World's Cheapest Rapide?
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Yep 23k is certainly pretty cheap, but massive red flag is the skip in the service in 22, granted P&L did the final one, but I am certain they would have found elements that needed rectification,
The thing I found while searching for mine is the sheer lack of love that many of these cars received through the volume of owners. I found that on average most rapides and rapide S that I was looking at (mid to upper price bracket) still to my amazement had circa 7 to 8 owners on average. Understandably these cars are best described as a little bit of a marmite you either love it or hate it. I found that the more owners the car had the more wear and tear there was on the leather and paint.
Interiors looked very tired and uncared for with scratches on the elements that i would not expect to see that always left me scratching my head as to how one does that. (for example how do you get scratches on the gauge cluster considering the reset and read buttons are on centre console... unless ofc one accidently used sandpaper to wipe the dust off perhaps)
Pain on the exterior was also pretty poor and that is ignoring the usual bits of corrosion that some suffered with, i mean in particular the condition of paint as if people have taken these cars to be washed with an engineering brick, i just could not understand it especially knowing that the dealer most likely did the paint correction prior to the sale thus the condition of paint was beyond saving.
lastly the technical/electrical elements, granted i had zero clue with Astons but to a common Joe like myself doing simple check on MOT history many had some form of ongoing advisories that i simply could not understand why they were not fixed especially when some would not need AM or Specialist to do.
just realised i got bit carried away here
filski said:
Yep 23k is certainly pretty cheap, but massive red flag is the skip in the service in 22, granted P&L did the final one, but I am certain they would have found elements that needed rectification,
The thing I found while searching for mine is the sheer lack of love that many of these cars received through the volume of owners. I found that on average most rapides and rapide S that I was looking at (mid to upper price bracket) still to my amazement had circa 7 to 8 owners on average. Understandably these cars are best described as a little bit of a marmite you either love it or hate it. I found that the more owners the car had the more wear and tear there was on the leather and paint.
Interiors looked very tired and uncared for with scratches on the elements that i would not expect to see that always left me scratching my head as to how one does that. (for example how do you get scratches on the gauge cluster considering the reset and read buttons are on centre console... unless ofc one accidently used sandpaper to wipe the dust off perhaps)
Pain on the exterior was also pretty poor and that is ignoring the usual bits of corrosion that some suffered with, i mean in particular the condition of paint as if people have taken these cars to be washed with an engineering brick, i just could not understand it especially knowing that the dealer most likely did the paint correction prior to the sale thus the condition of paint was beyond saving.
lastly the technical/electrical elements, granted i had zero clue with Astons but to a common Joe like myself doing simple check on MOT history many had some form of ongoing advisories that i simply could not understand why they were not fixed especially when some would not need AM or Specialist to do.
just realised i got bit carried away here
Thank you. That's interesting to know.The thing I found while searching for mine is the sheer lack of love that many of these cars received through the volume of owners. I found that on average most rapides and rapide S that I was looking at (mid to upper price bracket) still to my amazement had circa 7 to 8 owners on average. Understandably these cars are best described as a little bit of a marmite you either love it or hate it. I found that the more owners the car had the more wear and tear there was on the leather and paint.
Interiors looked very tired and uncared for with scratches on the elements that i would not expect to see that always left me scratching my head as to how one does that. (for example how do you get scratches on the gauge cluster considering the reset and read buttons are on centre console... unless ofc one accidently used sandpaper to wipe the dust off perhaps)
Pain on the exterior was also pretty poor and that is ignoring the usual bits of corrosion that some suffered with, i mean in particular the condition of paint as if people have taken these cars to be washed with an engineering brick, i just could not understand it especially knowing that the dealer most likely did the paint correction prior to the sale thus the condition of paint was beyond saving.
lastly the technical/electrical elements, granted i had zero clue with Astons but to a common Joe like myself doing simple check on MOT history many had some form of ongoing advisories that i simply could not understand why they were not fixed especially when some would not need AM or Specialist to do.
just realised i got bit carried away here
The scratches are probably from "professional" car valet when it goes through trade. And if it has many owners then it may have gone through such valet many times.
I bought my current SLK from a trade when I regretted not buying in the first place privately from the previous owner. It was pristine when I viewed it before (a couple of weeks earlier) but after seeing at the trade dealer, it was cleaned up and there were scratches on the display console. You could even see the smudged wipe marks from their cloth.
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