suzuki grand vitara - any good

2pack

hi, im thinking of buying an 2008 2ltr petrol, suzuki grand vitara, 5 door passenger vehicle,
its just there is one going at a keen price, has 108 km on it.

shawnee

Vitara are a good jeep. Petrol ones should be very cheap at moment due to high tax and I would expect around 30 to the gallon on one. However if the price is right and you like them , go for it

2pack

its an 08 so tax would go by on c02 emissions i think

im getting it for 6500 euro

A lad I know has an 07 petrol one from new, nothing at all has good wrong on it, faultless, like the one you're looking at its a low miler, I'd have no reliability or maintenance concerns anyway.

shawnee

2pack wrote: »

its an 08 so tax would go by on c02 emissions i think

im getting it for 6500 euro

Worth checking out the taxation cost. Most of the petrol ones are still high tax and I would expect that yours is also. It would be important to know beforehand and is makes a huge difference in sales in Ireland and is probably why the car is reduced. Then again if the price is right , it may offset the higher tax.:p

oregano

shawnee wrote: »

2pack wrote: »

its an 08 so tax would go by on c02 emissions i think

im getting it for 6500 euro

Worth checking out the taxation cost. Most of the petrol ones are still high tax and I would expect that yours is also. It would be important to know beforehand and is makes a huge difference in sales in Ireland and is probably why the car is reduced. Then again if the price is right , it may offset the higher tax.:p

6500 is a super price. If the car was registered pre July 08, all the better, 660 euro tax per annum. If its post July it's emissions based.

If you like it, buy it.

Frankie Lee

Avoid the 1.9 Diesel at all costs.
The petrol ones should be well built with the main downside being the obscene cost of genuine parts as some things for Suzuki are impossible to get spurious. €6500 seems well overpriced for the petrol one too unless it is very low mileage.

edit: should have read the op, I'd be looking at trying to get a bit of discount off the €6500 tbh.

166man

I'd be amazed if you even got 30mpg from it tbh....

2pack

Frankie Lee wrote: »

Avoid the 1.9 Diesel at all costs.
The petrol ones should be well built with the main downside being the obscene cost of genuine parts as some things for Suzuki are impossible to get spurious. €6500 seems well overpriced for the petrol one too unless it is very low mileage.

edit: should have read the op, I'd be looking at trying to get a bit of discount off the €6500 tbh.

hi Frankie lee, to be honest would have liked the diesel better myself as would be easier on the fuel id say but they are abit more pricey

anyway this one has got 108km, maybe highest enough kilometres for an August 2008 petrol vehicle,

what do you think its worth 6000 euro? they are on donedeal in the region of 7500-9500 with lower km i must admit

im to look at it later on this evening

Frankie Lee

There is a huge discrepancy between asking prices and selling prices with these, €5000 to say €5750 would be a fair pice.

air

I did 3500km in one of these last month (albeit 2011 model) and averaged about 10.5L /100km = approx 27mpg IMP, it was running studded tires though which would have hurt economy a bit. Ground clearance not amazing on them but probably not an issue for most.

166man

166man wrote: »

I'd be amazed if you even got 30mpg from it tbh....

On a run at 60mph i don't see why you wouldn't, 5th is tall enough in them from what I remember. The chap I know who has one has a mobile home 30 miles away and reckons the Vitara isn't much heavier on petrol than the 1.4 Octavia it replaced up and down to the mobile for a weekend, he'd drive very little when down there.

166man

RoverJames wrote: »

On a run at 60mph i don't see why you wouldn't, 5th is tall enough in them from what I remember. The chap I know who has one has a mobile home 30 miles away and reckons the Vitara isn't much heavier on petrol than the 1.4 Octavia it replaced up and down to the mobile for a weekend, he'd drive very little when down there.

1.4 in the Octavia is a sh1t engine. Wouldn't surprise me if the economy was not that different from it either as the Octavia wouldn't pull you out of bed.

On a cruise in the Vitara at 60mph sure I'd imagine 30mpg is possible but certainly not around town.

puppetmaster

Yeh we've one here, and its never given a problem in 5 years of driving to be fair very reliable little run around, but the one downside is its far from easy on juice. 10.5l/100km sounds about right to what ive got from it, needs a 6th gear revs much too high in 5th for any real economy. but if thats acceptable to you, (and the 2ltr might be better) i would say go for it.

166man

166man wrote: »

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On a cruise in the Vitara at 60mph sure I'd imagine 30mpg is possible but certainly not around town.

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166man wrote: »

I'd be amazed if you even got 30mpg from it tbh....

166man

RoverJames wrote: »

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Combined fuel consumption. :rolleyes:

2pack

had a look at this vehicle and found out it had previous light damage but very well repaired, so surely not worth near the price he was looking for it now