F1ANG
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Hey peeps
Well after a 500 mile round trip I've finally got the car. Overall im happy, however I have to admit I was a tad bit disappointed on arrival of viewing it.
Lets get the bad bits out the way first..
Exterior:
Firstly the body work wasn't everything the owner described it to be, it has a rather nasty ding/dent on the boot lid, where apparently ladders fell against it. The front bumper has a pretty large scuff where another car has brushed past it, whilst it was parked up. Has a couple of other chips/scratches which tbh aren't overly bad for a 12yr old car, wheels were quite corroded and it has the famous deteriorating door handles :bang: I do detailing in my spare time and am pretty fussy to be fair.
Interior:
Both heated seats don't work
Various scratches to passenger side a-pillar trim, And both rear inner door cards.
Central locking+key fob doesn't work
Engine bay:
Bonnet holder clip is snapped, so it doesn't fold down and clip into place without using two hands.
Air-con doesn't blow cold.
Engine feels flat as a 1.0l and has a very loud ticking noise?
Ok, so it has it's niggles.. Ive bought and delt with worse, and it's nothing that cant be fixed with a little tlc
Ok onto the good bits.
The car has full service history (i mean loads) every mot, every bill including a recent one for £883.00 from motormech 3k miles ago... Bonus!
79k genuine miles, backed by m.o.t's
All 3 keys including red key
The car is 99%rust free, body and shassis
Feels very tight to drive
Addictive 5 pot engine note/sound...... You know what im talking about
In this last day ive fixed the central locking, fixed the temperamental key fob, raplaced the maf (HUGE performance increase!) got a quote from my bodyshop guy to sort rear ding and bumper scuff and gave the car a full detail.
The car was advertised for £950, I tried to get him down for it's problems but after him showing me the bill for 883 quid, he said he wouldn't sell for less than the amount of the bill, I ended up taking the car for £875. Ive since done 500 faultless miles and am reasonably happy with the car.
My main concern right now is a loud engine ticking noise, coming from within the head, not sure if it's a sticking bucket or something like that?? It ticks to the speed of the engine, faster I rev the faster the tick... Does it with the clutch dipped etc so definatley a engine tick, anybody got any ideas? Engine runs sweet as a nut, it's just annoying!
Things I plan to do first.
Polly head lights (current lights are like candles)
Door handles ASAP
Bodywork sorted out
I'll stick a load of photos up now.
Thanks. Angelo.
Well after a 500 mile round trip I've finally got the car. Overall im happy, however I have to admit I was a tad bit disappointed on arrival of viewing it.
Lets get the bad bits out the way first..
Exterior:
Firstly the body work wasn't everything the owner described it to be, it has a rather nasty ding/dent on the boot lid, where apparently ladders fell against it. The front bumper has a pretty large scuff where another car has brushed past it, whilst it was parked up. Has a couple of other chips/scratches which tbh aren't overly bad for a 12yr old car, wheels were quite corroded and it has the famous deteriorating door handles :bang: I do detailing in my spare time and am pretty fussy to be fair.
Interior:
Both heated seats don't work
Various scratches to passenger side a-pillar trim, And both rear inner door cards.
Central locking+key fob doesn't work
Engine bay:
Bonnet holder clip is snapped, so it doesn't fold down and clip into place without using two hands.
Air-con doesn't blow cold.
Engine feels flat as a 1.0l and has a very loud ticking noise?
Ok, so it has it's niggles.. Ive bought and delt with worse, and it's nothing that cant be fixed with a little tlc
Ok onto the good bits.
The car has full service history (i mean loads) every mot, every bill including a recent one for £883.00 from motormech 3k miles ago... Bonus!
79k genuine miles, backed by m.o.t's
All 3 keys including red key
The car is 99%rust free, body and shassis
Feels very tight to drive
Addictive 5 pot engine note/sound...... You know what im talking about
In this last day ive fixed the central locking, fixed the temperamental key fob, raplaced the maf (HUGE performance increase!) got a quote from my bodyshop guy to sort rear ding and bumper scuff and gave the car a full detail.
The car was advertised for £950, I tried to get him down for it's problems but after him showing me the bill for 883 quid, he said he wouldn't sell for less than the amount of the bill, I ended up taking the car for £875. Ive since done 500 faultless miles and am reasonably happy with the car.
My main concern right now is a loud engine ticking noise, coming from within the head, not sure if it's a sticking bucket or something like that?? It ticks to the speed of the engine, faster I rev the faster the tick... Does it with the clutch dipped etc so definatley a engine tick, anybody got any ideas? Engine runs sweet as a nut, it's just annoying!
Things I plan to do first.
Polly head lights (current lights are like candles)
Door handles ASAP
Bodywork sorted out
I'll stick a load of photos up now.
Thanks. Angelo.
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