(G) another what do you make of this?

Clearly a mark 2 yet it has a mark 2b front?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1

i was looking at the car this morning so i e mailed him and this is what i got back

don't know took the car in part exchange but now i have started to look around there is variation in the 2002 and 2003 models I have seen some of them look like this one and some of them are different - may be it was upgraded with the other alternations that have been done ie exhaust system? All I can tell you is the little car is mint.

could have been front end smashed, or why do it

agreed

Two wings, bonnet, slam panel headlights and bumper. Nothing too hard.

Its an upgrade imo.

I would do it if I had money to burn to make the car look newer, people do it all the time, especially fiestas owners do, but they convert the interior dash too to make a mk3 into a mk4 etc ... Saw someone do this in a mag.

Re front end smash, you can look at the legs and see if they have been tampered with quite easily.

I wouldn't worry about it if i was looking to buy it.

I would always get an AA check as they can confirm what has and hasn't been tampered with.

but the mark 2 front looks miles better?

Agreed.

But in the world of modifying change tends not to be a good thing...

The paint job is about 15 shades out by the look of it. Might as well have just done the new bits in black

I like the way he blames the whole front end body change on the exhaust system

I would avoid that as much as possible.

If you want to modify something, do it yourself, other wise you don't know what the hell your gonna end up with.