Has the arse really fallen out of the used car market?!
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anonymous said:
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Well dont know about that I think may have been we always said over the years never had problems with it and are good little car and that he knows we looked after it and it does have a/c and heated windscreen and electric windows and upgraded speakers from previous owners fitted behind grills so looks atandard and uprated ford headunit with CD player instead of tape player would be having the car myself as 1st but dont particular fit in it hence why we are going to get rid of it. greggy50 said:
Well dont know about that I think may have been we always said over the years never had problems with it and are good little car and that he knows we looked after it and it does have a/c and heated windscreen and electric windows and upgraded speakers from previous owners fitted behind grills so looks atandard and uprated ford headunit with CD player instead of tape player
Don't know why your dad is looking for a saab aero - sounds fully loaded to me!cheeky_chops said:
greggy50 said:
Well dont know about that I think may have been we always said over the years never had problems with it and are good little car and that he knows we looked after it and it does have a/c and heated windscreen and electric windows and upgraded speakers from previous owners fitted behind grills so looks atandard and uprated ford headunit with CD player instead of tape player
Don't know why your dad is looking for a saab aero - sounds fully loaded to me!
Niiick said:
Hey Greggy, is your neighbour called Mr. Gimlet per chance?
Did he complement your mums smooth bonnet and offer to blow his big wad on it straight away? When he mentioned his C6, did he say I've got a big one but not enough juice? Did he say (about you mums Fiesta) I'd like to get inside your tight looking pretty box and nail it? Did he complement the two big airbags? When he saw the minute spot of tar, did he advise your mum to moisten the blob a little with white stuff, rub it gentley for a while and remove the mess with a clean cloth? Did he ask her if she periodically ensures the nuts are good and tight? Did he ask to see if the Fiesta was suitable for taking things like old sofas to the tip and proceed to smash her back doors open with a big old pink one?
(I hope to God you read Viz magazine!)
Erm no my neighbour (well lives over the road) is called John and he owns the local shop and is happily married with 3 kids. I dont really see why you need to say such disgusting things which I find quite offending when basically all he did was offer us 2k for a fiesta I really do not get it they are being sold at some dealers on autotrader for nearly 3k and it books private for about 1800quid but as it had just had brakes done and he knew had no problems he offered 2k as he knew would give him no problems. I do realise it is a rubbish car as all fiesta suck but he was not really offering a stupid amount of money for it as he knows it has been well looked after since we brought it and that has had all the problems associated with fiestas i.e suspension and brakes fixed meaning nothing should go wrong. Jesus I was only originaly trying to say originally that it held its value remarkably well compared to most over the time we owned it compared to most cars on the market and that it served it well and it seems to have gone into people going into various sexual innuendos into why he offered us 2k when while around 200 pounds over book (well probably 100 at the time) he offered because he knew everything was sorted on it and was well looked after as well as it having 12 months mot and tax. Did he complement your mums smooth bonnet and offer to blow his big wad on it straight away? When he mentioned his C6, did he say I've got a big one but not enough juice? Did he say (about you mums Fiesta) I'd like to get inside your tight looking pretty box and nail it? Did he complement the two big airbags? When he saw the minute spot of tar, did he advise your mum to moisten the blob a little with white stuff, rub it gentley for a while and remove the mess with a clean cloth? Did he ask her if she periodically ensures the nuts are good and tight? Did he ask to see if the Fiesta was suitable for taking things like old sofas to the tip and proceed to smash her back doors open with a big old pink one?
(I hope to God you read Viz magazine!)
Greggy50 please accept my apologies. Five minutes after I posted that I deleted it, as I felt the wording could be construed as having the sole purpose of being insulting to your Mother. That wasn't the purpose, your story for some reason reminded me of that comic strip. Regrettably, as I was deleting the post, you were replying and in doing so resurected the purile filth that had spilt forth from my now remorseful tiny mind.
Niiick said:
Greggy50 please accept my apologies. Five minutes after I posted that I deleted it, as I felt the wording could be construed as having the sole purpose of being insulting to your Mother. That wasn't the purpose, your story for some reason reminded me of that comic strip. Regrettably, as I was deleting the post, you were replying and in doing so resurected the purile filth that had spilt forth from my now remorseful tiny mind.
Greggy is probably in Beddy by now...Ordinary Bloke said:
Niiick said:
Greggy50 please accept my apologies. Five minutes after I posted that I deleted it, as I felt the wording could be construed as having the sole purpose of being insulting to your Mother. That wasn't the purpose, your story for some reason reminded me of that comic strip. Regrettably, as I was deleting the post, you were replying and in doing so resurected the purile filth that had spilt forth from my now remorseful tiny mind.
