gavin18787
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Registered: 22nd Feb 05
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Would you consider one? Waiting for the owner to dig out the service history to see if its had a recent belt change etc
But as a run around a arden blue 1.6 sport R reg 130k for £490 sounds ok to me 
Drives supercharged Tec with torque
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AndyCorsaSport
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Registered: 12th Feb 06
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Will be a good run a round, i just sold mine last week, Arden blue, 109k, alot of mods but i got £1350 for it.
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Jenko_Sport
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Registered: 25th May 06
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Get it bought, enough cheap parts around if anything goes wrong.
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gavin18787
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if he will take £400 its got tax and I will get a rebate from my insurance so tecnically it could work out cheap if its ok 
Drives supercharged Tec with torque
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gavin18787
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from owning a gsi in the past I know what to look for on the engines regarding oil burning and other dodgy things but anything else to look out for other then rust?
Drives supercharged Tec with torque
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Jenko_Sport
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Depends how long you want this runner around to last.
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gavin18787
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month at most hopefully
Just mainly needs to be something that I can buy and then sell on without losing £££
Drives supercharged Tec with torque
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Jenko_Sport
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If its tidy enough should be able to make your money back.
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Nic Barnes
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why are you slumming it? going from vtec to ecotec? why?
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T21SVJ
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my 1.4 had over 130k on it, just do a oil and filter change on it every 5k or so
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gavin18787
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quote: Originally posted by Nic Barnes
why are you slumming it? going from vtec to ecotec? why?
V-tec kicked in and I hit a barrier at the nurburgring
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Nic Barnes
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quote: Originally posted by gavin18787
quote: Originally posted by Nic Barnes
why are you slumming it? going from vtec to ecotec? why?
V-tec kicked in and I hit a barrier at the nurburgring
why?
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gavin18787
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too much torque
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Nic Barnes
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ok
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VegasPhil
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I bought a cheap 1.6 Sport to spin when my car was being sprayed. Got £400 profit.
Mine was a £600 98 Sport, Sold 6 months later for £1100.
Had to get it a CAT back exhaust though 
Corsa 2.0 16v Vegas - Sold
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Jake
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after having a couple of vws anything over 100k doesnt sound that bad. for 400 you may aswell as long as the engine runs sweet and theres not alot of rust.
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