Why Was This Low Mileage Audi A3 Only £500 ???
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Welcome to the Salvage Rebuilds UK channel. In this video we purchase a VW Caddy Van with a engine light on from a subscriber .
Working at our fully equipped workshop in Kent we carry out tasks including Panel beating , Body work , Mig Welding , Sheet metal Spot Welding , Fabrication Chassis Repairs , Sand Blasting , Engine and Mechanical repairs , DPF cleaning , Restoration and Structural repairs on the Celette Jig frame machine.
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Another dead and buried motor that's going to mean a great deal to the next owner. Well done, Rob. As honest and transparent as ever.
I see a fuel flap and I want it painted black.....
Top content again, cheers.
In this throw away society, it is really good to see you and Chris recycling cars into worthy transport. Keep it up guys.
That’s it exactly - most environmentally friendly car is the one already built !
Winter is here, Chris has his beany on😂
Yeahhh lol
I think what is really important in this video is that you were prepared to stand by the deal, even though you broke your own rules about a pre purchase Vertical check! that’s honourable and quite rare these days. Reputation is hard to come by but easily lost and even more difficult to regain. Love your work.
For touching up use a wooden tooth pick as you can poke the paint into the edges of the chip with out leaving a blob which happens with those pens and brushes it's the nature of the beast, it's something I picked up from been a detailer but you do right trading it been a double bumper👍
That is going to be a life saver for someone without a lot of money. A young family maybe. Good on you
Before the video started I was convinced that the A3 was £500 as a CD was jammed in the stereo constantly playing "Agadoo" by Black Lace at maximum volume on repeat! Imagine the horror! As for the car what with it being a 1.6 petrol it will make for a great vehicle to take to railway stations, leave at the airport, or use for school runs, etc. what with it being tatty. Alternatively a good vehicle to teach yourself body repairs on. Good value at £1250, hope someone snaps it up. Thank you.
Even for someone doing deliveries like just eat, deliveroo etc as a second car don't need to worry about dents and scuffs.
Some little torag has had a reet go at pinching that haven't they.
"The end of it fell off, so I ran inside and got a cotton bud" lol, your videos always make me smile buddy..
Thanks Rob
the 1.6 litre BSE petrol engines on those older A3's could run for ages with no issues.
VAG had really reliable engines before they introduced TSI/TDI/TFSI engines.
500 pounds for one of those with no electrical problems is actually insanely cheap, you can make an insane profit just by taking it apart and selling its parts individually.
has always been the case with VAG cars - reasonably cheap but original OEM VAG parts are insanely expensive.
What a great little motor and a very fair asking price. Great video as always. Thanks for the ongoing efforts in providing excellent content. Stay safe Gents, Cheers 👍🏽🙂
I love these type of quick flip videos, that Audi will do someone a good turn, it’s an half decent car that you’ve put back on the road instead of it gathering moss on someone’s drive. Top job. 👍👍👍👍
such an honest nice guy Rob - so refreshing - all the best to you
Rob - you've made the vehicle condition and history clear to any potential purchaser. By all means put it up for sale on Instagram, if anyone wants it they'll contact you. I would have no qualms about buying it myself, but I'm perfectly happy with what I've got. Keep up the good work, and I'm looking forward to the next video
This looks to be a decent car, apart from the battle scars, however this goes to show how important it is to carry out checks, who would have known this car had been twice written off!❤️.
Modern cars get written off for what often seems like fairly minor accident damage. The complicated electronics, sensor systems and labour costs to replace such as a fully deployed SRS and airbag system can be the reason. It alone can make or break the margin for a car being repairable, or an uneconomical write off.
Ignore the knockers that don’t like you having sponsors Rob, we’re following you for free and you’ve got to make a living so crack on Rob, you and Chris are absolutely brilliant. Warmest regards from “an old Thanet boy” 👍
Can't find Any knockers, get more views if there was.
Your a really honest down to earth bloke Rob, I've been building four 34 years now,and believe me honest trade's man are few and far between my friend, it's guy's like you and Chris that give the general public peace of mind,, can't give you guys enough credit, God bless you both ❣️
Hopefully buying a 335i tomorrow when it blows up I’ll message you bought it now collection on Tuesday
Hi Rob,
When you said you were going to pass it to a trader only I was shouting at the screen! I am so glad you are going to do a trade sale via Instagram, yes you know one of us subscribers would bite your hand off for that at £1250.
