I thought the ad said 83K, not terrible for an 18 year old car? Though I know what you mean, my Mini is the highest mileage car I've ever bought too and it did make me think.
i'm not after that one Jez, it was just the same price as your Facebook one, that was all. We will all have a different approach to high mileage cars, (a car is a car!) and in the wrong hands with missed maintenance you could be in big trouble at half that mileage, simple as that.
83k? pah. my panda jtd is 19years old. sitting at 244k. i PDI'd it when it came out the factory and have been the only one to service it from new. i was pretty much given it by the previous owner at 100k and it has required jack bar servicing, brakes and suspension since new. geez, it's still got the original exhaust and has embarrassed a few of the young'uns in Corsa community. mini's are cool (bar those with the dodgy rear light design) but Pandas rock.
whoopie do - did you personally do the 244? if so, then a totally different thing, and not a problem as most would have fixed as they went/better the devil you know. I remember reps in Volvos beating that figure hollow. Prefer the older Panda myself.
someone making a big effort to help with decent picture etc, https://www.billswebspace.com/MCSPulleyMountTensioner.htm ...will prob get torn to pieces by "the experts" though.
Tonight’s progress! Finally started getting the engine ready to go in the car. Serviced supercharger and started replacing oil seals like the crank position sensor etc. new water pump also
£200 less and you’ll take it away Saturday……Nice spec though Leather, Speakers upgraded, bonnet is pretty usual for stone chips. Pity he didn’t take more pictures of the engine bay, how much tread on the tyres.
Auto’s suck…. Not in general but in the Mini. And they are always worth 20% less at least. there are so many around for £1000 the issue is that they need £2k spending on them. I’ve bought mine for £300 but for example… Decent (I hope) 2nd hand engine - £600 Decent 2nd hand interior - £375 Supercharger service kit, pulleys etc - £400 New Clutch - £100 bits and bobs - £250 Non rusty tailgate - £90 then I still need to do some bushes, a pair of rear springs, new brake lines and tidy the brakes up, and 4 new tyres… I think it will cost me somewhere near £4k to have a really smart one, it’s not worth it but this is where the heart has long since ruled the head
not for me i ought to add, only included out of interest, not sure why you'd think i am an auto man.. R U sayin' i is old?
Didn’t get as far today as we would have liked, my mate is running a workshop so paying jobs take preference over helping me change an engine which is totally understandable. We did manage to get the old engine out though and start prepping the new on. we were not surprised to see a blocked oil cooler water pipe, what we were surprised to see was the entire oil cooler (made by KTM btw) completely packed with what felt like sand… after a good 20 mins with an air line and water we couldn’t get it to flow hardly at all so I’ll replace it. back at it next week to try and get the new one in
i wonder if that is the residue from evaporated antifreeze. it goes whitish and powdery. while researching various faults pre repair, i've seen vids of coolers totally choked. often due to stop leak additives being added. some are more likely than others to block these. i'm wondering if mini's are more prone than others for it. not so much these days, but we did go through a several year phase of working on lots of mini's including fitting supercharger mods supplied by customers. different sized pulleys and belt tensioners if i mind right. (i've still got one of those tensioner tools kicking about somewhere that was posted earlier that we made out of a length of angle iron) what i do remember from back in the day was the amount of overheating mini's we used to see with low coolant. I think they are particularly prone to air locks. there was two places to check the coolant level, for years customers were only checking the obvious one. i'm wondering if at times the coolant was getting so low it was creating air pockets in various areas causing blockages due to a build up crud from hard water areas and evaporated antifreeze.
