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The fleet...
Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:51 pm
by Rich H
We now have:
An 8 year old MX-5 with a fresh MOT fail for rusty sills (Panicky phonecall from her earlier, about £150 to fix)
A 10 year old Elise with a crunched front end (going for repair, they can match the paint now apparently)
A 30 year old Porka that won't start (Spark problems? Needs investigation)
A 50 year old landrover with a termial fuel leak (About 1" hole. £250 for a new tank??!)
What a collection
Looks like I need to open a scrap yard....
Re: The fleet...
Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:53 pm
by Shug
RICHARDHUMBLE wrote:We now have:
An 8 year old MX-5 with a fresh MOT fail for rusty sills (Panicky phonecall from her earlier, about £150 to fix)
£25 worth of newspaper and fibreglass 
A 10 year old Elise with a crunched front end (going for repair, they can match the paint now apparently)
Character, mate character.
A 30 year old Porka that won't start (Spark problems? Needs investigation)
Too much fannying about with it - if it ain't broke....
A 50 year old landrover with a termial fuel leak (About 1" hole. £250 for a new tank??!)
Welding plant?
What a collection
Looks like I need to open a scrap yard....
I see nothing wrong with that fleet.....
Re: The fleet...
Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 5:09 pm
by BiggestNizzy
RICHARDHUMBLE wrote:We now have:
An 8 year old MX-5 with a fresh MOT fail for rusty sills (Panicky phonecall from her earlier, about £150 to fix)
bodykit to hide it
A 10 year old Elise with a crunched front end (going for repair, they can match the paint now apparently)
battle scars - you will only break it again why repair properly use ducttape
A 30 year old Porka that won't start (Spark problems? Needs investigation)
30 years old if you repair it, it will just fly off the road and kill you it's safer not running
A 50 year old landrover with a termial fuel leak (About 1" hole. £250 for a new tank??!)
buy another series 1 for spares £1.50
What a collection
Looks like I need to open a scrap yard....
Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 5:11 pm
by Rich H
Rather miffed about the MX-5 TBH, the anti corrosion was only 6 years! Even the recycled milk bottle & stella tin Elise has 8 years (And rotted through the floor on que at 8 years 1 day
)
Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 5:40 pm
by Rich H
To weld both sills £160 inc VAT seems ok, there was a hole in the one and the other is rusty as hell.
Would have spotted it had she told me it was due
Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 6:01 pm
by Titanium S1 111S (gla)
RICHARDHUMBLE
£160 inc VAT
to buy an e-bay welder which I can use on all the other cherished vehicles as well
seems ok
Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:20 pm
by Rich H
Porker is running, just 3 sooty plugs....
MX-5 is in for repair should be ready tomorrow so getting better slowly, but it does mean she is taking the elise to work tomorrow unsupervised.....
