18-11-2014, 10:44 PM
Yeh, it's pretty good. A few bumps and scrapes/scratches, but what do you expect with a 13yr old vehicle.
The last MOT was definitely done over the fone though!!
Snapped front spring, ABS light staying on, quite badly corroded metal brake pipe on the rear, wiper blade with no rubber on it, a fairly decent stone chip/crack directly in line of sight to name a few.
The guy I bought it off had it less than 2 months and did about 50 miles in it. 30 of those were when he collected it and 20 when he took it to Swansea for a DVSA vehicle inspection as he spotted the broken spring which being badly rusted had clearly gone before the MOT.
He took it back home parked it up and it stayed there until I bought it.
My mate drove it home for me as he's got Motor traders insurance and it buzzed along quite happily at up to 80 on times. (Not that he knew as the speedo doesn't work.)
It doesn't smoke, the rear beam is good with no creaks or negative camber, so all in all, I'm quite chuffed with it.
It's gonna do AT LEAST 18mpg more than my Daihatsu Fourtrak and even up to 28mpg more and if it decides to give up the ghost, then I'll drop an 1.9 TD into it :-)
The last MOT was definitely done over the fone though!!
Snapped front spring, ABS light staying on, quite badly corroded metal brake pipe on the rear, wiper blade with no rubber on it, a fairly decent stone chip/crack directly in line of sight to name a few.
The guy I bought it off had it less than 2 months and did about 50 miles in it. 30 of those were when he collected it and 20 when he took it to Swansea for a DVSA vehicle inspection as he spotted the broken spring which being badly rusted had clearly gone before the MOT.
He took it back home parked it up and it stayed there until I bought it.
My mate drove it home for me as he's got Motor traders insurance and it buzzed along quite happily at up to 80 on times. (Not that he knew as the speedo doesn't work.)
It doesn't smoke, the rear beam is good with no creaks or negative camber, so all in all, I'm quite chuffed with it.
It's gonna do AT LEAST 18mpg more than my Daihatsu Fourtrak and even up to 28mpg more and if it decides to give up the ghost, then I'll drop an 1.9 TD into it :-)