1995 Honda Accord

wobblyknees

Hopefully someone here can help. How much would you pay for a 1995 Honda Accord. 2.0 Litre Engine. 70 - 80k miles on the clock. The thing is, it needs a new battery, probably two new tyres and about €350 worth of work to get it through the NCT. Which also has to be paid for obviously.

colm_mcm

150?

wobblyknees

colm_mcm wrote: »

150?

Based on?

Saab Ed

colm_mcm wrote: »

150?

....maybe just a little more, 200 - 250 or so. It would have to be mint for that though.

colm_mcm

based on the fact that you'll have to spend 350 on work, 150 on tyres, 50 on NCT, 300 on 6 months tax and god-knows-what on whatever else the NCT might throw up.

Meaning, if it had the NCT and tax, would it really be worth a grand?

Max Power1

Its 15 years old, high powered (and thus low mpg) needing a bit of work to get to gwo and also needs an NCT.

With the above in mind I cant see anyone paying more than a hundred, especially if buying privately

itarumaa

Even more problem for me to buy a car like that would be that how do you know that it takes 350e for NTC, it only needs to fail on emissions and it might cost much more.

no1beemerfan

Is the car belonging to someone you know? Has it been off the road or has it been in constant use and the owner wants rid because its now out of NCT? If so I'd offer no more than €100.

If its an advertised sale I'd go somewhere else.

wobblyknees

Max Power1 wrote: »

Its 15 years old, high powered (and thus low mpg) needing a bit of work to get to gwo and also needs an NCT.

With the above in mind I cant see anyone paying more than a hundred, especially if buying privately

Thanks, appreciate the info. I won't go into detail, but someone is acting the maggot over this. Thinking the car is worth €500 or more and forgetting all the work, new battery, nct, tyres, running costs etc...

wobblyknees

no1beemerfan wrote: »

Is the car belonging to someone you know? Has it been off the road or has it been in constant use and the owner wants rid because its now out of NCT? If so I'd offer no more than €100.

If its an advertised sale I'd go somewhere else.

Lets just say the car is already in my hands, the work has been done and now a suggestion has been made, backtracking I might add, that money is owed. The car was originally lying idle. I'd also add that there are also one or to minor marks on the outside, the radio/speakers inside are an absolute pile of crap and the car was most definitely not 'mint'.

I'm sure someone else has had this experience before.

You'd get an NCTd one with good rubber for €500 ish with higher miles.

langdang

If they feel so hard done by you could find one in the same state as you got yours in and land it in to their driveway. They can be trying to sell it it for megabucks if they want

no1beemerfan

wobblyknees wrote: »

Lets just say the car is already in my hands, the work has been done and now a suggestion has been made, backtracking I might add, that money is owed. The car was originally lying idle. I'd also add that there are also one or to minor marks on the outside, the radio/speakers inside are an absolute pile of crap and the car was most definitely not 'mint'.

I'm sure someone else has had this experience before.

Sorry to hear you are caught in this situtation. But whatever you do don't hand over any more than €100!

All in how much did it cost you to get it past the test, including tyres and whatnot ? They are no doubt sour as you have a car on the road, NCTs that you got off them for f all I presume. Did they gift it to you initially or sell it ?

wobblyknees

RoverJames wrote: »

All in how much did it cost you to get it past the test, including tyres and whatnot ? They are no doubt sour as you have a car on the road, NCTs that you got off them for f all I presume. Did they gift it to you initially or sell it ?

All in? The battery was I think €100. The work to get it through the NCT nearly €400. Two new tyres, about €120? The NCT test and retest as well. Three months tax cost €173 also. All in, to get it on the road, including the first three months tax was about €900?

It was supposed to be a gift, which was appreciated at the time, so much that I considered I'd actually repaid them by offering my own services for nothing since.

If it was me, I'd see us as being even but it now doesn't seem that way.

wobblyknees

langdang wrote: »

If they feel so hard done by you could find one in the same state as you got yours in and land it in to their driveway. They can be trying to sell it it for megabucks if they want

Was thinking this myself earlier!

It was genuinely worthless when they gave it to you, as said they might have gotten €150 for it but if anyone savvy had looked at it and realised that it needed €700 invested to get it past a test they would advice to source an NCTd one.

A gift is a gift