Recently one of my wee brothers asked me to keep an eye out for another car for him (he rolled his last, mint, 1.4 S after a month!) so I decided another Clio would be a safe choice and that I shouldnt worry about bodywork as much, just make sure its mechanically sound. Not long after an Aunt called and asked me to have a look at her Clio as it wasnt starting and throwing up the full disco dashboard.
Went along and diagnosed that the loom was damaged and the earth had seen better days. It was also out of MOT and had days of tax left. With it needing a service and no idea of any other issues that could cause it to fail a MOT my aunt and uncle decided to cut their losses and planned to scrap it. They called a couple of places and for it to be collected by a scrappy was only going to get them £100. So thats when I offered my brothers £100 to them and became the 3rd owner of this
67000 miles, 1.2 16v no test, effectively no tax and pretty rough round the edges!
First thing to do was repair the tow eye my uncle had destroyed and tow it home. On a properly shitty, soaking, windy night!
Dave was just about to Boaby Tapp it here
First thing first, investigate the loom issue a bit more, unfortunately where it was broken was gonna be a complete pain in the hoop to sort so I decided to get a new top loom and just do it properly. Never worked on a 1.2 16v before and cant help but think its a bizarre set up!
So a new loom (£82.50) and an earth strap I had lying about had it started and running nicely for the first time in about 4 months I believe.
Its a bit of a state inside as well as outside, I ended up with 2 bags of rubbish and 3 bags of my Aunts belongings to take back to her!
The tools are mine!
So with it running and time being very tight I decided just to throw it in for its MOT and see what was what. If it needed loads done then I could still break even by driving it to a scrappys!
It only failed on a headlight beam being too low, a steering gaiter being properly split, a rear seat belt buckle not working and a rear door not opening. Which I thought wasn't too bad at all!
Gaiter was a nice easy fix, as was the headlight and buckle but the door was a pain in the tits! After a hour and a half of carefully trying to get the door open to replace the lock I lost the rag, went mental at it and it popped open! So down to the scrappys and a tenner had me a new lock mechanism, tow eye and a battery clamp for a tenner.
Heading back up for its retest today hopefully and then will get it taxed and start giving it a good clean inside and out. Its pretty scratched and dented but a clean wouldn't go amiss! Removed the wheel trims and it looks better for it!
So the running total atm is
Car £100
Loom £82.50
Lock Mech £10
CD player £20
Gaitor £6.74
Service bits £30
MOT £50
Total £299.24
Went along and diagnosed that the loom was damaged and the earth had seen better days. It was also out of MOT and had days of tax left. With it needing a service and no idea of any other issues that could cause it to fail a MOT my aunt and uncle decided to cut their losses and planned to scrap it. They called a couple of places and for it to be collected by a scrappy was only going to get them £100. So thats when I offered my brothers £100 to them and became the 3rd owner of this
67000 miles, 1.2 16v no test, effectively no tax and pretty rough round the edges!
First thing to do was repair the tow eye my uncle had destroyed and tow it home. On a properly shitty, soaking, windy night!
Dave was just about to Boaby Tapp it here
First thing first, investigate the loom issue a bit more, unfortunately where it was broken was gonna be a complete pain in the hoop to sort so I decided to get a new top loom and just do it properly. Never worked on a 1.2 16v before and cant help but think its a bizarre set up!
So a new loom (£82.50) and an earth strap I had lying about had it started and running nicely for the first time in about 4 months I believe.
Its a bit of a state inside as well as outside, I ended up with 2 bags of rubbish and 3 bags of my Aunts belongings to take back to her!
The tools are mine!
So with it running and time being very tight I decided just to throw it in for its MOT and see what was what. If it needed loads done then I could still break even by driving it to a scrappys!
It only failed on a headlight beam being too low, a steering gaiter being properly split, a rear seat belt buckle not working and a rear door not opening. Which I thought wasn't too bad at all!
Gaiter was a nice easy fix, as was the headlight and buckle but the door was a pain in the tits! After a hour and a half of carefully trying to get the door open to replace the lock I lost the rag, went mental at it and it popped open! So down to the scrappys and a tenner had me a new lock mechanism, tow eye and a battery clamp for a tenner.
Heading back up for its retest today hopefully and then will get it taxed and start giving it a good clean inside and out. Its pretty scratched and dented but a clean wouldn't go amiss! Removed the wheel trims and it looks better for it!
So the running total atm is
Car £100
Loom £82.50
Lock Mech £10
CD player £20
Gaitor £6.74
Service bits £30
MOT £50
Total £299.24
