Value of our Rivage any ideas

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1991 Rivage Soft Top Value  

 

I will try again with a few words having messed it up.  

We are seriously considering selling our Golf with some hesitation we are looking to buy a better camper van as it will get more use but don’t know realistically what she might be worth 

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Lovely Rivage, it looks in very good order.

The prices, as you probably already know, just keep climbing. I've seen a few go for North of £15K for low mileage, unmolested examples. Time of year also seems to have an impact, cars being sold in Spring/early summer seem to go for the highest prices. I've been looking for a clean example for some time, there are a few out there that are posing as Rivages,  a bag of trouble or have been molested. Out of interest and to help others give you a better idea of value; How many miles has it done? What is the condition like? Is there a decent amount of service history? Any finance, insurance claims or reported stolen flags against it? Finally, how many owners?

Cheers,
Sean

991 Rivage 1991 (October 1991)  

84K miles and we are the second owner as it was my Mums from new so still in the family  

Totally original, never welded, resprayed, lowered or otherwise

In heated garage from new and only taken out on nice days only 1000 odd miles a year for the last 10 or more years  

Brakes, shocks, springs and bushes all done as original and she steers and brakes and drives lovely -

Up-graded gear linkage, rocker gasket - all parts inc shocks etc  from Mark at Classic VW  

Underneath is perfect and bodywork has some stone chips from use but not touched up or repaired - My Dad had it waxoiled from time to time and I have given it a treat with Bilt Hamber in all the hidden places  

New cambelt last week - Tyres recent so almost as new  

Every document, brochure, owners manual and folio from new together with two sets of original VW metal logo keys  

Had power steering fitted soon after it was new through the VW dealership (Vindis)  all paperwork is with the car including invoice for £1900 which was a load of money back then!  

The bad bits - very few!  

Drivers seat has some wear through the cloth on the bolster on door side. THe good news is that I have an original set of seat covers from another blue Rivage so a simple job for a good car upholstery person .  I searched a long time to find the cloth as it was only ever used in 218 blue Rivage cars as far as I can find out and its unobtainable now.

MFA works 100% fine in the summer and is intermittant in the winter - I never bothered to look into it  

The radio cassette works fine but there is some bleeding on the LCD screen

My Dad, a long time ago started to jack the car up in the wrong place until he heard a crack - there is s vertical clean crack on the passenger sill cover - not normally visable until you look  

Original mohair blue roof is lovely for 30 odd years old - sometme years ago a dork mage a two inch cut on the side with a blade - its low down by the rear window and my dad stitched up   

I think that's it really  

If we sell her we will buy a camper to replace the old Talbot Rambler so I guess a swap for a van could also work  

 

 

Sill !  No damage to actual sill - daft fella put the jack under onto a screw and immediately stopped when it cracked.

I just looked again and no viable damage to the plastic underneath

Oh and no i left Cambridgeshire decades ago and am in Mid Wales

Ah, so it's just the plastic body kit. If you could send me a walk around video to my email, that would be very useful.

sean.brookes@hotmail.co.uk

I sent emails to those that asked and i can post more pictures if needed here

Thanks and lets see what the verdict is on her value