Nice looking face lift 4200

rockits

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Good price & nice colour combo. Wheels/tyres seem not right. Do they seem like 19's but tyres seem stretched or is it my eyes?!
 
philw696

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Looks facelift to me with the front grill and back bumper and the standard 4200 7 spoke wheels.
I have both sets for mine but I prefer for the early Assetto Corsa spoked wheels at this moment in time.
 
mjheathcote

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I read the advert as a late 2004, with the 2005 facelift modifications retro fitted. It does say 'featuring' in the advert that could be taken as 'retro fitted'.
 
rockits

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Your right Andy...couldn't see the 18 bit on my phone 1st time. Are 7 spoke stock wheels all like this? I thought they had flatter faces. These seem to project out off the face a bit. They just stand out a bit too much for me. Maybe a satin finish slightly flatter & a tad darker would help for me.

I think that is the only change I would make to my 4200 by having the wheels a bit darker rather than the stock bright silver.
 
Andyk

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They are 18 inch wheels i believe as well....but you got me thinking now as well....

Yes did think if it had been retro fitted...
 
safrane

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It is a face lift car as they also changed the clock faces...unless he swapped those as well. Also the cup holder which is a face lift give away.

My first 4200 was a revised 2003MY car yet there was plenty of older stock registered later than mine...in fact I think mine must have been one of the first in the UK.

To give you some idea of how the market has risen over the years, I sold mine in 2011 with 72k on the clocks for just short of £13k. At that time most of the comments on this forum were that it was only worth scrap value and would be a risk to purchase due to high miles. That was despite its perfect yearly services from Meridian and Emblem the last being less than 200 miles ago with a full clean health check.
 
Ewan

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Looks a good buy, especially for someone wanting an occasional weekend toy so the mileage won't spiral.

Must be an early facelift, as I don't believe anyone would make all those changes retrospectively. And it's not the first 04 registered facelift model I've seen either.
 
mjheathcote

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Second thoughts you wouldn't change the clocks, very unlikely, so one of the first facelifts I would now say.
 
dickygrace

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Definitely a facelift, it was 05MY, plenty of which are 04/54's, I know of at least one which was an August '04 plate facelift too.
 
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