New Mr2 owner

[Diamond_Bolt]

I thought i better say something before i forget lol.

I just bought (friday) an MR2 Mk1 japanese import for £700 and to my astonishment for the price I am over the moon. I will hopefully get some pictures on here soon and look foward to becoming a full member.

Rick

[mr2mk1chick]

Hiya and welcome :wave:

look forward to the pics

enjoy :+:

[Kateg28]

:wave:

Photos required. And details.....

[Diamond_Bolt]

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/3798/mr2mk1y.jpg

[Diamond_Bolt]

HI all

This is the only photo atm but i will get more tomorrow of the car all round when working on it.

Its a japanesse import but the only downside atm is that I done a car check and it was a Cat C :( but argh well.

[mr2mk1chick]

Cat C is a pretty hefty writeoff, so get it check over by a professional to see if its been repaired okay.
this way you are not driving a deathtrap. if it was written off in the uk you may be able to get the details.
Often they are cat d written off these days as they are not financially viable to repair
if repaired well then just drive it and enjoy :+:

its not worth taking out fully comp insurance, as often the insurance won't pay out again on a cat C - but ask then to check for you.

nice colour - is it a respray or the original? (can't tell from the pic)

[Diamond_Bolt]

I've been told its the original colour but it does need a tidy up as its looking very dull in places.

The person i bought it off was the one who repaired it but he was told it was a cat D not a C. He works at my dads garage and repairs cat Ds all the time and they are repaired
properly so I do trust it, only thing is he said he was told cat D :S.

a few more pictures

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/5752/frontwc.jpg
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/623/backrv.jpg
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/944/interiorld.jpg

[Diamond_Bolt]

Well I finally got insured yesterday, got home very excited to drive my MR2 for the first time and....... The battery is completly dead :(. So i've charged it over night (Not sure if it will help but the charger says its charged and the acid inside was bumbling) So hopefully I finally get to drive it tonite. As soon as I get a bit of money im going to spray the rear bumper and sort out the knicks and knocks round the car.

I will hopefully join the club fully as well and start a little progress blog :)

[oukie]

Looks good one of my favourite colours :+:

[Diamond_Bolt]

Thought I'll update this quickly

Sprayed the bumper for now

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/3408/20110122121731.jpg
By project_bolt (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/project_bolt) at 2011-01-23

Grinding the wheels just waiting for my G3 compound to come to get them to a mirror finish

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/6711/20110119155650.jpg

same with the rockers

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/4060/20101230113821.jpg

and also changing the earths
http://www.mr2mk1club.com/

and also a few interior changes

http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/8882/20101230114420.jpg
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/6568/20101230114439.jpg
http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/3144/20101230114430.jpg

[chris iow]

hi nice looking car i do like that colour and as for the cat c/d write off u might be able to find out what it is but my ex-girlfriends del-sol was a cat c write off after someone dented her door and that was all they said the cost of a new door the labour fitting it and the respray would have cost over 3 times the value of the car so it could have been something small anyway welcome