I've just bought a K11 Micra

[jogger1976]

My Saab is temporarily FUBAR and as I need a car for work a quick trawl of EBAY Motors and Autotrader revealed a P reg 1.0 Micra about 20 mins from my house.

For £350 I've got steelies, black bumpers, windy windows, manual locking and mirrors and un-assisted power steering. However, it has pretty much full service history, a years MOT, 4 nearly new tyres and is a mechanically sound car which starts on the button and is quiet on tick-over. The guy even threw in some spare parts and a jerry can.

The engine is quite revvy and is pretty nippy up to 50 mph. On the way back home it even managed to cope with a 70+ blast down the motorway.- I'm now deaf, though.

I know it's perhaps not the most PH of cars, but it's actually quite liberating having a car you don't give a st about and it's quite a laugh extracting all 54 bhp from that 998cc engine.

I'm genuinely surprised at how capable it is.

Edited by jogger1976 on Friday 27th November 21:00

[jogger1976]

Iva Barchetta said:

Leptons said:

Un-assisted power steering? Good feature!

The belt's come off....obvs.

Apologies for the error.I'm still recovering from the drive home! Pics to follow.

[jogger1976]

DrDoofenshmirtz said:

Sheepshanks said:

£350 seems really expensive - we just threw away a 52 reg one!

Yep - the OP was 'done', this is obvious - but he's happy so who cares.

I'm currently 'driving like I stole it' a 2001 1.25L Ford Fiesta Ghia (lots of goodies usually found on bigger cars such as heated front screen, A/C, leccy windows, R/C locking, alloys etc) all for £100 with 13 months MOT. I absolutely love driving it - great little car.

Edited by DrDoofenshmirtz on Friday 27th November 22:40

I think saying I was "done" is a bit harsh TBH. I could have punted on innumerable rusty Fiesta's and KA's with short MOT's and "full service history" on Fleabay and Autotrader.(been there, done that) I could've possibly even got a nicer motor for more dosh if I'd been prepared to travel.

But time was short and needs must, and as you say, I'm happy with my little cockroach.

[jogger1976]

As promised, here's some pics.


Like a GTI.