Focus ST-2 value check?

[ySo2]

Hoping someone with more experience with these cars can advise me on this. Looking at buying a focus st-2, never owned one before.

The owner is looking for £4000 for it and said he'll stage 1 remap it for that price.

Timing belt/pump done 10k ago, it's on 78k miles NOT 70k like in the ad.

Here is a link to it:

https://www.gumtree.com/p/ford/ford-focus-st-2-200...

Reason I want to ask is I don't know a whole lot about these cars and from looking at other similar ones, the prices seem to vary wildly. I've seen stage 2 ones with the supporting mods for less, but maybe the car is a wreck, I don't know.

Cheers

[ZX10R NIN]

Have you seen a receipt for the timing belt? If not assume it hasn't been done if you're buying it for 4k then I'd say that's a good deal.

[DukeDickson]

Belt is fine on mileage, but not on age IIRC - definitely 125k, but I think it is 10 years, so I'd want to see evidence as well.
However, rather than a remap, I'd be looking at getting the oil diaphragm sorted first. I think mine went at that sort of mileage maybe a bit later & when it happens, you haven't got long before it can do a fair amount of damage. I nearly left it too long and while it did do another 100k+, it was never quite the same. Used nil oil between services before, but it did afterwards and lost just a touch of pig-iron engined invincibility.

They are pretty tough things if you're sensible, but if you get too excitable on the upgrade front, maybe not so.

[Aeschylus]

The previous owners would put me off, the current owner is the 8th, you would be the ninth....

That is nigh on 1 a year