Nearly bought a Mini with the Metro turbo engine...

Spoke to the guy (a Brunel graduate and then FORD MECHANIC, what a fuckin joke) he told me the shell was spotless, it started on the button and boosted fine blah blah.

Get there he was trying to spray wd40 on the alternator belt to keep it quiet, since tightening it didn't cross his pigshit mind. Wires were literally glowing round the fusebox they were all totally the wrong ratings. It was rotten in the boot, had a cheap dtm kit on there that was trashed on the NSF which he forgot to mention before I'd set off 2 hours earlier

Went for a drive severly pissed off, only to see him messing with the choke and bleed valve constantly just to keep it running let alone boosting. It was a total shitbox and the one bit he actually seemed proud of the 'Cossie Intercooler' was just a knackered Fiesta Turbo one a scrappy had done well to get a tenner for. Useless little tosser he was