What is a 1988 205 D (3dr) worth? 180K miles

When I bought my 306 two years back I had to get rid of my old escort. I used autotrader online ad only. Cost about £15, but I sold it in less than 3 days, and had a few interested people ring up after it went. I did put it up for about £200 less than what I wanted as I needed a quick sale.

Use autotrader in my opinion.

How / how much should I sell mine for? Ebay want an extorsionate £6 listing and £15 if it sells!! Two weeks internet only ad in Autotrader is £6 but it's wasted money of no-one buys cars this old.

It's got a year MOT and is in good nick apart from some surface rust patches on the passenger door and a large rip/wear in the drivers seat. It starts beautifully - you hardly have to turn the key and it always gets more than 50mpg - this must be worth a couple hundred quid to some one?

Is it worth trying to repair the seat rip and spray the door (I suspect i'm wasting time and money here) These are the only things stopping it looking very tidy.

what do you think IanR

The sensible answer for a car like that is its worth what someone will pay for it...if you can get someone to pay 300 for it then all good, you'll get more than a tenner for it at least!

I wouldn't advertise solely on the internet (especially ebay), I've got the feeling from people i know that not many of them would even consider buying a car on ebay, for whatever reason. I'd stick it in a couple of local papers, much cheaper and still get good advertising. As for price, I'd just put in something reasonable you think you can get away with (=A3200-250?), and let people beat you down if it'll get it sold.

Sounds like a good learner/first car type thing, i'd be surprised if you didnt get any interest.

Its worth stitching up the seat at least (imo), it wont add any value but it wont cost you anything either, and will stop people being put off by it. I wouldnt have thought spraying the door would be worth your while, cos you wont get it to look good without spending money on it.

Just my opinion of course ;)

-- Andy

Replace the seat and do the rust on the door why sell it just because of a few things, from Chris Addlestone Surrey

It's got a year MOT and is in good nick apart from some surface rust patches on the passenger door and a large rip/wear in the drivers seat. It starts beautifully - you hardly have to turn the key and it always gets more than 50mpg - this must be worth a couple hundred quid to some one?

Is it worth trying to repair the seat rip and spray the door (I suspect i'm wasting time and money here) These are the only things stopping it looking very tidy.

what do you think

Try a free ads paper. There's one in Bristol (not much use to you but just for example) called Trade IT

Like I said the ads are free and can run for as long as you like. I'd be tempted to tart it up a bit but realistically probably £300 is a fair price. Personally I'd jump at a £300 car with a years ticket and some tax. We bought a Micra for that and threw it away when the MOT was due. The 106 diesel we're running now cost £750 and therefore must last 2 years.