right.... after slightly ignoring your advice i went to have a look at the RST (he lives in the same village as me)

heres the low down. the shell has done 108,242 miles. its a F-reg. It has covered 42 miles since last MOT as it sits in his garage as second car and its done about 70 miles since engine rebuild.It had an engine rebuild a year and a half ago and now has a mk5 1.8 16v bottom end on it thats done 50,000 and a recon 1.6 head with double layered head gasket on low compression i think he said. Its got a Pipercross with baileys dump valve.ABS (dont know if thats standard or not). The battery tray and area underneath fuse box has been cut out replaced and painted. other rot is on inside of boot (get a 2nd hand boot?) there is a crack on the front bumper but he has new bumper ready for painting which has cut out in middle for greater air intake. 4` scorpion straight through with koni adjustables and 90 spec recaro interior. no tax. MOT till end of august. visible filler is behind back right hand wheel underneath the bumper where it fixes against bodywork. hes selling because he has no time for it anymore. driver window motor needs replacing. basically few niggles to be sorted. its up for £2k but he said hes willing to negotiate. i was going to get it on a ramp and get it looked over tommorow. any more thoughts guys?