Daughters boyfriend has been offered a 1997 P Reg Polo 1.4L 3 door with 50k on the clock. Not excellent, but above average condition. Any ideas what he should pay? Guy is asking £2k, I say no where near that. Any helpers please?
Thanks
Tack
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£2k is a little high but not out of this world crazy.
Looking on the Trader I'd try for about £1,700.
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2 grand for an 8 year old supermini seems daft money to me.
Ben
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Bear in mind that if this car was the Skoda badged version of the same, the Felicia, it would be well under a grand.
You pay lots for a badge, it seems.
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Bear in mind that if this car was the Skoda badged version of the same, the Felicia, it would be well under a grand. You pay lots for a badge, it seems.
The Felicia isn't a re-badged Polo. It's a revision of the Favorit from 1990.
Regards OP, £2k is a lot for a P reg small car though.
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2 Grand too much, try £1300. Polos are not particularly good, suffer numerous faults like all Vw,s, and are Spanish made so draw your own conclusions from that
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Check the bottoms of the doors and the rear valence. I've seen quite a few rusty ones around now.
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The Felicia isn't a re-badged Polo. It's a revision of the Favorit from 1990.
Aha, I always thought it was their first entirely new car since VW took them over. Didn't know it was a rehashed Favorit, thought it was Polo based. Dont know where I got that from now.
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I reckon £1600 is about right. But far better to look for CL version as it come with c/l,e/w, and probably more importantly PAS. Lots out there to choose from
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Good point - there aren't a shortage of these cars so if he really wants one he should make sure it has the toys. £2000 for a car that's over 8 years old seems silly money to me though - I guess it depends where you are in the country though
Have a look at the 'car-by-car breakdown' on the left to see what goes wrong with these....
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£2,000 for an 8 year old tin can!?!
I wouldn't be paying anywhere near that, maybe £1,200 if I were deperate, but then I would struggle to contemplate spending any significant sum of money on a small, old car, my dad's P reg 3 series isn't even worth £2K!
Blue
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we just bought a polo 1.4 open air model p reg done 80k miles paid 1600 for it its about right.
After all if only all things in life is as reliable as a vw.
Pay less for another model but they dont last long do they, at least they dont rust as bad as a ford.
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There are two questions:-
1. Is an eight year old, base model Polo with 50k the best way to spend £2k on a car?
2. If you want an eight year old, base model Polo, is it worth north of £1k?
The answer to the first is probably no, the second definitely yes. Bear in mind that a lot of people, particularly those who are nervous about cars, want two things: small (therefore good fuel economy and low insurance) and reliable (therefore a VW). I don't necessarily agree that the Polo will be especially economical or that much cheaper to insure or that reliable either. People also think that anything with more than 60k miles on it is due to blow up any day now, regardless of age, whereas a low mileage car will have plenty more miles left in it.
When I bought my 406 diesel I could have had a same age 1.2 litre Fiesta for the same sort of money. I figure that my running costs are about £200 more per year, including insurance but excluding fuel, so about the same overall. However my car is much more comfortable and simply due to size, safer. However plenty of people out there either don't agree or haven't thought about it.
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Have a look at the 'car-by-car breakdown' on the left to see what goes wrong with these....
its got a reliability rating of 30 from 96 onwards with the average for small cars being 55 so its reliable.
as for the car breakdown its about as good as any other and not to be taken as gospel as some on here seem to
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Thanks for all the replies. V.Helpful. In the end though, we kicked it into touch. Saw the "duplicate" service book and service printout. 4 year gap between 2001-2005 for service.
Still looking, so thanks all
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