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Is this A good price???, UK Celica GT

Nov 24, 2003 - 7:47 AM
Nigel View Member Profile Enthusiast Joined Aug 21, '03 From UK Liverpool Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%)	I've seen a celica for sale it has: 17" alloys ICE GT4 spoiler yellow/black lether interior + more Celica GT 2.0 41kmiles 1994 how much would you say is a good price??? £6k Is 41k miles relistic for the year?? my cars 40k and it only 4 years old. And what questions should I ask the person whos selling it?? please help nigel -------------------- NIGEL's CELICA

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Nov 24, 2003 - 9:12 AM
BenMMellor View Member Profile Enthusiast Joined Dec 24, '02 From Wirral, UK Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%)	is it an import... ?? you can tell by the fact that the headlights don't have washer jets and the square rear no.plate...

Nov 24, 2003 - 9:35 AM
Nigel View Member Profile Enthusiast Joined Aug 21, '03 From UK Liverpool Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%)	its a UK car. -------------------- NIGEL's CELICA

Nov 24, 2003 - 10:19 AM
BenMMellor View Member Profile Enthusiast Joined Dec 24, '02 From Wirral, UK Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%)	not a bad price i suppose... as an example I got my '99 GT for £8.5k, with 23k on the clock.. in April this year.. it depends on the full history and condition... i suppose. There's a list of things to chekc - you should be able to view the lists on the uk site - even i you haven;t joined as a member yet (to post in forums other than the newbies/for sale you need to be a paid up member) you can read al the threads in any forum.

Nov 24, 2003 - 1:38 PM
Nigel View Member Profile Enthusiast Joined Aug 21, '03 From UK Liverpool Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%)	is that site ceclia-club.co.uk ??? -------------------- NIGEL's CELICA

Nov 24, 2003 - 4:19 PM
BenMMellor View Member Profile Enthusiast Joined Dec 24, '02 From Wirral, UK Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%)	yup.. www.celica-club.co.uk we're a friendly bunch.. a few of us are on here as well.

Nov 29, 2003 - 7:56 PM
Crelica View Member Profile Enthusiast Joined Nov 29, '03 From North Yorkshire, UK Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%)	IMHO I'd think it may be a little over priced, I bought my 94 GT from a garage nearly 2 years ago, it's a UK and had 57K miles with a full Toyota history for 6k. It was (and is) completely standard and the only thing that went against it at the time were the tyres were worse than useless. Have a look on the autotrader website at dealers and remember a set of new 17"s are 600 squid and a reasonable cd head unit it 150 squid, btw stock celica speakers are quite good. I've seen a few GT4's for 6.5k on the trader, fresh imports, the GT should be cheaper now. www.parkers.co.uk give a price guide, paste this link to your browser but oly accounts for a standard vehicle... http://www.parkers.co.uk/pricing/used_car/...=M%20&pay=false BJA

Dec 2, 2003 - 4:38 AM
jontechie View Member Profile Enthusiast Joined Oct 25, '02 From London- England Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%)	£6000's not too bad especially when it's a UK car. You get penalised over here when the cars an import, so your making a saving there!

Dec 2, 2003 - 5:28 AM
Aus View Member Profile Enthusiast Joined Sep 23, '02 From local petrol station!, UK Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%)	i think that it's a bit expensive - i got my 98 GT for less in march. Personally id rather get a standard car and kit it up myself. (I got mine from an old woman) -------------------- 1996 UK white ST205 1998 UK silver ST202 Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool!!!

Dec 2, 2003 - 5:30 AM
Aus View Member Profile Enthusiast Joined Sep 23, '02 From local petrol station!, UK Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%)	oh - and i forgot to say - that kindof mileage for a 94 seems suspicious - normally jap imports have mileage that low - or its been clocked - just my opinion. -------------------- 1996 UK white ST205 1998 UK silver ST202 Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool!!!

Dec 2, 2003 - 5:33 AM

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QUOTE (jontechie @ Dec 2, 2003 - 2:38 AM)

£6000's not too bad especially when it's a UK car. You get penalised over
here when the cars an import, so your making a saving there!

I don't agree that much now with the statement you get penalised by having an import.. - well not so much nowadays anyway... (you used to !)

Insurance companies, though specialist, are being realistic about them now (Adrian Flux, DIG etc..) and most Toyota dealerships will serivce them and get you parts..

the downside of the SS1, SS2 models is they are lower powered than the UK cars... if i was importing it would have to be a GT4 but 2 celicas is enough for now...

Dec 2, 2003 - 7:12 AM
andysport View Member Profile Enthusiast Joined Aug 4, '03 From Surrey Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%)	[QUOTE]the downside of the SS1, SS2 models is they are lower powered than the UK cars... if i was importing it would have to be a GT4 but 2 celicas is enough for now... the ss1, ss2 & ss3 are 177bhp thats about the same as the uk GTs. unless you have the Beams engine. 200bhp I got my 1996 imprt ss2 back in August with 45,000 miles on it and I paid £4000 so I would expect that the car your looking at is a bit over priced.

Dec 2, 2003 - 8:48 AM

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QUOTE (BenMMellor @ Dec 2, 2003 - 3:33 AM)

QUOTE (jontechie @ Dec 2, 2003 - 2:38 AM)

£6000's not too bad especially when it's a UK car. You get penalised over
here when the cars an import, so your making a saving there!

I don't agree that much now with the statement you get penalised by having an import.. - well not so much nowadays anyway... (you used to !)

Insurance companies, though specialist, are being realistic about them now (Adrian Flux, DIG etc..) and most Toyota dealerships will serivce them and get you parts..

the downside of the SS1, SS2 models is they are lower powered than the UK cars... if i was importing it would have to be a GT4 but 2 celicas is enough for now...

4 years ago, my first Celica Gt was given a worst case insurance quote of £2200
thats almost 1/3 of its value. Now in 2003 with a GT4 it's around £800 (and that was one mutha of a search to get that on the internet), so I agree with you its getting better but only a little. As for parts and servicing my local dealership will supply parts but will not service it "as its specs are not to the UK model". Instead they pointed me off to the Jemcar Import specialists who are much more expensive than standard dealership servicing charges. I'm in London so we get screwed here anyway, your in the wirral, perhaps your people are more Toyota friendly up there. There is a saving to be made with a UK car in this respect

Jon

Dec 2, 2003 - 11:45 AM
BenMMellor View Member Profile Enthusiast Joined Dec 24, '02 From Wirral, UK Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%)	ss1 is 138bhp as for mileage.. it's all about how lucky you are... I got my '98 SR in 2001, it cost me £10k with 29k on it. I got my '99 GT this ear with 23K on it for £8.5K.. both were mint. I did have a look around for a friend of mine to try and find him a decent GT or SR (not just the plain ST) - lots of SR's are available (considering there was only 250 of each colour) but very few GT's.. it might just be the time of year ? happy hunting - I'd suggest that you may want to travel further to get a good car if needs be. - I travelled about 100 miles to get the GT from the Leeds. As for servicing - I just travel to the Celica Clubs 'pet' toyota dealership techie.. it's an 80 mile round trip but i know my pride and joy is looked after.

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