20 y.o Corsa valuation

Primrose

I,m trying to find a value for a carefully maintained single owner 20 y.o. Corsa 1.1 cc with c 30,000 miles on the clock.
Where should I look please?

phill99

Here.
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201912085145135?radius=1500&model=CORSA&sort=relevance&advertising-location=at_cars&make=VAUXHALL&year-to=2000&year-from=2000&maximum-mileage=40000&onesearchad=Used&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=New&postcode=rm204xj&page=1


However, it is highly unlikely that you will get a direct comparison, so something like this may be the best available.

AdrianC

Somewhere between scrap value and £500 or so. It's all about the condition. A late 90s Corsa, especially a small-engine one, is not a terribly desirable thing - it's certainly no "future classic". If it's truly time-warp than you could try to market it to somebody who specifically wants it, but your more typical buyer is going to be somebody looking for a cheap small shed. Very low mileage isn't always a plus point - at 1,500 miles a year, it may never have been up to proper working temperature - and I'm guessing that this one-owner-for-two-decades driver has just given up driving - and that's a stereotype that suggests an imminent clutch and various parking-bingles.

Corsas aren't even particularly cheap for new drivers to insure, due to their reputation for appealing to certain types.

Scrapit

We buy any car will give a good ball park figure. But sub four figures is likely.

motorguy

Primrose wrote: »

I,m trying to find a value for a carefully maintained single owner 20 y.o. Corsa 1.1 cc with c 30,000 miles on the clock.
Where should I look please?

Why does it matter if the owner was single?

Primrose

Car owed throughout its life by only one owner rather than multiple owners as opposed to not being a married vs single person !

phill99

Primrose wrote: »

Car owed throughout its life by only one owner rather than multiple owners as opposed to not being a married vs single person !

At this level of value it makes no difference whether it has had one owner or more, whether they are single, divorced, in a civil partnership or having an affair with an MP.

Dr_Crypto

£100 and a cheese sandwich.

Carrot007

Primrose wrote: »

20 y.o. Corsa 1.1 cc with c 30,000

At least at that age the milage went back to being a good thing rather than a bad thing! Still would want proof of upkeep though.


May get a fringe buyer who really wants one but will be hard to sell since most people would buy a car under half the age for the same price!


Sad when cars are so underused, usually happens more at the high end though. (the very high end).

seatbeltnoob

I would trust a car that has been driven and had 150,000 on the clock than take a risk at 30,000.



Which such low miles, it means the car was hardly driven, wouldn't surprise me if cylnders and exhausts have rusted out from the inside from atmospheric water settling in there.


The car is no future classic, so nobody is going to buy it and baby it.

born_again

Check the MOT history to see if it's genuine mileage, Or if it has not been used for years. Which if not stored correctly will see it being a rust bucket.