Buying a Ford Fiesta

OddballJamie

Axial wrote: »

One of the rules of selling a CAT C/D car surely should be the requirement to spell the word category correctly?

Another sneaky one

we can arrange delivery please ask for a competitive quote, categorised vehicle hence the price please ask for more details

mad_rich

OddballJamie wrote: »

Micra with 400 miles on the clock.

List price £13,445, unless I've got the wrong model. Even if the seller got it for £2k less, who runs a Micra for less than a year for 400 miles and happily pays ~£5k for the privilege? :eek:

OddballJamie

mad_rich wrote: »

List price £13,445, unless I've got the wrong model. Even if the seller got it for £2k less, who runs a Micra for less than a year for 400 miles and happily pays ~£5k for the privilege? :eek:

Bristol Street Motors are doing manual 1.2 Micras for £7k on a 15 plate at the moment.

StripeyMiata

OddballJamie wrote: »

All around the same price as the six year old one.

Sorry I misread the earlier post, thought you meant brand new cars.

Isn't the new Micra a bit crap now compared to the previous models?

StripeyMiata

square_bear wrote: »

Thanks for that. The wife likes them, so we might test drive one over the weekend.

During your test drive play with the car's computer and see what the average MPG is reading. Bet it's a lot less than 65MPG

Apart from that I really can't fault the car at all, apart from the fact it doesn't understand my irish accent. It has Ford SYNC with voice activated controls, my (english) wife can talk to it all day but it ignores me.

Another problem is that if someone sends you a text message with swear words the car will read it out (in a posh BBC4 accent). Which is actually funny unless I have my 7 and 5 year old in the back

OddballJamie

StripeyMiata wrote: »

Sorry I misread the earlier post, thought you meant brand new cars.

Isn't the new Micra a bit crap now compared to the previous models?

It's not the best, the Fiesta is a much better car. I just can't wrap my head around paying £6.5k for one at that age. Especially when I've seen Corsa's at less than £7k and when the facelift Fiesta was released my local dealer was selling the outgoing one for less than £9k brand new.

mad_rich

OddballJamie wrote: »

Bristol Street Motors are doing manual 1.2 Micras for £7k on a 15 plate at the moment.

OK, so 30% discount assuming that's for the cheapest model.

It would still point to nearly £9.5k for the model on sale if it was bought with a similar discount. Maybe I'm old and cynical, but I would worry about a car that's only had 400 miles put on it and the owner's happy to lose £3k in less than a year. Even if there is a 'genuine reason for sale'!

OddballJamie

mad_rich wrote: »

OK, so 30% discount assuming that's for the cheapest model.

It would still point to nearly £9.5k for the model on sale if it was bought with a similar discount. Maybe I'm old and cynical, but I would worry about a car that's only had 400 miles put on it and the owner's happy to lose £3k in less than a year. Even if there is a 'genuine reason for sale'!

Maybe the owner died. When I was younger a school mate's family had a ten year old Audi 80 in the garage with less than 1000 miles on the clock. It was his Grandads, bought a couple of weeks before he died and the family couldn't part with it.

Axial

OddballJamie wrote: »

Another sneaky one

we can arrange delivery please ask for a competitive quote, categorised vehicle hence the price please ask for more details

Thats even more sneaky, at least catagary c is a little more obvious and just a typo

StripeyMiata

OddballJamie wrote: »

Maybe the owner died. When I was younger a school mate's family had a ten year old Audi 80 in the garage with less than 1000 miles on the clock. It was his Grandads, bought a couple of weeks before he died and the family couldn't part with it.

Another baby on the way could be another, you can't get more than 2 child seats in the back of most modern small cars these days. You can't in my Fiesta, but can in my Dad's Ford Fusion.

Also a lot of smaller cars these days are 2x2 seatbelt wise so an unexpected bun in the oven.....