Buying Ford Fiesta - Advice re price/issues

satnavadays

Hi all,

Family member is on the look out for a newer car. So far the main car being looked at the minute is a Ford Fiesta. I've given a quick look on carzone and Donedeal and I've noticed that 2009 and 2010 fiestas still have an asking price of €9k - €10k. Is this the normal asking price? Seems mad money for a 6/7 year old car.

Are there any main issues/known problems on those year of fiestas?

Thanks,

colm_mcm

You'll easily pick up 09s for 6-6.5

satnavadays

What would be a good price for this fiesta:

http://www.spiritford.ie/used-vehicle-details-stillorgan-industrial-park-Dublin.aspx?vid=1021282&run=norm&pg=2

colm_mcm

what is the budget, and is there any particular extras your relative wants in a car?

satnavadays

Budget would be approx €8k plus anything for 00 fiesta. Preference would be for 2010 onwards with low milage (max 55k-60k). No particular extra except alloys, a/c and fogs but they seems to be as standard.

colm_mcm

The 00 is worth zero to a garage. Sell that for small money.

satnavadays

yeah I was thinking it would be best to sell on donedeal for parts or something and buy straight from the garage.

colm_mcm

This has to be worth a call. Id imagine the mileage is a bit high, but it has a full history and is very cheap.
https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/2012-fiesta/11585622


Edit, it's 130k kms

bazz26

You're not going to get anything from a dealer for a 16 year old Fiesta and it will hinder your ability to negotiate a straight discount off the newer Fiesta. Best selling it privately.

On your budget you may have to look outside the Ford dealer network and probably have to be more realistic about the mileage. Something like this maybe:

http://www.driving.ie/used-cars/Ford/Fiesta/STYLE-1.25/201214562345826580/

Style is the base model, all come with fog lights and alloy wheels. A/C wasn't standard on the Style model. Titanium had A/C alright.

boombang

I was looking at cars from around 2009 with approx 40k miles in the UK. Asking seems to start from around £5,000. There's about €1,500 VRT to pay on top of that. If you can manage the hassle it might be cheaper than buying here given where sterling is against the euro.

satnavadays

She wouldn't have the patience for import a car plus she'd like the benefit of being able to go back to a garage. How does a Hyundai i20 or Skoda fabia compare to a fiesta?

colm_mcm

the hyundai i20 in budget would be the old model. nothing wrong with that in itself but you might get a new model kia Rio near budget. it's the same car underneath as the new i20.

wouldn't bother with a fabia tbh.

fiestas are actually good value and plentiful.

satnavadays

Yeah I'd say she'd be hard to change from the fiesta as she has her current fiesta for nearly 12 years with no trouble at all.

colm_mcm

Yeah, If the fiesta goes wrong it'll be the cars fault, if you sway them into a different car and it goes wrong it'll be your fault

ash23

Just picked up a 2010 fiesta with 60k miles for 7.5k. Cash price with a Ford dealer. Car is serviced and has new nct.

Think it was a reasonably good deal as I'd not seen fiestas at that price other than the odd private sale and I prefer to go with a dealer.