First mr2

[paulandchez]

Hi all
Saying hi from north west England.
Just bought a 1989 mk1 t bar for my partner and she loves it. It seems to be ok. No rust at all (been dry used only for years). Got receipts back to first purchase nod seems mechanically sound so far. Possibly got an intermittently sticking rear calliper but I've read that can be quite common, plus this has hardly been driven, so expecting a few issues over the next few weeks.

No doubt I'll be asking some questions :)

Thanks

Paul and Chez

[Scott Forster]

Welcome, always good to recieve a new member from the North West. Try get yourselves on the Wales run in a few weeks time. :)

[Gilles27]

Yes, welcome! Here's a link to the Wales run. It's a great day out: http://www.mr2mk1club.com/showthread.php?16735-Sunday-19th-april-wales-run

[paulandchez]

Thanks guys. Unfortunately we have our kids that weekend so won't be able to tag along. Hopefully we can get on the next one though

[dylbie]

Welcome to the club! Get signed up for the Silverstone Classic where we'll be parading our AW11s on the circuit for the 30th anniversary :)

[AW11mike]

Welcome to the club :) Mike

[Snowtigger]

Hello and great to have another North west member these mk1 are addictive they have there little foibles, like 5th gear popout.

[bill hulme]

Hi, Welcome to the Club, I you fancy the Tatton Park show 30/31 Of May I could fix you up with a Free ticket and you could join use on our plot, the ticket is for 2,
But I only Have 2 for Saturday And 1 for Sunday.
Bill.

[paulandchez]

Thanks for the msgs and offers guys. As luck would have it, we got our kids on every occasion of the suggested meets! However, I'm sure we'll get down to something, maybe the meetings in Bill's signature.
I don't know much about this car yet, so things like AW11 which I presume is the model number, is there an area on this forum I can read up the info etc?

Thanks

[sTuArT]

With a W.S 6 speed gearbox fitted the nodding stops entirely :-)


Hello and great to have another North west member these mk1 are addictive they have there little foibles, like 5th gear popout.

[Snowtigger]

True if you have a spare thou it's a no brainer, but I'm a tight northerner and already hopefully got a six speed lotus 2gr gearbox plus two mk1a gearbox one with only 46thou on it so even cheaper

[jimi]

In my experience 5th gear pop out isn't anything like as common as it's made out to be, 1a's seem to suffer from it more than 1b's.
Gearstick nodding tends to be caused by worn (and or soft) front/rear engine mounts rather than gearbox problems, I filled my front/rear engine mounts with silicon and the nodding virtually disappeared :cool:

http://www.mr2mk1club.com/images/imported/2015/04/dscf0001a-1.jpg

[paulandchez]

Heres a few pics
http://www.mr2mk1club.com/images/imported/2015/04/imagejpg1_zpsoab7aeq0-1.jpg (http://s1354.photobucket.com/user/paulandchez/media/image.jpg1_zpsoab7aeq0.jpg.html)

http://www.mr2mk1club.com/images/imported/2015/04/imagejpg2_zpswvcc3wcx-1.jpg (http://s1354.photobucket.com/user/paulandchez/media/image.jpg2_zpswvcc3wcx.jpg.html)

http://www.mr2mk1club.com/images/imported/2015/04/imagejpg3_zpson9fx5fx-1.jpg (http://s1354.photobucket.com/user/paulandchez/media/image.jpg3_zpson9fx5fx.jpg.html)

[paulandchez]

Oh....and that's a mr2mk1 club sticker in the windscreen.....so who's owned this in the past?

[BIGBOYZJUNK]

Enjoy in the British summer! And welcome to the club :cool: