....Bad pointsBefore going into the bad points, I must stress this car is my daily driver and I trust it implicitely. So they are smaller points which won't affect the reliability - but you need to know about them:
* Central locking is unreliable and needs looking at.
* Airbag light is on. I wasn't told about this until I turned up to buy the car. I can see that the airbag on the passenger seat seems to have been opened/deployed, and stuffed back into it's housing. I've no idea of the circumstances around this - there is definitely no accident damage to be seen and the previous keeper wasn't aware of any accidents either. To fix, I'd imagine it would need a new seat, and the airbag light resetting. Ideal chance to upgrade to leather?
* The brakes are OK, but nowhere near as sharp as my MV6 ones. I think in honesty it is overdue a brake fluid change.
* The handbrake doesn't work. I haven't even looked into why.
* The rear exhaust box fell off, looks like the join was rusty. I've been driving it like this for, cough, 1000 miles now, and it doesn't sound any different
- but I have to mention the exhaust needs attention. The exhaust does make a "whoosh" noise when accelerating hard without the backbox off.
* The small intake hose at the top of the engine is a little damaged and doesn't quite sit right. Because it's part of the turbo system, a very tiny fine amount of oil misting comes out of here over a period of a few weeks, and you can hear a little air escaping under turbo'd acceleration. Nothing to make the level drop or anything, very minor. Pt/No 90467872 - £13 + VAT to replace.
* The current Aux belt is at the end of it's life. I noticed when checking the levels the other day that it's fraying. It hasn't broken (yet!) but needs attention ASAP. I will replace this before purchase for cost of the belt.
* Very occasionally, when in top gear and going down a hill, when you apply the accelerator again, there feels like there is a little bit of play as the drive is taken up. Probably me being picky for an R plate car, it's never got any worse. When up and down hills I tend to just select "3".
* On two or three occasions in the last 1500 or so miles, I have gone to pull away and not been assited by the Turbo for a few seconds, and then it comes back. So rarely occurs that it's difficult to diagnose, in fact, I'd totally forgotton about it. May be that tiny leak in that pipe causing it - certainly not a serious issue. Turbo is not a complex arrangement on these, and is driven by manifold pressure I believe - at worst it would need a little lubrication.
* Dent in Boot lid.
* When you press the sport mode button, no light appears on the dash. I think it's the bulb, because the gearbox is NOT in limp mode, the snow mode works, and you can feel the sport button working when pressed.
* Radio is in SAFE mode. My fault, I pinched the battery to start my MV6 without checking I had the code. It may be in the manuals etc - I will see what I can find and update this thread.
The car is probably on it's original AR25. If you were going to chip it, you'd need to upgrade this to an AR35.
The price is £500If you'd like me to change the auxiliary and air con belts before you collect, I will do this for the additional cost of the belts. This is the only thing that would cause a reliability concern.
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