New front pads, oil an filter service, replacement battery an a full MOT and only 75k on the clock. If you have less that 50 people standing in line with the cash I would be stunned.
So nice to see how fair & honest you both are - wish other repair businesses would follow suit.
The thing about the body work is,
It doesn't affect the reliability of the car does it,if you can live with the dings ,scratches and scuffs, it's a quality German ride.
At least if you come out of the supermarket to find that someone’s given it a parkers kiss it wouldn’t be the end of the world! 😊
Ideal car if you live in the county as you would worry about mud, brambles or parking it!
You’re Honesty is the Biz ! Well done Rob & Chris again 👍👏
Great video Rob. That bodywork damage looks like that inflicted by a copper's baton on the driver's door and A pillar. I'd be interested to find out if the car had had new glass. Glad you are going to make a bit on the car.
Any way to check for police markers? They're a pain as they go to the vehicle not licence holder
@@JRH087 Not 100% sure but I asked a policeman about that and he said if you're pulled over and can prove the car has a new owner they should remove the marker.
Great stuff. Worth £1,250 to someone any day. Well done.
This is exactly the type of car I would buy, it starts and runs... I don't care what it looks like!
I love cars with small dings all round, much cheaper and you don't have to worry about it getting dinged... already done
In my experience the traction control light and steering angle light can be where someone has taken a wheel off to check the brakes and not bothered to drive it afterwards to reset them, you have to move the car under power and turn the steering wheel to reset them
wow I'm sure it will go like hot cakes as everyone who watches your channel knows you not going to rip anybody off and your always striaght up with the truth so it's going to be a cheap car for someone and another great video mate keep them coming can't wait to see more 💯💯💯👍👍👍👍
Brilliant video Rob and Chris, great viewing for me and my lady on a Thursday night. Lovely to see a quick sort out on an oldie. Thank you guys! 👍😀
Hello Rob and Chris. Thank you for another interesting video.
Great little car for £1250. I am sure someone will buy it, in fact it’s probably gone already.
Thank you for taking the time to upload another video. Ged.
Perfect for a street with ‘french parking’. Sharp end of a zip tie makes a good touch up applicator.
That’s a great little tip
Actually, quite a decent little motor all things considered. £1250 is fair.
Great video, a bargain for someone and a days money so all good - just the sort of car that shouldn't be written off and scrapped just because it's scruffy with 2 insurance claims on it, the sort of car that's perfect as a winter beater for commuting to work/train station and keeping the shiny car/motorbike at home!
In audi and VW the wheel light and traction light will go as soon as your drive the car. It allways comes on when you remove the battery.
Bangernomics at its best there Rob. Make someone on a budget a great little car.
I always watch every video until the end 👌
Love your videos keep it up 👊
Great video, Anyone saying you sell a car too cheap is just stupid, You know what the car stand you, as long as you hit you're margin that's all that matters.
I'm glad your giving us a chance to buy it. People like me don't mind motors like this. If I bought it and then found out it had that history, I would be pissed off. But not at all if you have told me before buying it.
This is why I love my 51 plate Agila, Had a new battery the day after I brought it. No electric windows, no central locking ( well at least not from factory, I put a basic one in to unlock the drivers door only) and apart from a £20 bluetooth cd player due to not being allowed to use our phone whilst driving (UK law for those watching abroad) from Amazon. Never had an issue. 71,020 miles.
VAG cars nearly always show traction control and power steering lights after the battery has been disconnected, usually all you need to do is rotate the steering fully from one lock to the other. If power steering light doesn't go off, make sure there isn't a recurring ABS fault. Door module faults are nearly always down to flat battery or wiring to the doors.
Rob
This is a cheep car for somone parts are cheep that amazed me
When I used ti buy cars in the 90s I always told my sister full m.o.t was woth £200 on its own whatever the condition of the car si today full m.o.t on any car must be worth £300 everyone watching this video should remember this when buying a car
Phil in stoke
Specially now you can get the mot history including advisories.
I feel any car with 12 months MOT, as long as it runs and drives, is worth £500 all day long!
Having has a 58 plate that was the face lift like that one is (rear lights having led is a big giveaway) I can confirm that if you'd driven it, and turned lock to lock and got some charge in it, all of those dash lights would have gone off.
Each time I had a dead battery, everything lit up like a christmas tree and a quick loop around the block and it cleared itself.
