My girlfriend really wants a automatic nissan micra (the old shape, the one that looks like a pear drop/mad hippo) She's tried some places like autotrader & other online places but every ad she's phoned have said "it was sold a couple of weeks ago" Are there any big used car places that would sell them in the east midlands area? or where would you look?
a few seconds found a few.
Just google "micra auto sale midlands"
ETS I've binned the first link as the item had gone!!
[Edited on 5/9/08 by owelly]
Set your distance and post code and see what turns up.
Here's one!
BOUGHT MY LAST CAR ON EBAY! NO BOTHER CHEEP AND EASY! JUST SEARCH FOR PRIVATE SELERS ONLY
Automatic Micra K11 --- good ones are gold dust Beware the CVT transmision I have heard one failure at 3,000 miles though in normal
little old lady use 30,00 to 50,00 seems more typical although I know of one that went over 100K miles.
With the new model in 2003 they discontinued using the CVT switching to a conventional JATCO automatic --- you have to ask why ?
Mackie Transmissions in Glasgow is the Uk expert in these transmisions they overhaul boxes for Nissan UK
As for non-auto K11 Micras always loads of nice ones at auction cheap the trade don't like them because they nearly all K11s have a problem with
the throttlebody that causes stalling and can be very expensive to fix if you use official Nissan parts --- actually it can be fixed in half an hour
with a soldering iron.
[Edited on 5/9/08 by britishtrident]
[Edited on 5/9/08 by britishtrident]
Make sure you check the front cross-member. They rot at the ends below the rad. Apart from that you can't go far wrong.
adrian
Another vote for the bay
My last four cars came from the bay of E - still buzzing around in the £600 corsa I got 2 1/2 years ago 
Hallo,
Thanks for recomnding Ebay, got a 1996 micra with new front cross membre, for £646, picked him up yesterday, Hes been christened grimbles the demented
hippo 
Miss Beanie (bens other 1/3rd)