wheres the best place to source a wrote off MR2 turbo?

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Stushine

wheres the best place to source a wrote off MR2 turbo?

Post by Stushine »

im wanting to a turbo conversion over the summer as a little project, im thinking of just buying a complate car thats been wrote off to take the engine from and break the rest..

where can i source one though?
ive had a quick look online but not really found anything worth considering.

any one have any tips?
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Re: wheres the best place to source a wrote off MR2 turbo?

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why don't you sell your car and just buy one, their rock bottom prices of now aren't going to stay that way for much longer :wink:

also save alot of hassle :eye:
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Re: wheres the best place to source a wrote off MR2 turbo?

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I only paid £720 for my Turbo!
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Re: wheres the best place to source a wrote off MR2 turbo?

Post by Ian Geary »

marty1 wrote: their rock bottom prices of now aren't going to stay that way for much longer :wink:



I assume the wink means that comment is in jest...?

I don't see any reason why 15+ year old thirsty, bumpy, rattly, leaky (well some) niche cars are going to get more desirable any time soon....

There may be a bounce as Mk2s gradually go to the big scrap yard in the sky, but I can't see them truely making it into the "classic" market

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Re: wheres the best place to source a wrote off MR2 turbo?

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contact GTSChris, he will have what you need :thumleft:

www.gtschris.com
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Re: wheres the best place to source a wrote off MR2 turbo?

Post by Tiny »

They will the cheapness is meaning that some of the cheaper examples are being bought by Chavs and hopefully removing the crap examples as well as themselves from the genepool meaning that well kept well looked after examples will in a couple of years start to increase in value
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Re: wheres the best place to source a wrote off MR2 turbo?

Post by Dan LB »

I bought my mr2 as a total loss (aka light rear bump) for £500 from a local salvage yard as a summer restoration project. Just look round the salvage yards near you, something might come up :)

The two i looked on were www.hbc.co.uk and www.nsec.co.uk as they both have auction sites but i bought mine from www.chaseautos.com :)
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Re: wheres the best place to source a wrote off MR2 turbo?

Post by mr2nut123 »

Ian Geary wrote:
marty1 wrote: their rock bottom prices of now aren't going to stay that way for much longer :wink:



I assume the wink means that comment is in jest...?

I don't see any reason why 15+ year old thirsty, bumpy, rattly, leaky (well some) niche cars are going to get more desirable any time soon....

There may be a bounce as Mk2s gradually go to the big scrap yard in the sky, but I can't see them truely making it into the "classic" market

Ian


If they're that bad....why are you on an MR2 forum? :-k
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Re: wheres the best place to source a wrote off MR2 turbo?

Post by Dale_V »

mr2nut123 wrote:
Ian Geary wrote:
marty1 wrote: their rock bottom prices of now aren't going to stay that way for much longer :wink:



I assume the wink means that comment is in jest...?

I don't see any reason why 15+ year old thirsty, bumpy, rattly, leaky (well some) niche cars are going to get more desirable any time soon....

There may be a bounce as Mk2s gradually go to the big scrap yard in the sky, but I can't see them truely making it into the "classic" market

Ian


If they're that bad....why are you on an MR2 forum? :-k


exactly! Seems like there is alot of MR2 bashers on a............. mr2 forum, weird eh..
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Re: wheres the best place to source a wrote off MR2 turbo?

Post by kev_mr2 »

I got my Rev1 with loads of mod's for 100 quid!!

And i also think they will go up in value.

Look at Mk1 and Mk2 golf GTI's

There 20 year old rattly bangy thirsty lumps and they are fetching 2 3 or sometimes 4k for an original one and they are no where near the car an mr2 is, and i was a dub fan till a drove an mr2
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Re: wheres the best place to source a wrote off MR2 turbo?

Post by mr2nut123 »

Dale_V wrote:
mr2nut123 wrote:
Ian Geary wrote:

I assume the wink means that comment is in jest...?

I don't see any reason why 15+ year old thirsty, bumpy, rattly, leaky (well some) niche cars are going to get more desirable any time soon....

There may be a bounce as Mk2s gradually go to the big scrap yard in the sky, but I can't see them truely making it into the "classic" market

Ian


If they're that bad....why are you on an MR2 forum? :-k


exactly! Seems like there is alot of MR2 bashers on a............. mr2 forum, weird eh..


Not just from the owners anymore, it's the mods too...(one in particular :wink: )

Just seems like there are a lot of people who have got bored of 2's but don't do anything about it and just linger
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