Edited by daveyK_UK on 19/08/2023 at 21:08

It wouldn't matter much to me and presumably most private buyers would feel the same. It may have an effect on trade-in price with a franchised dealer, but I don't think they'd be paying top dollar for it anyway.

Thanks. I was also thinking that a franchised dealer would be unlikely to be selling a car of that mileage themselves (and would be selling it to the trade or auctioning it).

Edited by FiestaOwner on 20/08/2023 at 08:09

I’d use the local VW specialist. These guys (should) know these cars inside out and a socialist stamp on a car of this age and mileage will mean as much as the main dealers but it’ll cost less. I used a trusted VW specialist to service our VW Polo 1.2 TDi and they did a great job.

Not sure a SOCIALIST stamp would help :-)

Will probably go the specialist route. Thanks.

A six year old car with an above average six figure mileage will have lost most of its value . At trade-in a dealer will suck his teeth, point out all the scratches and offer you peanuts for it. However, this is just the sort of car which would appeal to a low mileage driver on a limited budget. Whether or not the last few services have been at the main dealer, an indy or even by yourself would be irrelevant to someone like me as long as there was evidence that the oil had been changed every 10,000 miles. At your 15,000 miles a year it's a fair assumption that most of those miles have been on smooth fast A and M roads with a well warmed engine in mostly top gear, the easiest life in motion a car can have.

If I was poor and only did around 5000 miles a year this is just the sort of car I would be looking at, as it would be a reasonably safe bet that it would go from 100,000 to 125,000 in the next five years with minimal depreciation and repair cost. If it were mine I would sell it privately, unless there was some clever business financial write down valuation exercise which might be more beneficial.

.... a socialist stamp on a car of this age and mileage ...

That's a nice idea SLO !! :-)

However despite all of that, sometimes the main dealers have offers on servicing so it’s worth finding out. My local Ford dealer were doing a minor service on any car upto 2.0l for £120 during June.
My mate took his Fiesta along and as part of the service he got them to update the cars software which is handy,

So £120 for 4 litres of oil and 2 filters!

Quick check all of the lights work.

40 minutes of the apprentices time

No Main Dealers do anyone a good deal.

Software update is unusual, but just plugged in to the OBD port and done automatically, whilst they do other jobs.

Guaranteed factory recommendation for the software or they would definitely charge!