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Good evening. I have just heard from tescos that they will not insure me for any mods on my mini (gotta be 21) meaning the mountain of stuff in my room and the few bits that I have bothered to fit are marginally illegal.
I want to buy a runnaround to get me to june (19 and 2 years NCB) so i can insure my mini with HIC or some mini specialist company. I'm thinking early 90s micra or maybe a starlet as the engines seem pretty bullet proof and can go for a bit.
My only concern is the MOT, what sort of thing do these fail on and are they the kind of things a learner mechanic with a socket set can sort out as most of the cars f/s have 3-4months MOt on but i will lose loadsa money if i sell it wouthout MOT.
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'88 Toyota Supra Turbo
'88 Honda VFR 400 NC24
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Rust, rust and more rust. And some seem to have very smokey engines. However they are brilliant little things and if you find a half decent one you'll love it. They do seem piddle easy to work on too which is a right old bonus.
Shop around and I can't see why you couldn't find a decent one with a few months test for £200 or under. If it fails big time at next test eBay it and watch some mug pay £150+ for it.
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Corsa Apology Champion 2014.
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that bad on the rust? just gotta hope its superficial and not near a structural point wrt the MOT.
I had planned on spending 2-300 but i would like to sell it with some test otherwise it could just sit on my drive for ages waiting to be collected by a scapper.
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'88 Toyota Supra Turbo
'88 Honda VFR 400 NC24
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Mike D
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 2,196
Club RR Member Number: 57
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Why not just go with a specialist mini insurer that'll cover you on the mods? Doing it that way i've found it cheaper to insure a modified car than to insure a standard car with the 'big name' insurers  The 1300 Starlets go quite well, as do the 1300 16v K11 Micrii Micra parts are easy to come across, mechanically they seem pretty good, just watch out for rust. Buy a solid one and you should be ok |
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k10 micra hace problems with carbs,also sills rot as do wings and rear arches sort those and there proper ideal little cars.k11 micra suffer from rot butt the injection engines are quite decent. 1ltr 16v or 1.3 16v twin cam ideal run around
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I'm not after performance, don't want to raise my premiums from my 998 mini v8mike. I could swap now but i will lose a heavy admin fee and a years ncb as tesco only transfer whole ncbs.
k11 seems the way forward, all 16v injection which seems kl. rust is ok as long as its not structural, just mot i need, not sexy cars.
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'88 Toyota Supra Turbo
'88 Honda VFR 400 NC24
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How about a KP61 starlet? Bit of rwd action that way!
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mrj
Posted a lot
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my wife has a Starlet (1998), this car is probably the best ever made, dull in my eyes but very reliable; we changed in 100.000 miles : 1 set of tyres, cambelt, front brake discs and the battery (after 9 years); and thats all (of course we also changed the usual maintanance items), exhaust, rear brakes etc. are still the parts from 1998 .... no rust, a very low fuel consumption....
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- 1971 VW 1600 TL Fastback
- 1978 Passat GLS Variant
- 1980 Audi 100 5E
- 1981 VW aircooled panel van (sold)
- 1983 VW Jetta Mk.I
- 1984 VW Polo Coupé
- 1984 VW Passat hatchback
- 1987 VW Passat Variant
- 1987 VW Passat hatchback
- 1988 VW T25
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The plus side of Micras is that wings and arches can be filled/'glassed and sprayed over easily enough and be perfectly fine for the MOT. As you say though structural rot is another thing. Starlets will fetch a good price in almost any condition due to popularity with banger racers and track day-ers so if you do score a cheap one you should see a decent return on it when you come to sell it.
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