Bubble finally burst?
Discussion
Seems the bubble has burst on MINIs being easy to sell and holding value. Mines dropped from £11500 in march to asking under £9000 for it now 
(still a reasonable price for a 5 year old car I know). Wrong time to try and sell a thirsty impractical car with high insurance and tax methinks. On the same day I first put mine on PH classifieds, there were 3 more pages by the end of the day, and most havent sold and have been reduced. Looks like I will need to take the next silly offer or it will never go. Whats more frustrating is that I never would have started the process if I had known it was going to get this low 
- serves me right for wanting a Kit car 
Anyone else in the same boat? The only saving grace was that I got what I wanted for all the Mods I took off...
(still a reasonable price for a 5 year old car I know). Wrong time to try and sell a thirsty impractical car with high insurance and tax methinks. On the same day I first put mine on PH classifieds, there were 3 more pages by the end of the day, and most havent sold and have been reduced. Looks like I will need to take the next silly offer or it will never go. Whats more frustrating is that I never would have started the process if I had known it was going to get this low - serves me right for wanting a Kit car Anyone else in the same boat? The only saving grace was that I got what I wanted for all the Mods I took off...not quite the same boat.. but.. i had two original thoughts keep it for at least 5 years or change at 3... now going to keep it for ages.
i don't see the point of getting anything much quicker (so may as well keep it and potentially tune it a bit) in the modern world. we'll add a second car which will be asmall diseasel. but the MCS isn't that bad. it doesn;t need to be as uneconomical as it often is..it's like clarkson says - it's driving style.
my 3 year old superleggara (
) mcs chilli dsc with 29K miles isn't worth any more than £11k and probably less. but in the grand scheme of things £2k a year depreciation isn't that bad (and that's including the slide). if you want to cheer yourself go over to the porsche forum...
i don't see the point of getting anything much quicker (so may as well keep it and potentially tune it a bit) in the modern world. we'll add a second car which will be asmall diseasel. but the MCS isn't that bad. it doesn;t need to be as uneconomical as it often is..it's like clarkson says - it's driving style.
my 3 year old superleggara (
) mcs chilli dsc with 29K miles isn't worth any more than £11k and probably less. but in the grand scheme of things £2k a year depreciation isn't that bad (and that's including the slide). if you want to cheer yourself go over to the porsche forum...the thing is whilst it isn;t great on economy (and it isn't awful on that) it isn't that bad to tax either - only £300 in th future... plenty of other things that are the same performance or slower at £400.. and even £400 isn;t that bad. people are worrying themselves unnecessarily in my view.
but as you say - evrything is dropping.
imagine if you'd 'invested' in a turbo 5 cyl ford s-max...
i have decided not to give a rats ass.
but as you say - evrything is dropping.
imagine if you'd 'invested' in a turbo 5 cyl ford s-max...
i have decided not to give a rats ass.
I think the next offer on or over £8000 i will have to take. Tax is due and so is insurance. Plus I want the kitcar for the summer. Good to know its not just me though.
One thing I have learnt - get that stone chip protector stuff next time! - the amount of people put off by them - seem to be really obvious on the dark blue
One thing I have learnt - get that stone chip protector stuff next time! - the amount of people put off by them - seem to be really obvious on the dark blue
Never heard of anything 100% effective for stone chips... some of the clear palstics you can stick on are well expensive. Plus heard when you remove they end up leaving a line where they stopped.
I expect best way would be to price and get a front end re-spray, would be debateable if you'd get the cost back on resale though.
I expect best way would be to price and get a front end re-spray, would be debateable if you'd get the cost back on resale though.
i have got a (lightly) stone chipped 'chrome' headlight surround. how annoying is that!?
you can get them 'blown in' rather than necessarily having the whole front end resprayed.
and i wish i'd gone down the plastic route too. as it does mostly protect. mine's not too bad as it hasn't been tracked..but it's still got a few chips. againm it could be worse..have you seen the average 350z...!?
you can get them 'blown in' rather than necessarily having the whole front end resprayed.
and i wish i'd gone down the plastic route too. as it does mostly protect. mine's not too bad as it hasn't been tracked..but it's still got a few chips. againm it could be worse..have you seen the average 350z...!?
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