These were the offered price and may have been sold for slightly less (all can be found on this forum by searching).
#143 sold for £5,600 with 75,000 miles
#419 sold for £6,400 with 71,558 miles
#218 sold for £7,650 with 62,000 miles
Owners are unlikely to talk down the price of their cars...
Hopefully that's the last of the snow and we'll get some warm sunny weather with a few more cars coming out of hibernation.
Looking for a nice Clio 182 Trophy with sub 75k miles.
Full history, no accidents, standard.
£6.5k waiting for the right car.
DM me if you're thinking of moving your...
Thanks dabik. Having run a wide range of cars from 205 GTI (1.6 and 1.9), Elise, MX5, S3, Caterham and various other cars I can assure you I'm well versed in the running costs of cars.
Unexpected bills are part and parcel of the second hand ownership. Any buyer should be factoring in work...
The one thing with the Trophy is each car is numbered, so we can follow individual cars relatively easily from the 'asking price' from the first sale to the new vendors asking price. I'm not saying it was bought to be flipped in this instance but that is what the trade does when it buys low and...
Correct.
But you get a picture of what the asking price was v mileage. You can see on threads if the price dropped and an idea of the interest by the time it took to sell. One thing you do know is the price won't have done up from the asking price, but it may be below.
Examples
Trophy #491 -...
You can your put Trophy up for whatever you want. If the price is unrealistic it will just sit there.
I pulled together a spreadsheet on all the cars that have sold from here to get a realistic idea of what cars have sold for.
Good luck but at £13k you may have to be patient.
Agree some things are easy, but how many times have I heard "small spot of rust cheap to sort out" which we all know it's usually not. It's time and hassle plus the unknown. A sensible seller does the easy and cheap stuff.
It also reflects on how OCD an owner is. Better to buy a car from a...