fuego price???

[HONG KONG PUGGY]

Looked at an 85 Fuego today here in Brisbane. I am not actually looking for one but drove past this one last week and saw the 4sale note on rear window.

The guy is selling it for his son/son in law.
It is fully original, faded red. 190,000k's, good non smokey motor. Interior is in good nick, everything is there still even the fog lights. It didn't have the light/wipers.
Only faults i found were fog-lights didn't work, hatch struts were stuffed, and it had original wheels.
The fellow said his son... has a newer Daewoo :roflmao: and didn't need it any more.
It's ben a country car, no rust. I was told it has a safety cert. ( you can bodgy them though)
New exhaust, front disc pads,and rear shoes, clutch done last couple of years.
Only real hassle is he wants $2500. :roflmao: Tell him he is dreaming???
I thought it was going to be cheaper seing the car from the road, and it being faded.
Going on the car being straight what would be a non insulting offer. Start low and work up to a maximum?
Cheers Chris.

 

[Alan S]

Chris,

I suppose without seeing the car you'd have to be a bit game to offer an opinion, but on face value I'd be inclined to ask him if he's ever seen "The Castle"
If you go to "The Trading Post" you could buy the entire fleet of Feugos for sale in there for 2 1/2 Grand and still have enough left over for a feed of "Joe's Pies" and a couple of stubbies.
Personally, I reckon the Feugo would be an absolutely bloody brilliant car as a project or a make a ripper out of two or three roughies and end up with a mountain of spares for years of cheap & exciting motoring.
Have a squizz at the Personal Trading Post and see what I mean or alternatively, offer him $1000 and see how high he jumps.


Alan S

 

[pugrambo]

basically what alan has said
what have you really got to lose

if he says yes you have a fairly straight, rust free fuego
says no and your pocket stays cashed up

 

[Simon]

For $2.5K I'd expect something pretty special with decent service history ramped and stamped by dealer or reputable specialist (in the case of a Fuego). At 190K km, it is getting close to cambelt changing time. If it is an '85 model it should have the headlight wipers, check for crash damage, ie does it have a bonnet with turbo diesel bulge, dead give away the car has had a front end biff.

If it is metallic and the paint is dandruffy, the car is worth a lot less as it will soon look very sad. Also the original wheels, check the tyres, as the metric TRX's are likely very old and could be suffering badly from sidewall cracking, also some TRX's have been retreaded. I am assuming the rims are the original metric rims, budget to buy new tyres and rims. Even if you can buy them cheap it is a good bargaining point with the seller.

My guess is that a dandruffy paint Fuego with TRX's and no service history would be worth in the order of $1K max, don't forget that Roadie in the cars for sale section could not give away his Fuego, admittedly with no clutch and minus front seats and steering wheel.

 

[HONG KONG PUGGY]

For what it's
Even if I was serious about a Fuego, my wife would x 2 if I paid that for one unless it was still in the plastic. I am certain he will never get 1500 even taking into account the work and parts he has bought. They are not a sought after car. Has been for sale for a while according to Sue(wife).
Tyres were cracked, and I saw the compliance plate, was an 85 with a late 1984 build date. Looked, and it has never had light-wipers from what I could see. Nope not the turbo bonet, but the body was straight, and I think the car has been well treated, all the doors close well, don't sag on hinge pins and the central locking still works. All up for the age was a better Fuego, save for the paint. If I was serious I'd offer probably 1G and see, and i have seen the Trading post, and I agree, alos saw the Castle. great movie.

Chris.

 

[frogs4ever]

If it's faded red, then it's almost certainly not metalic paint. An extra-cut or mild-cut pollish will bring it back close to the original shine, unless the paint is seriously damaged in some other way.

 

[Craig]

If its a faded red a polish will probably do bugger all for the colour although it might give the faded red a shine. When its shiny you may notice even more the differences between panels and how they have faded give the direction it was mostly parked.

 

[frogs4ever]

Craig,

Traditional "Extra Cut" polish actually removes the layer of oxidized paint which is currently making it look faded. Underneath the oxide, the paint is most likely fine. Actually a car with badly faided paint is sometimes a good thing, because it indicates that the paint has probably not been pollished for a long time, and each time the paint is pollished, a thin layer is removed. Thus a car which has never been pollished will most likely have good paint thickness underneath all the oxide. All of the above only applies to non-metalic paints.

 

[renault8&10]

Both Craig and the other poster are correct, however, from my experience with a red car of that era - although cut & polish does take off the oxidation and restore the shine to an almost as new finish, this rarely lasts more than a few weeks if the car is parked out in the sun; then its back to its oxidised self again very promptly.

As Craig mentioned, it definitely highlights differences in the panels if they have faded at different rates (from accident damage repair, or if half the car was in a carport and half not for example - the paint fades at different rates).