Hi Guys,

I am new to the forum, have just purchased a 10/97 TF Advance - manual for 8100$ from Auction. It has 67000KM's and March 05 rego and requires its next service at 75000KM. Its in v clean condition in and out and a sort of grey blue metalic colour.

So far have found the back elec windows both dont work and there is no power/light in the rear electric window switches on the centre console. Do u reckon this will be a major expense?

The front right hand headlight is cracked. Does anyone know how much this will cost for a second hand one in sydney and where?

There is an easily repairable scrape which has pulled some paint off on the rear left hand wing. A bit of spray will fix it I hope.

Do u reckon with all these problems that I have made a bad purchase.

Any advice would be really helpfull, will hopefully pick the car up tommorow and test drive it:)

:D

bargain mate


low kms, manual, cant ask for much more

welcome to am

thanks for the welcome.

Feeling a little less stressed just hope there are no major probs with it. Petty happy its a manual becuase I can,t drive an auto being from the UK origionally we hardly ever see an Auto.

Cheers

great price, low km's, those little problems you spoke off shouldn't be that expensive to fix, you could probably figure out a way to fix the power feed problem to the rear elec windows yourself. As the head lights goes, you can spend a little more, eg $500 and you could install nice parabolics from Veradas onto your car.

welcome to the forums.

awesome deal! wish id got such a good deal have fun with it

Hi Guys,

I am new to the forum, have just purchased a 10/97 TF Advance - manual for 8100$ from Auction. It has 67000KM's and March 05 rego and requires its next service at 75000KM. Its in v clean condition in and out and a sort of grey blue metalic colour.

So far have found the back elec windows both dont work and there is no power/light in the rear electric window switches on the centre console. Do u reckon this will be a major expense?

The front right hand headlight is cracked. Does anyone know how much this will cost for a second hand one in sydney and where?

There is an easily repairable scrape which has pulled some paint off on the rear left hand wing. A bit of spray will fix it I hope.

Do u reckon with all these problems that I have made a bad purchase.

Any advice would be really helpfull, will hopefully pick the car up tommorow and test drive it:)

:D


SON OF A *** #$#@#$ #@$ &^& 435$%# ^%%^%^ 3$%$#%%$#@$@# #$#@%$%$#


I WAS chasing a friggen advanced manual for *** yonks, had to give up in the end and go for an auto :|


excellent buy mate, nice cheap price n low kms :D wow

That is a bargain deal mate :)

welcome to AMC.

Bargain mate. I got full screwed over when I bought mine.

Bargain mate. I got full screwed over when I bought mine.
why cos its front wheel drive :bowrofl:

great buy mate :D
i got my 98 TF sports 2 years ago now for $6750

why cos its front wheel drive

lol arent' charades fwd?

yeah but i know my car is **** :P

tf advance with power windows???
manual for 8900 with less km's than mine?? (mine had 68000..)

I got mine last year for $14.500

Dont i look stupid...

and mines an auto..

and i agree with turbo_charade :bowrofl:

Drove the car back from auction today and she drives pretty well and it also appears to have a FSH and was first registered 04/98 which is a bonus but its got a few strange things about it like a lack of a drivers rear view mirror.

Cant imagine why anyone would drive without one of these? I got beeped a couple of times on the way home.

Anyone any idea what a new one costs?

Gonna get a mate who is a mechanic to check under the car soon and reckon i,m bound to find a few wallet hungry suprises.

Its a great car though and feels good and powerfull and so smooth even compared against my 141RWKW MX5 Turbo which is nt so smooth.

Cheers

but its got a few strange things about it like a lack of a drivers rear view mirror.


hahahahha
im sorry, that just sounded really funny lol

why cos its front wheel drive :bowrofl:


I'm over you on these forums. Its a Magna forum and you dont even own one!!!!!

You actually own a little piece of crap that ppl laugh at on the road. If you want to be part of a Magna Club then buy a Magna, otherwise, piss off, you talk absolute sh1t!!!!!

I'm over you on these forums. Its a Magna forum and you dont even own one!!!!!

You actually own a little piece of crap that ppl laugh at on the road. If you want to be part of a Magna Club then buy a Magna, otherwise, piss off, you talk absolute sh1t!!!!!

gremlin man, not having a good day are you? :badpc:

its got a few strange things about it like a lack of a drivers rear view mirror.

Cant imagine why anyone would drive without one of these? I got beeped a couple of times on the way home.

Anyone any idea what a new one costs?



Cheers

i was mising this on mine aswell, must be something bout the auctions
cost me $25 from auto barn and just had to buy a special glue for about $8
hasnt fallen off in 2 years

Paid $48 bucks for the mirror from mitsubishi(what a rip off), and $130 for replacement front light from Autopro. Just need to get the rear electric windows working now.

Got a mate who is mechanice to get under and check the car out and all is very very good, I must have had beginers luck at the auction this time:)

The magna must be one of the, if not the best buys in terms of second hand cars!

Definitely a great buy!( I'm a bit late aren't I :confused: ) At that price you can afford lots of nice mod's. Welcome to the forum. Keep us posted. :cool:

What do you guys think of a 97 TF Sports 5 spd, lowered, 17" adrenalins, extractors, sentinal headlights, stock sports exhaust from the factory, pretty straight, electric antenna, tinting is a bit scratched, few stone chips, 60,000k, whiteline front and rear stabiliser bars, $11,800...???

I picked it up a couple of weeks ago?

Good deal?

My thoughts - You have been siphoning through a lot of old threads!!

$12k for a 97 magna seems a bit steep if you're basing it on market value because typicaly small mods don't add a whole lot of value to the car. I guess if its in good nick though and you combine all the mags, lowering etc probably it's worth it. You should check to make sure that it really appears and drives like a 60,000 km car. 60,000kms over just under 8 years equates to about only 8,000 kms per year travelled - rare for someone who would buy a 5 speed manual with mags, extractors and lower it. Usually its the elderly who do so few kms. I would just check the dash to make sure it doesn't look like they have replaced it with a new one and wound the kms down. Although it's unlikely to be the case, it happens so I would check it with such a low km car of that age.