Hi this is my first post, the used car market in the UK for cheap cars has become quite expensive in my opinion.
So with a tight budget and wanting to get something reliable it would be German or Japanese and camchain or cambelt well enough miles on it.
When looking the jazz did catch my eye people said its quite a reliable car and a nice driver.
I found a 2006 black jazz with the 1.4 2 spark plug per cylinder engine. Not sure if it's the sport trim but it's defiantly a higher level.
Took it for a test drive drove well wheels slightly out of alignment but everything was well. It makes a noise when I remove my foot from the gas pedal but I've drove cars that have done that before.
I noticed the battery was quite old so when I settled on a price from 1100 to 900 I managed to haggle and get a warrantee for a few weeks on battery and alternator as I could see the battery was probably original.
Next day did not start they got me a new battery all good.
When I test drove it it was a sunny day and not humid, tested everything, all good.
She has done quite a few miles 105,000 but apart from a few scratches looks quite new.
When the rain came I could see I had the dreaded sealent leak by water going into the spare compartment.
And when I put the rear window defogger on nothing, the button light came on. I was a little confused by the symbols as it has the usual rear defogger symbol and something else, the drivers side mirror has one black line on it so no idea if it has a mirror defogger?
The trim level on the car seems to have all the whistles and bells. Retracting mirrors, electrical moving mirrors, 4 doors all electric windows, remote central locking, aux cable, air con.
I did check the fuse but it looks fine I can't see any cracks or damage to the grid and I took off the grid connectors and put them back on making sure they have a good fit.
Is this a common problem? That anyone has experienced?
The car has only had a few owners and is well looked after clean oil and mot history pass or fail just becouse of brake pads.
I would like to give it a full service and sort out the leak. But I'm not going to buy 8 iridium or pltnum plugs. The fuel filter seems to a difficult affair I can't see In the history if its ever been changed.
Any advice on what I should do or look out for please let me know.
I also wanted to ask, does this car have a MAF sensor or just a Map sensor for air the air inlet
Any advice would be appreciated, thanks