DarkShadow
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Hey guys,
I've been a lurker for a number of months now, so I've just signed up hoping that you guys could give me some advice
A little about my background, I'm 19 in my second year at uni. I currently drive a Corsa 1.0 (00) and I've been hunting for a decent car for the past 3+ months and I haven't found anything that would hit the sweet spot for my budget. Me & my father have decided that would be better if we share'd a car as he drives when I don't need to and vice versa. I've managed to get a quote of £780 fully comp on my fathers name, so that's affordable.
Anyhow onto the car . . A couple of days ago, 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 driver's side seal is a little loose. 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 much, as I feel it's got plenty of life in it and the engine was in good 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) Below is a picture of the car. 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, any owners who'd like to shed some experiences on this car? 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). However, a few friends have been rather reluctant on giving me the thumbs up. They feel it's over-priced for the amount it's been used.
I'd appreciate any comments/advice.
Thanks
I've been a lurker for a number of months now, so I've just signed up hoping that you guys could give me some advice
A little about my background, I'm 19 in my second year at uni. I currently drive a Corsa 1.0 (00) and I've been hunting for a decent car for the past 3+ months and I haven't found anything that would hit the sweet spot for my budget. Me & my father have decided that would be better if we share'd a car as he drives when I don't need to and vice versa. I've managed to get a quote of £780 fully comp on my fathers name, so that's affordable.
Anyhow onto the car . . A couple of days ago, 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 driver's side seal is a little loose. 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 much, as I feel it's got plenty of life in it and the engine was in good 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) Below is a picture of the car. 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, any owners who'd like to shed some experiences on this car? 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). However, a few friends have been rather reluctant on giving me the thumbs up. They feel it's over-priced for the amount it's been used.
I'd appreciate any comments/advice.
Thanks
