Cheap? VAg diesels at the local Motor Auction this afternoon

[MJK 24]

Thought these were pretty cheap or am I way out of touch with prices?

2001 Y reg Golf SE 1.9 90bhp TDI. 1 owner. 137k miles. Immaculate. Matching Goodyear tyres. £1,225.

2000 X reg Golf GT 1.9 130bhp 6 speed TDI. 110k miles. Average bodywork. £1,450.

2003 53 reg Passat SE Estate 110bhp TDI. Inky Blue. 127k miles. Immaculate. 1 previous owner. £2,100.

2005 55 reg Octavia Estate Ambiente TDI. 88k miles. Excellent nick. £2,400.

2007 07 reg Octavia Hatch TDI. 101k miles. Average bodywork. £2,100 bid but not sold.

Buyers premiums to be paid on top. Max premium at this site was around £85.

[Muncher]

That sounds quite cheap to me, almost disposable at that price.

[MJK 24]

The Y reg Golf was lovely. Kind of regret not buying it despite having no use for it!

[geeteeaye]

MJK 24 said:

2005 55 reg Octavia Estate Ambiente TDI. 88k miles. Excellent nick. £2,400.

Great bargain for someone this, even if it needs a grands worth of work it's still good value!

[Roadrunner23]

I went to BCA Derby on Wed and bought a 56 plate Passat 2.0 Tdi 140 BHP SE, ex lease car direct from GE Capital with Full Main Dealer history from the same garage with 116k, 8 months MOT for £4200, didn't think that was a bad price.

[MJK 24]

^^^^

Someone somewhere has lost £20,000. Ok, so when it was new GE didn't pay anywhere near list but it's still lost a fortune and yet has much more life left in it. Time is a great leveler when it comes to depreciation!

[farrendahl]

MJK 24 said:

^^^^

Someone somewhere has lost £20,000. Ok, so when it was new GE didn't pay anywhere near list but it's still lost a fortune and yet has much more life left in it. Time is a great leveler when it comes to depreciation!

Working at GE I know what kind of life these bargains will have had before. Little tip my friends, if you go to auction and there is a previous GE BMW/Audi/Vauxhall then avoid like the plague, when it comes to mechanical issues we get a stupidly high amount of repair requests on these. Yes you will of course always get the ones that have served well without issue but personally on those I just would want to avoid the risk factor