Any ideas as to why this hasn't sold?

[dirty boy]

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2579438.htm

Seems like decent value or am I missing something?

Only recently been looking into MX-5s so not really certain about anything!

[VladD]

dirty boy said:

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2579438.htm

Seems like decent value or am I missing something?

Only recently been looking into MX-5s so not really certain about anything!

It's not taxed and is on SORN, so you couldn't legally take it for a test drive. That would put me off. Also means it hasn't been used for a while. If I were going to sell that I'd get it off SORN, tax it and make sure it was running well first.

[Mr MXT]

VladD said:

It's not taxed and is on SORN, so you couldn't legally take it for a test drive. That would put me off. Also means it hasn't been used for a while. If I were going to sell that I'd get it off SORN, tax it and make sure it was running well first.

No tax and MOT, which if it was definetly going to pass, for the sake of £50 you'd put 12 months on wouldnt you? Well I would. Unless it wasn't going to pass of course.

[5harp3y]

^^^ What they said

Turbo'd car with no tax or MOT

[RVVUNM]

I read that as MOT'd last Nov, so just needs taxing. Looks a tidy car.

[SimonV8ster]

Check the exhaust manifold before you buy it - otherwise it'll be a 300 quid repair !! (they crack in the middle).

But yes looks tidy. If theres nothing wrong with it and everything works then why not MOT ?

[Mr MXT]

SimonV8ster said:

Check the exhaust manifold before you buy it - otherwise it'll be a 300 quid repair !! (they crack in the middle).

But yes looks tidy. If theres nothing wrong with it and everything works then why not MOT ?

£300???

Mines currently having that sorted (amongst a few upgrades ) and its costing me more around £50!

[VeeFour]

SimonV8ster said:

Check the exhaust manifold before you buy it - otherwise it'll be a 300 quid repair !! (they crack in the middle).

But yes looks tidy. If theres nothing wrong with it and everything works then why not MOT ?

It was MOT'd in November, so still has several months left.

[Mr MXT]

VeeFour said:

SimonV8ster said:

Check the exhaust manifold before you buy it - otherwise it'll be a 300 quid repair !! (they crack in the middle).

But yes looks tidy. If theres nothing wrong with it and everything works then why not MOT ?

It was MOT'd in November, so still has several months left.

Definetly not how I read it, maybe the poor punctuation is why it hasn't sold?

Advert said:

tons of history & old mot's currently mot'd 28/11/10 and not used scince no tax currently sorn good clean usable example

I read it as "[it has] tons of history & old mot's currently mot'd [until] 28/11/10 and not used since [November], [It has] no tax [and is] currently sorn; good, clean, usable example

[pishadeperro]

The car advertised seems expensive to me. I have a blue '52 reg 90K immaculate condition with full t&t and it's be for sale for £3k all through the winter

[VeeFour]

pishadeperro said:

The car advertised seems expensive to me. I have a blue '52 reg 90K immaculate condition with full t&t and it's be for sale for £3k all through the winter

Yours isn't a very rare BBR turbo, though.

Very limited market for them - most people don't know what they are, and only a handful who do know what they are, are actually looking for one.

[SimonV8ster]

Mr MXT said:

£300???

Mines currently having that sorted (amongst a few upgrades ) and its costing me more around £50!

Is that just a simple weld though ? To do it properly means heating it to red hot and pouring liquid metal into the crack so it fuses properly, along with adding more metal and building it up more. Mine had a weld on it alreadly but it had cracked again after that.

[Gizmo!]

VeeFour said:

pishadeperro said:

The car advertised seems expensive to me. I have a blue '52 reg 90K immaculate condition with full t&t and it's be for sale for £3k all through the winter

Yours isn't a very rare BBR turbo, though.

Very limited market for them - most people don't know what they are, and only a handful who do know what they are, are actually looking for one.

It seems to me that rarity apart, there isn't much point having one of the 'official' BBR turbos. If I remember rightly the BBRs only put out about 160bhp, and pretty much any 'unofficial' turbo'd 1.6 will be less expensive and more powerful...

[Mr MXT]

SimonV8ster said:

Mr MXT said:

£300???

Mines currently having that sorted (amongst a few upgrades ) and its costing me more around £50!

Is that just a simple weld though ? To do it properly means heating it to red hot and pouring liquid metal into the crack so it fuses properly, along with adding more metal and building it up more. Mine had a weld on it alreadly but it had cracked again after that.

[thread hijack]
If it cracks again, I'd be tempted to source another one or get one made. How long has your second repair lasted?