I think I got the cheapest AU in Aust.

[Bobman]

Nice ride mate

[reece1]

Originally Posted by cArSiK

that is an unbelievable price. It scares me to think what the resale of my AU will be like in afew years time.

i have my immaculate silver au 2000 model for sale at the moment 155000km for 8000 gees and not really having any luck selling it i think i will have to drop the price some more ouch. it is probably why my ba was so cheap. these cars have shyte resale sad fact. at least they are a great car though to drive and maintane :thebirds: :

[Abacus]

Yeah, well a Ford dealer offered me a $7,000 trade on a new superseded BA XR8. My car's an AUII Ghia V8, 91,000km, in good nick apart from front & rear bumpers + bootlid that I managed to "customise" in a car park bingle a few weeks ago. Probable repair costs at full retail around 2K, I would have thought the dealer could do it for a lot less. Dealer said that even if the car was straight it was only worth $10K.

They still seem to run around $17K-$20K on drive.com though.

[Lukeyson]

Originally Posted by sfr rob

hey can you tell us how that works... the transfer fees?
i need to transfer one of the cars we have to my name, from my mums name.

If the car is worth say around... $15,000 how much does it cost?
can you give them a B/S figure to get it done cheaper? All i need to do is get it to my name for insurance reasons.

cheers
rob

in NSW its 3% of the value, plus a $11 admin fee i think it was, coz 3 years ago when i bought my sedan for $33k it was just over $1000 to transfer.

But when she signs the rego paper over to you, you can put what ever you want as the sale price in there

[Franky]

I hate AU's more than the next bloke but for $700 that is way too good to be true, you have to be prepared for the enevitable... most cars that cheap have something internally wrong with them that they won't share with you. For that price who cares ;)

[reece1]

Originally Posted by XR8fella

in NSW its 3% of the value, plus a $11 admin fee i think it was, coz 3 years ago when i bought my sedan for $33k it was just over $1000 to transfer.

But when she signs the rego paper over to you, you can put what ever you want as the sale price in there

this will work if the price is not to ridiculous as it is market value not sale price :

[Franky]

yeah same happened to me, my car was worth about $2-3k market price but I said I paid $800 (which I did then resprayed it) and they used that price because it's wasn't too ridiculous. Say whatever you want, they won't base the price on $700

[Gilesie]

Just an update
The car was regoed in vic yesterday
The damage
$ 700 purchase price
$ 70 towing to home (local car removal guy)
$ 33 front brake pads
$ 5 Front discs (ebay)
$ 1 Towbar (ebay)
$ 8 Nuts for towbar
$ 200 Roadworthy (couple of minor repairs)
$ 20 Hubcaps (swapmeet)
$ 62 custom plates (ebay)
$ 80 transfer of custom plates
-------------------------
$ 1179 + standard rego costs

I am a very happy camper : : : :

[Baboon_AU]

Originally Posted by sfr rob

hey can you tell us how that works... the transfer fees?
i need to transfer one of the cars we have to my name, from my mums name.

If the car is worth say around... $15,000 how much does it cost?
can you give them a B/S figure to get it done cheaper? All i need to do is get it to my name for insurance reasons.

cheers
rob

yes you can give them a cattle excretion figure so it is cheaper.

[Pinkbits]

I've seen it in the flesh, it truly was an absolute bargain! :eclipsee_

[justa6]

definently a bargain. my mate just went to brisbane auction's and said that there were 2001 2002 au stoko's with 50ks on them for 5000, his old man is getting one.
The disheartening thing is that no matter how much money you think it's worth or how much you've spent on your car it's always depreciating, and with fuel cost's and thing's alway's going up our car's are dropping quick

[Pies1]

Originally Posted by silverxr

definently a bargain. my mate just went to brisbane auction's and said that there were 2001 2002 au stoko's with 50ks on them for 5000, his old man is getting one.
The disheartening thing is that no matter how much money you think it's worth or how much you've spent on your car it's always depreciating, and with fuel cost's and thing's alway's going up our car's are dropping quick

Shyte, I have an Au2 Spak with 70thou kms on it. Well look after etc.

They are depreciating too quickly, your better not selling them at all.

[Hoops]

Originally Posted by silverxr

The disheartening thing is that no matter how much money you think it's worth or how much you've spent on your car it's always depreciating, and with fuel cost's and thing's alway's going up our car's are dropping quick

This is why we are looking at getting rid of the sedan now while we can still get a half decent price for her :hihi:

[sfr rob]

Originally Posted by Pies1

Shyte, I have an Au2 Spak with 70thou kms on it. Well look after etc.

They are depreciating too quickly, your better not selling them at all.

mate thats why i didnt sell my AU, it was offensive when the dealer told me how much he wanted for it for a trade in on my new BA.
just hang on to it i guess, its not worth parting with.

[GlennBA]

i paid $4k for my AUII, immaculate with 87,000km :
you did very well

[DTFRMONT]

Last week I bought an AU3 Fairmont (2002) at auction for $7500. Was an ex-company car with high k's (190,000) & unregistered (company had cancelled the rego)

Only thing for the roadworthy was wiper blades! All up it was $8400 registered & with Roadie. Absoulte bargain, and yes everything works!