Evo Test car is on eBay

[Lankan]

#005 (HV53 VJO) - seems like the car has been well used:

"i brought the car back in june 2005 with roughley 22000 miles on the clock.the car has now just gone over 60000 which is low milage for the age.the car has only been used at weekends and in good weather."

Note that wheels have been painted "gun metal grey"!

 

[Mr Tim]

Depends what the reserve is I guess. Looks alright from the pictures...

I can't decide if it being ex EVO adds to or detracts from the history. That said given the mileage it's done since leaving EVO it's hardly relevant in my opinion.

 

[Dominicd]

Never a good sign when the person selling a car can't spell......

 

[ColinG]

I was just thinking about this car at work a few days ago... Weird how it pops up all of a sudden

 

[piers]

..is it just me or does something not seem quite right with that.. Dno what it is but something just look fishy lol! :s

Hope he gets a good bid for it mind!

What we guessing? I'm gona go £12,500.00.

 

[Matt]

Thought I recognised it

 

[Lankan]

..is it just me or does something not seem quite right with that.. Dno what it is but something just look fishy lol! :s

Hope he gets a good bid for it mind!

What we guessing? I'm gona go £12,500.00.

I think you are spot on about "something being fishy" about this one.

I have tried to find the whereabouts of this particular car since I became interested in Clio V6 255's around July 2011, but never found it, and now it suddenly pops up!

 

[Samwilde681]

IS 60,000 miles low for the year? Looking at our mileage thread I'm not sure! [smilie=icon_eek.gif]

 

[Pagey]

Double post

 

[Pagey]

They say the average is about 10/11k miles a year do they not? So guessing 'average' mileage for a late 03 plate would be 80/90k miles, so 60k would be deemed as low i guess, but compared to most that come up for sale its certainly nearer the top end.

#005 (HV53 VJO) - seems like the car has been well used:

the car has only been used at weekends and in good weather!

I'm not meaning to pick holes but Im bored doing overtime at work and the sun is shining outside so here goes:

Roughly speaking this owner has had the car 7 years and done 38k miles
Thats 7x52=364 weekends or 728 individual days.
Lets be genourous and only discount half those days for our typically british weather
SO 38k/364 = 104 miles travelled every 'nice' day [smilie=doubt.gif]

Thats a lot of miles EVERY nice day if the numbers add up

 

[Williams]

I think any 'weekend' car could clock up 38k in 7 years.. without too much trouble. I managed 16k and 17.5k in my 172 and then 182 from new in 3 years.. just using them at weekends, which we all know isnt 'just' weekends, but includes the odd fine weather evening and other time away from work. I didnt even take them for trips onto the continent so if one throws that into the equation too, its quite easy for an enthusiastic owner to clock up some significant miles over a 7 year period. The car has done fewer miles in this guys ownership than it had done prior to his ownership, by a long way!
For me though, the biggest off put would be those grey pods and wheels.. :rollseyes: They just look wrong. Mossy did this a few years back and it looked ok on his for some reason.. possibly because it was lower, or maybe tastes change.. i dont know.

The car seems to look straight enough though.. badges look correct, panel gaps seem about right as far as any one can tell by the pics. Poss slight colour mis-match from both front wings to the doors, but that could easily be the camera playing tricks. Certainly worth a look for someone! :approve: As long as they dont mind grey wheels and pods..

rimer: rimer: rimer:

 

[AcidV6]

That wont make 10k on Ebay

I will stab for 9275

S

 

[Duncan]

For future info, this car has been converted to LHD and is currently for sale in France.

LINK

 

[Brett]

What's that in stirlin?

 

[sam bignell]

A lot! 19,400

 

[sam bignell]

Sorry i'll rephrase that, it's true value for a uk vee

 

[Brett]

I wonder how much the overall cost to covert from rhd to lhd properly is. Might be worth owner doing that to be fair.

 

[Lankan]

This is turning out to be really interesting, Would love to know how much the car actually sells for.

Seems to make a very good case for a LHD conversion, if it stacks up.

 

[k1ano]

It's ironic that most UK owners don't like LHD cars but that you can convert a RHD Vee to LHD, ship it to France and sell it at a premium - though I am not sure what the conversion cost or parts availability situation is but assume most parts required are Clio and not Vee specific. There does seem to be a healthy market for LHD Vees over there as we saw a couple of years ago looking at used car magazines in France.

Martin

 

[Matt]

Didn't this get crashed and repaired at one point in it's life?