Turbo R for £11K...

[crugbun]

I keep getting tempted by early '90s, late 80's fuel injected Turbo R's. Priced around £11,000...

Are these generally a bad idea? Seems like an awful lot of car for the money.

[Church]

Just experienced all this myself after diving into Benltey ownership a couple of weekds ago. I ended up buying a 96 Turbo and went down this route of investigation and if you want to look I posted a topic on buying an 86 Turbo. (I looked at cars from £6k to £36k!)

Lots of advice on here particularly from Warren aka Balmoral Green, get in touch with him and he'll share his wealth of knowledge.

Basically from my investigations I have learned that you generally get what you pay for and that comprehensive service history by proper specialists/dealers is a must. There is so much potenial to buy a money pit and a lot I saw I got the impression that people were trying to run them on a shoestring and finding its not possible. In the end I plumped for one of the later versions that had been used regularly (done 110k) with the best history I saw. I have every receipt from day one with main dealers all upto date with the exception of only one recognised specialist servicing it last year. Straight away this was evident in the way it drove and general appearance.

They are a superb vehicle to waft around in and then when you put your foot down

[Balmoral Green]

With a christian name as cool as that, you've just got to get one

[crugbun]

One of me, two of you (and a Bentley).... must be pimms o'clock

Unfortunately the bank balance doesn't match the name!