Fontain RS4, 78k miles, 2 owners, £15950!

[neckarsulm]

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/572606.htm

Ok, so it's Goodwood Green but even so, what must they have paid for this to be able to retail it at £16k!
Assuming Fontain only sell cars of a certain standard this really does seem cheap.
2 owners and 2007 cambelt change.
Of course you do need to see it but how bad can it be from Fontain?

Looks like they have sold that low mileage Noggy/Silver one finally.

[neckarsulm]

..just realised, is this the Nick Johnson one?
The Parklands Audi history rings a bell..

[ollys]

No the nick johnson one had less miles on it about 60k or so

[Contigo]

kinelll!!!! Mental, it's ruined the market it if is a minter and prices are becoming a little worrying. Nick said prices are holding out ok but he has a nice car at the moment with late 70k miles for 18995. If you keep the miles low then these cars will hold their value.

[Parters]

Also, the NJ one is a 51 plate. It's also £3k cheaper than it was a year ago and still not sold!!

[mattf]

Car is in good nick. Slight scratches on bonnet, (polishable outable?) one or two stone chips. Alloys (all hard) a bit scuffed in places but nothing dramatic (Fontains may recondition?)

Does smell a little of somebodyelse's cigarettes though, and paint worn-off lighter would seem to indicate a heavy smoker somewhere along the line.

IMHO drives very well. Tyres (Vredestenes(sic)) all with 4-5mm tread left on.

[neckarsulm]

Matt, it's not your old car is it seeing as you were looking to change your B5 for a B7 and you've just found and you were asking what Fontain were like (recent post in B7 forum)?
If not where did your old car go?

[mattf]

yup

[neckarsulm]

Sounds so good, did they give you much less for it or are they just trying to move it on at cost without doing their usual prep?

Just noticed Fontain have removed the price from their advert (sigh of relief from all current owners)

[mattf]

Not sure what they're upto, the car is still up for 15, 995 on pistonheads, but Fontains themselves have yet to quote a price on their website.

The boss from Fontains is on here-would image he monitors any thread associated with his garage fairly closely.

[quattrokid1]

being a 51 plate its going to cost a new owner somewhere in the region of 400 quid a year road tax.... this is going to have a crippling effect on sportier cars in the near furure!!

[Mikey-S]

I thought it was an X plate?

I know 400 quid seems excessive, but if you have the money to buy an RS4 and fuel it then the cost of the tax shouldn't put you off... just my opinion.

Mike

[Contigo]

Yep will make little or no difference on performance cars like the RS. On Mondeos etc it will.

[neckarsulm]

It's an 01/X
Yep I agree, if £400 tax puts people off buying an RS4 then that's good because they probably couldn't afford to run it and certainly couldn't afford to fix properly anything when it goes wrong.

As Contigo says, cars with an 'X factor' like the RS4 shouldn't be affected, it's the run off the mill stuff like a Golf V5 for example which will take a battering.

Anyway Gordons going to backtrack on that isn't he as he didn't foresee the cost of fuel increasing when these stupid plans were drawn up so people with high emission cars are taking a battering everytime they fill up - there's no need to do it through tax too - or is this too logical

[Contigo]

Simple put TAX and DUTY on fuel and write off VED altogether that way the old man who does 2000 miles a year is not penalised for his low miles by paying the same VED rate as the man who does 20,000 miles.Think of it as PAY AS YOU GO motoring if you like.

Gordon has to backtrack on it again with this being his second U-Turn after the 10p tax debacle, if he doesn't do something about the fuel crisis and VED then he's a dead man, although he is already

The thing you have to remember is that this "green tax" is a front for another stealth tax and making the rich get richer. Even greenpeace are against it stating that it should only apply to new vehicles as we weren't given the "green option" when these cars were made in 2001, so they are completely unfair.