.........correct me if I'm wrong but the average mileage for coops on this site is probably around 100,000 and if you buy a 20VT from a forum memebr who's looked after it, it will be better than something thats only done 30,000.

Your wrong as...
you're presuming that;
(a)Just because the owner isn't on the forum
and
(b)Just because it's low milage,
that the car hasn't been looked after.

This coupe could well have been looked after with the upmost care (warmed up,well serviced,oil changed every year,belts done etc).
To discount it without knowlage of it's past would be a mistake.
It could be a little gem .
The coupe can handle low annual milage without any problems.All that is needed is some basic care.
My current annual milage is 1100 Miles.
As more owners use the coupe as a second car(and fuel prices keep rising) this will become more the norm.

Second hand values will always continue be affected by milage and condition.
I do however agree that ,for a coupe, low milage would add very little in cash value and thats what makes it worth a look .

Anyway the porn stash my be in the spare wheel well !!!Again....worth a look


If the stash is included £3000 about right

The point I was actually making is that a sorted 100,000 mile cope from this forum that has been looked after correctly is a better investement than a car thats done 30000 and hasn;t been. I'm not suggesting this one hasn;t been looked after, obviously the person buying would investigate this.

Dont presume to presume what other people are presuming

I wouldn't presume to presume what presumptions you are making, as that would just mean I was being presumptuous.
And I'm the last person you would presume is acting presumptuously.
At least thats what I think you presume.

Anyway I just think many on here are too quick to presume that low milage coupes have somehow been badly maintained.
And that the coupe somehow suffers from lack of use.

Driving the coupe after a few weeks away makes it such fun and is the cheapest way of making your car feel faster.

A well looked after 30,000 mile coupe will always be worth more than a similar 100,000 mile car.
And the hidden porn stash would just be the icing on the cake, what ever the milage

A well looked after 30,000 mile Coupe is a better bet and more valuable than a well looked after 100,000 mile Coupe. Whether it's on it's 2nd or 3rd set of belts is irrelevant in my view.

If it's mint in every way I would say £4000.

This now appears to be on ebay.

http://tinyurl.com/32pdnka

I was going to view and offer £3.5K but on speaking to the garage they say they have changed the belt and clutch but not the water pump !(penny pinching?).
Perhaps more importantly, they haven't got the red key but said they keep meaning to chase the previous owner for it.
At this sort of money I'd expect both of these do be addressed

Red key is usually, and I stress *usually* unimportant for a coupé, but you are correct it is a great bargaining tool. You can argue that to get Fiat to replace the system involved can cost well over £1k. Of course, the cheaper option, if it really bothered you, is to buy the system from one of our breakers for a maximum of a couple of hundred pounds.

What would concern me far more is the water pump not being replaced. They do fail, maybe not as often as other models (I'm thing VWs here!) but it isn't unknown, and of course, it's a full belt off job with the associated costs......

Makes you wonder why they did that, for the sake of saving £30-ish!!