Soldato
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Hey guys,
Looking for a bit of advice here.
As some of you may know, I've been hunting for a decent car for the past 2-3 months and I haven't found anything that would hit the sweet spot for my budget.
Anyhow . . Yesterday, I test drove a 52 plate Leon TDI SE (110BHP). I thought it was a great drive, comfortable, fairly nippy and had pretty much everything I'd like in a car (TCS, CC, E/W, E/M etc).
The chap who's selling it lives a few streets away and knows my family fairly well. He showed us everything wrong with inc minute details, very honest and open about everything. Showed me all the paperwork and so on.
He gave us the keys and we had a decent test drive and it drove well. The body had a few chips at the front but they were fairly small. Overall body condition was decent, albeit a small dent on the back. Inside the car, everything was working perfectly fine, it was a little messy but nothing a valet can't deal with. One of the tweeters were dead and the tweeter cover was broken. The owner had informed us about all that.
Onto the specs:
Silver
2002 (52) plate
93k Mileage
FSH with all previous reciepts/stamps
2 owners from new on log book but it's had 3 apparantly? Some sort of error, I was told that it hasn't been rectified, but that was from the very early start, so no biggy.
MOT & Road Tax til Feb 08
The mileage doesn't bother me at all, as it's got plenty of life in it and the engine was in great condition and looked well after.
His asking was £4.6k. I managed to bring him down to £4k. I think it's a decent deal.
I have a few questions:
1) On the original DVLA certificate it shows car description as 'SEAT LEON TDI SE'. However, under CC it has 1398? (1.4) under the description. This is obviously wrong which he pointed but he said it's not a problem at all. He said he'd contacted them regarding it and they were willing to rectifying it but he never got round to doing so. Shouldn't be a problem should it?
2) It has the following style alloys on it:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but they're not standard TDI SE alloys are they? Would I have to declare them to my insurance?
And finally the most important part, have we got any owners who care to shed some experiences? Do you think it's a decent deal? Any words of wisdom before I do some final checks?
I'm pretty set to buy this (hopefully)
Thanks
Looking for a bit of advice here.
As some of you may know, I've been hunting for a decent car for the past 2-3 months and I haven't found anything that would hit the sweet spot for my budget.
Anyhow . . Yesterday, I test drove a 52 plate Leon TDI SE (110BHP). I thought it was a great drive, comfortable, fairly nippy and had pretty much everything I'd like in a car (TCS, CC, E/W, E/M etc).
The chap who's selling it lives a few streets away and knows my family fairly well. He showed us everything wrong with inc minute details, very honest and open about everything. Showed me all the paperwork and so on.
He gave us the keys and we had a decent test drive and it drove well. The body had a few chips at the front but they were fairly small. Overall body condition was decent, albeit a small dent on the back. Inside the car, everything was working perfectly fine, it was a little messy but nothing a valet can't deal with. One of the tweeters were dead and the tweeter cover was broken. The owner had informed us about all that.
Onto the specs:
Silver
2002 (52) plate
93k Mileage
FSH with all previous reciepts/stamps
2 owners from new on log book but it's had 3 apparantly? Some sort of error, I was told that it hasn't been rectified, but that was from the very early start, so no biggy.
MOT & Road Tax til Feb 08
The mileage doesn't bother me at all, as it's got plenty of life in it and the engine was in great condition and looked well after.
His asking was £4.6k. I managed to bring him down to £4k. I think it's a decent deal.
I have a few questions:
1) On the original DVLA certificate it shows car description as 'SEAT LEON TDI SE'. However, under CC it has 1398? (1.4) under the description. This is obviously wrong which he pointed but he said it's not a problem at all. He said he'd contacted them regarding it and they were willing to rectifying it but he never got round to doing so. Shouldn't be a problem should it?
2) It has the following style alloys on it:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but they're not standard TDI SE alloys are they? Would I have to declare them to my insurance?
And finally the most important part, have we got any owners who care to shed some experiences? Do you think it's a decent deal? Any words of wisdom before I do some final checks?
I'm pretty set to buy this (hopefully)
Thanks
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