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Tue 6 Dec 2005 19:27
Cost to change - DavidHM
Right:

Old car - 1996 (N) Peugeot 406 1.9 TD LX. Metallic silver, 125k miles. No air con. Very good condition for year - belt change 10k miles ago, four new tyres (6mm on back, new on front), minor scratches and dings but nothing exceptional. Everything working. No history until 96k miles, sheaf of bills since then.

New car - 1999 (V) Peugeot 406 Rapier HDi. Metallic red, 108k miles. Air con. Good condition for year - a couple of bulbs out, one tyre needs replacing but nothing major. Minor supermarket scars. Lots of history - although not a punctiliously stamped book, the car's clearly had regular servicing.

What do you reckon to go from the top one to the bottom one? Both private sale.
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Tue 6 Dec 2005 19:39
Cost to change - Quinny100
£1750?
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Tue 6 Dec 2005 19:40
Cost to change - Xileno {P}
Is there much point in doing this, apart from the fact you will be getting the more modern HDi engine?
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Tue 6 Dec 2005 20:59
Cost to change - DavidHM
Not a huge amount of point really... wouldn't have done it for £1,750 to change.

However I got a phone call from a friend on Saturday night asking if I was willing to sell my car to him. I wasn't and I told him as much, but I found the HDi in the paper for £1,775. I eventually bought the car for £1,650.

I'd acutally told my friend that he'd have been better off buying the newer one because I didn't want to sell mine - and quoted him £1,100 for the old car; he bit my hand off and was convinced he'd got a bargain although I did advise the newer one.

Cost to change was £550 and for that I've got a car nearly 4 years newer with 17k less on the clock, air con and ABS, that is even quieter and more refined and which should last longer. I'd be surprised if I can't sell it on for more than £550 more than my other one would have realised, too.
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Tue 6 Dec 2005 23:39
Cost to change - BobbyG
Hope the new car proves good. My only concern is you have swapped from a known car to an unknown - is the mileage genuine, is it mechanically sound etc; all the things you know about your own car but not about some stranger's car ?
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