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Thread Author: Iffy Replies: 19
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New Fri 28 May 10 19:12 
 A hard car to price - Iffy
A neighbour is selling his 08 Kia Magentis for £7,850.

As others on here have found out, these funny cars can be hard to shift.

In its favour it's silver, but against is the fact it's a big Kia with a boot.

Weren't these going for half price or 'two for one' a year or so back?

I wonder what my neighbour might have paid.

And is his sale price about right?

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New Fri 28 May 10 19:18 
 A hard car to price - mikeyb
Sounds a bit much to me.

Quick search on autotrader shows 2008 ones from 5699 with no more than average mileage
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New Fri 28 May 10 19:26 
 A hard car to price - MD
3K
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New Fri 28 May 10 19:33 
 A hard car to price - Iffy
...3K...

I'd tell him - but his wife's got more tattoos than he has.

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New Fri 28 May 10 19:38 
 A hard car to price - Stuu
Id hazard a guess that its worth £4500 but he will want more and thus it will be growing roots where it is. Its not just obscure, its also not of any talent other than being cheap, unless you ask too much. Nice cars, but at a price.
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New Fri 28 May 10 19:50 
 A hard car to price - Zero
Unless its a diesel, its staying where it is.
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New Fri 28 May 10 19:55 
 A hard car to price - Iffy
...Unless its a diesel...

Good point, Zero.

Hold on, I'll just get the binoculars out....

....CRDi badge on the boot lid, so it's a diesel.

Looks a decent spec, too, leather, rear parking sensors.

Tow bar - suppose that could go against it in some buyers' eyes.
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New Fri 28 May 10 21:38 
 A hard car to price - Alastairw
Guy near me runs one of these as a minicab. I imagine local cab cos would be keen to snap it up.
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New Fri 28 May 10 19:47 
 A hard car to price - ....
On a similar note I followed a Y reg 2001 Ford Focus on the M1 from Luton to the M25 yesterday. No idea of mileage but it was advertised at £3590.

I thought that was a bit pricey for a nine year old hatch.
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New Fri 28 May 10 20:05 
 A hard car to price - RattleandSmoke
I thought they were two pricey at £2k a year back! You can get good MK2s for £5k now.
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New Fri 28 May 10 20:02 
 A hard car to price - bathtub tom
Do you fancy it?

I'm sure any c4p contributor nearby would go and view it as a prospective buyer and declare 'nah, it's not worth half that'.

Of course, you'd have to move, or park it elsewhere if you acquired it. ;>)
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New Fri 28 May 10 20:09 
 A hard car to price - -
>> Do you fancy it?

Not a hope, he wanted an excuse to get the binos out and check the latest tattoos...you can forward any pics via the mods by the way iffi..;)
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New Fri 28 May 10 20:45 
 A hard car to price - Skoda
If they'd listened to iih and bought a ford they wouldn't be having this problem! :-P
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New Fri 28 May 10 20:55 
 A hard car to price - Iffy
...listened to iih and bought a ford...

Craig,

Happy to cough to that one - I do see the motoring world through blue oval tinted spectacles.

But Fords have been like the old raincoat to me and my family - never let us down.

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New Fri 28 May 10 21:06 
 A hard car to price - RattleandSmoke
I can't see my dad ever buying anything but a Ford in the future. He was about 50 when he bought his first Ford but all of them very relaible I think it will be impossible to to suggest something like a Kia to him.

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New Fri 28 May 10 23:39 
 A hard car to price - Lygonos
The KIA Magentis was being sold 2-for-1 in 2008 when car sales were in the doldrums - £7500 bought you a brand new 2.0 family saloon as long as you had someone wanting to buy another for the same price.

I think you could buy them individually for about £8500.

GLASS'S guide (via Network Q) suggests £6300 trade-in for an 08 2.0 petrol LS with 20k miles.
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New Sun 4 Jul 10 12:29 
 A hard car to price - Iffy
Update.

Magentis now gone and replaced with a shiny new C'eed estate.

Obviously the only way he could get rid of it was to p/ex it to a Kia dealer.

Happens all the time to people who buy this funny stuff - they end up trapped and have to buy the same again.

Either that, or it's lose a lot of money to get back into mainstream motoring.



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New Sun 4 Jul 10 12:35 
 A hard car to price - movilogo
Why he wanted to sell a 2008 car so soon?
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New Sun 4 Jul 10 12:42 
 A hard car to price - Bellboy
because you can get 2 cadavers in the back of a ceed estate
so hes doing his little bit for global warming by cutting down on journey times?
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New Sun 4 Jul 10 12:53 
 A hard car to price - Iffy
...Why he wanted to sell a 2008 car so soon?...

Dunno, we're not in regular conversation.

Can only guess he wanted an estate, or maybe Magentises are not even the little amount they are cracked up to be.
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