fez
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I have been looking for an ek9 for a while for the misses, but it seems hard to find one for the right price. So we set out saturday from southwales, up to leeds to view a silver 9 up in leeds. Thought we'd be a bit different as there aren't many around. So travelled 5hours up to leeds in my little crx. Got there and te car wasn't outside so we text the guy as we drove back round the block and as we got back the car was then outside. Which seemed like a bad sign straight away. But it looked stunning, as i looked around it a few things didnt seem right like laquar runs on the door, door and wing different colour to rear 1/4. Looked under the bonnet and it looked nice with the 4-2-1 jasma stamped manifold, sk2 inlet, blox throttle body and aem long arm. But noticed te front panel had been welded which put me off even more. But none the less took it for a spin and it pulled well, and sounded great. But when we got back i was still umming and arring, so i looked underneath and the lca bolts were snapped, the passanger reear arch was full of filler and sanding marks. So that was it i wasn't going to buy it, too many things wrong with.
So we pulled over to try and find another one local as we had travelled so far. So found one on piston heads in middlesex and my great geographical knowledge thought it wasn't far away, couldn't have been more wrong, so down to london we went to view another.
With no phone chargers, using our phones as sat navs we had 10% left and 20% left it was a struggle but we made it. And when we got there the car was spot on, few little parking dents which i expected. Took it for a spin and drove very well for a standard example. So we talked cash, and done a deal and he let us charge our phones and use the laptop to sort out temp cover. So started driving back and the misses was tired so we pulled over and stayed in a premier inn. Next day got back home and a few of the boys were going for a mountain run, so what better way to test out a new car? So more driving, car handles amazing, but back end is very very happy, but i'm going to blame that on the 'kingstar' budgets on the rear, and then the clutch started slipping
so a job for next weekend. But all in all i love it.
So here it is, after near enough 1,000 miles of driving, and about 35hours later, our completly standard prefacelift ek9. 133km (83,000miles)
So we pulled over to try and find another one local as we had travelled so far. So found one on piston heads in middlesex and my great geographical knowledge thought it wasn't far away, couldn't have been more wrong, so down to london we went to view another.
With no phone chargers, using our phones as sat navs we had 10% left and 20% left it was a struggle but we made it. And when we got there the car was spot on, few little parking dents which i expected. Took it for a spin and drove very well for a standard example. So we talked cash, and done a deal and he let us charge our phones and use the laptop to sort out temp cover. So started driving back and the misses was tired so we pulled over and stayed in a premier inn. Next day got back home and a few of the boys were going for a mountain run, so what better way to test out a new car? So more driving, car handles amazing, but back end is very very happy, but i'm going to blame that on the 'kingstar' budgets on the rear, and then the clutch started slipping
so a job for next weekend. But all in all i love it.So here it is, after near enough 1,000 miles of driving, and about 35hours later, our completly standard prefacelift ek9. 133km (83,000miles)
