Robson3022

Well what have I bought in the cold light of day. 
 
Apparently a pretty decent running, slightly tatty E51 Elgrand. 
 
Last owner had it for 6 years. Body kit has a few bumps and cracks, (they all have), tailgate needs replacing (was reversed into a skip). Sourced one but backed out until I get home as it had a dent in it. 
 
bodywork otherwise is pretty decent, electric door doesn’t (tadts), radio is off and abs light is on. All fixable bits, going to use if over the summer as a camper as I have in the past. 
 
Pleased with my purchase so far. Driving home 3 hours now so will see how I go! 

Well what have I bought in the cold light of day. 
 
Apparently a pretty decent running, slightly tatty E51 Elgrand. 
 
Last owner had it for 6 years. Body kit has a few bumps and cracks, (they all have), tailgate needs replacing (was reversed into a skip). Sourced one but backed out until I get home as it had a dent in it. 
 
bodywork otherwise is pretty decent, electric door doesn’t (tadts), radio is off and abs light is on. All fixable bits, going to use if over the summer as a camper as I have in the past. 
 
Pleased with my purchase so far. Driving home 3 hours now so will see how I go! 

Well what have I bought in the cold light of day. 
 
Apparently a pretty decent running, slightly tatty E51 Elgrand. 
 
Last owner had it for 6 years. Body kit has a few bumps and cracks, (they all have), tailgate needs replacing (was reversed into a skip). Sourced one but backed out until I get home as it had a dent in it. 
 
bodywork otherwise is pretty decent, electric door doesn’t (tadts), radio is off and abs light is on. All fixable bits, going to use if over the summer as a camper as I have in the past. 
 
Pleased with my purchase so far. Driving home 3 hours now so will see how I go! 

Well what have I bought in the cold light of day. 
 
Apparently a pretty decent running, slightly tatty E51 Elgrand. 
 
Last owner had it for 6 years. Body kit has a few bumps and cracks, (they all have), tailgate needs replacing (was reversed into a skip). Sourced one but backed out until I get home as it had a dent in it. 
 
bodywork otherwise is pretty decent, electric door doesn’t (tadts), radio is off and abs light is on. All fixable bits, going to use if over the summer as a camper as I have in the past. 
 
Pleased with my purchase so far. Driving home 3 hours now so will see how I go! 

ELGRANE 
Its been a while….as the countries premier Elgrand shifter @worldofceri has gone into retirement from making loaaaadddsssaaa money moving cars I had to collect it myself. 
 
280,000 km, a bit of test, drives well enough, wants a good clean out and a tailgate as it’s creased. 
 
more info as I find it!! 
 
Goldendoodle approved! 

Not buying or selling any cars in 2024 is continuing to do well. 
 
Currently on a train heading south with Mrs Robson3022 and Autoshite hound Ralph. 
 
Estimated journey time 4 hours with a 1 hour stop in Peterborough. 
 
Poo count 0 
Brekie was £15 for two toasties a coffee and an orange juice! 
 
Vehicle I'm on the way for is as economical as most of my purchases. 

ELGRANE 
Its been a while….as the countries premier Elgrand shifter @worldofceri has gone into retirement from making loaaaadddsssaaa money moving cars I had to collect it myself. 
 
280,000 km, a bit of test, drives well enough, wants a good clean out and a tailgate as it’s creased. 
 
more info as I find it!! 
 
Goldendoodle approved! 

ELGRANE 
Its been a while….as the countries premier Elgrand shifter @worldofceri has gone into retirement from making loaaaadddsssaaa money moving cars I had to collect it myself. 
 
280,000 km, a bit of test, drives well enough, wants a good clean out and a tailgate as it’s creased. 
 
more info as I find it!! 
 
Goldendoodle approved! 

ELGRANE 
Its been a while….as the countries premier Elgrand shifter @worldofceri has gone into retirement from making loaaaadddsssaaa money moving cars I had to collect it myself. 
 
