to me, put their name in the search facility on here and see if they have any bad reports on them from fellow Briskodians.

However you are the only person on here that will have seen the car, so ultimately you will go with your gut instinct anyway and don't forget any information given is worth exactly what you paid for it

I agree with the people saying hold out for a vRS!

Don't let the running costs of the "sporty" vRS put you off. Aside from disposables like tyres and brake pads etc, it is not any more expensive to run than my previous 1.1i 106, but I'm getting a hell of a lot more car for the money!

Tax - 130g Co2/km (???) wotsits so this is just £110 for 12 months (or is it £115 now?)

Insurance - Insurance group is higher than the 106, but go through a performance specialist and this negates most of the difference. You'll see most chaps on here are paying less than £450 PA full comp with a clean license and decent no claims.

Fuel - If you nail it, its thirsty! But on long steady runs you'll regularly see over 50mpg, which is more than what my 106 returned.

So there you have it! Thats my 2p worth any road.

An update.

Skoda dealer called this afternoon to warn he had others in line waiting to buy it (sure..). Took it for a spin late afternoon, weird vibration in the clutch just as you feel resistance, at all speeds; felt like driving over those thin strips of tarmac approaching a roundabout just not audible (any ideas???). No damp footwells (good), nearside front wheel alloy scuffed and partly chipped, screws in the reg plate beginning to rust, pass. glovebox interior light unit disconnected and found floating inside.

Offered £300 for my Pug. Decided against, even with six months road tax thrown in (big different ha).

But I may have thought differently had my g/f not spotted a virtually identical car with 5k less miles for £5k. Hopefully going to view it Saturday, assuming it stays put!

Also going to look at the Ambience model - not sure precisely what I'd lose but so long as it has air con the rest should be fine.

I may return to the dealer but for the time being I'm going to keep looking.