I am seriously thinking of getting an xr2i 8v for my first car. However my parents would rather me get a newer and more "RELIABLE" car . So what are your views on past experiance on the reliabilty on the xr2i 8v and how easy is it getting parts for them?

Cheers

 

well i have a Hplate

got it in october last year with 107k on clock have done 15K since with no problems

as long as yu look after them, they look after you

change teh oil every 5k or so etc

still pulls great and handles really well

is a good idea as they can be cheap and yu can do alot to em if yu want

mine is standard however

 

to me they just look realy nice, and i have heard they are quite a nippy car for a 1.6. And they seem quite cheap to buy and invest the rest of your money to buy stuff for it

 

yu got it

fairly economical as well

yu can have mine for 500

 

im not after one just yet lol, gotta pull some more money toghther first but cheers.

 

would be nice to get one now but got to wait a bit

Cheers for your help anyway

 

My old H plate was good as gold. Only issue we had was the headgasket (which went after a day of track action) and a few sets of lower arms.

My mum has an H plate and in the 3-4 years she's had it it's sailed every MOT and the only things to fail were the valve stem oil seals and the CPS.

Buy crap you will have grief buy right and you'll be fine

 

Mine's superb as well. Been looked after so it's sweet as fuck!!!


Get a good one, look after it and it'll look after you

 

cheers . Another issue with my parents lol is because they think its an old car they think that the parts are going to be an issue. Are they hard to get hold of?

 

Ive got one as a runaround havnt had it long but so far it runs really well and is much more economical

 

Parts will be quite easy to get hold of with the likes of breakers yards, scrap yards and ebay and they'll be relatively cheaper than newer car parts.

U could even get reconditoned used parts from some places