280,000 km, a bit of test, drives well enough, wants a good clean out and a tailgate as it’s creased. 
 
more info as I find it!! 
 
Goldendoodle approved! 

ELGRANE 
Its been a while….as the countries premier Elgrand shifter @worldofceri has gone into retirement from making loaaaadddsssaaa money moving cars I had to collect it myself. 
 
280,000 km, a bit of test, drives well enough, wants a good clean out and a tailgate as it’s creased. 
 
more info as I find it!! 
 
Goldendoodle approved! 

ELGRANE 
Its been a while….as the countries premier Elgrand shifter @worldofceri has gone into retirement from making loaaaadddsssaaa money moving cars I had to collect it myself. 
 
280,000 km, a bit of test, drives well enough, wants a good clean out and a tailgate as it’s creased. 
 
more info as I find it!! 
 
Goldendoodle approved! 

ELGRANE 
Its been a while….as the countries premier Elgrand shifter @worldofceri has gone into retirement from making loaaaadddsssaaa money moving cars I had to collect it myself. 
 
280,000 km, a bit of test, drives well enough, wants a good clean out and a tailgate as it’s creased. 
 
more info as I find it!! 
 
Goldendoodle approved! 

ELGRANE 
Its been a while….as the countries premier Elgrand shifter @worldofceri has gone into retirement from making loaaaadddsssaaa money moving cars I had to collect it myself. 
 
280,000 km, a bit of test, drives well enough, wants a good clean out and a tailgate as it’s creased. 
 
more info as I find it!! 
 
Goldendoodle approved! 

ELGRANE 
Its been a while….as the countries premier Elgrand shifter @worldofceri has gone into retirement from making loaaaadddsssaaa money moving cars I had to collect it myself. 
 
280,000 km, a bit of test, drives well enough, wants a good clean out and a tailgate as it’s creased. 
 
more info as I find it!! 
 
Goldendoodle approved! 

Ooffff I’d have loved that

ELGRANE 
Its been a while….as the countries premier Elgrand shifter @worldofceri has gone into retirement from making loaaaadddsssaaa money moving cars I had to collect it myself. 
 
280,000 km, a bit of test, drives well enough, wants a good clean out and a tailgate as it’s creased. 
 
more info as I find it!! 
 
Goldendoodle approved! 

ELGRANE 
Its been a while….as the countries premier Elgrand shifter @worldofceri has gone into retirement from making loaaaadddsssaaa money moving cars I had to collect it myself. 
 
280,000 km, a bit of test, drives well enough, wants a good clean out and a tailgate as it’s creased. 
 
more info as I find it!! 
 
Goldendoodle approved! 

ELGRANE 
Its been a while….as the countries premier Elgrand shifter @worldofceri has gone into retirement from making loaaaadddsssaaa money moving cars I had to collect it myself. 
 
280,000 km, a bit of test, drives well enough, wants a good clean out and a tailgate as it’s creased. 
 
more info as I find it!! 
 
Goldendoodle approved! 

Not buying or selling any cars in 2024 is continuing to do well. 
 
Currently on a train heading south with Mrs Robson3022 and Autoshite hound Ralph. 
 
Estimated journey time 4 hours with a 1 hour stop in Peterborough. 
 
Poo count 0 
Brekie was £15 for two toasties a coffee and an orange juice! 
 
Vehicle I'm on the way for is as economical as most of my purchases. 

Got to be due another Elgrand surely?

Not buying or selling any cars in 2024 is continuing to do well. 
 
Currently on a train heading south with Mrs Robson3022 and Autoshite hound Ralph. 
 
Estimated journey time 4 hours with a 1 hour stop in Peterborough. 
 
Poo count 0 
Brekie was £15 for two toasties a coffee and an orange juice! 
 
Vehicle I'm on the way for is as economical as most of my purchases. 

Not buying or selling any cars in 2024 is continuing to do well. 
 
