Cheap VW Up - Am I being too cautious?

[hepy]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 03 June 2017 at 18:22

[SAS Tom]

Sounds like a dodgy car being sold by a dodgy man. There's plenty of other ups out there, not really worth risking it to save a few hundred quid.

[steveo3002]

id rathar a car that hasnt had a crash/repair

usualy rings true , cheap for a reason

[SteBrown91]

You can get high mileage ups (60-70k) for the high 3s which would be a better bet than a crashed one. Let's be honest your daughter is problably only going to to 6-8k a year for the first years so there will be at least 5-6 years in the engine at that rate

That car sounds dodgy as fk

[steveo3002]

when it comes time to re sell or trade in the crashed car will be much harder to move on than a genuine clean one

[TooMany2cvs]

steveo3002 said:

id rathar a car that hasnt had a crash/repair

You mean one that you don't know for sure has had a crash/repair?

Even buying new doesn't say for sure that it's not had bodywork done since leaving the line.

I'm not entirely sure what a drug conviction has to do with car sales. It's not as if his conviction was for ringing stolen cars...

[jonah35]

Is it a cat d or cat c

[jonah35]

Prison time for drug dealing shows a dishonest man and one that doesn't accept law and will do criminal things for his own personal gain.

He is unlikely to be an upstanding member of the community as he has been selling drugs to people - not honourable

I'd avoid it like the plague

[Momentofmadness]

I'd avoid - it's not cheap enough and I'm sure you'd rather she was driving a undamaged one.

[NickdeBug]

For that money your father in law could pay deposit and first 2 years payments on a brand new one. After two years maybe your daughter could pick up the £105/month payments.

That is just a standard deal on VW website based on 10k miles on Move up! 1.0l, so you could probably get this knocked down a bit through carwow and a bit of haggling.

New car = warranty and peace of mind.