IS €11,500 for 2008 PAssat 1.4 Tsi good value?

tmh106

Hello.

I have a company car - a VW Passat 1.4 Tsi, petrol, 08 reg, 33K miles. The lease on the car is up, and I have the option to buy it. The lease company are looking for €11,500. Car is in very good condition.

Does €11,500 seem like a fair price? My own usage will be around 13K miles per year. I don't have an existing car to trade in.

Thanks.

tmh

Marcusm

That will teach you; if only you had treated it worse, you might have to pay a lower price.

I can't help you on values but I do have a serious question. How did you find the 1.4 engine in such a large car. I know that it's turbo'd and super'd but how was it to live with for 3 years?

bazz26

The 1.4 TSi has 122bhp but is not supercharged.

http://www.driving.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=car&carID=201110201586236

OP, the above one is going for €11750, I know they say it is the straight selling price but I would expect to still negotiate a few quid off that asking price. Also remember that that garage will have to give you a warranty with it which yours doesn't have. I'd show your company the above advert and see if you can negotiate a better price with them. They may take something either side of €11k for it and not have the hassel of needing to sell it through other means.

Big advantange here is that you know the car and you know it's history, even if they don't budge on the price it would be worth buying over other similarly priced ones for that alone.

illegalpower

The finance company would have to stick into an autction to sell it, where it would sell for alot less than that and would end up eventually on a dealers forecort for aroun 11ish k. They also have to pay the auction fee and transportation fees. The same happened to my avensis when the company i worked for closed. The car was worth 8 grand, the company wanted 7 from me and it went to auction and sold fo 6. The next week it was on a forecourt for 8.500.

Offer 10 and see what happens

tmh106

Thanks bazz26, illegalpower, I appreciate the advice.

Marcusm, that was my main concern when I got the car also - would the 1.4 really be able to handle the car. But I'm not a motoring buff, so I trusted the advice of a friend who is, and who said it would be fine. He was right. I've been more than happy with the car in terms of driving performance. I probably do about 70% urban. 30% motorway/rural. On the motorway, I find it cruises along without bother, even when I stray up to around 140K/hr - it may well cruise along above 140 km/hr, but that's my limit on how far above legal I'll go. On regular roads, I've never had any problem with it's responsiveness when in an overtaking situation.

So in terms of my experience, yes, the 1.4 can certainly handle the car.

tmh

Leonard Hofstadter

Those TSi engines are meant to be great little yokes and well up to the job of moving something the size of a Passat (they deliver lots of torque at low revs), my main concern is that a little 1.4 hauling such a big car will be worn out as the miles pile on. I simply don't see it lasting as long as say a non turbo 1.8 for example (the 1.4 TSI in the Passat is as powerful as most 1.8s) - will it still run perfectly at say 200k km? Any half decent non turbo petrol which has been looked after is only decently run in at this stage and would top 300k km without too much stress. I simply cannot see a little 1.4 with a turbo stuck on running perfectly at 200k km.

That said, there is no evidence so far that suggests the 1.4 TSis are any less reliable than other petrol engined cars (the 1.4 TSis with the turbo and supercharger are dreadful for reliability though - fortunately the Passat 1.4 TSI is the non-supercharged version).

jimmycrackcorm

tmh106 wrote: »

Thanks bazz26, illegalpower, I appreciate the advice.

Marcusm, that was my main concern when I got the car also - would the 1.4 really be able to handle the car. But I'm not a motoring buff, so I trusted the advice of a friend who is, and who said it would be fine. He was right. I've been more than happy with the car in terms of driving performance. I probably do about 70% urban. 30% motorway/rural. On the motorway, I find it cruises along without bother, even when I stray up to around 140K/hr - it may well cruise along above 140 km/hr, but that's my limit on how far above legal I'll go. On regular roads, I've never had any problem with it's responsiveness when in an overtaking situation.

So in terms of my experience, yes, the 1.4 can certainly handle the car.

tmh

If you drove one of diesel variants you might have a different perspective though. Whether or not the value is good also depends on comparing what is out there.