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General More rust discovered :(
bloody hell!
Sack it off, strip parts of it and send it to car heaven
Sack it off, strip parts of it and send it to car heaven
lol wish i could afford to do that and buy another car... but i cant lol, its actually getting welded by my dads mate, he hasnt seen it yet, but im not sure if it can be done
Personally i would strip it and get another car.. Once a car has tin worm, it will be hard to get rid of it...
A good cinq shouldnt be too expensive, and would be cheaper in the long run to get another one than keep on with the one you have...
A good cinq shouldnt be too expensive, and would be cheaper in the long run to get another one than keep on with the one you have...
Get it Welded . . . . . . .
Mate it will Weld okay, altho I cannot see from your pictures very well at all, as someone who has welded a fair amount of cars for Mot's, I can tell you that anything can be repaired if you have the Welder/Time/Know~how OR someone daft enough to do it Cheap....
Welding is my least favourite Pastime in the Universe....
My RS2000 has so much Welding, it is like a patchwork Quilt...
Paul
Mate it will Weld okay, altho I cannot see from your pictures very well at all, as someone who has welded a fair amount of cars for Mot's, I can tell you that anything can be repaired if you have the Welder/Time/Know~how OR someone daft enough to do it Cheap....
Welding is my least favourite Pastime in the Universe....
My RS2000 has so much Welding, it is like a patchwork Quilt...
Paul
yea i would like to get another car.. but i cant afford it atm so i got to stick with this one for the minute i cant believe i didnt look at it properly before buying it for £550! i feel ripped off, although it did come with a 12 month MOT and only 8 months left, it hasnt seen the road since the MOT cuz i havent passed my test yet also another thing i drove it earlier and when i break normally the rear wheels lock up.. any ideas?
thank you for the quick replies everyone very appreciated
i cant believe i didnt look at it properly before buying it for £550! i feel ripped off, although it did come with a 12 month MOT and only 8 months left, it hasnt seen the road since the MOT cuz i havent passed my test yet also another thing i drove it earlier and when i break normally the rear wheels lock up.. any ideas?thank you for the quick replies everyone very appreciated
yea i would like to get another car.. but i cant afford it atm so i got to stick with this one for the minute
thank you for the quick replies everyone very appreciated
Strip and clean the brakes first, before you look at compensator valve.
May find the front pads have got stuck with standing or the hand brake levers may be sticking
i'll be honest, as much as i hate to see a cinq killed, for me, the time and effort required to get that to a good standard would be better spent on another car, and taking good bits off that for spares
yes in a scrap yard
strip it and buy another cinq that ones a wreck youll find them on ebay for £300 odd, my sei was cheaper then you paid for that and not one patch of rust
lol well i have been definetly ripped off, and when i can afford it i will buy another car.. it looked good when i bought it cuz the side skirts and wheel arch kit covered the rust, the garage i bought it off (leedstown garage cornwall) are shockingly crap, before i bought it i asked them to repair a rust hole under the light, and i meant i wanted them to repair it properly not fill it with fibreglass! thank you everyone for the quick and helpful replies
Im suprised that it passed the MOT with the rusty sills, as thats structural... If you have it welded up and sprayed then you might aswell keep it...
if you brought it from a garage take it to trading standards because that no way would of passed an mot like that
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Indeed, you should have checked it, but if you have bought it from a reputable garage with an MOT, and you haven't used it, they wouldn't stand a chance in hell in a civil claims court. Get in touch with trading standards, and a solicitor.
Your rear tyre looks bearly legal as well.
Your rear tyre looks bearly legal as well.
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talk to the garage you got it from first they may have been unknown to the extent of the rust on it and may give you money back, if not threaten them with Trading standards then theyll fold coz they wouldnt have a leg to stand on
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and trading standards are free....if you have no luck with the garage, you have nothing to lose. Look in the yellow pages, online, or speak to your local council to find out where they are based.
maybe garage were unaware of the severity?
for example second pic of car on its own by OP shows the car with skirts and arches, whereas the skirts and arches from an abarth/replica kit look like they have been removed for the first set of pictures posted by OP
Previous owner fitted skirts to cover up the sever areas? Then flogged it?
No excuse for the rust on the inside though
for example second pic of car on its own by OP shows the car with skirts and arches, whereas the skirts and arches from an abarth/replica kit look like they have been removed for the first set of pictures posted by OP
Previous owner fitted skirts to cover up the sever areas? Then flogged it?
No excuse for the rust on the inside though
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its the same car??????? so sideskirts and arch covers arent good idea
its pretty rusting behind themits too much, sell wheels and scrap it, you can get nice sporting for few hundreds
