General Thinking of buying an 05 Ulysses - is it a good buy?

[dougliz]

Hi Guys,

I'm new on here and thought it may be a good place for some advice.

I am thinking of buying an 05 Fiat Ulysses from an independent dealer for £7500 with 40k on clock (eleganza model) - as you don't see many around I wondered if this is a fair price?

Also is it a car worth getting - seems to be a few issues around with the C8 and 807's that are similar cars?

I'm no car expert so a bit apprehensive.

Any advice appreciated!

Cheers!

 

[maisie the ugly bug]

Hi is it petrol or diesel ? does it have full service history, diesels have problems with cambelt breaking, water gets into engine bay and inside cambelt and rots the belt, you can get a drip tray fitted which stops this.
We have a 2.0 petrol elaganza model on a 2004 plate with 96000 miles on the clock, we paid £3800 for ours, I would say your car is over priced.
Web sites you can check for a price are,

What car.com

Parkers.co.uk

wisebuyers.co.uk

all good sites, Must say they are still good cars amazing space and spec.
Hope this helps.

 

[Peterg]

Hi Dougliz

What a can of worms you may have started here.

I think £7500 is overpriced even given the mileage.

We have an 2.0 diesel 54 plate ex addsion lee model which is a poor mans Eleganza, it has electric doors which are great as we have babes in arms and also great in multilevel carparks where the bays are slim.

The space in side is massive, we have 8 seats and some boot space but take out the rear bench if not needed.

The spec is good too all electrics aircon 101 airbags and curtains.
Drives very well decent poke and nice and quite as it soaks up bumps.
Fuel economy is not great about 30mpg but then it is a bus.

Vision all round is excellent however you may take some time getting used to the never ending dashboard that drops off somewhere up front when you hear a thud.

My wife loves driving it and the kids love being so high up so they can see everything too.

Now for the nasties, well we have been very lucky in that in over 3 years with me diy servicing it had no issues of note unlike some of the poor unfortunate guys/girls here.
Timing belt the big issue as if it snaps generally the injectors will not budge and so a new engine reqd.

Turbos can also play up and avoid at all cost the auto gearbox.

The electric gremlins are everywhere have a search on the forum board.

All in all I am very happy with our bus and I gave up my baby a Mercedes 300sl 24v for it when my 2 real babies arrived on the scene.

We paid £5,400 in 2006 with 79000 on the clock.

Good luck

Pete

 

[dougliz]

Thanks for the replies.

I think the dealer is too high so I'm gonna take a pass for now! :slayer:

 

[Bernard mc Glinchey]

wouldnt touch it unless you like bother i bought one for £10,000 pounds 2years ago drove it for a year it broke timing belt it cost almost £3000 to fix and 8 months work and got £2700for the car at auction and had one bidder

 

[dougliz]

Cheers - bought a VW instead!

wouldnt touch it unless you like bother i bought one for £10,000 pounds 2years ago drove it for a year it broke timing belt it cost almost £3000 to fix and 8 months work and got £2700for the car at auction and had one bidder