Spotted a 1.6 auto for £250 with a full MOT on it in last weeks AdTrader paper.
The guys wife died and he couldn't stand looking at the car anymore as it was hers and just wanted it gone.
It would have cost me £350 all in by the time I had gone to look at it and had it delivered (no tax).
But in the end I couldn't get a decent insurance quote because i'm already the main driver on my girlfriends car as she has just passed her test so can't afford to get her own.
I wasn't prepared to pay more than £250 and all the cheap insurers who offer multicar insurance AND will mirror your no claims will only insure cars up to 16 years old.
So if anyone is looking for an MX-3 there is a cheap one in the AdTrader South West paper. The paper says its in Wellington but its actually in Appledore.
I'm pretty sure it was AdTrader but it could have been freeads.
Ok Distributor (german compatible one) taken and Car is on the road!^^
ECU was fine , as you all told me ;) .
Only thing i seem to notice a bit of lack in how it "raises" when i accelerate, dunno if its my impression only ..
they told me is impossible , that it can depends from distributor regulation/registration .
Do you know maybe
Where i could find a good list of "most frequent parts "
i should looking for , for spare?
they are 10 times better at night with the projectors you can see a whole lot more than standards and if you have a lght cloured car they do make silver
Most come in LHD set up and very rare to find proper RHD versons or they are expensive
I made a how to on converting a LHD set to RHD here
http://www.uk-mx3.com//forum/viewtopic.php?t=4247&highlight=projector
It appears my Mexy's recent 'damp patch' was a combination of an ill fitting door seal ( one attached to door) and a loose inner door perimeter seal ( one attached to body )!!!! :(
The outer 'crescent moon' shaped seal on the door frame allowed the water to enter between the two seals and due to the angle of the car (nose down, about 1 foot difference between front and back wheels) flow forward to the ill fitting, loose inner seal at a point in the body flange where several sheet steel panels are spot welded together, so the seal gripper channel had to suddenly grip 4mm of metal instead of 2mm and the resulting gap has allowed water (lots on sunday :( ) to creep under the seal and onto my sexy 'scarlet' suede headlining causing an unsightly SEX stain :?
I cant do much about the outer seal? (distorted by suns heat?) but the inner one, I pulled away on the whole top length, squoze the inner spring gripper with rag covered pliers and ran a bead of black silicon sealant into the gripper channel and refitted snugly.
An hour of full bore 'hosepiping' and TWO very wet days outside and she's back to her dry self ???? the stain came out too. :P
I went round my sunroof panel with a 0.25mm feeler and it was as 'snug as a bug' all the way round, there's an approx 1mm gap where the two ends of the SR seal meet but that got the 'hose test' big time, opened the roof and SR under tray was dry! :D
Thnx for pointers folks, hope this helps anyone else with this prob :o
kev b.
:D Cheers Marco x
Is it 'goggles on time' when drilling into casing!!!! :shock:
kind of know what's to be done… but pics V much appreciated x :)
kev b.
Bro you are magic , gonna save pics and study them .
I parked the car with front slightly up ( on a "walkable"step ) ,but not so much ,enough to use the screwdriver (lol my setup is too low frontly) .
But when i tried water it went out .
EDIT:t looks like rear tube are reachable without to remove anything!! , can be?EDIT2:they are not (only left rear and curves too steep)
Yeah nobody really uses Hydros (Hydraulic) anymore for that exact reason, apart from them hiphop lowrider bouncy car shit guys.
Airbags are very popular now as the ride quality is alot better, people even drift on them! I hear K-sport do an air ride kit for the MX-3?!, or if you are brave there is a universal airbag kit (search BOC) that fits over your existing coilovers and raises them up, still going to ride like crap :P
Static is still the way forward…
In my TVR I had a very similar problem. I bought moisture traps from Focus DIY for about £10 each. They are about 4x5x6 inches and have a moisture attracting material in a bag suspended on a grid above a catch tub. I hid one under the front seat and one in the boot. Problem solved. The only pain was having to empty the water out every day. In fact, these http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/kontrol-moisture-trap-and-crystals-/271378273614 will do exactly the same if one was secured in the spare wheel well or in the cabin.
the seat heater look nice addon !,
if you look closely it says " universal ",
not mx-3 specific.
looking for , you can even find double wheel ones to control " left right (or forward /rear i assume).
It's the first winter here nobody needed i bet .
Never saw i retrofitted one , who know how much it burns
:mrgreen:
Curioius to see white set once installed Marco !