The Dark Wob

AlabamaShrimp wrote: ↑Fri Jul 05, 2019 1:25 pm

frustrator wrote: ↑Fri Jul 05, 2019 8:01 am It is outside my back garden in East Kent.

The owner of the land has been slowly clearing his field of shite - I shall make some enquiries

Thanks! Shame you're so far away from me.

It is an Isuzu, 200k miles on the clock, started first time after standing for 2 years and was imported from Cyprus a few years ago where it had spent it's life as an airport vehicle.

Sadly not for sale

My red Fiesta has about a weeks test left. Give a quick look underneath and can't see anything major just small bits of rust here and there that I've tried to cover in underseal.

The rest of the car is a different story. Both the back arches are fucked. The wings aren't far behind and the inner wings are fucked with patches that aren't helping. Had to put an inches worth of structural paper next to one of them.

Will it pass? No idea. If it doesn't then I don't know what I'm going to do. I've nowhere near the money for the bits let alone the skill to start the work it needs.

Oh and I still can't get Frontera bumper brackets.

I've never heard it called structural paper before.

Needed the help of some magic filler and underseal

Fiesta delivered to test station. 'I'll put it over the pit to make sure it's not rusty and worth carrying on with the test' we're the words when I got there.

Cheeky teat it's not that bad, as he demonstrated by tapping it with a hammer and saying it looked good underneath. No hammers in tests!

Tbh a bit of hammer is better to find a hole that I can have fixed as opposed to letting me drive about not knowing I needed to do something. The bloke doing it though is pretty good and far from expensive.

Good luck

Those Fiestas were great little cars. I hope yours fails the MoT really badly on rot so I can buy it cheaply off you.

Only joking. Fingers crossed

I remember buying a c plate fiesta pop plus in 2004 for 30 quid. Think it was the 1100 engine. Choke lever was wedged in the cubby hole by the drivers knee near the door. Brown interior,cream exterior and brown vinyl roof. Had it wound up to 90 once. Hearing has never been the same since.