Your advice before I go to look at this TT

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The wife would like a White Audi TT, we've budgeted around 13k and was originally looking around a 2007.
However I've seen a 2010 advertised for £12872 but it does have 110,000 miles, so obviously the choice is older lower mileage or newer high mileage.
We've arranged to go and see it, it has had 2 owners, full Audi service history.

Any thoughts, things I need to consider?

It's been sold by Quicks cars which are part of the Evans Halshaw group, I've asked about lowering the price but they state they are the cheapest and the price is set, a friend of mine bought one from them last year and again they wouldn't move on price.

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If it was me i would probably either up the budget a few K or get one with a lower mileage (07/08). If you are going to put a fair few miles on it, i would imagine it might be hard to sell on with massive mileage.
 
Jono8 said:
If it was me i would probably either up the budget a few K or get one with a lower mileage (07/08). If you are going to put a fair few miles on it, i would imagine it might be hard to sell on with massive mileage.
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This tbh. It depends what mileage the OP/OP's wife will put on the car.

If it's sporting new tyres and a recent service and MoT, I'd be tempted. Presumably had an MoT very recently anyway.
 
Nathan said:
What engine? Nothing wrong with that mileage as long as it has regular fsh.
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2.0 Petrol, full Audi service.

Jono8 said:
If it was me i would probably either up the budget a few K or get one with a lower mileage (07/08). If you are going to put a fair few miles on it, i would imagine it might be hard to sell on with massive mileage.
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She'll be doing 4k a year, looking to keep it for 4 years.
 
At 4k a year it's worth considering. The difference for a buyer between 110k and 126k will be minimal I'd say and it seems as though the car is at least priced appropriately for its already high mileage. Just have a check against any others with 90k+ to make sure.
 
rodenal said:
At 4k a year it's worth considering. The difference for a buyer between 110k and 126k will be minimal I'd say and it seems as though the car is at least priced appropriately for its already high mileage. Just have a check against any others with 90k+ to make sure.
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I'd be inclined to agree here, a seven year old Audi TT with 126,000 miles isn't exactly "moon miles".

It would be a nicer place to spend 4,000 miles a year for four years than a 07 plater I would assume.
 
chipperhead said:
2.0 Petrol, full Audi service.



She'll be doing 4k a year, looking to keep it for 4 years.
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In that case. I think it might be worth looking it. I was just thinking that if you are doing average mileage (say 10-12k a year) or higher then at the end of your ownership the mileage would be pretty high and it could be difficult to sell on.

At 4k a year i dont think that is too much of a worry
 
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It would be a nicer place to spend 4,000 miles a year for four years than a 07 plater I would assume.
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Surely that depends completely on how well it was looked after? I bet there are many 07 plate cars in far better condition inside than some 10 plates :p

this is unless the interior is different. Were they facelifted at all?
 
Jono8 said:
Surely that depends completely on how well it was looked after? I bet there are many 07 plate cars in far better condition inside than some 10 plates :p

this is unless the interior is different. Were they facelifted at all?
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I think the facelift was earlier than 07?

I did say assume - assuming it's a newer car I would expect it to be in better condition with less chance to have been made tatty etc.

You're absolutely right, there will be many 07 plate TT's in better condition than 10 plate TT's, but there would be many more 10 plates in better overall condition :P
 
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From an entirely personal perspective - and I'm sure I'll get slated for this - I'd be more inclined to go for an older, lower mileage, higher spec model. I'm no Audi expert, but the manual 'box, retrofit phone cradle, basic head unit, half-leather upholstery and what appear to be scuffed wheels would all be deal-breakers for me. 36k p/a mileage suggests repmobile too (takes one to know one ;) ).

Obviously, without seeing the car up close it's impossible to make a solid judgement, but I wouldn't expect to be overly impressed by it.

This one looks to be a much higher spec, though info is scant and it doesn't specifically state FASH and it is a private sale. Still, only the cost of a phone call to get all the information you need. :)

3.2 Quattro, £11.5k, 75k miles, 06 in Worcs.

That being said, if the wife's only doing 4k a year then I suppose in four years' time the mileage will be fairly normal for the market and you'll probably find it easier to sell a seven year-old car in 2017 than an eleven year-old one.
 
Cheers Theophany some good info there, I must admit I am having second thoughts.

We are definitely after the 2.0 petrol, I'm thinking should we exceed our budget and go for a lower mileage.
I've seen this one for 16k but should be able to get at least £500 off so that would make it £2500 more expensive.
We'd obviously get get a chunk of that back when it comes to sell and hopefully less to go wrong while in our ownership, although that really is more than we said we'd pay.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201304196357884/sort/default/usedcars/colour/white/transmission/manual/fuel-type/petrol/model/tt/make/audi/onesearchad/used/onesearchad/nearlynew/onesearchad/new/postcode/yo153nh/page/1/keywords/2010/radius/1500?logcode=p
 
With only doing 16,000 miles in four years, I'd find it difficult to warrant spending £16,000 on a car, for it to sell in four years for what, £8-9k? Maybe more due to it's low mileage.

Example;
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201304076143432/sort/default/usedcars/engine-size-cars/2l_to_2-5l/transmission/manual/quantity-of-doors/2/maximum-age/up_to_7_years_old/fuel-type/petrol/model/tt/make/audi/onesearchad/used/onesearchad/nearlynew/onesearchad/new/radius/1501/postcode/wr99ea/page/1?logcode=p

.43p a mile on depreciation alone doesn't seem a great idea. Just throwing figures about, happy to be proven wrong, but doesn't seem like a great idea.
 
[TW]Fox;24160467 said:
It would be exactly the same place to spend 4k miles per year as both would be prefacelift cars.
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Again, I did say assume - assuming it's a newer car I would expect it to be in better condition with less chance to have been made tatty etc.
 
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