The price is very dependent on the area, and good ones do seem to attract premium money.

We realise we are paying a premium at a Dealership and in this instance we are comfortable with that. We did see something similar for less money about 40 miles from here. But, with all of life's stresses I'd rather only have to nip 10 miles to get an issue resolved.

We've also asked them to include the potential rear wheel bearing issue on the sale document. I appreciate that if we purchased from an independent then Honda might well cover these items on goodwill, however, I'd rather have it in writing from them and not worry about it.

My wife will be driving the car 90% of the time and I'll only have to don my slippers, cap and pipe at the weekend. ;)

Ta

If it's of any help, consolation or guidance I sold my one owner, immaculate, 14,000 mile CVT metallic Storm Grey, SE, Jazz with a few hundred pounds worth of extras on it a month ago. November 2008 58 reg. with, obviously, balance of the 3yr warranty. To be honest it didn't fly off the shelf (I'm in the South West). Adverts in Autotrader + local rag and free, Gumtree type ads. Advertised for £8450 and sold to a dealer who wanted it for his mother in law for £7,700 cash, pound notes. Several other dealers offered exactly 7K...no more, to sell on (for just under nine thousand). If he hadn't bought it it would have gone for 7K. Not many phone calls and, overall, I honestly thought it would have attaracted more interest, even if it was only punters bidding less....but, no. Excellent little car with very smooth, easy to drive CVT box I have faith in Honda as a make and would have bought another if they made a Yeti sized car...but they don't, so I got a Yeti. The CRV has got a bit big and it won't fit in my garage. There were a few similar Jazz's about but not many with very low miles....but there are a few out there and so you might want to keep looking knowing what mine went for. Get one with warranty left.....if anything was amiss the owner would have had it fixed for free (hopefully). Otherwise maybe get a Kia or Hyundai with warranty for same reasons.

Edited by KB. on 12/06/2011 at 23:42

I'm pleased you were able to gain a little something from my thoughts, johnC. (a bit of a shame the original poster, didn't come back to comment after asking the question in the first place).

You obviously check Autotrader and maybe Exchange and Mart as well as all the other obvious places. As I'm in the South West, maybe I see more of them than elsewhere, due to the older age group around me. I've always thought it a good idea to look in places like Eastbourne and similar places with an older population as you see more low mileage examples of that sort of car around.....not such a good place to look for exotica but fine for small automatics. As suggested, look at Hyundai and Kia in order to increase your options. I'd also look at the equally obvious Toyotas and Mazdas....I've enjoyed the Yaris's I've had and the Mazda 2 is quite similar in size and reliability.

Don't get an i-shift Jazz though....not recommended. They've gone back to CVT now. Bad move for Honda, the i-shift.

Edited by KB. on 17/06/2011 at 14:03

...not offended, 12345oncei, but after struggling with two incompetent fingers on the keyboard, it quite often happens that you get no acknowledgement and wonder why you bothered....you probably had it yourself in the past.

But, of no consequence and trust you will get fixed up, if you haven't already.

OK. Maybe report back when you're sorted.