Advice on buying second hand Ceed/Altea

red_eye

mouthscradle wrote: »

Evening folks.

Had a stressful Christmas thanks to the idiot who drove into the side of our car on the evening of the 23rd! Our poor old Golf is now likely to be classed as uneconomical to repair by our insurer, it's a brilliant little car but 16 years old.

We've got a courtesy car from our insurer at the mo, but a bit worried about how long we'll be able to keep it for. We need a car to get to work, and are currently 200 miles from home visiting family for the next week. Hopefully they won't ask for it back before we go home, we'll be stranded here else!

Anyway, luckily we were planning to buy a new car in February/March time and so we just about, at a push, have the savings.

We've been looking at Seat Alteas and Kia Ceeds. Budget: £6000 maximum. First question, if we have a budget of £6k, what price cars should we be looking at online? I've been looking up to £6500 on the premise that we could haggle 10% off. Is this ambitious? Or not ambitious enough? It's been a while since I bought a car and have bought from auctions in the past, so no haggling required. Not a clue what's realistic to aim for.

We're hoping for something under 5 years old, under 40,000 miles, petrol, 1.6 litre, 5 door. As this will be a big purchase for us, we'd like a bit of 'luxury', so things like climate control and cruise control would be on our wishlist.

Seen a Ceed Ecodynamics petrol for £4500 but it's done 51,000 miles. Still might go and see it as it looks like a bargain to me (private seller).

Has anyone any experience of either of these cars?

run away from the kia

27col

I've had an ex-rental Cee'd 1.6 diesel for the last year. Very well equipped and economical, £30 road tax. Seems a very nice car, I got a 7 year warranty, even though the car was nearly a year old when I bought it.

RichardD1970

red_eye wrote: »

run away from the kia

Disagree, we bought a Kia Rio new in 2005. In the seven years we owned it, apart from needing a new air bag module after I took it swimming, we never had any problems with it at all.