For Sale Stylish* and luxurious* Perodua Kenari for sale - £175

[wuvvum]

This was my daily for ages, due to the fact that it's the most economical car I own that'll fit a full-sized pushbike in the back.  I've now bought myself a folding bike, though, which means that I can use pretty much any of the fleet to go to work in, so I've been using this a lot less than before.  I need to top up the shite fund to get the R6 and the Rover of Doom back on the road, and no bugger seems to want the Scudo, so this is going up for sale.

 

It's a 2003 Kenari with MOT 'til October.  Most of you will know what a Kenari is, but for those that don't, it's basically a Daihatsu Move with a slightly larger engine (989cc instead of 847), and an even odder looking front end.  It's actually a fun little thing to buzz around in - it has 54bhp and weighs almost nothing so performance is quite adequate, and I was getting betwen 45 and 50 to the gallon on the commute, depending on how hard I pushed it.  It has a 3-cylinder engine so sounds quite nice too.  Gearing is reasonably high (60 is just under 3,000 revs in 5th) so the engine doesn't make too much of a racket at speed, but there's a fair bit of wind noise due to the shape of the thing.  It turns on a sixpence so is brilliant around town, but it's not the last word in handling prowess - although it does do an entertaining line in roll oversteer if you drive like a twat round a wet roundabout.

 

It's not badly equipped for a budget small car from 12 years ago - it has electric front windows, electric sunroof (with automatic closing when you take the key out of the ignition - GR9 4 not getting soaking wet seats if you forget to close it and it starts raining - you can override it though if you do want to leave the roof open), PAS, central locking, front fogs, reclining rear seat backrests and a radio / cassette / CD player.  Only things that are temperamental are the rev counter and temp gauge.  The EML light is on (oxygen sensor apparently) and the temp gauge sits just north of centre when it's working, but both have been thus as long as I've known the car (quite a few years now as it belonged to a mate's Mrs. before I bought it) and don't seem to affect owt.  It passed the MOT emissions test OK.

 

It's been quite well used (mileage is about 114K, which is higher than average for one of these) and it's far from immaculate, but it's never let me down.  It had a fair bit of welding for its last test, and I also fitted a replacement alternator - the fan belt now occasionally squeals for a minute on start up, usually if I switch on too many electrical gubbins or put it on full lock - this is because the aux belt was a complete arse to tension, with the alternator being stuck below the PAS pump and above the subframe.  I've left it as, like I say, it only squeals for a few seconds so it's never been a major issue.  The body has had a stylish* bottom half repaint - the arches were patched up last year and my mate (whose Mrs. the car used to belong to) decided it was easier to spray the bottom half in a blue that he already had available rather than trying to match the metallic gold.  It's a matter of taste, but then these cars are never going to be the last word in street cred anyway.  There's a bit of rust starting to show back up around the arches etc., but don't think it's anything too serious at the moment.  The MOT tester did reckon it'd need new rear brake shoes before the next test though.  The interior is all there and upholstered in luxurious* velour, but it could do with a bloody good valet, having been used to cart bikes around.

 

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Car is in NE Norfolk.

 

 

[Jim Bell]

Two tone paint. Quad fronts.

That's like 8xwin.

[Matt]

That paint job on that car just shouts 'take the piss if you want, I don't give a fuck'. Brilliant. I wonder if a 100bhp Sirion 1.3 would go in one of these.

[dollywobbler]

Noooo. Don't fit moar cylinders. These are ace as they are. Recommended.

[purplebargeken]

Woefully, woefully wonderful. 11/10 on the grin factor.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Blimey, that paint job is something else!!!!

[mrcitroen]

I actually quite like that. It sort of looks line an ancestor of things like the Kia Soul etc.

[UltraWomble]

I shouldnt like that, but I do.

All it wants now is a pink canoe strapping to the roof.....

[purplebargeken]

^^ I worry about you sometimes. I just do.

[oldcars]

That paint job is class, suits it well. Tide mark of a winner.

[Matt]

They are a straight swap (m8), as is the YRV Turbo engine (138bhp).

 

Heh heh, 140bhp Kenari. Possibly the slowest sleeper ever created.

[wuvvum]

Incredibly*, this is still available.

[Station]

Are these the ones with the bed seats, like the Move had?

[wuvvum]

Umm... Sort of.  Not a very comfortable looking "bed" though.

[dugong]

DUZ IT DO GD HANDBRKE TRNS m9

[UltraWomble]

^^ I worry about you sometimes. I just do.

I have one of these and it looks out of place on the Almera

[Stanley Steamer]

That paint job on that car just shouts 'take the piss if you want, I don't give a fuck'. Brilliant. I wonder if a 100bhp Sirion 1.3 would go in one of these.

Bolt in.

 

The Sirion had the option of same 3-pot and the subframes are the same. You can even fit a turbo version from a YRV.

[wuvvum]

This is still here - not that I've been making much effort to sell it.

 

Price now reduced to £175 in recognition of the shorter MOT.

[Skizzer]

I'm finding that two-tone livery rather appealing, but Mrs S says she'd schnip off my Schniepel so I'd probably better not. GLWTS.

[Station]

Umm... Sort of.  Not a very comfortable looking "bed" though.

 

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wow that's looks insanely comfortable.

[bub2006]

Took one of these a spin when advertised for sale last year. Had a big reflective strip on the boot saying kenari and the stereo was just something else. Felt quiet nippy for an auto too. Glws on it.