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Chris H
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Fri Apr 21, 2006 1:57 am |
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well i was gonna buddy you and then tell you what a heap the 16V is! lol
I can be over tomorrow and help you and have a look myself matey.
Makes sense to me! |
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donsrno1
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Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:00 am |
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If you wanted then that would be fine - but I'm not collecting the car till about 7 at night because I'm working tomorrow all day and the guy won't be home till about 7. How are you planning on getting the other clio back? |
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Chris H
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Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:06 am |
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what does that matter and you don't talk about anything like this on a public forum either mofo!
i need to see it first.
it might not work cos, theres no engine, no box, no tank, no ECU, no anything. |
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donsrno1
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Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:20 am |
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what you wanting to do then?
Will we just meet somewhere and then I could jump in with you to go and see the car? Would you be OK to follow me back to my house once I pick it up, incase the whole thing goes tits up, lol. |
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Chris H
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Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:22 am |
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need to talk to the boss (Amber) and see if shes ok with that. if I promise her a Chiquitos at fort kinnard chances are good! lol
Should be ok though matey.
I won;t see her until tonight so be on tonight and I will tell you ehat she says tonight |
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donsrno1
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Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:24 am |
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kl, I'll be on later on and see what the score is. |
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Chris H
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Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:27 am |
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thats an affirmitive for a rendevous (sp?) later, password is white beaver kill blue goat |
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Chris H
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Fri Apr 21, 2006 4:55 am |
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matey we have a problem! Amber is babysitting, she would pull out but it was promised ages ago.
we should be able to sort somethign out, may involve my mum though! LOL
YOU WANT ME TO BRING THIS BOx though as well? |
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donsrno1
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Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:13 am |
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lol, if you are coming through it would be good if you could take the box as well as it would save me coming to collect it. I've texted the guy to make sure he would be fine if you were to take the clio rather than me - from what he said before I can't see any problem but I would want to make sure.
I'll let you know as soon as I hear back from him. |
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Chris H
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Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:49 am |
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ok mate, you should have said I was helping you to recover it!
I will talk to my mum tonight and see if she can take me, if it was the day time amber could have done it to! |
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donsrno1
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Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:03 am |
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I just wanted to do it this way as I guessed you would want to get the V5 etc in your name for the time being so he would have to know it was you taking it?
Unfortunately I couldn't do during the day as I'm working and can't change my hours.
I just got a text back from the guy this second and it reads:
"Its there for the takin. I would prefer he didn't pick it up 2moro though as still have to take my brothers stuff out it.you can let me know 2moro.Al"
From that it looks as though it wouldn't be best for you to pick it up tomorrow. It's up to you - you could have a look tomorrow if you want or I could arrange for you just to go and pick it up some other time?
or I could see if I can get him to change his mind about taking it tomorrow? |
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Chris H
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Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:09 am |
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no obviously I ain;t meant to get it tomorrow so the stars say! lol
Can you have a look and poke about it for me. Take pics as well, see if it cranks over etc, if itds auto or manual etc. |
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donsrno1
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Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:12 am |
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no obviously I ain;t meant to get it tomorrow so the stars say! lol
Can you have a look and poke about it for me. Take pics as well, see if it cranks over etc, if itds auto or manual etc.
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No problem mate. I'll have a quick rumage and find out about mileage, mot, bodywork etc. Anything in particular you want me to check? He says he doubts it'll start just now as the battery is probably dead having been sitting there so long, but I'll try anyway. I don't think I've got any jump leads either, but I'll have a look in the garage to see if I can find any. |
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Chris H
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Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:21 am |
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make sure it has wheels, brakes work, has lights etc, if anythign has been riobbed off it thats not good.
try and find out what it needs for me matey. |
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donsrno1
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Fri Apr 21, 2006 7:15 am |
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I'll try and do that. I don't think anything will have been removed from it TBH. The car, from what I can gather, was parked up there about 10 months ago and quite literally hasn't been touched since. |
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donsrno1
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Sat Apr 22, 2006 2:13 pm |
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I got the car home earlier. My dad ended up driving it home as I didn't want to risk driving with no insurance incase I got pulled over or anything. We just took the car by the bypass as it drove OK-ish in 4th gear.
When I got home I opened up the bonnet and there was a stink of gearbox oil - which might explain a thing or two.
As for the other clio, it has not tax or MOT as you might guess. The guy couldn't even find the key though so I couldn't get the bonnet open or get inside. I also found out it's actually a 1.2 RN but it has the same front bumper as a 1.4 RT has. The car is a 5 door L-reg on 88000 miles. The car has a couple of wee dents on the fron of the bonnet and the rear arches are quite rusty. It comes with all four wheels still there - but I couldn't tell about the brakes as to whether or not they were OK. It turns out the £400 was money needing spent on it to get it through the MOT, but neither he nor his brother has any idea what work was actually needed. I took a load of photos - but something has fcuked up on the camera and at the moment only 1 of them is viewable, I'll try and sort it if I can and post them up later. Sorry about the lack of info on it - but without the key there wasn't too much I could do. |
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Chris H
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Sat Apr 22, 2006 2:20 pm |
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cheers for that mate.
In all honesty would you take it?
How bad are the arches? Are they holed?
is the rust bad? what did it feel like? You get a feeling about cars as you know.
The 16V box casing has probably split. |
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donsrno1
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Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:41 am |
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The rust on the arches is fairly bad TBH - it's spread a bout and inch up from the arch all the way round. As for whether or not to go for it - it's dificult to say without having been able to have a proper look. The one thing I (very stupidly) forgot to look at was the sills, but I would guess that with the arches being as they are the sill will probably be quite bad - which could account for some of the work it would need done to get an MOT. Overall it sounds as though the car was a good runner and really the milage isn't stupidly high or anything, but rust on the arches and sills could be a problem. I'll try and get those pics up for you tomorrow if I can sort them as I just don't have time today to try and sort the camera (exam tommorow.)
Also, on the subject of my 16v I've notced theres a bit of play in the steering - about an inch either way without any resistance which I'm guessing is the common problem with the Clio steering rack. Is the only option really to weld it - or am I right in thinking there is something you can do with spacers? I think one of my brothers mates is a welder so I might see if he would be able to do it cheap. |
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Chris H
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Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:45 am |
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ok matey cheers, pics would be a great help.
The column it sounds like, welding or shimming it. I shimmed gentle bens column.
Ort get a column from a scrappy thats not damaged, all ps columns are the same. |
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donsrno1
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Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:27 am |
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ok matey cheers, pics would be a great help.
The column it sounds like, welding or shimming it. I shimmed gentle bens column.
Ort get a column from a scrappy thats not damaged, all ps columns are the same.
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Does shimming it work just as well - or does it only really work as a short term measure? Just asking as I could do that myself but I can't weld it myself.
As I say I'll try and get the pics asap. The guy said he's happy enough to hold onto the Clio for another couple of weeks, but if he hasn't heard from me by then he's just going to arrange for it to go to the scrappy. I think one way of looking at it is that if you took it with you it would cost nothing and would probably at least run with a different battery etc. If you got it home and decided it was a pile of shite you could just scrap it, or scavange some part (if any are usefull) and then scrap it. |
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Chris H
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Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:33 am |
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yes shimming is fine. The thing is you need to get them in so they don't move, heat and the freezer helps and a bit of brute force.
Yeah I was thinking that as well matey, I'll need to see it.
Ask him when he finds th ekeys and clears it out. |
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