Very fair price sold as seen. On another note, no car battery will charge on tick over, it is simply not design that way, your are looking at minimum 1000rpm to put in what your getting out, 1200 plus to actually put a charge in. Sorry to rant, I have this problem at work when the guys get jumped and then just leave it running. Grrrr, love the channel
Love your channel rob. No bs just 2 honest guys in the motor trade. Love it. 👍
Belting car for £1250, paid £5500 for a 2013 Golf TDI DSG for my son with 23k on, most are like 8k but it had a fair few knocks, otherwise mint inside, wasn't a bad plan as he clouted the wing the first day out. Used the same techniques as making damage not draw the eye makes a big difference.
Good call. Nobody can say you have hidden the blemishes after this video and if you sell to a trader it will eventually go to a Retail buyer so you might as well go direct and offer it as a trade sale. Loads of people waiting ages for a new car will be happy to take it for a year or two. Personally, I am happy with a few dinks as I feel less bad when I add to them :)
Great wee motor the A3, I had one as a company car in the early to mid 2000's and if I'm honest it was a really great car to drive.
Considering it's age, that A3 has pretty low miles on it and as you said Rob, someone can get that car at a good price and run it till it's done in and it won't owe them anything. 👍😀
Again nicely done, buying it at the right price helped, so if it did go the wrong way you had a bit of wiggle room. You've got nothing to lose by putting it on Insta and if it doesn't work out contact the traders. It's got a few marks but for that kind of money and mileage it's probably going to make a nice enough run around for someone.
Love these videos - wish we could have one per day!
Should make someone a nice little runaround. Well done Rob 👍🥸
Can only dream of getting an MOT same day,. Over here in NI you have wait two months for an MOT because the centres are Government operated and they couldn't run a bath.
Agree there....Two months at least here.......Dreadful indeed.....
NI NIghtmare.
Nice little run around for someone. Great video keep up the great work. 👍
One of the best channels on CZcams for excellent content, thanks very much to Rob and Chris.
Honest and great trader not overpriced as traders these days selling cars in worse condition for much more keep up the great content m8
Rob , Chris, I think the Audi will make somebody a good run about.
Those Ding's on the bodywork are livable . it's a decent motor for little money.
How do you keep getting away with cheap and straightforward MOT's like that?! If the car has been sitting outside for a long time, I'd be expecting corroded/seized brakes, trouble with electrics, emissions - that sort of thing. And you bought the car without viewing it first. I wish I had your luck! Great video and you'll sell that on no problem....
All that sort of stuff will be in the next MOT. 😁😁
The advisory’s are there I drove the car and it was spot on there was nothing he could fail it on
I have worked on different cars over the years and I had a few like that ( some were worst than others ) I even did an Audi just like that but it was in a different colour. I would like to say thanks for these very interesting videos
That's a no brainer, at that money even if for some reason you only got 2 years out of it so what you've had your value from it but with those miles on I reckon it'd last way longer than that.
1250 FOR AN AUDI A3 DOWN KENT/ESSEX IS A VERY FAIR PRICE
Steering and traction control will be the steering angle sensor needs to recalibrate go for a drive and make sure you go lock to lock while moving do a key cycle and it should go out
I was shouting at the screen saying ROB just take it for a spin, my Sköda did the same when battery disconnected 👍🏼
@@elldees4071 yeah it’s a vag thing
MOT said rears brake pads were an advisory, you changed the front.
Nice easy programme today Rob an ideal car for a run around, good make and well built so well done again👍👍👍🚘🚘🚘
I agree this your analysis on the car, she's nice mechanically BUT she's got body damage, make a first car for teenager or a collage bound person or just a work runner.
Only recently found this channel. Absolutely amazing what you both do. Keep the content coming. Slowly going through your old videos
A bit knocked about, well perhaps that's an understatement, if cars could talk! The four hours work was worth the money you are asking even with all its battle scars. Might be good for a first time driver, the insurance will probably be quite cheap. Nice video Rob and Chris and Nice to see you are back in the swing Rob. Take care gents. 👍👍
The car has had both a cosseted and a hard life, with assaults on its form. However, it survived them and still emerged looking like a nice choice for someone. You have done it proud with your turn round effort and priced it very fairly, at that point no one can expect a 100,000-mile warrantee!
Based on my experience with VAGs: never remove any codes before you review all of them, even if majority of them are related to flat battery. Some codes might be some old but indicated ongoing issue with the car. I.e. my 2009 Audi A6 had issue with evap system however the error code pops up randomly once every couple hundreds miles.
