Well, sort of.. I bought it for my Mum as a cheap car that we wont cry about when it gets shaken to pieces on the rough country roads it will live on. Plus, for the dollars, it was impossible to beat for a decent largish wagon.

Scored a 94 TS 2.6 Exec wagon with 175K km and 8 months reg for $1250. Spent another 300 on a RWC, transfer fees and a service/ s/h towbar and some random bits like a seatbelt/rack boot and had to change a welch plug at the back (inlet manifold off dammit...). Cheap car :cool: Bit rough around the edges, but it all works and no big issues.

Has a bit of a chain rattle, but should be ok for a bit yet, and it doesn't blow smoke (!!) even.

But, as the username suggests, I am a French car driver myself. Now before all the comments kick in, i am going out on a limb and say that this thing is way more tricky to work on than any of my trusty Renaults!! Not had much to do with Jap cars, so maybe I am just used to the euro way of doing things, but jeez... The electrics have been doing my head in a bit - annoying check engine light was a pain to fix! But I do like the way you can get fault codes out with a voltmeter (then again i have never had to look for a fault code on the renos, so not sure which is better there :badgrin: ).

But you will be sure to hear more questions on this thing as time goes by - i seem to have become the family mechanic, so better learn my way around the (hopefully) trusty Magna lol

Welcome on board. Im sure if you can get around renault's you can get around magnas :D

Feel free to ask any questions, alot of people willing to help at the drop of a hat!

Pce

benny

Welcome. to the club..

Enjoy your stay.. :D :D

Welcome!

Cheers guys :D Magnas got my attention a while ago when an old girlfriend crashed her TM wagon - she "slept walked" and drove!!!!! Woke up in the wreck miles from home!! Was impressed with its crash protection to be honest, and helped her buy an exact replacement as she wanted another one!

That and 2500km in a hired 380 SX - now that was a damn fine car! Interior design seriously plagerised from a Renault Megane - but i consider a compliment :cool: But it was a chassis balance that hooked me - damn that thing could hustle for such a big car! Have had plenty of VEs and BFs to drive, and this was sooooo much better (being a reno driver, i like a well set up front drive chassis ;) )

The old TS seems like a decent old bus - handling pretty wooden and floaty compared to the euros, but its to be expected. Seems pretty solid though, and hopefully it will not suck too much juice if well tuned and driven quietly!


On that note - who thinks what about converting to LPG? might start a new thread on that.

On that note - who thinks what about converting to LPG? might start a new thread on that.

A little while ago there was a poll on petrol consumption for 2nd gens. I wrote a fair bit about LPG conversions in there so check it out using the search function. Can't quite remember the name of the thread but maybe some other kind AMC member could post the name or even a link.

Happy posting.