This article discusses the Mazda MX-5 as a great value used car, particularly focusing on a specific NC model available for £995. It highlights the car's reliability, fun factor, and affordability, while acknowledging common issues like rust and noisy differentials.
A good NC MX-5 makes a great Shed buy at the usual £2k threshold - even more so at half that...US founding father Benjamin Franklin once said that nothing was certain apart from death and taxes. If he’d managed to stay alive for another 230 years or so he would very likely have added ‘rusty MX-5 sills’ to that quote.
Shed paid buttons for his latest NB and he will probably keep it for a few years before embarking on a hunt for the next one. That’s because for him the MX-5 is the perfect little car: fast enough to be fun, super reliable, easy to fix on the rare occasions that it needs any fixing, and a regular source of innocent pleasure on a sunny day with the top down to accompany the guilty pleasure he gets when the postmistress is sitting alongside him with her top down.
He’s never considered upgrading to an NC, as the elevated driving position always makes him think ‘coracle’, but the example you’re looking at here might change his mind.in the sort of visual condition you’d expect from a 79,000-mile car, which is fair because that’s exactly what it is. ‘Visual’ being the key word there, but the MOT history is as reassuring as it can be about the solidity of this car.
What else? Well, NCs are known for developing a whining noise from the back end that isn’t the noise of a worn wheel bearing. It can be a sign of wear in the diff gearwheels, or if you’re lucky nothing more than a hint that it might be time to change the diff fluid. Sometimes though it’s simply road noise coming up through the drain tubes. Engine-wise, contaminants can build up in the throttle body causing stuttering/surging at idle or when slowing down.
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