Cheers fellas, nice to be back and yeah I'm v.
v.
happy with the new one thx.
I knew I was going to buy it just on meeting the owner before even seeing the car.
He's loved it and looked after it from day one.
FSH with receipts and all MOTs etc.
I'll have to check the exact mileage on the old one.
It was somewhere in the mid 230,000 miles
236k-ish I think.
In fairness it could have been saved still perhaps but it become just too expensive to do so.
The non starting/electrical issue in heavy rains was still there but sporadically.
Most likely culprit
water penetration from rust.
Both sills and all the arches, the doors and the boot were all showing signs of rust again with the sills particularly needing extensive work.
The front bumper paint was badly cracked and touch ups and new panels over the years now showed different tones so really a lot of body shop work and a full respray needed.
On top of that the crunch into 3rd was getting worse so that needed sorting as well.
That said when it ran it still ran magnificently but I'm also getting too old for track suspension on my daily driver.
I think the reality is with my break up I finally got to the point of just not caring anymore
about anything.
Anyway, much better now and a new chapter and all that so it all seemed fitting and appropriate to make change
just not that much as it turns out! So I robbed the old one of brakes and braces and suspension and exhausts, interior and a few little goodies etc to move onto the new one or sell and finally sent it to the scrappers.
The king is dead, long live the king! I bought my first with 82,151 on the clocks and added over 150,000 miles myself.
My start point here is just over 52,300 so I wonder where this one will take me
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