Value a Rover 1.1L 1999 - Settle a bet!

rebel.ranter

Ok we have a bet in here that one of the lads has incorrectly estimated his 1.1L Rover 211 with 90k miles in average condition is worth over €1,000.
Yes if you check in CBG/Autotrader/Buy andSell/Carzone it may be the case.

Anyone care to give a proper estimation of value to settle a bet?

There is a lot of machinery can be had for €1000 so...
I was thinking €200-€300

Oh it is important to note that it smells of dog & the CD player doesn't work, no alloys or hubcaps!

smcgiff

rebel.ranter wrote:

I was thinking €200-€300

Okay Okay - You drive a hard bargin, give me €300 and I'll take it off your hands!;)

I suppose it would be worth €1,000 in trade in. But, you'd get the best of that by just paying cash anyway.

Anan1

Assuming there's nothing seriously wrong with it and that it has a valid NCT, i'd imagine it would be worth €1,000 or thereabouts in a private sale.

ianhobo

I reckon it could be worth more...
2 months ago I sold my 98 rover 414 with 85K miles for 2500, to the first buyer!
It had no NCT either....
Garage said they would give me 1000 for it on a trade in, needless t osay I didnt take it...

flanzer

Rover 211.........90k miles...........1.1L...........Free to good home!!! Just kidding :D

I'd say €1500/€1800, possibly a wee bit more

wexfordman

rebel.ranter wrote:

Ok we have abet in here that one of the lads has incorrectly estimated his 1.1L Rover 211 with 90k miles in average condition is worth €1,000.
Yes if you check in CBG/Autotrader/Buy andSEll/Carzone it may be the case.

Anyone care to give a proper estimation of value to settle a bet?

There is a lot of machinery can be had for €1000 so...
I was thinking €200-€300

You lie like a dog ranter!!!.

Its in Good condition,. Funny how only the other week you used CBG and carzone to get an idea of a guideline price for a car, now you (and that flynn fella chose to ignore whats staring you both in the face!! and say its not an indication for my "car".

Very selective!!


Wexfordman

pgtipz

Is this the same Rover 211 with the 'added extra' dog hair seat covers ?
If so throw in the dog and I'll take it off your hands for €50 - if you don't mind seeing it used as a kennel...

mike65

Rover 100 is the car that just scraped a one star rating in the first Euro NCAP tests. I would'nt buy one! However those who don't know or care about such matters might pay a grand for one.

Mike.

road_high

mike65 wrote:

Rover 100 is the car that just scraped a one star rating in the first Euro NCAP tests. I would'nt buy one! However those who don't know or care about such matters might pay a grand for one.

Mike.

OP means the 200 model, not the Metro's descendent.
Sad to see the Rover marque go by the wayside all the same. Back in the mid-90s they even had something of a renaissance...10 years later and theyre gone...:(

wexfordman

mfitzy wrote:

OP means the 200 model, not the Metro's descendent.
Sad to see the Rover marque go by the wayside all the same. Back in the mid-90s they even had something of a renaissance...10 years later and theyre gone...:(

So your telling me its a classic then
Wexfordman

unkel

mike65 wrote:

Rover 100 is the car that just scraped a one star rating in the first Euro NCAP tests. I would'nt buy one! However those who don't know or care about such matters might pay a grand for one.

But this is a Rover 211

@OP - in good condition with full NCT I'd say about €1500

wexfordman

pgtipz wrote:

Is this the same Rover 211 with the 'added extra' dog hair seat covers ?
If so throw in the dog and I'll take it off your hands for €50 - if you don't mind seeing it used as a kennel...

Dog hairs add character and will not be charged extra

I would'nt bloody mind only the things not even for sale!!!

mike65

Some idiot put a 1.1 in a 200 series? :eek:

Mike.

unkel

mike65 wrote:

Some idiot put a 1.1 in a 200 series? :eek:

It has the same power (60BHP) as a same year base Opel Astra 1.4. The Rover is a full second quicker (or should I say less slow) to 100km/h than that Astra

mike65

So its faster than an old 1.4 Golf then? I'll buy it!

Mike.

pwalsh06

i would value it at 5,000 - 10,000 euro because it is 1999 and it has a tiny engine.

RoundyMooney

Grand little car for a grand if it was tidy.

dingding

If you don't have a crash

colm_mcm

bought a 99 Rover 414 with 60k for 500 today......

peasant

somebody thinks it's worth 2.3 k

kadjingg

Anan1

colm_mcm wrote:

bought a 99 Rover 414 with 60k for 500 today......

It's not quite the same thing when you take it as a trade-in though, is it?;)

colm_mcm

not a trade in nobody wants those 1.4's

Spipov

where does ur friend has his for sale?