Worth it all day long, nice little run around for someone, great vid again chaps 👍
Cracking motor and an easy and great job Rob. Nice example of easily owning an Audi. Shame the checks didn't say how/why it was written off. I would trust you and Chris to give an honest answer if it was crashed. One of those probably was due to vandalism/attempted theft.
Love the intro, Rob. Regarding offers for cars not yet listed. Shows complete credibility!
So its been written off twice and it cosmeticly tatty. But to get an A3 of that age and mileage that was undamaged with good bodywork would be at least three times the price Chris & Rob are asking for this one! For the money this looks like a great bargain that should be fine for a year and with some TLC will probably give many more years service. And there is the bonus that you don't have to worry about it getting damaged every time you leave it parked somewhere👍
Don’t worry about the claims I did the same with a Peugeot 307cc just before the summer could of sold it 10 times over some people don’t care it’s just a cheap car to run about it.
It's always worth doing front number plate screws. For the effort makes a big difference like the touch ups.
That's perfect for a young person to get to and from their job. Here in South Australia it would be priced over $7,500.
Can't go wrong with this rob full mot, service & fair price.
Turn the steering wheel full lock left and right those lights will go off
Have yous ever thought of doing a “trading up” series a bit like Mike Brewster done many years ago?
Flying Wheels in the US is doing something like that. Started with $400 up to about $35,000 right now.
That would be epic. Get Rob into a Seven so the lads can go do a track day together..
Start with a stock standard 15 yr old Fabia or something.
If you ever need to quickly know the year of a car that has a private plate on it, take a look at the information stamped in the bottom corner of the windows and there should be a number from 0-9 somewhere on it. The number corresponds to the year the glass was manufactured and is usually the same year the car was. For example 9 would be 1999, 2009 or 2019. Obviously, glass can be replaced so look at a couple.
Rob you changed the front pads but the mot advisory was for rear pads
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed
I realised later and did the rears as well 👍
Mate when the battery goes flat these lights on your dash always come on. swap the battery start the engine and the steering wheel full lock both sides and lights will go off. All newer car have this
You guys are amazing,I always look forward to your next video keep up your good work
Nice little car well worth the money especially for someone’s first car …
Great little flip. Like your thinking behind the pricing. Well done!
Jus one bit of advice rob “ You should always do a car vertical check before purchasing a car “ it checks for theft and damage in all them countries lol
🤦🏻♂️ I got carried away 👍
Make a good cheap little knock about car for someone who doesn’t worry about a few cosmetic defects.
Thanks for another great video, I'd say the same as I do here when I sell equipment. If somebody knows the exact truth you know about something and they still want it sell it to them as is where is, you aren't out to screw anybody over intentionally like some out there are. I sold a machine here this week a customer didn't want to spend the money on repairing. It was like that car still too good to scrap, so I did it in my spare time and bought the parts to get it right.
It priced at exactly what I had in it with my time and I told the buyer exactly where it came from and the whole history behind the deal. He was the first guy in the yard , wasn't wasting my time and would of paid full asking. I still knocked a bit off, because I wasn't going to spend a week dealing with time wasters before selling it either. Hope it sells of the lot for you, Take care.
Another great episode gents and I think you are right Rob giving the Channel subscribers the chance to purchase it, fair price for a “Trade Sale” (I heard you loud and clear) as it has been written off before, but the mileage is such that it will be a great car for someone, Audi being a premier brand too. Thanks as always, keep it up.
I love Audi A3, I had one many years go, like this one with scratches on the bodywork.
Rob. Don't let them ruthless traders skin us. I'm sure that you already have more than enough people interested in the purchase
Again, spot on with your price. Fair do’s
Think that's great and fair Rob, I'm sure someone on here will jump at the chance of buying that car, to me that's a fair price and it's an Audi, quite a few fans of those cars
I’ve had 3 A3’s and had nothing but bad luck but that one look’s mint good luck with sale 👍🏻
Glad we got a trip to Mark's in this vid...Great video to watch..
I'm actually looking for a first car can't wait till you upload to Instagram. It will get me to work and back saves catching train lol
"If nobody wants it" 🤣🤣 I would prepare to be swamped with messages Rob, people are gonna bite your hand off
Don’t know how this channel hasn’t got over a million subs. Great, informative and consistent videos. Cheers
Rob alot of the time with vag cars the traction and steering light come on due to a flat battery . taking them for a quick drive and/ or turning the wheel lock to lock will clear then
Always entertained by your work. Thank you greatly. Peace be unto you.
Hi Rob and Chris what a great video again take care both, 😊👍🏻