My 15 year old immaculate bar some stone chipping shed!
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That looks really nice!
My 15 year old immaculate bar some stone chipping shed!
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No not really. I am discussing the specific value of a car that members on here once cherished but because of the age of Mk 1 Leons, this section seems to now be populated by people who drive cheap fast sheds for a year until the MOT runs out for a few hundred quid.
Not that there's anything wrong with that but the LCR is a bit more special. Problem is the people who probably still cherish them are most likely all on the Mk3 Cupra forum now as those were the people that bought the LCR back in the same day.
This is mostly about the fact that such a fantastic car that should be cherished is now placed in the same category as a cheap shed.
I might keep it and garage it for the day when people seek these out as classics.
It's ok. The net is a funny place.Sorry Andrew, not meant as an insult. I can see that you cherish the car you have rather than see it as an MOT for a year.
So difficult to put things the right way in the written word.
The impression I get from other posts on this thread, especially when compared against people's views on here when I posted in 2002, is that the LCR has gone from something viewed as quite special to just another cheap 2nd hand car.
I am quite sure that there must be people out there that view is as a special car but from what I have seen here, noone on the Mk1 forum wants to spend more than £1k on a car regardless of what it is.
I'm one of the old school, too. Had my R from new in Jan 2006. Much cherished and pampered, just turned 140k, completely original. I think mine is worth more than 2k, but that's because of the emotional attachment. On the other hand, if I was buying one with a cool head I wouldn't fancy shelling out a lot for a high mileage performance car that's likely to need money pumping into it soon.
I'm not planning to sell mine because I know what's likely to happen to it. I haven't looked after it all this time for somebody else to abuse. I budget to spend £1000 a year on top of the normal routine maintenance costs you get with any car. It's lost nearly all of its value, so virtually nil depreciation against what on a newish one? £3-4k a year, maybe more? On top of that I'm driving a fantastic car. One day things will all come unstuck, but there's not much value to lose.
My old cupra use to cost me £300 a month there was so much wrong with it, I wanted a car that didn't really want anything doing to it, then I bought my lcr and that's the same, I need to get the cambelt done and the clutch and sort the suspension out and loads more, the previous owner wasn't upfront about things but my fault too as I was in a hurry to get a car as needed it for work
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£300 isn't bad for the age really. I expect catastrophic failure all the time. mine is pretty good for most if not all stock parts but I do expect the poo to hit the fan very soon....MOT due in 8 days thing is gonna cost more to MOT it than what I paid I reckon. But I can't part with it now...too many parts have been brought to go back now lol. Found an MOT garage that will "overlook" the fact it's stripped out and only here for one thing....it's my "van" officer look I have tools in back
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looked clean lolThat was a cheap car if it was a good one
That was a cheap car if it was a good one
One sold today, LCR 05 plate 77k £2,000 was asking price and sold for asking price within 20hr.
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