Old Jul 23, 2004 | 08:12 AM
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Great colour choice and congrats on your purchase. Same spec as mine except I don't have the two-tone interior (see my pics in the link below).

When collecting a new car check all over the body work for scratches and under the front bumper incase the dealer parked it over a kurb or something by mistake. Mine had a chipped drivers door handle, still waiting for replacement as the part codes are all wrong! I also had a vibrating speaker behind the drivers seat, this has now been replaced. Check the interior for grubby mechanics finger prints etc.. Make sure your ash-tray opens, mine didn't and had to be fixed.

apart from that just look at your smile reflecting in the shiny new car.

Take it for a drive near the dealers so if anything mechanically is wrong you can get back there easy to get them to look at it. I drove mine for about 15 mins near the dealer testing everything before heading home (delaer was 50 miles away).

apart from that just enjoy watching people stare as you drive by. Wear the engine in slowly. For the first 1,000 miles you should try to keep below 3,500 ish revs. I found this really hard and in fact didn't really do it! After 1,000 miles she will start to open up and rev more freely. I've just about done 1,500 miles in mine now.

I didn't get a tank of fuel, even though I had agreed this with the sales man previously when doing the deal. However I was so busy smiling I forgot to notice until half way home! I didn't bother mentioning it to him, I couldn't be bothered after I had the car. You will find though that as you wear the engine in it will drink a lot of fuel. My first tank only got me about 200 miles. It does increase as the engine wears in so don't worry about it.

I bet you won't be able to sleep tonight with the excitement! I know I didn't. Enjoy and welcome to the forum.
 
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