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meltie
Nov 9, 2003

Not a sodding fridge.

Sperglord Firecock posted:

This is a valid point.

I just did some minor research with a guy who knows stuff, and apparently the problem lies in the body design of the MR2, where water just naturally collects in the engine compartment and rusts it pretty bad.

Main rust problems with the AW11 (the Mk1 MR2 you're looking at there) is that the rear arches and sills are badly designed so will trap water and rust.

There are two types of AW11 - ones that have the arches repaired, and ones that will need it doing soon!

Some body parts can be hard to come by: the front air dam for example is NLA so if it's cracked then you will need to deal with it.

I also had problems with mine where the front crossmember rusted out so it looked like the car was drooling brown goo, but that might've just been that it sat for about six years on a UK driveway before I had it ;)



I must clarify: It was an absolutely fantastic car though, nicely quirky. More interesting than a Miata but more difficult to get bits for. Toyota still have a lot of parts available however.

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