Major problem with 11,000 mile nearly 2 year old Ka UPDATE POST 71

photome

anotherbaldrick wrote: »

You got lots of advice, you just need to read the sensible posts and ignore the rubbish ones.

Why is there always so many rubbish posts in the motoring forum? Always from the same few posters as well!!

photome

Kilty wrote: »

It's warranty is void and it's missed a service, how can it possibly be worth the same as it was?

Is worthless, and not being worth the same as it was, the same thing?

Of course it isnt

petrolhead69

Forgot to say if you trade it in dealer won't even be able to legitimately stick a third party purchased warranty on it as a requirement on third party warranties is that the manufacturers service schedule is adhered to.

Flyboy152

petrolhead69 wrote: »

not that it's much use this time, but if your skint and probably going to be more skint once a baby comes a better idea would be a £1000 car instead of an £11000 car. that way when it dies from neglect you can scrap it getting £200 and you could do that 13 times and still be ahead

I do hope you're referring to the car there. :eek:

Flyboy152

MrsE wrote: »

How can it be worthless?

If she has it repaired then its worth what it would have been before this.

I posted on here for a bit of advice for someone, not so half a dozen key board warriors could take the mick.

This is supposed to be an advice board, not a public ridiculing forum:(

Not exactly worthless, but worth considerably less than it would have been. It has no warranty and and has a major engine rebuild. All of which could take a couple of thousand pounds of the value.

Flyboy152

photome wrote: »

Why is there always so many rubbish posts in the motoring forum? Always from the same few posters as well!!

I put it down to jealousy and a lack of self-worth.

MrsE_2

anotherbaldrick wrote: »

You got lots of advice, you just need to read the sensible posts and ignore the rubbish ones.

Certainly & I'm very grateful for the kind help offered:beer:

Kilty_2

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Not exactly worthless, but worth considerably less than it would have been. It has no warranty and and has a major engine rebuild. All of which could take a couple of thousand pounds of the value.

At least.

Any motor dealer in their right mind would value it for P/X as though it were a Cat D - it'll be just as difficult to resell. This will balance out a few years later once the warranty is up / someone fakes up a service book for it but to sell it within it's percieved warranty period would be difficult and costly IMHO.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

Kilty wrote: »

At least.

Any motor dealer in their right mind would value it for P/X as though it were a Cat D - it'll be just as difficult to resell. This will balance out a few years later once the warranty is up / someone fakes up a service book for it but to sell it within it's percieved warranty period would be difficult and costly IMHO.

agreed, a car like this 2 yr old i'd want service history and more importantly see those first few stamps in it and it hasnt, regardless if engine rebuit it has no warrenty. 2 yr car no service history work done to prove, your talking no more than 6k being generouse.

Flyboy152

Kilty wrote: »

At least.

Any motor dealer in their right mind would value it for P/X as though it were a Cat D - it'll be just as difficult to resell. This will balance out a few years later once the warranty is up / someone fakes up a service book for it but to sell it within it's percieved warranty period would be difficult and costly IMHO.

Well, not exactly a category D car, but the value of a two year old KA, without a warranty and the engine rebuild (service not so much of an issue after the rebuild), will reduce it by about half. The car wouldn't stand in at anything, more than five thousand anyway (mid-range KA), if it was in best condition, so it would will have lost about two thousand pounds. Any dealer will look at it, as a cost of the warranty, the cost of a service and the loss of appeal, that would work out at about two thousand pounds on a car like this.