buying a 2003 HOLDEN COMMODORE VY Executive

[mystera]

Hi guys,

could you please tell me is it a good deal a 2003 HOLDEN COMMODORE VY Executive 183000Kms for 12.999 its a dealers car.
im new into holden but like it so much!everything seems to be ok with a car.
what should i look carefully in that model?any known bad issues?
thank you for any help

[MikesVT]

Hmm.. with that many km's, im sure you could find a vy exec for much cheaper... And if you want to spend around that much, you could get a vy exec with less kms on it.

I suggest you look around, look at private sales, and look at auctions (mainly ex company cars etc)

VY's are a very very nice car. Good luck

[MikesVT]

After a quick search, found a vy acclaim, with 120,000kms and they want $10,800..

Where abouts are you located?

[mystera]

sydney mate.

[krazyboris]

The big question here is how much do you want to spend? Tell us all that, and we can help you with choosing a car mate.

[mystera]

around 15000AUD.

[krazyboris]

I know it's not 03 or a VY, but this is quite a nice car imho.

http://www.carsales.com.au/used-cars...ot=0&R=1046585

[mystera]

that car looks gud!!!! il try to go and check it.thanks mate.
any suggestions welcome.



the one that i was looking at was VY with 19" aloys,lowered,looks COOL but too many KMs
are those KMs really a prob for that kind of a car?

[batemada]

Km's are not too much of a problem on commodores they can easly do 200000-300000+ kms it is just for that price you should be able to get something with lower milage than the one you were looking at.

I just got my S2 VY executive sedan with 53000kms for NZ$19000 and is still under factory warranty.

[krazyboris]

I disagree, km's are an important factor with commodores. Engine life on the good'ol buick is great, granted, but other aspects of the car go un-noticed, such as the diff, transmission, brake rotors and so on. Quite often in the case of commo's with a lot of kay's these areas are in DIRE need of servicing. It would seem that lots of kay's can also equal bad service history.
A classic eample of this is ex-fleet cars. Now, whilst it can be a bargian as such buying these types of cars, in the short run the repair and maintanince costs can become very overwhelming, and also annoying.

In most cases, a car with fewer km's has been looked after better than a car with too many km's for it's age.

[mystera]

im supposed to go on weekend to look at that white commodore you recommended.i found this one:

http://www.carsales.com.au/used-cars...LDEN/COMMODORE
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7CGCLT%20-33.86863,151.2061%2051.4&PriceMax=20000&postcode=
2000&__No=20&__N=4294965857%20391%20412%20752%2042 94965745%
20834%20285%20258%20287&PriceMin=10000&trecs=236&M odel=
COMMODORE&__sid=111735BC2198&silo=1000&Cr=13&dista nce=50&seot=0


what you recon?better year,less kms....hm..

[krazyboris]

Link seems to be telling me that the car no longer exist's.

[392RWkwSS]

got mine for sale in melbourne though great car 10000 147000k's pm me for a more in depth chat

[Fekason]

Check the prices on Redbook. $12,999 for 180K is too much IMHO.

I just traded my 2004 VY Excutive V6 Manual with 73K. I would expect that to appear on the second hand market for not much more than that price soon.

I would expect that a 180K 2003 VY at $12,999 would have lots of room to negotiate.

The price of new cars at the moment have dived as manufacturers/importers/dealers try to correct their stock inventory levels after the recent drop in sales. It should be expected that this would have a significant knock down effect on used vales as well.

Based on the new price that I negotiated for my MY09 SV6, I was prepared to take a bit of a hit on the trade in.

[Zuicider]

fekason u may notice this thread is over a year old

[dijm8]

m8 u can get vz exec for around the 12k mark id say look around 12k for a vy is too much ive seen them go for around 9k with high km's

[Fekason]

fekason u may notice this thread is over a year old

Thank you. Got caught by only looking at the last post, and not checking the dates of the earlier posts. Will try to be more careful in future, but I seem to miss lots of details around this time of the year.

Cheers.