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From: SteveH on 7 Aug 2010 08:44 The Older Gentleman <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > "Chas" <BeH(a)ve> wrote: > > > I once looked over an imported Miata for an ex-girliefriend being sold by > > an Mx5 enthusiast, he told me that the Jap home market cars were > > undersealed while the UK cars weren't > > > Smells like BS to me. As I recall, it's the other way around, as the Japs don't use salt / grit on their roads and tend to chop their cars in before the first Jap-style 'MOT' test is due. -- SteveH
From: Nige on 7 Aug 2010 08:46 SteveH wrote: > The Older Gentleman <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > >> "Chas" <BeH(a)ve> wrote: >> >>> I once looked over an imported Miata for an ex-girliefriend being sold >>> by >>> an Mx5 enthusiast, he told me that the Jap home market cars were >>> undersealed while the UK cars weren't >> >> >> Smells like BS to me. > > As I recall, it's the other way around, as the Japs don't use salt / > grit on their roads and tend to chop their cars in before the first > Jap-style 'MOT' test is due. I once bought a Isuzu Trooper J reg Jap import & underneath was like new, any UK ones at that age would have flaked away -- Nige, 'Candygram for Mongo' R1
From: Pip Luscher on 7 Aug 2010 11:35 On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 13:46:38 +0100, "Nige" <deead(a)btinternet.com> wrote: >SteveH wrote: >> The Older Gentleman <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> "Chas" <BeH(a)ve> wrote: >>> >>>> I once looked over an imported Miata for an ex-girliefriend being sold >>>> by >>>> an Mx5 enthusiast, he told me that the Jap home market cars were >>>> undersealed while the UK cars weren't >>> >>> >>> Smells like BS to me. >> >> As I recall, it's the other way around, as the Japs don't use salt / >> grit on their roads and tend to chop their cars in before the first >> Jap-style 'MOT' test is due. > >I once bought a Isuzu Trooper J reg Jap import & underneath was like new, >any UK ones at that age would have flaked away Maybe that's how myths get started: the cars come here clean so people assume they're better undersealed. I have no idea about these cars myself, incidentally. -- -Pip
From: Douglas Payne on 7 Aug 2010 12:47 Chas wrote: > > "Nige" <ni(a)btinternet.com> wrote in message > news:8c31jlFjrkU1(a)mid.individual.net... >> Right, gonna get one for a weekend motor.. >> >> Do Eunos go for less money than genuine UK MX5 >> >> Whats the difference if any? >> >> Found a cracking 1993 sepcial with leather etc, mint for �1500, BRG etc >> >> What to look for? >> >> Already sourced a turbo kit :) >> >> What else to really look for? >> >> N. > > I'm told that the imports have far superior rust proofing than their UK > equivalent. Ones from Japan generally don't see salty roads duing their life there so tend to have little or no rot when they arrive. I don't know for sure, but going by the forumsphere, if anything people generally believe that UK domestic cars have more rust proofing than Jap ones rather than the other way round. -- Douglas
From: frag on 7 Aug 2010 12:54
In article <8c36gnFgvuU3(a)mid.individual.net>, ni(a)btinternet.com says... > > >> What to look for? > > > > Something else as you won't fit in a Eunos/MX5, remember? > > I fit in roughly 2 miles round :) FFS, if you've put on that much weigh, you definitely don't want an MX5. -- frag MicroPlanet Gravity Newsreader V3.0 http://mpgravity.sourceforge.net/ |