Project Executive

Site Subscriber Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 3547

trust me it will be worth it, mine failed miserably on its mot, was in tears on my way home with it, just tinking how much i had put into it, effort, money, etc etc

i had the same feelings of breaking it, scrapping it etc etc: http://www.retro-renault.com/viewtopic.php?t=3551&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=84 and if you look on the 3rd page you can see all the work i had done!

Site Subscriber Joined: 18 Jun 2004 Posts: 470

i just had a look at your 19 those pics look great after the respray, i would have cried to if mine would have failed after that, damn it looks good, so how much did that spray job cost Question

Spammer Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 5717

good man

remember this ,at the end of the day you are the owner of a very rare car in one of the rarest colors unlike them poxy williams blue clio lookalikes

Site Subscriber Joined: 18 Jun 2004 Posts: 470

i just wish i had a nice warm garage to work in, i hate the damn cold pissing rain, its funny how you always see some old guy with a massive garage and all hi has in there is a rid on mower Confused

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

Ive got a largish garage here, but I cant bloody use it because theres a fucked old mk2 escort in there.

I asked the owners if I could get rid of it to use the garage and they told me I could sell it. "OK" says I, "Ill see what I can get for it"

"We want at least Â£500" say the doddery old coffin dodgers, because "the engine is worth a lot of money"

Hmm OK then. Evil or Very Mad

Spammer Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 5717

tell me about it, i had to leave the engine and gearbox on my black rt because of that ,feckin pisstake Evil or Very Mad

Site Subscriber Joined: 18 Jun 2004 Posts: 470

mk2 escort will be worth allot to the rally boys down here

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

Its a rusty 4 door, dont think they are exactly sought after like the 2 doors.

Spammer Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 5717

they want you to get rid of the car for them and expect you to pay 500 quid ????
what sort of people are they neil ? tell them to shove the engine up ..... Evil or Very Mad

bastards

Site Subscriber Joined: 18 Jun 2004 Posts: 470

just scrap it, they are old so they wont remember Very Happy

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

So anyway Trancer... I think you need to have a few days to think it over, then at the weekend give the car a good thorough going over, making a list of all the things wrong with it. Then another couple of days to make your decision if youre going to cut your losses or bring it back up to scratch.

Site Subscriber Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 3547

i swapped my respray with a 15" sub lol, i bought the paint off of the place i worked for 39.18 for a full litre, but i added in my own pearl colours hehe, i of course supplied my own thinners, hardener, primer, and lacquer Wink

and then, to really take the biscuit, the engine siezed about 2 weeks after the mot was achieved.

Site Subscriber Joined: 18 Jun 2004 Posts: 470

well taday i got that hole welded up and undersealed, i also went along the iner sill with a wire brush to clean it up, after that went on the underseal, i also checked the rack again and its seems that the gator is full of PAS fluid, its sloshing around inside so i will be getting that off as soon as i have a replacment, i took the exaust off for inspection, on taking the downpipe off one of the bolts to the outlet manifold broke off so i will need a replacment, the back box is ok but the centre section is more holy than a church, and the cat is fooked, so now in need that aswell, im on the lookout for an engine so i can rebuild it for the car by next summer, im not sure how much life this one has left 128k on the clock Confused

Site Subscriber Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 3547

they can live for ever some engines, someone (cant remember who) said they have seen many run into 200k

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

me.

128k is nothign on a maintained engine

Site Subscriber Joined: 18 Jun 2004 Posts: 470

that's reassuring Laughing

Site Subscriber Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 4722

but if the cars in that state, got to ask if that engine has been maintained..

Site Subscriber Joined: 18 Jun 2004 Posts: 470

well the engine runs nice, the car must have had a service not so long ago, its got new plugs oil filter air filter and oil change, clutch feels good to but there is no evedance that its been changed, as chris said as long as its been looked after then it should be fine, its in good hands now so it should last a bit longer.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

the stell on ph2's is crap quality and scarcly protected there thats why it corrodes, maintenence doesn't come into it.

Site Subscriber Joined: 18 Jun 2004 Posts: 470

a bloke i know down the road cleans up the underside and sills and then gives them about 5 coats of hamerite, he doesnt like using underseal, not sure why Confused

but his cars never rust afterwards

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

underseal cracks as it dries and water gets trapped under it rotting the metal away. Paint doesn't really.