just sold my st which i bought after regretably selling the saph,
was thinking about the new focus rs,but may go for a 3 door.
what do people think is a reasonable price to pay.
couple of examples here are they priced right or a bit high.
http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3601892.htm
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classifi...1500?logcode=p

 

Depends whether you want a mint concourse example or a good example you can use.
I do know of a few coming up for sale on the RSOC soon, one is around the 14k price.
Not mine I hasten to add, mine are staying with me

 

I've seen a few stunning examples up recently for 12k, I've also seen some not stunning ones up for 15-18k.... take your time and you should get something decent for 12-13k

 

To get a good clean solid one with good history and mint trim a paid 14.5k.

 

imo its the only cossie hold its head up regarding selling! ive watched 18 saffs the last 2 weeks and not one fetched over 5k on ebay and all looked top cars and the 5 3 doors averaged over 13k ! not that ive been looking for a cossie tho

 

You know want one lol..,

 

if im honest yes but heres my issue whats the evo worth now 5k if im lucky to sell it due to the market , then im getting to old and fucked to put up with a cossie this stops me everytime

 

Your not to old pal... Just get one bought lol...,

 

The black 3 door is a friend of mines old car really nice car and got anything it needed regardless of cost ,

If you were interested in it I,d imagine you,d be able to get it at a better price than advertised as the current owner puts it up nd down weekly ,

 

You need to do your homework on these cars

As superb examples start to demand top money people with the old shitters think there car is worth the same , so be prepared to travel the country looking at bags of shit at stupid money

You will turn up a good example one day but as said dont expect them all to be as described

I buy about 10% of cars i view these days as i get told there all MINT only to find 90% are total piles of shite ,
I remember the good old days when i bought 90% of the cars i viewed

One way of telling a shitter is USUALLY they will never tell you there asking price , they always say , " i dont know , make me an offer " On a car you havent seen,lol , so when you get there and find its a total bag of shite they can then say " but i never said it was worth X you made the offer " Hence why now i will not even start the van unless the seller has said what he wants

There are a massive amount of timewasters out there these days trying to pass off shit cars as MINTERS , lol

 

So Paul what do u class as a shiter of a car.

 

If i were looking for a car i would just snap Davies old black 3dr (pistonheads) as it's breathtaking good and so i've heard that price is very negotiable

 

70% of the cossies that are about

A " shitter " is a car that the body is either rotten / had a bad paintjob / been crashed at some point and had bad repairs

trim is tatty

engine bay is tatty and the engine sounds like a skeleton having a wank in a biscuit tin

etc etc

sadly this is about 90% of these so called MINT cars i go and look at

 

Agree

this 3dr is a superb example , and if you can get the price down to a more realistic one then your ok

 

I remember when Ran offered me his 400bhp moonstone 3dr back in 2008 for £5500 I shouldv borrowed from the bank as I was in my 1st job after uni. < real tears

 

PMSL !!!!

 

2007 Kam. I was reading this ad and just thinking i miss my moonstoner and wish i kept the shell i built it back up. that was a cheap car with loads of good bits - i stopped counting at 10K in parts

Would love another genuine one but sadly i cannot afford a real one now with other priorities in my life now, so will settle for the saph rep and 3dr rep i currently have

 

Ran - you were on the drink at ford fair and Im sure I couldv got the price down more

 

Bang on....!... Choose wisely and don't afraid to walk away....Asoon as i rang about mine the old owner was firm on price... And I knew why when I Went to view....

 

you could've had that car complete for 5k mate with all the RS500 bits still on it

shit, that reminds me i need to post the rs500 front bumper off lol

 

:t iff:

Depressing!

 

Out of interest what do you think mines would be worth? 1986 black 3 door, 72,000 miles, fresh engine clutch, comp struts, adjustable tca's , all new brakes and wheel bearings ect, reckoned standard wheels with new tires, underside restro all powder coated beam ect, 044 pump stage 3 set up, 500 cooler ect ect, only thing is it was a cat d about 10 years ago, had the NSF wing changed (genuine ford part) and the front bumper was cracked, mint interior and mint straight paint work, lots of history too, would the cat d knock a lot off the price caus really it's a mint car with no problems what so ever and never been welded. Just curious really

 

That's a tricky one mate really..... Unsure really maybe 8-10k... Please correct me if I'm wrong tho... Never seen such a clean one on a cat D before.

 

i was gonna say around the 8k mark too but it really depends upon shell condition

 

It's never been welded ive got pics somewhere of the underside when we did the restro, I've never been satisfied with what I've been told of why it's a cat d, the guy I bought it from said it was stolen then recovered and the insurance paid out to fix the door locks and steering lock ect, but another guy off here who owned it before him said it was never stolen and it was bashed on the NSF and the wing and bumper was replaced, when I did that reg checker thing it sait it was stolen so really fuck knows what happened to her in a previous life, all I can be sure of is it's mint now, all the glass is etched with the reg number and the floor number has never been tampered with, I paid £5900 for it in 2007 and have spent a small fortune on it as is the way with these cars, the reg is D994KBO if anyone has the ability to find anything out, would be appreciated , I've no plans on selling it soon it was more a matter of curiosity more than anything else

 

Such a shame mate...

 

Was going to view the Moonstone one before I spoke to Neil & bought my Escos, thank god I didn't go probably would have bought it...

£17k is really strong money for it IMO.

 

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thanks for the replys,may go look at the black one see if he will come down i am hoping to get a good one for 12 to 14.

 

Hmm i think i got very lucky with my one looking at the prices of others.

 

Shit that does look nice!!!

 

Personally cat d isn't really anything these days when you see the amount of cars getting full restorations which amounts to more work than what give the car the cat in the first place, get a few pictures up I'd like to see what condition its in.

 

You lying Bastard!! I strongly sugest you remove these comments. That car is well known by members on this forum. Im not having some skinny little prick slate that car, you have no right. The guy who done the mot is on this site and he will tell you what the underside is like and also theres a pile of photos of the undersite resto. Also worth mentioning is that there is a small crack appearing at the bottom of one arch. Its 25 years old you fool. You looking at a 6k cossie, not concourse. Dick head!!!

 

Im sure Paul will back me up on this, as the car was took to him before any further movement, but i believe i got a superb 3 door for my money.

Paid 12k cash in January

White, 62k, fresh stage 3 only 1k old, interior excellent, uncracked dash. Cxn's.

More than that i went on Pauls advice on the body. Really really good on top and just as good underneath.

I bought it as a car that will get used regular, but not everyday. I like to keep them properly clean but its my first Cosworth so ive bought it for the experience.

I was really lucky too, car actually never went up for sale, and it was the first one i viewed. Dont hear of that happening very often.

 

I'm in the Falklands for the next 6 weeks but I'll put some up as soon as I can

 

they cat d'd it for a bent wing and bumper? jesus.

 

Looks nice to me if thats one in your profile

 

That link only takes me to the main page , what car is it ?

 

When i looked yesterday Paul it took you to that white Sapphire on Hocks - since been removed

 

On PH i saw a £13995 mint looking moonstone 3 door 80k.