Recently I have been thinking about thinning my collection of cars and have concluded I have a couple of options.
1. Sell my polo g40, but this has no mot currently, so is worthless without one.
2. Sell my mx5
3. Sell my mx5, get the polo back on the road, then sell the polo too.
4. Fix up the mx5s rusty arch lips and ignore the costs as tbh it has been mega reliable
5. Run the mx5 till it fails the mot on rear arch rust, then use the running gear for a kit car and finally part company with the polo
6. break the mx5 for spares (it has pleanty of goodies, highlights being the really nice condition red leather seats. Everything on it is good bar the rear arch lips)
Now the problem I have is that I don't know if the mx5 is worth selling. It is a great little car, but it has a pretty huge mileage of 173k and need a bit of tidying to the rear arches to make mint (nothing too serious, but you would need to respray the rear quarter panels after welding arch repairs in, which if done by a pro rather than diy would be around £600 worth of work and clearly not worth investing in such a high mileage car).
I have recently just had the cambelt and waterpump done, along with a fresh oil and filter change, also taxed it for 12 months, those things alone tot up the best part of £600.
I think I would want to get somewhere close to £850 for it as I think I could get that back for it in bits, but I can't help but think most people will be put off by the mileage.
1. Sell my polo g40, but this has no mot currently, so is worthless without one.
2. Sell my mx5
3. Sell my mx5, get the polo back on the road, then sell the polo too.
4. Fix up the mx5s rusty arch lips and ignore the costs as tbh it has been mega reliable
5. Run the mx5 till it fails the mot on rear arch rust, then use the running gear for a kit car and finally part company with the polo
6. break the mx5 for spares (it has pleanty of goodies, highlights being the really nice condition red leather seats. Everything on it is good bar the rear arch lips)
Now the problem I have is that I don't know if the mx5 is worth selling. It is a great little car, but it has a pretty huge mileage of 173k and need a bit of tidying to the rear arches to make mint (nothing too serious, but you would need to respray the rear quarter panels after welding arch repairs in, which if done by a pro rather than diy would be around £600 worth of work and clearly not worth investing in such a high mileage car).
I have recently just had the cambelt and waterpump done, along with a fresh oil and filter change, also taxed it for 12 months, those things alone tot up the best part of £600.
I think I would want to get somewhere close to £850 for it as I think I could get that back for it in bits, but I can't help but think most people will be put off by the mileage.
