Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2018 11:55:25 GMT
4 or 5 years ago, the MX5 was primed and polished and ready to sell. It didn't happen. No doubt you all will be shaking your head in disbelief, but Life got in the way, priorities changed and with hindsight it was a stupid thing to do, but it's been sitting there having not moved an inch!
Anyhow what is best to do with it? I'd love to keep it, but my Wife would not agree to that especially if it meant spending money on it. And lets face it, if it meant that much to me, I would not have neglected it.
The good bits. The base car is fine - its a 97 plate, 78k and the rarer 1.8iS. In my care it had loads done to it, including a new hood and had full Mazda or specialist service history with 12 stamps or something. It's completely standard apart from a performance air filter with all the books and even the original cassette player. The sills were done.
The bad bits. It obviously looks sorry for itself - the hood looks fine, and i'm sure the paint work will machine buff up fine. The interior looks brilliant with a few mould spots. Back in the day I completely cleaned and rust protected the wheel arches and injected inhibitor into the sills. Up on the ramp underneath it looked great apart from one small rust area on the sill right underneath. This is now a golf ball sized hole. Sticking my fingers in I can feel the fresh metal of the inside (and presumably more structural) sill and some of the wax. So i'm hoping its just cosmetic.
I'm probably hoping somewhat that all it needs is new tyres, discs and pads (even mazda ones are cheap last time I looked), oil and filter changer, battery etc.
Anyhow what is best to do with it? I'd love to keep it, but my Wife would not agree to that especially if it meant spending money on it. And lets face it, if it meant that much to me, I would not have neglected it.
The good bits. The base car is fine - its a 97 plate, 78k and the rarer 1.8iS. In my care it had loads done to it, including a new hood and had full Mazda or specialist service history with 12 stamps or something. It's completely standard apart from a performance air filter with all the books and even the original cassette player. The sills were done.
The bad bits. It obviously looks sorry for itself - the hood looks fine, and i'm sure the paint work will machine buff up fine. The interior looks brilliant with a few mould spots. Back in the day I completely cleaned and rust protected the wheel arches and injected inhibitor into the sills. Up on the ramp underneath it looked great apart from one small rust area on the sill right underneath. This is now a golf ball sized hole. Sticking my fingers in I can feel the fresh metal of the inside (and presumably more structural) sill and some of the wax. So i'm hoping its just cosmetic.
I'm probably hoping somewhat that all it needs is new tyres, discs and pads (even mazda ones are cheap last time I looked), oil and filter changer, battery etc.
