good advice from Chris. ,.

another thought would be....run the car for 11months then part-ex it with 1 months MOT, most garges give a minimum £500 trade in. Or even scrap value would be £100-£150. (Aylesbury scrappy prices as of 2 weeks ago)

so my thought would be to run it for almost a year, don't bother getting it serviced and trade in or scrap....

looking on autotrader, the pumas are worth 500-1000 and some greedy dealers asking up to £2000 for a car they stopped making in 2001....

great cars though...i used to own a year 2000. puma before family came along...there was a great owners club called pumapeople. great for help and advice...common issues back then included steamed up head/tail lights, parcel shelves falling out, electric window switches,,,and stone chips behind the doors (thrown up from the front wheels..) and of course as they got older,,,rusty rear wheel arches etc.....I used to put an old sock over the gear knob in the winter....boy did that ally thing get cold hahahaha

Paul.

(Had a panther black puma 1.7 LUX.) not a "puma black"(special edition with black leather)

MOT advisories are exactly that, advisories. They are intended as items not bad enough to fail but in the opinion of the tester ought to be brought to your attention. They don't necessarily have to be testable items either. Any defect on the car testable or not can be recorded as an advisory. You are under no obligation to take the testers advice, and certainly not to have any repairs carried out by the station that conducted your test.

The MOT test is a set of laid down procedures and methods of testing. Anything that fails must be below the minimum required standard as defined by VOSA. Anything that is defective but not below the minimum standard can be recorded as an advisory.

Waxoyl, preferably before such advisories, think of it as part of normal car care.