Was having a look at 250 prices and this car popped up from a certain over priced dealer that seems to be living on cuckoo land Looking at the spec alot of R26's are up to this level of modification and are lucky to see half the price Thoughts on this guys? (I havent posted the link as im not sure if you are allowed)
Totally insane. Plus, if you're gunna ask for such a ridiculous amount of money, at least get the description right. It's described as: Aspiration - Normal... In fact, maybe that's the reason for the crazy price, maybe they believe they have the worlds only normally aspirated R26.
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifi...6-k-tec-racing-re-map-to-289-bhp-2008/4677486 ive thought that they've taken the pee in the past. If someone does buy that a fool and his money comes to mind
I laughed at this , even laughed at the £40k trophy .R the same dealer has. Don't know where this place gets their valuations from !!
Lot of their cars are sale or return so they just try their luck, dreamers but you watch someone will sign up for finance.
I don't know why you are mocking the dealer, if he manages to start shifting modified R26s for £12k then we are all quids in! Lol
I emailed this dealer ' are you for real' when they had the 275.r up for 46k I obviously didn't get a reply. Surely over estimating a cars value this much costs money as they won't sell it and will have it for longer i.e taking up space for more stock
They'll know what they're doing - and they'll have the technique of discounting finance etc to sweeten the deal down to a tea - if you never ask you never get, its a joke of a price, but its also a chance to finance a heavily modded R26, and they'll take a car with finance on it already no problem of course
I'm not rubbishing what you say, but it doesn't look like it's had more than a stage one and a few other bolt on bits. It's had belts done and compression checks, meaning it could of had a problem and they checked the compression to rule it out. It's not much different to my car with 4K less on the clock and mine isn't worth 12 grand! If it was I would have it up for sale now! I'd be interested to know what they paid for it to have it up for 12k! We could all go and sell them our R26's and have a high mile 250 out of it with change!
if you play detective properly on this - you'll find out who the previous owner was Totally agree with what you say - but private sales are a different game.
Someone off here? The only person I know of is Greg. But yeah private sales are different. But to be up for 12k, I don't know what the margins are for garages but they must of paid 8-9k + for it?
Saying that they are down the road from me so I might pop in and see what they offer for mine with less mileage!
My mate is trying to buy my 300bhp 37k mile r26 for 5k. Think I should send him the link to this one to put things in perspective
Sounds like a £7K to £8K car at the very least to me. I bought mine from a mate for a touch under £6K, only a couple or 3 hundred below what he advertised it at as I knew he never drove it in winter and it spent most of time in his garage. Everyone who has seen it such as Tech-1 thinks it was an utter bargain but I still bought it coming up on a big service, worn out brakes all round, dodgy handbrake and a damaged seat bolster. A fresh tip top 60k or so miler R26 has to be worth close on £8K I reckon, more for much lower miles. Mine would have cost that by the time it is bob on and its pretty sweet as is but I like my cars to be as mechanically sound as when new (seriously on a ramp this one looks like a new car underneath). Prices seem to be all over the place at the moment but one has to wonder about some of the stuff for sale, walked away from so much junk when we were looking for a similar age hatch for the mrs. £12K is a bit of a laugh though.
I offered to send him links to plenty of cheap ones if his budget was 5k. I have a feeling he wants mine because he knows how much I've looked after it and how much all the mods cost.
I've got a 58k miler that's having all of the paint made tip top for free, so I'm rubbing my hands together! It'll be the car I sell and immediately want back though I can tell!
I paid 7k almost a year ago for a very similar spec, bar coilovers, (h&r springs) stage 2, 48k on the clock, very good history and receipts etc, mint, I'd want the same price back now tbh, mind you just spent 1k on smf clutch.
I think they are holding their values quite well to be honest, but this is just overpriced. I bought a low milage glacier white R26 in July '13 for £8300 and sold 14 months later for £7500. In terms of depreciation that's got to be pretty good in the market (especially for a French brand). Okay, I did spend an awful lot on maintenance but in reality you don't expect to get any of that back do you?
Whenever I've had a quick nosey at prices they seem pretty much the same as what they where a year ago, which is nice. I always upgrade the parts when anything goes, so it's a good excuse to modify it, without the Mrs thinking I'm wasting money, wonder how long my turbo will last!:cool: But yeah it's dead money maintenance. Always helps sell the car in though.
I agree maintenance is dead money I thought it would help sell the car but tbf it didn't really. people only started to become interested when the price had dropped to well below what most are being advertised at. I shouldn't have bothered fitting a new clutch, bushes and pads and should have just traded it in for the pittance the dealers offered . Lesson learned !!
Yeah Mines worked out as paying £1k per year of ownership for my R26 which isn't bad considering I had it for 3 years and put nearly 50k in it. tbf it would have been less if I hadn't of wanted a quick sale. Then again I am ignoring the parts I replaced, when I looked through all the invoices when I was selling, it nearly made me feel sick!!
Maintenance only seems dead if your selling privately it seems. If your trading the dealers don't look bothered they just offer an upsetting price. Did you try trade your R26 in pagey? If so how much did they off you? I'm sure I saw some places last year offering 3.5k trade ins on R26's which makes this 12k look even more shocking
Yeah I went to renault a few months back and they said they wouldn't give me more than 4k to trade it in, then they'll probably ask 7 for it! Aside from my first car I've had limited run cars as they're normally something you don't see very often and they hold value quite well!
The main dealers won't sell anything that's over 4 years old generally. The reason they offer so little is that they will put it it through an auction where they know they won't get much for it. That's also why they aren't interested in the condition, only how long the MOT has left. They offered 5k for mine, but I got 7.5k privately. This was against a new Trophy, so pretty much the most expensive vehicle they sell.
Renault manc offered about 3800 and as xanda said they weren't going to sell it they were only going to auction it. I had my eye on that lush LY 265 at their dealership but as I had spent so much on the R26 couldn't justify letting go for that price. I ended up selling to a local dealer for much more than the value above, the dealer looked at the car and could see how much I looked after it and so he didn't need to do anything other than extend the MOT. I gues maintenance and the hard work of machine polishing paid off to extent. Except for the fact that the moment I sold the R26 and rang them to put a deposit on it they had sold in 10 mins before.
End of last year they dropped in price £1k-£1.5k but sprung back up by spring this year may be a bargin or 2 in a few weeks
