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lihp World Chat Champion
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Posted: 19:37 - 30 Jul 2017 Post subject: NBR: 2008 MX5 |
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I am looking at part-exing my battered 2009 1.4 Civic Type S.
For a 2008 Mazda MX5 2.0 Sport (hard top, not soft also).
It is very clean, and it drove smoothly, and has full Mazda service history.
The downsides, it is on 80k miles, failed a couple of MOTs with low pads, and a fail for disc wear, and had a few advisories last year for play in ARBs.
I'm going back to have another look at it on Wednesday, the dealer has all bills relating to all the work done to the car, so I intend to look into whether all the advisories were acted on, or have just not been picked up on subsequent MOTs.
Is there anything in particular to look out for. How many miles are these cars good for? ____________________ covent.gardens: lihp is my most favourite member ever |
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Posted: 13:50 - 31 Jul 2017 Post subject: |
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Hi
I wouldn't worry about most advisorys, and not old ones on disks and the link.
Rear anti roll bar bushes should be easy enough to do.
That is a mk3 so rust shouldn't be a major issue
Doing the rear wheel bearings is a bit of a git, purely down to one bolt mounting the hub that seizes very easily. If you may have to do it then spray with penetrating oil regularly for a week or two before hand.
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i thrashed the arse off mine and it never really suffered for it
ARB links are definately consumables, the rods are metal but the moving bits are made of plastic so can break relatively easily. mine were never changed but apparantly had "free play" advisorys for 3 years straight.
IMO its a bit of a pisstake they werent made of galvanised steel. fiestas had that figured in 2002 ____________________ killa wrote: Im an ass man myself |
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Posted: 19:53 - 02 Aug 2017 Post subject: |
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arb links are common on all shapes of mx5 back to 1989... don't worry.
corrosion on these new ones isn't as bad as the mk1 and 2... wouldn't worry.
iirc there's a rattly noise to look out for which is early sign of engine failure.. cant' remember what the cause is now though... but look it up it's well documented ____________________ CBT - 17/09/12 * Theory - 23/10/12 * Mod1 - 05/03/13 * Mod2 - 25/03/13 * BOSH!
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Whilst i have an S2000 ( and did look at MX5) i tend to agree with this. I've had mine for 8 years now and i'd not touch a leggy 2nd hand one with a bargepole, not unless i knew the owner / history.
They are expensive to maintain properly and even more expensive to fix if they have been maintained on a shoestring. As with all performance cars, the number of badly modified ones is increasing and good clean standard ones are rare and therefore expensive.
I would definitely consider one of the run out models with the metal folding roof, in white or that deep red / deep metallic blue and i would increase the budget to about 13k - lovely car for not much money. Remember a new Micra is north of 18k ____________________ Module 1 and 2 passed - October 2014. Happy owner of a 2017 Z1000SX, ex owner of a YBR125 / CB500 / VFR800. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 259 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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