bryn_p

Evening all,

I'm advertising an Escort Cosworth on ebay at the moment and when I'm turning down offers I keep getting emails telling me that their mate bought a better one with less miles blah blah for £10k.

Where are all these mint, HPI clear, FSH, late cars that are only £10k? Has anyone on here been lucky enough to find one?

I know it can be a bit of a personal thing, but if people don't mind can they post what they actually paid for their cars and when to see what money Escos's really make?

Cheers,
Bryn.

redrsmk5

Hi mate

Good luck with the sale on your car. I personally dont wish to say how much i paid for mine but will say that it was considerably more than youre selling yours for.

dave green

Paid £16800.00 for mine Six and a half years ago


Dave

redrsmk5

Blimey Dave bet you'd still get that back now too!!

woody800

hello mate its the wrong time to try selling anythink you are best off sitting on it i paid 20 for mine maybe that is to much dont beleave alot of what people say on hear they all want everyone else to think they got the best deal if someone see's your car and want's it thay will pay what you want i see mine and wanted it stright away it's not perfect but what is i could pick a falt with any car out thir but the point is don't let it go to low you will kick your self forever what escort are you selling

Kelv

iTrader: (4)

My first escort cossie - a black one owner example with 64k on the clock cost me just shy of 14k about 6 years ago.

my current green escort was a lucky deal, parted with about £7,250 for it, the guy had it up for sale, i viewed it - then the following day he blew up the engine and then contacted me saying make an offer as he had lost all interest in the car!

adamski frst

i paid just under 15k for mine about 14 months ago with 67k... had stg 2 small turbo conversion needed a few tweeks tdue to a dodgy owner somewhere but overall i got a good deal ....

has AP brakes now and a MAD conversion with plenty more to come ... think these days prices range from 10k right up to 20k+ ...

Arnie

Just under 3k for my big turbo, one of my mate only paid 1.5k for his

Gary F

iTrader: (1)

You obviously ate shit before saying that didn't you?

CUNT!

Steve Escos

iTrader: (18)

Paid £13500 for mine nearly 4 years ago. Came with a recently rebuilt low comp engine LT conversion on dark greens. As i bought it

The Youth.

iTrader: (1)

I paid 11k for mine in june 2003

steve

cos im worth it

3K & 1.5K was that just a shell, tags and log?

MONSTER

I paid 18.5k 2 years ago

maxest

iTrader: (1)

And that was a serious bargain imo

AndyBrew

I swapped my '05 Evo VIII GSR for mine, but the previous owner paid 18.5K 11 months ago.

MATCOS

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I got mine with 21,000 miles on the clock, fsh, completely standard, in near perfect condition from a true enthusiast RS fan for £15,600 about 6 years ago-looking back it may have been somewhat of a bargain

I would certainly want much more for it now

Rippers

£14,500 for mine from Duncan@Automotive Unlimited

Heres the ad

http://www.automotiveunlimited.co.uk...opic.php?t=148

Dave Henshall

i paid, 14.5K 4 years ago,

and its up for sale now at 12K, in considerably better condition than when i bought it - i reckon ive spent 5K in odds and sods getting it right again
- luckilly no bodywork or paint, just bits of trim, and mechanical odds

ian rst

I paid 14k for mine with 59k and now its up at £13495 with 76k but it was standard when i got it and had rust, now is cleaner and with mods??

ian rst

Also i have has about 10 calls on it with people saying what the lowest i would take for it then saying i dont even have that much (tossers). I have noticed peeps want a lot of car for nothing its seems they want a car with low milage, big power, rebuilt engines, big wheels, big brakes for small money. ok sometimes you mights get it but they are dreaming

bige

sold mine - 24500km - 320.000nkr =27,826£

ECOS95

I Paid £16,500 in 2001 for a Standard Imperial blue 1995 ST with 32K on the clock, FSH, Original bill of sale, old MOT's etc.It had 3 previous owners & on a private plate worth £1000.

