mickster

Seems like a lot of rare car for the price but why are the photos so terrible (looks like screenshots from camera roll?) and no interior shots 🥴

We had "knock-your-bins-over" strength wind on Thursday and sadly this ripped loose of it's straps so I have returned it. Will let you know what I end up with!

Week just gone I bought a cheap £20 from eBay that claims to be 6 layer. It isn’t, but has kept the car dry yesterday when it rained quite heavily in the afternoon. Item number 404855125625 smallest size, fit is pretty good.

15 years on and this is still a very useful post - have just recoded a Skoda branded fob of the era to work with my Lupo!

I fully intend on keeping it - owning a raven blue is a dream 20 odd years in the making and was part of the reason I sold my black one in 2022. The aim is to restore to standard (although I do like the steering wheel and gearknob Jamie has installed) which will be a long process, it also needs a full respray in addition to the rust sorting. It didn't skip a beat on the ~300 mile journey home so I'm reasonably confident it doesn't need anything major mechanically, in fact the gearbox is a hell of a lot smoother than the one on my 68 plate Up! GTI!

I thought so too and now it’s up to me to do so…

Not mine but this is loverly https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202305127319356

Sod the TDI, that Sport is probably even rarer! It's odd, I remember seeing this episode 20 years ago but didn't recall it was Lupos they were driving.

Last MOT'ed in 2011 so probably gone to the great scrapyard in the sky sadly!

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I replaced my Goodyears on the front about a month ago with Falken ZE310 Ecoruns, I couldn't be arsed messing with non standard sized tyres and there isn't much choice in 195/40R17. £160 all in and I'm liking them, much better in the wet than the Goodyears despite the lower rating that's for sure. The Goodyears had done 15k miles in 4 years and still had a good amount of tread but the sidewalls were cracked to hell and there were cracks running inside the tread too, very dangerous!

This is brilliant! Although personally I think you should have kept the spoiler raven blue and painted the car to match 😉

Is that the £5.5K one perchance? I won't profess to being particularly knowledgeable but to get the ball rolling - I think aside from the fact they are slightly less desired by the purists among us there isn't much to be concerned about, beyond what you'd be looking for on a UK example. Japanese cars tend to be much less prone to rust and corrosion so that is probably the biggest pro. Check that the speedometer has been changed over as the Japanese use kilometers I believe not miles. And if it is the one I said then the only way to get a replacement headlight washerjet cover is from a chap on here or Facebook that 3D prints them as VW don't make them anymore!

Apparently the original listing didn't have pic number 7 and this is why the first buyer refused to proceed. I'm no expert but it does look rather corroded!

Chap that bought it now has one in every colour apparently!