Am I seeing things - 7,400 Miles MR2

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Am I seeing things - 7,400 Miles MR2

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Hi guys, I have just come across a mr2 with 7k miles from new :shock: ,

The car looks good but being such low mileage can it not be a bad thing too

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWAX:IT
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Saw this too, bit odd if you ask me.
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The condition of the car backs up the mileage. That is seriously low for the car's year. But if it's all backed up with FSH and previous MOT's then all good :thumleft:
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didnt all uk cars have leather? and as thats had its PDI done here it must be a UK car, personally i wouldnt believe that mileage, its not hard to fake a service book is it, id want to speak to the garage who claim to have stamped the book
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Just to add also, one good check is to look at the mileage on the clocks to se if all the digits line up, because if they have been tampered with they won't.

Looks a cracking car though.
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Bet it will go for a lot of money. No t bar neither :( and its only 30 miles down the road from me! hmmm...
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jasongtr wrote:didnt all uk cars have leather? and as thats had its PDI done here it must be a UK car, personally i wouldnt believe that mileage, its not hard to fake a service book is it, id want to speak to the garage who claim to have stamped the book


Not all UK cars had leather.
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RedMR² wrote:
jasongtr wrote:didnt all uk cars have leather? and as thats had its PDI done here it must be a UK car, personally i wouldnt believe that mileage, its not hard to fake a service book is it, id want to speak to the garage who claim to have stamped the book


Not all UK cars had leather.


oh ok im sure i read that somewhere, guess you cant believe all you read on the interweb - bit like an MR2 with less than 8k miles on it :mrgreen:
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all t bar uk cars came with leather didnt they?

Im tempted with this car tbh.
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scottedlin19 wrote:all t bar uk cars came with leather didnt they?

Im tempted with this car tbh.


they had to so the rain water that dripped in would run off the seats \:D/
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I don't know much about mk2s so forgive me if a silly question (I own a mk1 :D ) - so is the black roof original?

as am tempted in having a bid
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jasongtr wrote:
scottedlin19 wrote:all t bar uk cars came with leather didnt they?

Im tempted with this car tbh.


they had to so the rain water that dripped in would run off the seats \:D/


:lol: :lol:
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yes its called sonic shadow - nice too
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jasongtr wrote:
RedMR² wrote:
jasongtr wrote:didnt all uk cars have leather? and as thats had its PDI done here it must be a UK car, personally i wouldnt believe that mileage, its not hard to fake a service book is it, id want to speak to the garage who claim to have stamped the book


Not all UK cars had leather.


oh ok im sure i read that somewhere, guess you cant believe all you read on the interweb - bit like an MR2 with less than 8k miles on it :mrgreen:


:mrgreen:

Regarding this MR2 for sale, the mileage is ridiculously low for the year of the car but is definitely possible. If someone has had it as a weekend/summer/dry weather car since new etc.

I remember a US Rev1 MR2 on ebay ages ago. It had 8 miles on the clock and he wanted somat like $21K or thereabouts!
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jasongtr wrote:
scottedlin19 wrote:all t bar uk cars came with leather didnt they?

Im tempted with this car tbh.


they had to so the rain water that dripped in would run off the seats \:D/


:lol: :lol:
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ah well if was owned by a yank he probably couldnt fit in it :mrgreen:
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haha yea thats true :P

I might have a bid on it. Although I do like t bars.
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also asked if i can get an MOT check carried out and asked for pictures of the clocks where the mileage is indicated.
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scottedlin19 wrote:also asked if i can get an MOT check carried out and asked for pictures of the clocks where the mileage is indicated.


:thumleft:
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Re: Am I seeing things - 7,400 Miles MR2

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New ebay seller as well - is it advertised anywhere else?

I really dont think this will go for a huge amount of money, is the demand for these that high at the moment?
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