It was the going rate at the time, so you pay what you think its worth & this one was on my door step so no need to travel the country waisting my time looking at sheds.

As others have said, only sell it for what your happy to let it go for. Don't let the tyre kickers tell you otherwise.Everyone wants a bargain & most have no idea what they are looking at and are just chancers !!

Chris.

DENNIS

tell them to keep looking then, i would not let it go for less than you want...

i payed just short of 12k for my car in jan 2003 with 45k on the clock. a bargain i think, was not mint at the time and running 300 bhp....

was offerd near 30K at ford fair for it last year !!!!! (spent that much on the car now !!! ) now 52k and 450 bhp on new engine....

he was very desperate for a mint black one.

i don't know who`s nuts, the guy who offered it or me for turning it down !!!! lol

ellicoss

Just payed £9500 for mine 80k small turbo in nice con

kl-mortiss

i paid £17.000 for mine 3 months ago 37 on clock from automotiveunlimited.

Arnie

no, the real deal! nobody wants them overhere, everyone wants a scooby or an evo. I'm planning to ship mine back when I've finished having fun with it

here is my car:


and here is my mate's under renovation:

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Arnie

u sound like the jealous type

I'll let u in a little secret just to piss u off further, I only pay 150quid for insurance with only 40%NCB

THE RADMAN

iTrader: (2)

good one wish they were that cheap over here your mates one looks like its had a hard life,didnt think you had a problem with rust over there? what size tyres are you running on your standard rims?

Arnie

the body work on my m8's is not too bad, but the engine is on its last breath, will need a rebuilt soon. althougth no grit on the road, the weather is extremely humid, rust is ALWAYS a problem

Just standard size tyres, Dunlop D02G (cheap)

seddi3.6

Its bullshit i am sellin my lotus carlton due to havin a baby and a new house (hopin to get a saph cossie with whats left over ) and i keep getttin told that they have seen a minter round the corner from them thats got low miles and is 5 grand cheeper than mine BULLSHIT!! like all you lads and your cossies you can see that the prices for a good car are all round the same .I think its just little muppets that cant realy afford the car that just try it on

Dave Henshall

yep :

the be best one is when you get a call saying, i've got 9K will you take that for cash? errrrrm seing as 1) you've bid 3K lower than its advertised, 2) you've never seen it, 3) why ring up if you dont have enough money (you must have at least the amount i'm asking to start with, and THEN and only then can we start talking a deal, 4) what would make cash so appealing as opposed to what? groats!? fookin moorons

THE RADMAN

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it must be the pics then as the tyres look loads bigger than standard,didnt think about the humidity problem,at least we dont have much of that

S3an

get some pics up how much is it?

seddi3.6

I have it up for £16500 which i dont think is dear considering it is a very good example of one al try and post a pic of it up am a bit of a plank when it comes to this sort of stuff even though i have just had a read through the postin pics bit

S3an

you need a host first, most people use

photobucket.com

then just a case of getting the url codes.

seddi3.6

my mate is a computer wizz so al get one up very soon am off to his now so he can show me i have all the pics in that photobucket but am thick as fook on these computer things

seddi3.6

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There she is!!!!!

MATCOS

iTrader: (1)

OMG I'm in love

They are such awesome looking cars

Has it got the Evo version boot spoiler?

cos im worth it

I didnt know they were that cheap over there mind! was shocked to see all the rust on your mates car too, i was always under the impresion the cars from over there were proper mint rust wise, seen loads of imports which look brand new underneath them.

seddi3.6

No thats the standard spoiler it just looks a bit big on that pic the only thing i have done is had it de catted it runs around 400bhp and torqe is about 417 it does shift well for a big car if you drive it in second gear at about 40mph and put your foot down it pins you to the seat real bad and you can take it to about 80mph in second gear and then up to about 128 in third but it will only pull top speed off in 5th gear not six about 180 maybe more