now available - 2003 r53 - pre-facelift - 96,000 - AERO SKIR
2ND TIME AROUND - WE SOLD THIS LAST YEAR & ITS BACK !
This lovely and clean Electric Blue R53 was sold pretty much as soon as it arrived late last year.
We didn’t get a chance to give it our usual treatment, but now it’s back (due to horrendous insurance premiums for its previous ‘millennial’ owner)
UPDATE ! WE NEED TO REPLACE THE CLUTCH BEFORE ITS READY to g
It’s now getting the love it needs. It's just had a supercharger service with a new water pump, Nissens radiator, with seals & gaskets etc.
There was a massive service by the previous owner and a bill that goes with it, we’ll check all that was done properly.
Next … a thorough interior clean-up and a few extra’s, we've added white bonnet stripes, Wipac original spec spotlights and next the wheels will be changed.
Please watch out for updates.
meet the chilli brothers !
Like buses 2 come along at once.....
One is very poorly with a blown head gasket and an engine that sounds like a 1950's tractor.
The other runs perfectly but suffers with the Dreaded Red lacquer peel.
One will be saving the other and any other parts in decent shape will be used to save and help other MINIS.
A MINI SERIES
We NEVER want to see a MINI die but that's sometimes their fate when they're uneconomically viable to save. We won't get all 'Eco Warrior' and bang on about recycling, but this is the the very epitome isn't it?
Will an E.V be recycled or help to save another in 20+ years ?
Mileage
We all do it, an obsession with ‘low mileage’ now we're not talking about Classic Aston's or Bona-Fide Concours Cars that live in a heated cocoon, we're talking regular everyday moderns.
An 18-year-old car covering a modest 8,000 a year should be on around 144,000 by now. That car has been driven, used regularly and very likely got to temperature all the components have had the oil reach them and ancillaries like the brakes and suspension had a chance to fully warm up and operate.
The low mileage one has either spent a lot of its life doing short journeys and therefore not warming up before being stopped, or it’s just spent a lot of time sitting about.
All cars ‘sweat’ that’s condensation and moisture building up, what happens with no air-flow getting around to dry that off ? RUST The Arch Enemy.
We walk away from too many low mileage ones for this very reason, we'll take the one that's been used regularly.
Sadly all too often REST = RUST
