list price help

jamesblade · 1 Aug 2011 at 19:55

Hi, after daughter first car and Just had a look at a toyota aygo vvt-i 55 reg with 63k on it one owner no bad history and just a small 10p size cosmetic hole in the rear bumper.

She's had a new engine and clutch fitted in june, all reciepts and FSH.

She's asking for 3k was advertised at 3.5k in the window sign

Sound ok or haggle a little ?

Cheers people with knowledge..

nanospider · 1 Aug 2011 at 20:52

A car needing a new engine and clutch in 63k?

If i was looking at it i'd want to know a few things about that
New engine or reconditioned or something found out of a crashed one?
What was the cause of the old one to die? driver error, design error, accidental mistake?

Some answers may keep me interested, some would make me run away

jamesblade · 1 Aug 2011 at 20:55

Just had a conversation with her and she said it was leaking oil so she was topping it up and then one day it just seized up, called AA and told her a new engine was needed, reading between the i'm embarrassed to say lines i reckon she let it run dry ..

beermonster · 1 Aug 2011 at 21:02

Avoid like the plague, it's clearly been neglected.

shoes · 1 Aug 2011 at 21:12

I cannot understand that mentality though. How can anyone spend several, even tens of thousands of pounds on a vehicle (or anything really) and then care so little to let it just rot, dry up, seize...whatever?

I paid a thousand quid for my focus - I check the fluids at least every week along with the tyre pressures, bulbs etc.

If I had paid the new price for the car, half a year's gross salary, I would have been all over the service and maintenance schedule in the handbook like a tramp on a bag of chips.

I know not everyone is into cars, and they want from a car what I want from my definitely not for sale macbook - a device which does what it's meant to do, without hassle. I can totally understand that but surely with such a big investment, and potentially safety in some cases (brake fluid for example) of yourself and others.... beggars belief.

Maz · 2 Aug 2011 at 01:59

shoes said:
I cannot understand that mentality though. How can anyone spend several, even tens of thousands of pounds on a vehicle (or anything really) and then care so little to let it just rot, dry up, seize...whatever?

I paid a thousand quid for my focus - I check the fluids at least every week along with the tyre pressures, bulbs etc.

If I had paid the new price for the car, half a year's gross salary, I would have been all over the service and maintenance schedule in the handbook like a tramp on a bag of chips.

I know not everyone is into cars, and they want from a car what I want from my definitely not for sale macbook - a device which does what it's meant to do, without hassle. I can totally understand that but surely with such a big investment, and potentially safety in some cases (brake fluid for example) of yourself and others.... beggars belief.

Some people just don't know enough to care, and most cars these days can go months and in some cases years without needing to top up any fluids or air.

A lot of new cars will tell you air pressure an oil level electronically.

Minstadave · 2 Aug 2011 at 02:32

Wouldn't touch this car with a bargepole, clearly neglected, god knows what else will go pop.

Mucky_Pup · 2 Aug 2011 at 08:17

nanospider said:
A car needing a new engine and clutch in 63k?

It's confirmed in the first post that it's a one lady owner car, so this means it's clutch has been rode harder than a horse on Gold Cup day, and while you're tonking it down the outside lane overtaking cars at 1 lepton, she's the little bug sized car that comes screaming up your rear at 1.2 leptons, and tries to sit in your backseat, pistons and everything trying to bounce out through the bonnet.

In short, avoid.

antijoke · 2 Aug 2011 at 09:25

As mentioned avoid like the plague.

And as an FYI the 2005 Aygo does not have a VVT-I engine.

jamesblade · 3 Aug 2011 at 12:33

Cheers people ... will continue looking around .

godinman · 3 Aug 2011 at 12:49

On a similar topic, a family friend has left there car here for a bit (we've got a fair bit of space). We pumped the tyres up last night and were about to jump start it so it was ready for picking up today, opened up the bonnet and found that the oil cap was missing, the engine and bonnet covered in oil and the dipstick completely dry! :O No idea how people can be so idiotic with cars...

Saying that, it's a 1.6 Saxo Automatic, so probably better off dead anyway.