Greggy is probably in Beddy by now...
anonymous said:
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The private market is very mileage focused though. I know it's some time ago, but in 1998 I sold Mrs DL's early 1991 Peugeot 106 1.1XR (XR was just slightly better than basic trim) for £3450, having asked £3495 for it. Car had done 25K and we'd had it from new (cost £7,700 in 1991). Put in our local free sheet and we had several calls about it.spikeyhead said:
Ordinary Bloke said:
Niiick said:
Greggy50 please accept my apologies. Five minutes after I posted that I deleted it, as I felt the wording could be construed as having the sole purpose of being insulting to your Mother. That wasn't the purpose, your story for some reason reminded me of that comic strip. Regrettably, as I was deleting the post, you were replying and in doing so resurected the purile filth that had spilt forth from my now remorseful tiny mind.
Greggy is probably in Beddy by now...HTH
anonymous said:
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/Worzel Gummage
Edited by JamesK on Wednesday 30th July 10:22
JamesK said:
anonymous said:
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/Worzel Gummage
Edited by JamesK on Wednesday 30th July 10:22
As for thinking with my petrolhead? Well, it tells me I only have Sundays to drive, I usually have other stuff to do then anyway and if I want to Ive always got a non-depreciating Integrale for a blat when needed. I can wait 18 months to trade it for a 12pot Fezza. Why buy something probably less fun and depreciating in the meantime?
In the Irish Times today, there is an article describing the used car market as "a blood bath", used petrol cars have fallen in value by 15% and diesels 10%, with prestige and SUV taking a bigger hit.
A dealer describes how he couldn't sell a 3 year old Porsche Cayanne turbo at €40,000 a car which was €200,000 new
so just the €56k/annum depreciation averaged over 3 years.
A dealer describes how he couldn't sell a 3 year old Porsche Cayanne turbo at €40,000 a car which was €200,000 new
so just the €56k/annum depreciation averaged over 3 years.JamesK said:
At the risk of returning this thread to the direction it was originally going in, I must say this is a great post and I find myself agreeing with all of its sentiment. It is depressing in the sense that it reaffirms my sensible head view that I should not be tempted to chuck some cash at a bargain today. My petrolhead, er head, is currently not talking to my sensible head.
It's a wise point of view, though it needs to be tempered by the knowledge that each of us has a finite number of years in which to enjoy driving, and that while waiting another year for something we want may work out cheaper, we'll never get the year back.otolith said:
Don't Irish taxes on low MPG vehicles make our prospective raping look relatively minor?
1 years road tax for over 3 litres engine is €1,491, or for new cars the tax is based on emissions so over 225g/km is €2,000. (bear in mind though there is no property tax here, at the moment, so local authorities get money from car tax rather than rates / council tax).We visited our local veedub main stealers last wekend as the bread knife is looking to change her bug for a derv version. Anyway we test drove one that was a 53 plate and was up at £8995 which was a bit steep but we only really wanted to see how they went but we gave off the right vibes. Anyway the monkey salesman goes and crunches some numbers and returns with an offer of £3k for our 51 plate 1.8T Bug against the derv 
When i picked myself up off the floor and enquired how he came up with this price he replied " Well that's all we would get for it in the block " BLOCK say i, oh Auction i mean say's numpty.
I explained that there was absolutley no way that i would let ours go for this amount as you could not buy any version of a Beetle in any spec for this amount,and told him that this was not an auction but a main stealers hence me coming here.
Any way as it happens they have an identical car to ours same colour spec etc but on a 52 plate with 20k less than ours and it's up for £7495.00 which i pointed out to him so off he went to talk to his manager but we just left in discust before he returned.
I have to say that allthough i wasn't looking to buy my piss was boiling when i left
When i picked myself up off the floor and enquired how he came up with this price he replied " Well that's all we would get for it in the block " BLOCK say i, oh Auction i mean say's numpty.
I explained that there was absolutley no way that i would let ours go for this amount as you could not buy any version of a Beetle in any spec for this amount,and told him that this was not an auction but a main stealers hence me coming here. Any way as it happens they have an identical car to ours same colour spec etc but on a 52 plate with 20k less than ours and it's up for £7495.00 which i pointed out to him so off he went to talk to his manager but we just left in discust before he returned.
I have to say that allthough i wasn't looking to buy my piss was boiling when i left
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