Currently on a train heading south with Mrs Robson3022 and Autoshite hound Ralph. 
 
Estimated journey time 4 hours with a 1 hour stop in Peterborough. 
 
Poo count 0 
Brekie was £15 for two toasties a coffee and an orange juice! 
 
Vehicle I'm on the way for is as economical as most of my purchases. 

Well this is boring it’s still burning all of the fuel but making progress. MOT due soon so expect tears and gnashing of teeth.

Update time! I unexpectedly had some freetime yesterday and used it to reassemble the new front bumper and put it on the car. I've picked up a cheap set of new OEM indicators when someone in the FB group cleared out his parts hoard so those went in as well. New ones on top vs. old. Let me know if anyone needs one.

Remember when I said any job on this car takes multiple times as long as it does on other cars? Reattaching the bumper to the mounting brackets revealed the pinnacle of moronic engineering. It was already a pain to get the mounting bolts off the first time. Due to them only being losely stuck into the square holes of the crash bar it was near impossible to get them fastened again. Nothing is holding the studs the nuts go onto on the bar. You also cannot access the rear of the studs with the bumper cover on, which you cannot install when the bar is on the car if you were bolting that on first. You cannot even hold the upper studs in place by sandwiching your hand between bar and bumper cover when the headlights are still in, which you cannot reinstall with the bumper bolted on. You cant use anything to hold them in place as aligning the studs with the mounting bracket holes requires some shoving that would immediately push them into the bumper, never to be seen again.

All this shit drove me absolutely nuts and Im honestly surpised that this bumper is still in one piece at this time. You would need to weld the studs onto the bar to ever have any chance of bolting the bumper back on the car (no indication that they ever were). It boggles my mind that something as basic as mounting a bumper can be such an utter shitshow. And this theme is consistent across almost everything I had to sort on this car, nothing had the same thought put into it as almost anything else I've been working on, outside of the Alfa which is right behind the Opel in poor engineering decisions. There absolutely is a reason why some makes and models are destined for the scrapyard and this is currently doing its best to follow the rest of them.

At least the paint match seems spot on.
I saw that the backseat that was folded down got a little moldy for some reason, it somehow must have trapped water from somewhere underneath it. Lets just say that most people would have thrown it straight into the bin. This was AFTER the first step of vacuuming...

An hour with the drill brush and extractor later and the rear seats are looking okay again. Disaster averted. I gave everything inside a vaccum but theres a lot more cleaning to be done to get this interior into decent shape, I think I never really went all in on this one. Headliner is starting to drop so that will need doing eventually.

In more pleasant news, I finally got the E65 back. It really only was the driver rear spring that needed doing in the end, which hopefully explained some of the clunking I occasionally heard before which somehow got missed at the MOT. It wasn't even expensive to have it sorted, a job I gladly passed on. The original reason for bringing it to the garage was to continue the service history. And while the last entry has been 16 years ago now the gap in mileage is rather small. I might add a note that filters and collant have been done shortly before.

Needs a wash now. I'll hopefully start working on replacing the interior next weekend if the weather stays nice enough.

I've also paid a visit to the Z3 today, just to start it up and charge the battery just in case it needs doing, it's been parked up since November. Started right up! Not having it under a cover was a mistake as birds shat all over it though. At least it didnt seem to leave any marks on the paint.

Looking forward to getting this back on the road again once the salt is gone!
Some bonus Touring action which continues to be a great workhorse.

Well after saying to the Mrs I wouldn’t chop and change or mess with cars and that we would deffo keep the RR……I’ve just done the easiest deal in the world with top shitter @bangernomics. Will be seeing if the Mrs wants to run this as she keeps complaining about the bigger stuff. 
 
 
@bangernomics did tell me a little fib mind as he said the polo does 70mpg and it’s currently only showing 68.5!!!! Shame on you!!!! 
 
top shitter, too trade deal 
 
12/10 would chod again