Low Mile E85??
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At the summit of the picturesque fens
Serviced once in 20 years (or twice now) and has a dent in the bonnet. :roll:
I know mileage is 'king' these days, but there are limits! If you don't ask you don't get. But there again, if you do ask you often don't get either.
£10k overpriced IMHO!
Advert looks a bit dodgy too; 'service done by my own company' yet it is a private sale? :? Driver's seat has had a very hard 9,600 miles by the look of it. An advisory for low brakes pads in 2014 at 7,700 miles!
I know mileage is 'king' these days, but there are limits! If you don't ask you don't get. But there again, if you do ask you often don't get either.
£10k overpriced IMHO!
Advert looks a bit dodgy too; 'service done by my own company' yet it is a private sale? :? Driver's seat has had a very hard 9,600 miles by the look of it. An advisory for low brakes pads in 2014 at 7,700 miles!
raymond.harper
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The steering wheel is also very worn and the numberplate bolts are the wrong colour.
Why anyone would pay over the odds for low miles is beyond me; mileage related engine failure stopped being a thing 25 years ago.
You could take an average late model car (in a far better spec!), get a respray, rustproof the entire chassis and sort any worn bits and still have change from £25k!
You could take an average late model car (in a far better spec!), get a respray, rustproof the entire chassis and sort any worn bits and still have change from £25k!
Zedebee said:
Which, if you're not going to, why have it at all? I don't understand people who have cars that they don't use; if you don't drive it, it has no value.
A friend's father had a Volvo as a "posh" weekend car with a ratty Astra to commute in. But he never went far at the weekend to start with rendering it somewhat pointless and, to avoid shunting, would often use the Astra anyway. In the end, and this is what I always come back to in life in general, said father died. What was the bloody point, I find I ask myself when I think about it.
smorris_12 said:
Everybody is different. I cannot understand anyone who spends £50k on a car for its utility value, which many do as evidenced by every school run, although I would happily own a beautiful car as a piece of art. Not a Z4 roadster though, which is more for entertainment IMO.
That car is though surely to stick in a garage and never drive, which I can understand if you are the sort of person that has a few cars like that. But at the end of the day in relative terms an 03 Z4 holds little value at the moment and at £25k that is silly money, you are looking at decades before you get your money back.
If you buy it and drive it, equally you need your head tested!
If you buy it and drive it, equally you need your head tested!
Never going to sell at that price even if it is low mileage and a 3.0l, let alone being an Auto. Sitting around all those years will not have been good for the rubber componants and the brake system. Might move it at half that asking price but it will struggle at that. Hope it hasn't been visited by rodents on its long lay up.
So a 2003 3.0se E85 with normal mileage, around 100k, in great condition is worth, what, £7-8k ish?
The ONLY reason I can see for that car to be asking 3-4 times the average is the mileage.
As said above, don't think it is really a 'museum piece' contender. Not a particularly desirable car, even for E85 fanatics. It will be interesting to see what happens to the pricing over time.
The ONLY reason I can see for that car to be asking 3-4 times the average is the mileage.
As said above, don't think it is really a 'museum piece' contender. Not a particularly desirable car, even for E85 fanatics. It will be interesting to see what happens to the pricing over time.
hasnt been doing f'all... its been doing a consistent 200 miles a year for the last 10 years!
i have no idea why someone keep a car to do so few miles though... oh i know - they've been trying to sell it for the last 10 years - it was £15k 10 years ago, and its gone up by a grand every year as the relative mileage gets lower and lower, until it'll be 50 years old, have covered 15,000 miles, and it'll have an asking price of £65,000... :dizzy:
i have no idea why someone keep a car to do so few miles though... oh i know - they've been trying to sell it for the last 10 years - it was £15k 10 years ago, and its gone up by a grand every year as the relative mileage gets lower and lower, until it'll be 50 years old, have covered 15,000 miles, and it'll have an asking price of £65,000... :dizzy: