Benzine
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| posted on 5/9/08 at 07:01 PM |
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Where to buy a used car
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?
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owelly
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| posted on 5/9/08 at 07:06 PM |
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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]
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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owelly
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| posted on 5/9/08 at 07:08 PM |
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http://www.fish4.co.uk/ls/nwqstrbdgnws/cars/result/?CAR_MAKE=3797&CAR_MODEL=4089&DISTANCE=30&areaId=206227&LOCATION=STOURBRIDGE
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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Peteff
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| posted on 5/9/08 at 07:20 PM |
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Adtrader.
Set your distance and post code and see what turns up.
Here's one!
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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tomblyth
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| posted on 5/9/08 at 07:31 PM |
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BOUGHT MY LAST CAR ON EBAY! NO BOTHER CHEEP AND EASY! JUST SEARCH FOR PRIVATE SELERS ONLY
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britishtrident
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| posted on 5/9/08 at 07:36 PM |
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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]
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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adithorp
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| posted on 5/9/08 at 07:57 PM |
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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
"A witty saying proves nothing" Voltaire
http://jpsc.org.uk/forum/
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speedyxjs
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| posted on 5/9/08 at 08:05 PM |
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Another vote for the bay 
How long can i resist the temptation to drop a V8 in?
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clairetoo
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| posted on 5/9/08 at 08:27 PM |
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My last four cars came from the bay of E - still buzzing around in the £600 corsa I got 2 1/2 years ago 
Its cuz I is blond , innit
Claire xx
Will weld for food......
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Axe_wielder
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| posted on 12/9/08 at 01:31 PM |
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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)
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