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Oh, one other random thing is that the design of the windscreen washer reservoir means that over time gunk can build up and block the jets. To remove and clean you need to take a wheel off and remove bodywork from the inside wheel arch.
It's the sort of thing you could diy if you have off-street parking and all the equipment. Not expensive to pay someone to do it though. Anyway point is, if you're buying from a dealer check the jets work properly and you're best off using premix rather than adding london tap water. That said, when I did the maths it was basically equal price over 5hrs to pay a garage to clean the reservoir. So it's not really important.
All in all they're great cars.
If you're in North London, tecnosport are a good indy.
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Seems to be common on lots of cars and mixing premixed can cause issues.
Yes I'm cleaning my reservoir, pipes and jets for that reason. Seems to contain something akin to a gelatinous substance. That is very difficult to remove.
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Cheers for this! We're up in the North East but there are a couple of local specialists up here. Hoping to get a few cars lined up to look at next weekend.
lynx
tyeness
@midlife @el_presidente @hugo7 thanks folks, that's all good to know and rings true with the "buyers" guide type things I've been reading.
We're hoping to see one which has just had the clutch done (not so sure abt options packs) and think the seller is in the trade and is flipping it. Previous sale was salvage auction but there's nothing on the hpi and it's in one piece in the photos on the auction listing. We wondered if the previous owner panicked at service costs and part-exed it and that tip about the expensive clutch seems to fit the theory.