Sold the Cinq earlier this week and appear to have put down a deposit on a Mk1 MX-5.
122k miles, history, new MOT, cheap as chips.'Bought' unseen, aside from a phone call and photos, but it looks pretty good - certainly a lot better than the ropey one I looked at locally last night.
Anyway... enjoy.
On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:57:53 +0000, SteveH ranted:
Nice one. You'll love it. Join the OC - with Flux, it knocked my insurance down by more than the membership cost, buy bits from
You know all that anyway.
Hope you're continuing to recover well from your recent "incident"
Insurance will be with A-Plan - unless Aviva can beat them by going direct.
I want business use, and K's litle non-fault prang in the Prius 12 months ago is still unsettled. Bloody pikeys.
A-Plan got it down to £308, incl. EU cover and EU breakdown.
Yup - must get the deflector ASAP, and a stick on front plate, proper rollover protection is a must, too.
On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:38:27 +0000, SteveH ranted:
I stuck a Mad Dog roll cage on the 2nd one I had. Made me feel a lot safer, and really stiffened the car up. Apparently they're the bar to have, but they don't ship to the UK - I had it delivered to a friend in Pittsburgh who shipped it over for me.
And Aviva got it down to £210. Or £220 if I want to pay it monthly.
Welcome to the Clique.
I serviced mine last weekend and 'modded' it with a K&N panel filter.
I've had it nigh on 4 years, still makes me grin.
That's one thing I miss out here - MX5s (Miatas in US-speak) are a lot more expensive out here. Actually that seems to go for most used cars.
Like Oz then, where a car you'd consider disposable, i.e. sub-1000GBP to run into the ground for a year and if it passes its MOT then that's a bonus type cars are really quite expensive. In the grand scheme of things it's better, as depreciation will cost you less on a new or younger used car. Which is why my usual 1000GBP maximum went totally out of the window when I finally bought a car here.
It also means older cars remain quite well maintained rather than run into the ground as it's worth keeping them nice when they retain decent value, otherwise you're flushing good money.
Is that because the new cars sold per person per year is lower?
Higher demand would keep prices up.
Is there anywhere they salt the roads in OZ?
Bet cars in the USA "rust belt" don't hold value.
Looks good. Same colour as my fiancees. Do what I do and say it is the other halfs then drive it all the time with a huge grin.
Fraser
No salted roads here which helps a lot. Besides old italian tat most stuff remains fairly rust free. MX-5s hold their value like nobodies business. My other halfs one she bought 2 years ago we could now probably sell for a profit. The only other option in a cheap convertible here is the Ford Capri which should of been called the Ford Crappee. Hateful front wheel drive Australian built piece of snot.
Fraser
BTW once you go jap you'll never go back. : P
Fraser
They do, until they fall apart...
Unfortunately out here the higher value of the older used cars doesn't necessarily translate into people looking after them any better.
Right, here you go:
How are they held in? Screwed down to the sheet metal underneath? Cords would look better run under the carpet. I'll get some pics and stick them up of the girlfriends.
Fraser
Heavy duty velcro - the 'prickly' bit sticks like glue to the carpet.
I did think of going under the carpet with the wires, but that would have required holes being made and stuff, and I wasn't too sure where I'd finally want them locating.
Has it really been four years?!
A whole lifetime ago now, but yes.
The insurance expired on the 17th of March which is the anniversary of me buying it.
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