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Have been happily carless for a good while, but now need to get one for occasional long trips (London to Scotland return) and it looks like lots of people are taking the mick with car prices...
The last two cars I had (Pug 307 estate 2.0, Volvo V50 2.4), both cost me less than £1200 and both lasted for three years of happy/trouble-free motoring. They were also in decent-ish nick and with sensible miles/histories (not perfect, but you get the idea). They were both circa 10 years old when I bought them
Even allowing for inflation, there is nothing but crud for less than £2k out there. Has lockdown dried up supplies? Are cars better and lasting longer? What's going on?
I've always had petrol cars - do I need to look at diesel to get value these days?
The Pug I found on Autotrader and the Volvo on Gumtree. Ebay doesn't seem encouraging.
If you're looking for 10 year old cars now then that was really 'peak diesel' 2010 vintage petrol cars will be rare and probably quiet sort after.
The most obvious explanation though would be lock-down related.
Everyone is being encouraged to avoid public transport, so I'd guess that is pushing everyone to private cars and/or push bikes.
I haven't looked at cars but I just sold a 12 year old specialized hard Rock mountain bike for 300 quid on ebay, which seems like madness to me, but there was a lot of demand.
It would appear that now is the time to sell your old modes of transport.
They are both sensible points of view. Hmm. Time to think again, I guess.
Yes everything on eBay is going for nuts price as bored people are on the bay plus transport is in demand... Just this morning I started thinking I might list my planet X nano light. I fancy an upgrade and with other bikes to use I could wait to buy, so if I could get a good price now.... I'm tempted. Tbh, in the normal world, a 10x geared, non disc road bike is of little value, even though it's a moderately well speced bike, so anything now towards an upgrade is tempting.
Tbh, in the normal world, a 10x geared, non disc road bike is of little value, even though it’s a moderately well speced bike, so anything now towards an upgrade is tempting.
My thoughts also, my 18 speed is going up either tonight or in the morning. Might punt the BMX as well.
Facebook market place. For cheap cars the eBay fees etc are a pita.
On the flip side I'm about to let my well loved and looked after perfectly reliable Subaru legacy go to the scrappers tomorrow as socially distanced test drives would be tricky at the moment.
It's gutting to see it go that way!!!
Are you in Scotland or London?
I'm just about to sell a Saab 9-5 Aero Estate for ~£1000. Excellent motorway car - very big and comfy. I'm in Edinburgh.
An interesting thread for me atm. Looking for much like the OP - £1K self-imposed limit for a small/med estate '06 onwards,but slim pickings even here in the Smoke.Hopefully once things settle down a bit public transport-wise it'll improve...
cp - what engine in the legacy and where are you? Subaru engines popular with people with VW vans 😉
On the flip side I’m about to let my well loved and looked after perfectly reliable Subaru legacy go to the scrappers tomorrow as socially distanced test drives would be tricky at the moment.
It’s gutting to see it go that way!!!
That's not gutting, just daft.
Fingers crossed for you squirrel.
What do you reckon I should ask for a nano light, 3 X 10 ( in my excuse, I built it up myself and saved £30 buying a triple ultegra cranset Vs a 105 double). Crank aside it's full 105. Finishing kit is mainly FSA cheap stuff and wheels are planet X model b. £500 would be nice, is that just stupid even in these strange times though?
I'm in Sheffield. It's on nearly 170k but it has lots of life in it.
engine is 2.0 EJ202
That’s not gutting, just daft.
Indeed, but it needs to go sadly as insurance has run out and not sure it's worth the faff of reinsuring for a while until it can be sold privately.
Try insurance from buy miles. Silly cheap ss you pay for the mileage, somehow
I'll be flogging a 1.4 petrol fiesta for under 1k very soon.
2007, less than 80k and 12 months MOT.
North West England.
Indeed, but it needs to go sadly as insurance has run out and not sure it’s worth the faff of reinsuring for a while until it can be sold privately.
Can you SORN it somehow?
The OR bit of SORN is the tricky bit sadly. If we had a driveway it wouldn't be a problem!
Scotland to London and back, I think you need to be looking at a diesel at that distance and your budget.
cp - thanks for the info. Probably a bit high mileage for me to use as a swapper, but thanks anyway. I hate seeing cars go to waste (which is probably why I've got six!) lol
Yeah I think the mileage would put folk off. The sad thing is stuff like clutch is only 40k old ish, it's had recent discs and pads and it gets religiously serviced.
Anyway, it's served us very well though.
cp - how much if it's not too late. I'm in sheffield and could do with something cheap to run about in at the moment. hardcastle steve at hot mail com
Ah gutted, it went an hour ago.
so close.