Given my recent experiences with the Insurers (yet to be resolved, but we shall see) it got me thinking, what would be the price you'd take for your car, if someone offered it/what would be the price you'd realistically expect to sell it for.
It got me thinking in the last couple of weeks we've had an Omega appear that's done 40-something thou, for the pittance of £500-ish. And a very nicely sorted FL model sell(has it sold?) for around a grand.
Now mine, realistically if thrown on ebay tomorrow with her smashed in side wouldn't get near £500, but there's around £1500 put in her in the last year. That buys you a car with a cambelt, refurbished front brakes, new pads, every single piece of front suspension is new, save for the springs which are low mileage MV6. The wishbones have Vx and Poly bushes, and Vx ball joints, the wishbones, track rods have had several coats of high impact stone chip resistant paint. Brand new B4 shock absorbers all round. Every piece of rust found on the underside (not much) has been ground off back to bare steel, rustkilled, and painted with suitable seam sealer or stone chip paint. New exhaust cats back. £350 roof respray and new rain sensing-ready screen. Fresh oil less thank 1k old, and always had oil changed every 6k.
Now I know that a repsray costing £350 isn't magically going to increase the value of your car by that amount, but safe to say that if I wanted a new Omega, there's very few out there that can boast that spec list above. But there are those on here who do lavish such attention on their cars, and rightly so.
So... the man walks up to you and say's 'what price do you want for that finely-sorted Omega?' what do you say?
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