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Old Sep 13, 2004 | 08:41 AM
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I went to see an S2000 with a new buyer from the board yesterday, this car was fitted with a Fapa style boot-rack (I didn't check the make)

Anyway, the boot rack mountings were catching on the inside of the car, and had gone through the paint. The car had actually started rusting quite badly where this had happened.

I don't know if it was fitted incorrectly, but I just thought I'd better let you know. It's put me off buying one of these racks TBH.

BTW The car was a shed It hadn't even been washed
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Old Sep 13, 2004 | 09:21 AM
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Post details of the car so no-one else buys it!

I've had no issues like that with the rack - it needs care when fitting
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Old Sep 13, 2004 | 10:10 AM
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Black 02 in Tyneside with full red in the autotrader.

Very low on oil, interior very worn for 25k miles, steering wheel not straight when driving, dirtiest engine bay I've ever seen and rust where the boot rack had been, very heavy clutch, a few paint chips round the doors, and it had the most horrendous rattles.

Could have been ok if the seller spent
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Old Sep 13, 2004 | 11:57 AM
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Everything has a price.

I recently bid
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Old Sep 13, 2004 | 12:20 PM
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The fact that it wasn't even washed but the guy wanted almost
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Old Sep 13, 2004 | 01:13 PM
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Here's some photos of the car in Newcastle, Neil very kindly offered to view this car with me & I'd like to say what a top guy.

I viewed two S2K's over the weekend both around the
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Old Sep 13, 2004 | 10:35 PM
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Originally Posted by tomthumm,Sep 13 2004, 10:13 PM
he was selling it because it had too many gears!


That's almost as good as the guy who didn't buy one because the dash was too bright
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