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Acme, this is said with the best of intentions but I think you must be some kind of sadist or something. You keep buying one lemon after another, fix it up and swap for something as bad or worse. Do you like the project of fixing cars or something?

It seems all you need to do is think of a car that you want, save up enough cash for a mint one. As opposed to buying bottom of the barrel ones all the time thinking all it needs is some TLC. It is never that simple, by the time you spent all the money and time to fix it up you might as well got one that had a clean bill of health in the first place.

Stop thinking "Oh, I can do this to that, oh, this is a simple fix, oh that spare part is easily sourced". Fine if it's like a wheel cap or needing alloys refurb but with arches rubbing, with windows don't open, with broken air con etc etc. It seems the repair job is endless and the worst part is that every 6 months you start this all over again!

Why?
 
You gotta keep in mind that mk1s are OLD now. Majority of them will need work done or cost crazy amounts to buy. Majority of you use your car as a tool to get from a to b and that's it. Acme clearly likes messing with cars and I totally get it, I'd have gone and got something as silly as that so I can have fun working on it and making it a little project of my own.
 
agw_01 said:
So, you told the new owner that the MK2s clutch wasn't slipping when you openly admit that it needed a clutch soon.

Amazing.
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There is a difference... The clutch was old. If you try and do a hard launch or a clutch dump it won't bite like a new clutch would, but it did NOT slip in gear AT ALL even if you tried to make it slip. Any gear, any speed, foot flat down, not even the slightest hint of slippage. I told him that.

He is claiming that it is slipping in normal driving and he has to drive slowly. That is either total BS or he has cooked it himself.

And some of you are really over-reacting... It isn't exactly a lemon, it needs bits and bobs. And it wasn't bottom of the barrel either. Bottom of the barrel stock ones are half the money. The only real concern is that mis-matched shock, and I have a replacement on the way already! Tomorrow a lot of the little electrical niggles will get looked at too. Its fine... I like it. :rolleyes:
 
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So the way I see it is. The mk2 was was in poor condition, however Acme knew this when he bought it.

He swapped it for a mk1 (because jdm) and gave money on top? Rip off mate.

Instead of following the boosted YouTube crew, with scened out mx5's just buy a decent one which you can drive then sell and still receive some decent money back.

I'm all for scene etc but I just don't understand your car purchasing logic. To me it's money going down the drain, I've made those mistakes and it simply isn't worth it.
 
It's like he has no idea which scene he wants to latch on so keeps randomly buying nails. I thought the plan was to be a mad E30 drift hero or something.

It could be worse I guess, you could be like that Mazda 3 guy who seems to do the same thing but with 10 grand cars :D
 
The air con on the mk1 eunos roadster like Acme's is unlikely to be easily repairable as they are so old that the particular refrigerant used is no longer readily available (it's even more environmentally unfriendly than R134a), hence most people take out the AC. Saves a reasonable amount of weight too, 16kg or something if you remove the lot. Also frees up more space to route intercooler piping I believe :p.

There are that many mk1 mx5s bring broken for spares that mechanical and electrical issues can be fixed extremely cheaply. Bodywork and rust is what kills them or makes then uneconomical to repair. Dirt cheap to fix otherwise! :)
 
Rybo89 said:
Acme dunt care about the cars condition. He cares about the new topic he can now start on here :p
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One day he'll realize how nice it is to get in a car and not have to worry about whether it'll make it to work or what that noise is... or have a spine left after you've lowered it enough that it rubs/scrapes on normal driving :p

Acme, you have a project car, buy something good that's stock and works to daily drive. Two 25 year old project cars is going to rinse money.
 
Quiet. I've already fixed the horn, the exhaust leak, a bulb in the dash, the radio circuit, and a shock is on the way. That just leaves the 12v socket, the aerial, and the drivers window.

12v socket fixed, aerial problem diagnosed, leaving just the drivers window now, which sort of works but is loose. Door card coming off now... :)
 
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