Should I oppo?

"Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell." (oppisitelock) 05/26/2016 at 05:19 • Filed to: None

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I think I should.

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BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/26/2016 at 05:31

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You most definately should!

MarqCars > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/26/2016 at 05:31

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Whats the insurance like on those? I just moved to the UK from American and I’m having a HARD time as a 21 y.o. trying to find anything under 1K pounds a year

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 05/26/2016 at 05:32

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I’ve always wanted an mr2.

Alfalfa > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/26/2016 at 05:32

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I’ve often wondered what owning one of these is like. You should certainly buy it to satisfy my curiosity.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > MarqCars 05/26/2016 at 05:35

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Probably not good, I would probably flip it rather than keep it. I’m about to turn 22 and have 2 years no claims so its possible to insure it but still pretty high. But if you want something with low insurance small capacity diesels are a good bet, I only paid £700 for my first year at 20 on a 1.3 diesel panda (although don’t buy one of those, mine blew up twice.)

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Alfalfa 05/26/2016 at 05:36

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I would be there buying it now but it needs to be trailered unfortunately and I don’t have one. Guna see if I can get hold of one.

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/26/2016 at 05:38

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Me too, but they’re still quite expensive over here, way too expensive to have as a fun second car, and the fuel economy is too high to use it as a daily driver, compared to the Twingo.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 05/26/2016 at 05:44

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Yeah I don’t know whether I could keep it, most likely clean up and sell for a small profit.

MarqCars > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/26/2016 at 05:49

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I gotcha. The prices are insane compared to back in the states! I was looking at a couple of Pandas as well but I’ll take your word and not get one. My partner used to have a red Twingo Extreme similar to yours but we sold it just after I moved in December. Could have been Twingo Twins!

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > MarqCars 05/26/2016 at 05:52

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Yeah they’re pretty high. Petrol pandas seem pretty reliable actually, its just the diesels which seem to have regular turbo issues. Haha oppo always needs more Twingo.

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/26/2016 at 05:55

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Don’t know what the average MR2 goes for over there, but here they are around €5-10k, with mileage and year almost not having an influence. The only outlier is a very rough RHD one for €3k, it doesn’t even have matching colours on all of the parts and has a lot of dings, way worse that that one you posted. If the UK has a similar market, you should be able to make quite a bit on it.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 05/26/2016 at 05:57

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With that mileage but in nicer condition they can clear £1500, I reckon I could clean that one up into a £1000 car.

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/26/2016 at 06:01

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While not that much, it still is a nice added benefit for fixing up a car, which is great on its own of course.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 05/26/2016 at 06:06

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Yeah I’d only be doing it for fun. Plus they’ve now dropped the price to £595 on their autotrader ad.

BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/26/2016 at 06:21

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Used car ads from Britain always make me chuckle. That car would be worth ten times that much in the US.

Doooooooo eeeeeeeeeetttttt!

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind 05/26/2016 at 06:28

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Yeah our prices are bloody fantastic, the huge running costs balance it out though.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/26/2016 at 06:42

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I think you should also, as well.

MultiplaOrgasms > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/26/2016 at 06:46

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From what I recall these earlier ZZW30s have some kind of fatal issue with the engines, don’t know what precisely.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > MultiplaOrgasms 05/26/2016 at 06:54

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So what you’re saying is it needs a 2jz swap.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/26/2016 at 07:02

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No

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 05/26/2016 at 07:04

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Haha I wasn’t going to ask you actually I know you’re crazy busy. A friends dad has one of those crappy trailers the AA use that you put two wheels up on. Need to find an electrics board for it and it should do the job if he let’s me use it.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 05/26/2016 at 07:07

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Kinda like this but with a nice coating of rust.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/26/2016 at 07:39

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https://www.gumtree.com/p/toyota/ferra…

thats the weakest attempt I’ve ever seen

AndyG_UK > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/26/2016 at 07:54

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That is well cheap, even if it needs a few things sorting on it, I’d do it! It says trade sales only, do you have anything to identify you as a trader cos I know when one of my friends wanted to buy a trade only car a few years ago he had to get someone he knew that ones a garage to go along with him to buy it for him.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > AndyG_UK 05/26/2016 at 08:14

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I know someone who did have a trade licence but I’ll have to ask if he still does. Same guy I’m trying to borrow a trailer off.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > OPPOsaurus WRX 05/26/2016 at 08:15

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The duck went on in their mind when they were building that.

MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig > MultiplaOrgasms 05/26/2016 at 08:20

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That would be the cat in the exhaust manifold. It degrades and can get sucked back into the engine, nuking it. Also, the 1ZZ in general has really poor quality rings and they burn oil like crazy. Best thing to do is swap either a 2ZZ from a Celica GTS/Corolla XRS/Matrix XRS/Vibe GT/Elise/Exige or even a Honda K-series swap.

MultiplaOrgasms > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/26/2016 at 09:10

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6BT

djmt1 > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/26/2016 at 09:11

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Yup then get a Celica 190, swap the 2ZZ GE from that & the 6 speed (make sure you put the LSD from the MR2 into the 6 speed) into the MR2 and bang, £2,000 Lotus Elise. Or go one better pick up a supercharger on eBay and bang #2, £3000 Lotus Exige.

Also yes I’ve been thinking hard about this since mid engined RWD convertibles are for some reason very to cheap to insure here. Well cheap for me at £1000ish.

gawdzillla > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/26/2016 at 09:12

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these things are so slow tho

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > gawdzillla 05/26/2016 at 15:49

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Have you seen what I DD? An mr2 is a rocketship in comparison.

gawdzillla > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/26/2016 at 16:16

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no, but for that price i’d buy 3 of them just to sit them in my driveway

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > djmt1 05/26/2016 at 18:37

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I’d love to take on a project like that but I don’t really have the means. Also I couldn’t get this mr2, dude who used to have a trade licence no longer does (long story) and they refuse to sell it to a private buyer apparently.

Out, but with a W - has found the answer > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/26/2016 at 18:56

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If you do, get a 2003+ one, chances of precat failure and engine destruction are a lot lower. Source: I might buy one this Saturday.