http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motor...n-motd/88216712

Will be going to view it tomorrow evening. Seems to be genuine seller but what worries me is no service history and she only had it 1.5 months.

What do you think it is worth without any SH at all? Just done the online MOT check and it seems like the mileage can be genuine.

Thanks in advance.

Hmm, sadly not near it's asking price I suspect. If it has obvious niggles on the ad, and given she doesn't really know what their causes are, then I'd be very wary of mechanical issues she wouldn't even be aware of.

Good luck!

Service history is not essential, and can be faked anyway.

At that money, its worth buying, even if you have to do a belt change/full service straight away.

My two cents anyway

I know that it can be faked thou it's nice to see some receipts. How much you reckon I should offer bearing in mind cambelt change and full service?

on one side relatively low mileage with no service history and seller getting rid after only a few weeks of ownership, i would be very wary

although there is the other side in that it is cheap and has a decent mot on it, if you could get the price down a bit might be worth going to look at if nothing else

although as you will be aware if you need to spend a bit solving any probs which you find out about you could find yourself spending the same again on it at which point it wouldn't have been worth it, i like a car which the owner can show me receipts for work done as at least it shows the owner has looked after it

go for £700 and say it needs afew bits doing to get her back to full working order , service and cam belt is about £500

Tbh, I wouldn't personally bother. Be better spending £1200 on a forum car, which will probably have history. And probably be a very cheap 20vt instead.

Ross

Have you read this thread?

Thanks for your advice h2ypr thou what I want is 16VT and there are no 16VT's on for sale on the forum anyway.

Why not go and see it. Loads of people know nothing about cars and will sell up for the most trivial of problems - stuff that's really easy to fix. Service history is a concern but you should be able to get a reasonable inkling if the mileage is genuine by looking at the general condition. For £950 even if it turns out to be a complete dog then you won't have lost very much. Why not offer around £500 (due to lack of history and because of the known problems) and then see where you get. Cheeky yes but you can always go upwards. Expect to spend at least another £1k to sort out any issues. Cheap motoring!

Decidede against it as there is a blue one in Stockport with FSH, lower mileage, 3 less owners in the past etc and I am getting it for... £750

I offered £600 for the yellow one but that was a no. She clearly wants to take her chances and find someone who knows nothing about these cars.

Truth is, you never really know what you're buying. Even with all the receipts in the world and stacks of service history, it's all very hit and miss.

Look at Patch's broomy. It was a minter and had all the right signs for great car to buy, then the turbo went and the oil pressure dropped and the person who just bought it let it go for £400 as he was fed up.

Thanks for your advices guys.

Just came back from Stockport in my new Coupe

This one - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1996-FIAT-COUP...=item3a6ad68d94

Nice one, looking very nice - hope you have loads of good luck!!

Hope so too