Guy:Incognito

peasant wrote:

somebody thinks it's worth 2.3 k

kadjingg

Someone else reckons closer to €4k http://www.carzone.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=car&carID=583171

colm_mcm

Gotta love Carzone! the optimism in there is uplifting!

old boy

all them carz on carzone are on mail steelers fourcourts,

rebel.ranter

Taking it a step further, if you had €1000 to spend (along the lines of a Top Gear challenge) would you fork out for a Rover 211 or something else?

RoundyMooney

No such thing as, I presume you mean, a Rover main stealer, old boy.

The most optimistic sellers tend to be female and naive IMHO.

rebel.ranter wrote:

Taking it a step further, if you had €1000 to spend (along hte lines of a Top Gear challenge) would you fork out for a Rover 211 or something else?

A pensioner owned late nineties low mileage Rover 400, to which I would have fitted/fit myself an uprated head gasket with the shrapnel.

Might even stretch to three months tax and a valet, if I'm lucky.

Anan1

rebel.ranter wrote:

Taking it a step further, if you had €1000 to spend (along hte lines of a Top Gear challenge) would you fork out for a Rover 211 or something else?

That poll won't help you with your bet, you need to make one option €300 and the other €1,000. My advice is to pay up and take it on the chin. Everybody's wrong sometimes.;)

rebel.ranter

Anan1 wrote:

That poll won't help you with your bet, you need to make one option €300 and the other €1,000. My advice is to pay up and take it on the chin. Everybody's wrong sometimes.;)

As long as it's decided t's less than €1,000 I'm to the good. I didn't specifically say that it was worth €300 (that was just an after-thought here, just said it's not worth €1,000.

Guy:Incognito

So he reckoned its worth around a grand and you reckon less than half that, yet feel you can pull some sort of victory if its worth 999 because it falls into the sub €1k price bracket and therefore feel it comes closer to your valuation? YOu lost the arguement, fair and square.

rebel.ranter

Stekelly wrote:

So he reckoned its worth around a grand and you reckon less than half that, yet feel you can pull some sort of victory if its worth 999 because it falls into the sub €1k price bracket and therefore feel it comes closer to your valuation? YOu lost the arguement, fair and square.

You had to have been there..... things never translate to text properly. The original estimate was much higher than €1k. €1k was a fair middle ground.

Do-more

It really depends if it's 3-door or 5-door, if it's 5 door then it makes an ideal low cost school run car, with the low tax and insurance and enough space for a bit of shopping on the way home!

Sold a ´97 214 5 door a few years back, gave it to a mate to sell on the kerb outside his house, was hoping for €500 for it, with his brass neck he got €1250!

Your mates would need a good valet, industrial strength Fabreeze and some cheap hubcaps and if it's 5 Door €1200 is acheivable on the good old "Kerbside Motors".

gyppo

tbh, any 99 car in relatively tidy condition with a reasonable nct left on it has to be worth at least €1k.

Anan1

rebel.ranter wrote:

Taking it a step further, if you had €1000 to spend (along the lines of a Top Gear challenge) would you fork out for a Rover 211 or something else?

Are the goalposts on wheels here or what?

wexfordman

rebel.ranter wrote:

You had to have been there..... things never translate to text properly. The original estimate was much higher than €1k. €1k was a fair middle ground.

erm, i was there rebel, specifically we said between 1 and 2k!!!


Just to calrify to thread readers, how and where this "bet" arose. During a discussion in d'office, I suggested that the car (my car) would get somewhere between 1 and 2k (could be the lower or higher end for all I care), but I reckon it is a fairly reasonable assumption to be made. Note that I am not singing the praises of the car, I am fairly indifferent about it, except to say it was bought from new, and has never given any major probs (apart from dead battery type issues etc).

By the way, its not actually for sale!! this is just a hypothetical type argument, although ranter has suggested he might go out and buy one to prove the point, and another collegue dared me to sell it to "prove" I am right!!:rolleyes:


So, the summary to date is:-

CBG has a number of examples of similar make, model and mileage for sale in excess of 2k (iirc)
Carzone has a number of examples, again in the range of 2k upwards iirc.
Posters to this thread, in the main, indicate that it would not be unreasonable to get between 1 and 2 k for the car (with some saying more)



I suspect the opposition in d'office will continue to grasp at straws and find other ways out, but me thinks its fairly conclusive at this stage..

Who wins the bet then ?

Wexfordman

unkel

wexfordman wrote:

I suggested that the car (my car) would get somewhere between 1 and 2k

Ask the Audience (TM) and my humble self have spoken. The car is worth more than a grand

wexfordman wrote:

Who wins the bet then ?

You, Sir!