would you buy a gen1 C2S that has been Hartech'd ..?!

would you buy a gen1 C2S that has been Hartech'd ..?!

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Wednesday 11th December 2019
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So I nearly pressed the button on a Gen2 manual car the other day but circumstances conspired against me in terms of timing and geography to get and view it and it sold.

Same dealer has offered me a lovely spec late Gen1 which was showing some signs of Bore Score and they are apparently sending for the full Hartech rebuild as a precautionary measure. All told it will be some £10K cheaper to acquire than the Gen2 car once they retail it (with their own warranty plus I assume a Hartech one?).

Total cost of the Hartech in the region of £8K so it sounds like they are going to town on it.

I do a lot of overseas long distance cruising/commuting and can ill afford to be stranded by the roadside in the early hours on the continent with an engine which has gone pop which is why I have recently ruled out Gen 1 cars but is a gen 1 'post-hartech' pretty bulletproof in that all the inherent weaknesses have been addressed?