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not a bad car £5k 2009 low mileage 20 k but I have to travel to view it, car gurus say it's been for sale 250 days, is it worth me making the trip ? or is it going to turn out to be a dog ? thanks for any advice.
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There's probably a reason. Have you done an HPI check, looked at its MOT status?
Ask if anyone's here to check it over.
If it's too good to be true....................................................................
It's a Renault!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Edited by bathtub tom on 30/07/2016 at 00:07
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There's probably a reason. Have you done an HPI check, looked at its MOT status?
Ask if anyone's here to check it over.
If it's too good to be true....................................................................
It's a Renault!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's a Citroen.. not a Renault..
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Don't!
you can get a nearly new dacia sanderos or stepway or logan with bags of warranty for the same money, (ish)
Any warranty you purchase will have loads of exclusions and worth so much toilet paper.
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It's low mileage and whilst overpriced it still should have sold quite easily being the type of car it is, standing for 8 months says something isn't quite right, either with the car or the seller.
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Could be a simple case of the car being over priced and the dealer has finally lowered it.
Would agree with the above poster saying buy a nearly new Dacia stepaway instead.
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not a bad car £5k 2009 low mileage 20 k but I have to travel to view it, car gurus say it's been for sale 250 days, is it worth me making the trip ? or is it going to turn out to be a dog ? thanks for any advice.
HAve you got a link to the ad?
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Good point ... here it is www.cargurus.co.uk/Cars/l-Used-Citroen-C3-Picasso-...4
Cargurus has a strange way of valuing cars - they say its £5,499 price is £464 below market value - but Parkers Valuation gives £3,410 for an independent dealer.
So I'd suggest it's vastly over-priced which it why it's unsold.
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I wonder if they give a premium for trade-in?
Makes any purchaser feel they had a good deal and can boast about the price they got for their old car.
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How disappointing ... I got the impression they were straight, car buying is a minefield, everyone seems to be out to shaft you. I hate the constant suspicion I feel when looking at cars ... actually when looking at anything .... houses, furniture, beer ... everything, I guess I'm just an old cynic !
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I think it's overpriced because punters often fall, wrongly, for the very low mileage and will pay over the odds for it. In this case it looks as if the punters haven't fallen for it.
Its HW registration is from the IoW and it's probably spent it's nearly-7-year life pootling round the Island and never getting warmed up.
I'd say avoid. I've nothing against the IoW - lovely place - but if you live there yourself, Roger, it might be worth looking on the mainland for a car that has done an average mileage and not spent its life too near the sea.
Edited by Avant on 31/07/2016 at 23:35
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I think it's overpriced because punters often fall, wrongly, for the very low mileage and will pay over the odds for it. In this case it looks as if the punters haven't fallen for it. Its HW registration is from the IoW and it's probably spent it's nearly-7-year life pootling round the Island and never getting warmed up. I'd say avoid. I've nothing against the IoW - lovely place - but if you live there yourself, Roger, it might be worth looking on the mainland for a car that has done an average mileage and not spent its life too near the sea.
IoW is lovely scenically - but the roads are the worst I've come across in the whole of the UK - in some places it's as if the potholes have all joined up and you're running on the rough sub-base - I'd hate to think what state that car's suspension is in - and then there's the sea salt!
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That makes sense now RT, its got an advisory on one of the previous MOT tests for failing anti roll bar bushes or similar, at around 11k miles.
Bought cheaply it would probably be a decent buy (might need a set of shocks and a few suspension bushes) because i doubt its seen any road salt, 2k miles a year if that car ever went out on a salty road i'd be surprised, so the regular modern car problems of seizing/rusted brake calipers and discs etc should never rear their ugly heads, assuming it hasn't been too near any sea salt deposits, but this one isn't cheap...first place i'd stick me ugly mug of interested in it would be the underside.
Edited by gordonbennet on 01/08/2016 at 10:11
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Is it just me, or does 13,774miles seem low to have worn out a pair of front tyres?
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It might, but nearly 7 years is long enough (pace John F) to warrant replacing all the tyres.
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It might, but nearly 7 years is long enough (pace John F) to warrant replacing all the tyres.
ditto
lots of corners not many straights..
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Is it just me, or does 13,774miles seem low to have worn out a pair of front tyres?
I was thinking that, in the one close up of a tyre its a MIchelin which should do far more than that, but an MOT failure this year was a damaged/breaking up tyre.
As i said before it might be a decent buy at just over half the advertised price then budget a grand for tyres and suspension refurbishment, plus any likely rusted discs.
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I was thinking that, in the one close up of a tyre its a MIchelin which should do far more than that
Agree, My last set of Michelin's had 5mm of tread left when I changed them and they did 21,000 odd miles.
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