• Engine out, all the seals and ancillaries was £500 so actually opening the engine up and rebuilding, I’d say £1000?

    I’ve got a few MX5 friends who are being very kind, going to have a bbq and fit an eBay engine.

  • Shit news about the MX but glad theres a solution on the horizon.

    I had something similar happen when I picked up a Renault Master van that my dad had bought from Epsom and had to take it back up to Hexham. Day started badly when my sense of direction failed me and I went the wrong way around the M25, having to do a full lap to get to my junction to the M1 and then getting worse when the engine seized whilst cruising past Boroughbridge. Waited at the side of the A1 for about 4hrs until they could get a low loader big enough to uplift it home, in which time I was passed by the Megabus I had meant to be taking home before my dad asked me to do him the favour and drive the van home!

    Hopefully you get it done in decent time so you don't miss too much of the summer.

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