What's the best price I could expect to get?

goat.sniffer

Hey,

Am thinking of selling or trading in my car, I'm looking for a van (actually if anyone has any vans recommendations too that'd be great)

Anyways I'm wondering what price would I roughly be lucky to get?

- 2005 Ford Mondeo (Silver)
- 1.8 LX Petrol
- 105,000 miles
- Tax 'til October 2014
- NCT 'til Sept 2015
- Very clean inside (full Valet was €90)
- Outside quite clean except for few marks from previous owner
- New brake discs & pads all around
- Serviced on time
- It has a timing chain
- Tyres in good condition
- NCT last August, only failed on a dim bulb which wasn't aligned!
- I look after it.
- It has never given me any problems
- New(ish) alternator

Thanks

Atlantic Dawn

About €2000 going by what is up on Donedeal, stick it up for €2500 and see how it goes.

Bigus

It's unsellable without current NCT especially mondeos because they fail on emissions meaning only fit for scrap if no NCT .petrol 1.8 cars won't sell unless priced very low, more like 1750 asking take 1500. Go get NCT first.

Toyotafanboi

Bigus wrote: »

It's unsellable without current NCT especially mondeos because they fail on emissions meaning only fit for scrap if no NCT .petrol 1.8 cars won't sell unless priced very low, more like 1750 asking take 1500. Go get NCT first.

i agree with your price, those mondeos seem pretty hard to shift, particularly in 1.8 petrol form.

but the OP does state the car has over a years NCT still remaining.

it does sound like a well maintained car, which should give it the sales edge over others. good luck with it.

goat.sniffer

Bigus wrote: »

It's unsellable without current NCT especially mondeos because they fail on emissions meaning only fit for scrap if no NCT .petrol 1.8 cars won't sell unless priced very low, more like 1750 asking take 1500. Go get NCT first.

It IS NCT'd.... 15 months remaining. 5 months tax too. Why petrol 1.8 cars?? The car isn't hard on petrol...

Atlantic Dawn

goat.sniffer wrote: »

It IS NCT'd.... 15 months remaining. 5 months tax too. Why petrol 1.8 cars?? The car isn't hard on petrol...

There's a perception in Ireland that any petrol car pre 2008 over 1.4 litre is a supercar and requires constant refuelling, plenty of people would spend €25k on a new car to save €300 a year on motor tax rather than spend €700 a year on it.

Toyotafanboi

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

There's a perception in Ireland that any petrol car pre 2008 over 1.4 litre is a supercar and requires constant refuelling, plenty of people would spend €25k on a new car to save €300 a year on motor tax rather than spend €700 a year on it.

i agree.

i think the reason the 1.8 petrol mondeos go so so very cheap though is because that particular 1.8 is apparently made from chocolate.

guil

I had a 02 1.8 Mondeo, thermostat went on it and they are electrically operated, €125 for the part alone. They have flaps in the inlet manifold and they are a bad design. I kept putting it off to take them out and the spindle eventually broke and fooked up the engine. In 03 they revised the bearings on the spindle but it's still supposedly troublesome.

goat.sniffer

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

i agree.

i think the reason the 1.8 petrol mondeos go so so very cheap though is because that particular 1.8 is apparently made from chocolate.

I don't think mine is made of chocolate. I licked the door to check and it tastes of steel & bird sh1t.

RyanMGF

Around 2k is on the money alright. I'd price it at 1800 or thereabouts for a quick sale, you could hold out and get a little more but they're not a hugely desirable car. Once the miles pile up they tend to like their drink of oil - I had one that guzzled 9 litres in 900 miles...

goat.sniffer

RyanMGF wrote: »

Around 2k is on the money alright. I'd price it at 1800 or thereabouts for a quick sale, you could hold out and get a little more but they're not a hugely desirable car. Once the miles pile up they tend to like their drink of oil - I had one that guzzled 9 litres in 900 miles...

Jesus that's a lot of oil. I changed the oil last August and it didn't need a top-up for 6 months (6,000 miles later)