Cheers fellas, nice to be back and yeah I'm v.
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v.
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happy with the new one thx.
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I knew I was going to buy it just on meeting the owner before even seeing the car.
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He's loved it and looked after it from day one.
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FSH with receipts and all MOTs etc.
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I'll have to check the exact mileage on the old one.
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It was somewhere in the mid 230,000 miles
236k-ish I think.
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In fairness it could have been saved still perhaps but it become just too expensive to do so.
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The non starting/electrical issue in heavy rains was still there but sporadically.
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Most likely culprit
water penetration from rust.
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Both sills and all the arches, the doors and the boot were all showing signs of rust again with the sills particularly needing extensive work.
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The front bumper paint was badly cracked and touch ups and new panels over the years now showed different tones so really a lot of body shop work and a full respray needed.
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On top of that the crunch into 3rd was getting worse so that needed sorting as well.
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That said when it ran it still ran magnificently but I'm also getting too old for track suspension on my daily driver.
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I think the reality is with my break up I finally got to the point of just not caring anymore
about anything.
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Anyway, much better now and a new chapter and all that so it all seemed fitting and appropriate to make change
just not that much as it turns out! So I robbed the old one of brakes and braces and suspension and exhausts, interior and a few little goodies etc to move onto the new one or sell and finally sent it to the scrappers.
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The king is dead, long live the king! I bought my first with 82,151 on the clocks and added over 150,000 miles myself.
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My start point here is just over 52,300 so I wonder where this one will take me
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