Hiya,
Well, I took the car into a local garage that I trust and had them do a full service and look out for any other stuff wrong. He phoned me and said the following things:
1> Brakes - Although theyve had new pads on before I bought it, they didnt clean the brakes so they want to strip down the brakes and clean the dust and and rust from them. The rear drums they have opened and everythings good apart from dust etc.
2> As part of the service they are gonna change the filter and spark plugs, oil etc.
3> One of the tyres is balding (but I told them this doesnt matter because im having new tyres put on some alloys anyway).
4> Front fog light glass is broken - which I knew about anyway.
5> I told them to look at my accelerator too as its sticking a bit - they said it may be a freyed cable....theyre gonna look at it.
So overall - nothing heart-stoppingly bad! Im glad theres nothin too bad been found. So overall I reckon I might have got a pretty good deal! £3500 for a 2000 V reg 1.6i 16v with 32,000 miles on the clock - fully HPI cleared.
***Insurance Note***
I went with Direct Line after phoning many others and best they could do was £445 fully comp, for a 26 year old with no previous anything and 6 years No Claims. Problem is, on th policy - it says I declared No Mods (the car has Factory fitted Leather Interior, factory fitted Boot Spoiler and Factory fitted Side Skirts) so if i phone them up I expect they will bump a lot on for this!
I went to Max Power site and followed a link to 4 insurance. I declared all my mods etc and they came back with £419 fully comp - top policy with courtesy car, legal cover, protected no claims plus thats with all my mods included and a £300 excess (was £250 with direct line).
so basically, im gonna phone Direct Line and if they cant match that after Ive declared all my mods then Ill cancel it. Bet they charge me a lot for cancelling though the muppets.
Cheers!
Daz
