I want to buy a VRS Special Edition - seen a number on Autotrader recently - What is a resonable price to pay for a used one?

Not sure if go to dealer or buy private as all cars are in warranty so nothing different between dealer and private plus will a dealer move on price then you can get buy going private - is between £11k and £12k a resonable price? or am I paying more just because it is a limited edition?

If you pay more than £11k for ANY mk1 Fabia, you need your bumps feeling.

If you have £12k to spend, I will deliver to your door our SE.........

A dealer offered me an SE for £12,300 last week and laughed off the forecourt. There's no way I'm paying £3k over a standard vRS for some pretty blue paint, leather and some fancy electric options. The leather can be done for IRO £600, the paint is nice, but cosmetic and thus not that important, and the fancy lights, cruise and whatever are again, nice, but unimportant when £3k could come off my mortgage instead. I'd pay £500-700 over a similar miles/age/condition, and until a seller is willing to match that offer, my money stays in my pocket. Come October I'll be swapping my 55 plater for as new and low miles I can get, but I won't be conned, no matter how pretty they make it, it's still just a Furby.

I didnt think the SE got 'fancy lights' (ie xenons) or cruise control as standard , did it? I dont think the heated seats or sunroof were availible either , AFAIK its just the paint and leather thats different to a 'stock' late model vRS.

Cruise control = Yes.

Xenon = No.

HTH.

An SE is worth what someone will pay. I swapped a Black 04 plate VRs for my new 07 SE VRs. The best thing about the SE is the seats, the standard VRs seats are a bad joke. Recovering in leather makes sense but detracts from originality. It depends on your own attitude, but I don't like any mods to vehicles myself. I have yet to see any mod add value to a 2nd hand car when you come to sell it.

Ahh I dint know that , cheers!

I have yet to see any mod add value to a 2nd hand car when you come to sell it.

My Scooby achieved £11k when standard ones were selling for IRO £9.5k. A combination of stunning condition, exceptional quality and well planned mods, making it amongst the best road driving WRX's around, and a buyer who could appreciate that, rather than paying £9.5k for a standard car and then coughing up £3.5k to make it anywhere near as good as mine was. I got all my mods 2ndhand, so I was quids in with them costing less than £1k and fitted DIY

Apart from the remap, I intend to remove all my Furby mods for transfer to my next one in October maybe.

I sold my SE for £12k. It was the cheapest available in the country at the time but still had the lowest mileage.

There seems to be a lot of people selling vrss now so you may be able to get a better deal.

I hope I can get a nice standard one in 2010 for around the £9K mark , if not I will probably go for a Fabia 3 TDI or an Octy Mk 2 2.0 TDI Elegance/Sport/L&K.

A dealer offered me an SE for £12,300 last week and laughed off the forecourt. There's no way I'm paying £3k over a standard vRS for some pretty blue paint, leather and some fancy electric options

Your local dealers must be better than ours then. For a standard vRS with the same mileage and age (or near enough since you can't get a standard vRS that new) our local dealers are only charging about £1K less than the SE. Mind you, the money they want for a standard vRS is daylight robbery!

The original premium was about 700 over the non se, for cruise control leather, metallic cd changer sunset glass it was a no brainer

I'm surprised at the premium they seem to command although not unhappy ,I cant see it lasting although I think theyll continue to be sought after

Tempted to chop it in because of the high prices at the moment but frankly cant think what Id replace it with. I tried everything else at the price (new) and nothing touched it for spec or performance.

Tempted to chop it in because of the high prices at the moment but frankly cant think what Id replace it with. I tried everything else at the price (new) and nothing touched it for spec or performance.

Judging by what they did with the Octavia the new one will be at least £15k if they ever get round to making one.