Tell me about the Nissan Micra K12

PiKe · 26 Jun 2020 at 18:50

My MIL has had her motorbility car taken away from her, so she needs a cheap auto, there is one local to us on a private sale, listed for £2000 with only 37k on the clock, apparently owned by an elderly lady and just used around town.

Anything I should be looking out for or should I get an RAC check done?

Thanks!

PiKe · 26 Jun 2020 at 19:18

no idea what said:
They're a fairly solid car overall to be honest. Price is a bit steep but the low mileage isn't a bad thing.

What should it be worth?

PiKe · 26 Jun 2020 at 19:56

Great thanks, I'll go take a look at it tomorrow.

PiKe · 27 Jun 2020 at 00:29

mccarf said:
Forgot to mention that both cars in my post were manuals, so check the box. Also I remember their boot didn't open at some point so check that opens normally too.

It is currently SORN according to DVLA website so unsure how I can legally test drive it.

PiKe · 27 Jun 2020 at 12:30

mccarf said:
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/202006109979919

What about this? It's less than 40 miles from the lake district according to autotrader and it's just had a fresh MOT put on it about 10 days ago.

That's sold unfortunately.

The seller of the Micra has taxed it now.

PiKe · 27 Jun 2020 at 14:51

mccarf said:
Well that's a shame!

If you can give it a spin legally then yeah definitely go and see what it's like

Drove fine for a 15 year old car! Previous owner appears to have really looked after it.

PiKe · 27 Jun 2020 at 21:14

mccarf said:
Are you going to go for it then?

Taking MIL to see it tomorrow now that I feel like it's not a lemon, most likely she will go for it.

Slight delay in change of ownership as the lady who owned it passed away so they have to change it to a relatives ownership first, that's also why it wasn't taxed.

PiKe · 28 Jun 2020 at 15:45

Just an update to say she liked it so we've gone ahead and bought it.

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PiKe · 22 Jul 2020 at 12:39

So we are still waiting for the DVLA to return the V5 to the seller, it will cost another £300 to insure the car without the new owners name appearing on the V5 but the seller has offered to let us take the car anyway until the V5 arrives.

What are the implications of this? As long as I get a signed receipt from the seller declaring that they are no longer the owner of the car, would that be OK?