gwalker124
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Hi everyone
Firstly sorry if this is not allowed, i am not sure on the rules for this as don’t think I’ve ever seen it done before on here? But if it’s not allowed then a mod can delete the thread or let me know and I’ll remove it.
I am just trying to gauge interest/feedback on an idea I have for selling my car (pre facelift Ek9).
I was thinking about running a raffle to sell my car rather than a normal sale as it needs a bit of work done to it however the car is mechanically sound and I currently use it as a daily with no issues what so ever.
The reason I am thinking of a raffle is that the bodywork is not in great condition after it being parked up in a garage for over 3 years due to a change personal circumstances (2 kids and and 2 new homes in this period lol). And I know people probably wouldn’t want to pay like 5k for a car that probably needs a fair bit of cash thrown at the bodywork. It’s mainly the arches but a couple of other little bits here and there. So I thought if I raffled the car off people would have the chance of winning the car for the price of a ticket and then be able to throw some money to bring it back up to standard. You’d then have a car worth a whole lot more than you paid for it. I was thinking like minimum 50 tickets at £100 or 100 tickets at £50. Does this sound reasonable?
I got it back on the road in December at the cost of over £1700, new pads and discs, callipers refurbished, timing belt, tensioner, water pump etc also had it fully under sealed with upol raptor coating, (I have it all listed somewhere). The work was carried out by Gerry at performance tek, In fact just about all the work done on the car has been done by Gerry since I bought the car back in 2010 (I am the only uk owner of the car since import). Anything it’s ever needed has always been done as soon as I was made aware of it and have receipts/invoices for the work.
The car actually had a full exterior respray done back in 2012 at a cost of over £2k however the parking it up in a non heated garage has caused the arches to get the dreaded rust.
There is a build thread on here of things I have done to the car over the years, nothing exciting really. The only real modification I have done to the car is a Tegiwa whales ***** induction kit. However it did come with a couple of nice extras which weren’t know about until after I bought the car and start going over it like a spoon ecu and street silencer back box. It may have more done to it but I wouldn’t know what to look for from an engine point of view.
It’s just a thought I had but not sure if it would gather any interest whatsoever, what do you guys think? Or should I just punt it on eBay and see what interest I get there?
I would obviously get pics of the car etc but like I say just trying to gauge interest/feedback on the idea?
Cheers
Gary
Firstly sorry if this is not allowed, i am not sure on the rules for this as don’t think I’ve ever seen it done before on here? But if it’s not allowed then a mod can delete the thread or let me know and I’ll remove it.
I am just trying to gauge interest/feedback on an idea I have for selling my car (pre facelift Ek9).
I was thinking about running a raffle to sell my car rather than a normal sale as it needs a bit of work done to it however the car is mechanically sound and I currently use it as a daily with no issues what so ever.
The reason I am thinking of a raffle is that the bodywork is not in great condition after it being parked up in a garage for over 3 years due to a change personal circumstances (2 kids and and 2 new homes in this period lol). And I know people probably wouldn’t want to pay like 5k for a car that probably needs a fair bit of cash thrown at the bodywork. It’s mainly the arches but a couple of other little bits here and there. So I thought if I raffled the car off people would have the chance of winning the car for the price of a ticket and then be able to throw some money to bring it back up to standard. You’d then have a car worth a whole lot more than you paid for it. I was thinking like minimum 50 tickets at £100 or 100 tickets at £50. Does this sound reasonable?
I got it back on the road in December at the cost of over £1700, new pads and discs, callipers refurbished, timing belt, tensioner, water pump etc also had it fully under sealed with upol raptor coating, (I have it all listed somewhere). The work was carried out by Gerry at performance tek, In fact just about all the work done on the car has been done by Gerry since I bought the car back in 2010 (I am the only uk owner of the car since import). Anything it’s ever needed has always been done as soon as I was made aware of it and have receipts/invoices for the work.
The car actually had a full exterior respray done back in 2012 at a cost of over £2k however the parking it up in a non heated garage has caused the arches to get the dreaded rust.
There is a build thread on here of things I have done to the car over the years, nothing exciting really. The only real modification I have done to the car is a Tegiwa whales ***** induction kit. However it did come with a couple of nice extras which weren’t know about until after I bought the car and start going over it like a spoon ecu and street silencer back box. It may have more done to it but I wouldn’t know what to look for from an engine point of view.
It’s just a thought I had but not sure if it would gather any interest whatsoever, what do you guys think? Or should I just punt it on eBay and see what interest I get there?
I would obviously get pics of the car etc but like I say just trying to gauge interest/feedback on the idea?
Cheers
Gary