New Caterham

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DoubleD

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Monday 11th January 2021
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Hi all,

I was just wondering what your thoughts are about this car? It's just under £15k which seems fairly cheap. The dealer doesn't seem to know much about the car as the details are all blank, but I am guessing that it's a Road sport 125? MOTs seem to be fairly regular with no issues. It's had 5 previous owners, but I guess that's fairly normal for these types of cars?


https://www.stirling-cars.com/


DoubleD

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Monday 11th January 2021
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I notice that it has a bit of an odd setup at the back for the reg plate light? I don't know if that hints to its past maybe? Would it be easy to move, or are they drilled through the bodywork?

Looking at the price of others that are for sale this one seems to be at a fair price? Even if £15k seems like quite a lot!

DoubleD

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Monday 11th January 2021
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Ahh that makes sense, it just looks a bit fussy. I guess it could be moved and the hole covered.

DoubleD

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Saturday 16th January 2021
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Looking at the images more closely I can see what you mean about the surface rust. I imagine the odd placement of the number plate light could be easily addressed, but surface rust could be another matter. The problem is that there arent many fuel injected cars under £15k at the moment.

DoubleD

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Saturday 16th January 2021
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The orange one was up for £17k for a while! Ive seen a private one for sale at under £14k, but that seems to have some corrosion. I guess it's just a case of waiting and saving a bit more.

DoubleD

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Saturday 16th January 2021
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Oh wow, that's pretty shocking! Thanks so much for posting.

DoubleD

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Sunday 17th January 2021
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Looking at it again it's starting to all make sense, the chrome headlights on a black pack, the missing front badge, the strange filler cap and the strange number plate location! This car has been fixed on the cheap. It also explains the lack of info on the dealers website, they obviously want to pull you in, then when you fall in love with it let you know that it's a write off.......well hopefully let you know!

DoubleD

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Sunday 17th January 2021
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It's strange that they would let it fail an MOT when the dealer seems to service and MOT cars! You would have thought that they would get an MOT guy to check what's likely to fail and fix it before carrying out the MOT?!

DoubleD

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Sunday 17th January 2021
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Yeah it will put off some buyers when they see it, not a great sales strategy!

DoubleD

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Saturday 23rd January 2021
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It looks like someone bought that car in the end. I hope the buyer is aware of it's history.

DoubleD

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Monday 25th January 2021
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I guess you shouldn't write off a write off!

DoubleD

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Tuesday 26th January 2021
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BertBert said:
DoubleD said:
I guess you shouldn't write off a write off!
Rather than Cat D it'd be Cat DoubleD
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