It's worth bearing in mind that very few cars make it past 200000 miles, so £10k for a high mileage car, which is more than half used up, and was only about £25k when new sounds a bit steep to me.
On the positive side, you can be reasonably confident it won't have been clocked. However, the ongoing maintenance cost to take a car from 120k miles to 200k miles is likely to be higher than from a more average 40k miles to 120k.
Agree entirely. We hold onto our 4 now 3 car Skoda fleet until they are just too expensive to keep going. Same with all our previous VAG cars. All mid range models, not a VRS
They usually go through what I call a mid life crisis at anywhere from 80k-120k. Usually brakes, suspension, springs, shock absorbers, wheel bearings but also got caught on a turbo (£1500 repair) Stressful but we get through that. 150k miles seems to be some kind of limit at which, things start to get "its not worth putting money into this any more"
Bear in mind a VRS has a higher stressed state of tune. It will invariably have been driven "enthusiastically" so suffered appropiate wear. I read that DPFs have a life of 120k on average, very expensive to replace. Depends on the fuel and oil used and how its been driven. Any DSG problem is likely going to be too expensive to repair. DSG failures come out of the blue. If its a 4x4 then the Haldex is probably shot by now, the official servicing on these is too little too late and they simply wear out too quickly.
Lease cars will have got just the basic servicing, no preventative measures that a clued up owner might do.
Head to Briskoda.net to get the full lowdown on these cars.
I would say its expensive in light of being ex lease and how much life is probably left IMO
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