Having just picked myself up a new mode of daily transport, I'm now selling my Leon Cupra 1.8T
2001/Y with 120k miles
I'm the second owner, a good friend owned the car from new up to around 85k miles when I bought it from her in early 2006, so I know its history and can guarantee it's never been bent.
Full Seat service history to 80k, serviced by myself since that time (receipts to prove).
4 good tyres (Falken FK452) on standard 16" alloys in good condition
9 months Tax
Going for it's MOT tomorrow, Fri 30th (has sailed all previous MOTs)
Will also be serviced before selling.
Standard Cupra spec, ie:
Sports seats
Climate Control
6 disc autochanger
Electric windows
Electric folding mirrors
Remote central locking
The car is completely standard, everything works including aircon and remote central locking, and the interior is in very good condition for the age/mileage. It's also got a brand new battery, new MAF sensor (a common VAG fault), new passenger window mechanism (another common VAG fault!) and recently had the engine temperature sensor changed (you guessed it....), so many of the known weak points have recently been sorted. It also has a towbar which has occasionally towed a light trailer with a BEC in tow but mostly used for my bike rack, I can remove this if preferred.
Minor bad points are a stonechip on the bonnet front edge and a small crack in the driver's side wing mirror casing due to a near "miss" with a numpty along a country lane
Now to the reasons it's £6-800 cheaper than every other Cupra, the paint. When I bought the car, the bonnet/roof had faded a little and there was a small amount of lacquer lifting on the bonnet which I put down to water getting under a stonechip. In fact it would appear my car was lacquered during a Friday afternoon coffee break by someone that should have stuck to making coffee! The lacquer on the upper surfaces (exposed to the sun) had already faded when I bought the car (fairly normal on yellow cars), but then the faded areas started peeling off to the extent that within a year I was able to peel every single bit of lacquer off the bonnet and roof using a hosepipe! I've now done the same to the wings, door tops and bootlid, although all the plastics (bumper etc) are fine. This sounds nasty I know, but as you can see from the pictures, the car looks fine, because there's no lacquer at all, there's no horrible flaky areas and you actually wouldn't notice anything was wrong unless you looked very closely, and having polished/waxed the exposed areas several times, the paint itself looks good and has not deteriorated since. The only place it's noticable is when closely inspecting the doors and the bootlid (see pic of door), where there's a barely visible line just below door handle height due to the lower half of the doors still being lacquered. Im convinced if I was less than 100% honest with the description, I could advertise this car for £2k+ without mentioning any of this and many prospective buyers wouldn't notice it even when looking at the car in person, so if you want a cheap, well maintained and otherwise excellent condition Cupra for significantly less than other equivalent cars, then this might be the answer.
£1450ono
contact me via e-mail/U2U or 07793 925995, I live in North Hants near Bordon
Any questions, please fire away.
Cheers
Chris
This pic was taken prior to polishing the exposed paint, so the line is more visible in the pic than it is now.
[Edited on 29/1/09 by ChrisGamlin]
