Description
Great car, mechanically sound and no warning lights on the dash, drives really well. We've had it for 4 years and taken it to the South of France and toured the Scottish highlands a couple of time with zero issues. Only selling as we don't need 2 cars anymore.
I've serviced it every year and it has 6 months left on its MOT. It passed its last 4 MOTs with either zero advisories or minor ones (child seat not removed, items removed prior to test which was the phone cradle etc); it's a very solid car.
It has a full service history (10 stamps) and is due for it's next service in a few weeks. The one 'missing' stamp was done by the ex-owner who had oil and filter receipts and did it themselves.
I've put a new clutch in (not personally) about 18 months ago which I have the receipt for. It is very reliable, has never broken down on us, is safe, comfortably cruises with 4x passengers and a full boot at 70mph, and I'd say averages 50-55mpg with a mix of motorway and local driving. I got 71mpg once on a run from Nottingham back to Manchester but that was me being very light footed (see pic).
I'm biased but I still think it looks very sleek and cool for a 12 year old car, especially compared to some of the other estates out on the market. The air con and heater both work perfectly, DAB radio and Bluetooth are faultless, hill assist/Auto Hold is useful, it comes with 2 keys, aftermarket dashcam and reverse camera which will stay with the car, timing belt & water pump done by previous owner, Isofix, cheap insurance, and GBP35 annual road tax.
Some minor scratches and scruffs (see pics) as to be expected and priced accordingly. The wing mirror control switch broke a few weeks ago and I've not got round to fixing it (you can get a new one for a tenner on ebay) and it's an easy fix. You can still adjust the mirrors manually in the meantime. The seats could probably do with a clean but the joys of having 2x toddlers means we never saw the point.
There are other examples of this car on Autotrader doing 180k+ miles and I wouldn't be surprised for this car to do the same if she's serviced every year, still got lots of life left and I'll be sad to see her go!