Whats the going rate.....

[Bren]

...for a vauxhall viva? A project anyway.

Car seems complete but needs some work - welding to inner sills and boot floor. It will also need paint as somebody has been working on the arches.

Car is N reg.

Ideas?

[eddyramrod]

I would have thought a couple of hundred, max.... bit more if it'll drive up onto the trailer.  How long ago was the last MoT?

[mercrocker]

Eddie has the right figure for proper times.   However these are now stupid times and I would expect more like £700.  

 

MOT exempt soon, innit.....

[Squire_Dawson]

GIB

[Bren]

Last MOT 2014. On the bay now or so I believe.

[neil1971]

£1425 if this is it

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/classic-cars-vauxhall-viva-1974/282720359224

 

[Bren]

Think so. Bit salty I think.

[Junkman]

Eddie has the right figure for proper times.   However these are now stupid times and I would expect more like £700.  

 

MOT exempt soon, innit.....

 

I'd say that's about half of reality.

 

Edit: the above was written before I saw the eBay ad Neil1971 posted.

[Rusty_Rocket]

I'd say the price is about right really.  Sure, it's not a bargain as such, but that interior is excellent and even the body is presentable.  He admits it'll need some welding underneath but otherwise the shell looks very honest and well redeemable.

Think of all the time and money you'd spend tracking down the parts that a rougher/ cheaper example would need!

[Bren]

A friend asked me what I thought - it does look complete but it has not been MOT'd for a couple of years.

[neil1971]

Had some welding for its test in November 2014

 

Reason(s) for failure

Nearside Windscreen wiper does not clear the windscreen effectively (8.2.2)

Offside Windscreen wiper does not clear the windscreen effectively (8.2.2)

Windscreen washer provides insufficient washer liquid (8.2.3)

Offside Obligatory mirror missing (8.1.1)

Offside Seat belt locking mechanism does not secure or release (5.2.5a)

Offside Front position lamp(s) not working (1.1.A.3b)

Direction indicators flashing less than 60 times a minute (1.4.A.2g)

Offside Outer Rear Suspension component mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded (2.4.A.3)

Offside Inner Rear Suspension component mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded (2.4.A.3)

Nearside Outer Rear Suspension component mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded (2.4.A.3)

Nearside Inner Rear Suspension component mounting prescribed area is inadequately repaired (2.4.A.3)

Offside Inner Rear Suspension component mounting prescribed area is inadequately repaired (2.4.A.3)

Offside Front Suspension component mounting prescribed area is inadequately repaired (2.4.A.3)

Offside rear brake binding (3.7.B.1)

 

Advisory notice item(s)

offside rear floor corroded but outside prescribed area

brake warning light on

offside front tyre cracking but no cords exposed

[Bren]

All that (hopefully) was done to get a new test. But it needs repairs to inner sills and boot floor.

[Mally]

Looks reasonable to me.

I was forever changing rear axle bottom arms back in the day.

[martc]

It's previous owner and all the leggy models that have been driven around in it must add to the value.

 

(note the reg number)

[neil1971]

Yes, that list was from the failure notice but it passed a few weeks later with the same advisories

[mercrocker]

This has been in the Ebay thread already so it's been on at least once before.

[Junkman]

A friend asked me what I thought - it does look complete but it has not been MOT'd for a couple of years.

 

Even a current MoT isn't worth the electricity necessary to display it on a computer screen.

 

 

 

 

Had some welding for its test in November 2014

 

Reason(s) for failure

Nearside Windscreen wiper does not clear the windscreen effectively (8.2.2)

Offside Windscreen wiper does not clear the windscreen effectively (8.2.2)

Windscreen washer provides insufficient washer liquid (8.2.3)

Offside Obligatory mirror missing (8.1.1)

Offside Seat belt locking mechanism does not secure or release (5.2.5a)

Offside Front position lamp(s) not working (1.1.A.3b)

Direction indicators flashing less than 60 times a minute (1.4.A.2g)

Offside Outer Rear Suspension component mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded (2.4.A.3)

Offside Inner Rear Suspension component mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded (2.4.A.3)

Nearside Outer Rear Suspension component mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded (2.4.A.3)

Nearside Inner Rear Suspension component mounting prescribed area is inadequately repaired (2.4.A.3)

Offside Inner Rear Suspension component mounting prescribed area is inadequately repaired (2.4.A.3)

Offside Front Suspension component mounting prescribed area is inadequately repaired (2.4.A.3)

Offside rear brake binding (3.7.B.1)

 

Advisory notice item(s)

offside rear floor corroded but outside prescribed area

brake warning light on

offside front tyre cracking but no cords exposed

 

 

 

What does that prefab guffament gobbledegeek even mean?

How over officious that tester was clearly manifests itself in writing the car up for a missing offside mirror

when matter of factly an N-reg doesn't even require one.

 

What counts here is what was really wrong with it and the standard to which it was repaired.

 

The car needs to be carefully inspected and then you either run like f00k, or come to an agreement with the seller,

since this is how classic cars are normally bought, unless you do it the correct way and buy it sight unseen

and pick it up in the rain after dark.

 

Besides, friends don't let friends buy Vauxhalls.

[twosmoke300]

Prescribed area is corrosion within 300mm of a structural point i.e. Suspension or seat belt mount

[Junkman]

Yeah. Bollocks.