55 Plate 1.2 (3 cylinder, 55bhp) manual VW Polo. 122,000 miles. Summer blue (definitely not purple, OK?)
Selling my son’s 2005 VW Polo, we bought the car in June 2023 as the 3rd owner. Looking to find the car a new home as my son has now bought a newer Golf (also from SELOC).
It drives really well. No smoke or rattles, runs really smoothly. It’s great fun. Nice comfortable ride, light controls and fun handling. No a/c, wind-up windows, basic radio. Simple, lightweight. Almost Chapmanesque. No rust and the paintwork is all very good but it does have some dents and creases in the bodywork. The interior isn’t perfect but it’s really very good. The alloys are scruffy. The car has been super reliable for my son and never let him down. Really nice thorough nerdy history file. Since we have owned it, it’s had regular servicing plus new rear shock absorbers (March 2024), a new passenger seat bracket (Jan 2024), new rear brake shoes and new drums along with new lambda sensor, exhaust catalytic converter with new centre section and rear silencer (Jan 2025). We spent £1,500 on it last year with the intention of running it for several more years, but my son has now bought a Golf.
The 2nd owner installed a DAB radio module and also a Bluetooth module which you can make calls through and change music. The car also has rear parking sensors fitted (which work very well).
MoT expires 15th January. We’ve been told it will fail on emissions. The emissions light comes on the dash – it can be cleared but it will come back sooner or later. The OBD reader at the garage lists an 02 sensor fault as the cause. Our garage don’t know what lies behind that but are muttering about potential worn valve seats or valve guides. I’m not remotely convinced by that as it doesn’t smoke at all and doesn’t use any oil (it never has, not even a puff). I suspect it’s more likely a CBA issue. We’re effectively giving it away so that someone has the budget to sort it out. It’s far too good to scrap, and we’re too attached to it (I know…)
Come and take it away asap, get the spanners out and have some fun with it. If you have a sympathetic MoT tester then it doesn’t need any work at all, just keep on enjoying it as an ideal cheap first car or station car.
£300, or less if it’s going to a good home. Pay my son in Guinness if you like.
Listing ID: 8056951934900aa8
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