Andy’s Sable 2004

[MrAndyP]

So having been an owner of two AW11's in the 2000's, I found myself towards the latter half of 2025 looking for an MR2 again. I didn't want it as a daily driver, I have my family wagon for that. I wanted something for a bit of weekend fun and perhaps odd track day here and there.

Fast forward to January of this year I bought a 2004 Red edition on eBay without having seen it. I had never even sat in a ZZW30 before never mind driven one!   It had only done 65k and looked pretty clean so I thought why not?  I travelled from Chester to Lincolnshire to pick it up and the drive back went without a hitch and I was really pleased with my purchase.

Here's how it looked just after I got it home.







The first thing I wanted to do was pick up a hard top so I bought one from a member on here. I struggled for head height with the soft top up when wearing my helmet so the hardtop bought me an extra bit of headroom for track days.

Shortly after that, I replaced the brake hoses with Goodridge stainless ones, all discs and pads for a Pagid ones and a K&N panel filter. I got all this done at MR2 Ben who is pretty close to where I live.

In March I booked onto a track day at Oulton Park which is only 30 minutes from me. The day before the track day I checked the tyres and decided to replace the fronts.

The previous owner had fitted some Falken tyres on the rear which were only a few months old, but the front had a brand I'd never heard of - albeit with plenty of tread. So I changed the fronts to Michelin Pilot Sport 3's.

The track day went well and both sets of tyres held up pretty well considering. The brakes were OK but I could see how there is room for improvement in that department at some point in the future.

The suspension consisting of unknown shock absorbers and unknown lowered springs was OK. Again room for improvement and more about that later.

Anyway, here it is at Oulton in March.

[puma2]

  sounds like your off to a good start with a blind buy

most of all your out haveing fun doing what a 2 does best put a smile on your face