Hello all!
I’m considering buying a family friends 1990 MK1 1.6, first registered in 1994,160k miles and one owner since then. It’s always been a car that I would love to have and he is looking to just get rid and asked for around £500 (more likely to be less). I have no experience at all with anything car restoration related and trying to figure out if it’s going to be worth it at all. I haven’t seen the vehicle yet as he’s away for a couple of weeks but I have the number plate and looked up the last MOT status (I’ve put all the advisories below).
I know I need to have a look at the vehicle first but would love some advice to what to look out for (I already know it has a bit of rust which is expected with a car of this age). Also just general advice to if I should go ahead/ if I do ahead what kind of things I will have to do to get it back to a good working car and fix the rust issues etc.
Any advice would be much appreciated, thanks!
Monitor and repair if necessary (advisories):
- Nearside Front Upper Suspension arm corroded but not seriously weakened (5.3.3 (b) (i))
- Nearside Front Lower Suspension arm corroded but not seriously weakened (5.3.3 (b) (i))
- Offside Front Upper Suspension arm corroded but not seriously weakened (5.3.3 (b) (i))
- Offside Front Lower Suspension arm corroded but not seriously weakened (5.3.3 (b) (i))
- Nearside Rear Upper Suspension arm corroded but not seriously weakened (5.3.3 (b) (i))
- Nearside Rear Lower Suspension arm corroded but not seriously weakened (5.3.3 (b) (i))
- Offside Rear Upper Suspension arm corroded but not seriously weakened (5.3.3 (b) (i))
- Offside Rear Lower Suspension arm corroded but not seriously weakened (5.3.3 (b) (i))
- vehicle corroded underneath
- Front Anti-roll bar corroded but not seriously weakened (5.3.3 (b) (i))
- Rear Anti-roll bar corroded but not seriously weakened (5.3.3 (b) (i))
- Offside Suspension component mounting prescribed area is corroded but not considered excessive sill (5.3.6 (a) (i))
- Offside Front lower part of wing corroded
- Nearside Front Brake hose slightly deteriorated (1.1.12 (b) (ii))
- Offside Front Brake hose slightly deteriorated (1.1.12 (b) (ii))
- Nearside Rear Brake hose slightly deteriorated (1.1.12 (b) (ii))
- Offside Rear Brake hose slightly deteriorated (1.1.12 (b) (ii))
- Offside Front Service brake binding but not excessively (1.2.1 (f))
- Nearside Rear Brake pad(s) wearing thin (1.1.13 (a) (ii))
- Oil leak, but not excessive (8.4.1 (a) (i))