MG5 for £3950 What's the catch ? Or just the cheapest

[Black estate]

There's a 21 plt Excite on Auto trader with the price £3950, so what's the catch apart from 121000 miles and being a taxi ?
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202604101456724?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android-app

 

[MG Clive]

Interestingly, the WBAC valuation is £4300.

 

[Black estate]

Interestingly, the WBAC valuation is £4300.

Bargain basement Ev if you don't mind the milage

 

[Jomarkh]

Great price and it doesn't look to bad.
It had 3 MOT'S last year?
Love to see what the SOH is

 

[Everest]

It had 3 MOT'S last year?

Taxi's require them every 6 months, so prob not that significant.

£3950 for a 52kWh storage battery sounds tempting too, but I don't think anyone has reverse engineered the MG BMS yet

 

[Alb]

Looks like a real bargain.
Ex Taxi will definitely knock down the value.

 

[Rolfe]

There may well not be a catch.

 

[Giller]

Having looked at the listing, seems like a bargain, sellers being open with info, yes a taxi but wouldn’t be an issue at the asking price, mind you I’d be haggling

 

[Bam Bam]

Seems like a bargain. I'm sure it has many years of life left in it.

However, I'd give it a sniff before going ahead. A lot of drunk people are sick in taxis. Drivers might know the tricks to clean it out I suppose.

 

[Rolfe]

There's something called a "bomb" that dealers use to fumigate minging cars, that would probably do it if there's a problem.

 

[Ian Key]

Interestingly, the WBAC valuation is £4300.

I bet you don't get that price when you come to sell it to WBAC.

 

[securespark]

No, they will pull people in with that price, but once they see it, they will find excuses to knock it right down.

 

[Black estate]

No, they will pull people in with that price, but once they see it, they will find excuses to knock it right down.

That's why it's We Rob Any Car

 

[salty]

S'pose it's just convenient for a lot of people, who don't want any hassle selling it privately. And you don't have to sell it to them. It's up to you.

 

[mikgle]

There's a 21 plt Excite on Auto trader with the price £3950, so what's the catch apart from 121000 miles and being a taxi ?
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202604101456724?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android-app

The catches are.. 1)121k miles 2). Ex taxi. Could be a good buy if battery SoH looks ok..

 

[AndyB87]

Got to bear in mind its had a very mediocre respray on the rear quarter. Still a lot of car for not much money.

 

[securespark]

We sold our 59 plate Honda FRV iCTDi with 176K for £600.

No prangs, no bodywork or resprays but a few chips and carpark dings.

 

[salty]

Still a nice motor, for someone.
6 seater too?

 

[securespark]

Yes, I had an Octavia and loved it, so we went looking at a Superb in Mansfield in 2009. At that time we were both driving manuals as a preference and the dealer forgot to tell us to bring our licences. I always carried mine, but she didn't.

So we turned up to drive this Superb and they only had an auto, despite us requesting a manual.

And Mrs S didn't have her licence, so it was only me that could drive it. So there we were, three lads aged 10, 6 and 4 in the back, realising the Superb had a whacking great big transmission tunnel in the back, causing issues with legroom.

Add to this we were peed off with the dealer for not having a manual car, we abandoned the idea of the Skoda and, heading home, passed the Honda garage.

They happened to have the last FRV in the North of England in stock, so we bought it, although the colour, black, was our last choice!

 

[wad2502]

I have an MG5 52KW battery on 205,000 trouble free miles and still going strong. Loss of range is below 40 miles. In the summer still able to do over 200 careful miles on a charge.
They do benefit from frequent "balance charging" on the granny charger. From around 80% to full + 4 or 5 hours on the 240 volt AC 3 pin plug. This car still had 100% SOH on the battery on 150k miles. Not had it checked since.