jamespatrickbart

Ipswich, tasty.

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Yeah no worries, will just need to find a suitable bit of packing material. Will DM you my PayPal if that's ok? 
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Also got one of these taken from a 2010 Mondeo. Would eBay it but don't appear to be worth it...£5 p&p? Have the code on email somewhere so will dig out. It ONCE had a funny 5 minutes and blanked the screen and buttons didn't work but that was months ago and has been fine since. Just swapped out for dab cos I'm a nob.
 
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No but the injectors are coded to the cylinders. Swap them and they need reprogramming to the serial number on them.

Yes please

For that authentic old Mondeo feel. Just need a mismatched bumper and a half eaten packet of crisps on the back seat... 
 
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About 120k if memory serves, barely run in. 

Oh and it's in Ipswich. and it's a CAT N write off. Both things to knacker it's resale value...

1985 5.3 v12 currently at the end of my road. Perfect for a Withnail and I jaunt to Keswick (?)
 
 

 

 

 
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Luv it.
 
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At the bottom of the road in lovely Ipswich...
 
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At the bottom of the road in lovely Ipswich...
 
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At the bottom of the road in lovely Ipswich...
 
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At the bottom of the road in lovely Ipswich...
 
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At the bottom of the road in lovely Ipswich...
 
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At the bottom of the road in lovely Ipswich...
 
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At the bottom of the road in lovely Ipswich...
 
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At the bottom of the road in lovely Ipswich...
 
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Shot from the hip this lunchtime
 
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1985 5.3 v12 currently at the end of my road. Perfect for a Withnail and I jaunt to Keswick (?)
 
 

 

 

 
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Shot from the hip this lunchtime
 
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1985 5.3 v12 currently at the end of my road. Perfect for a Withnail and I jaunt to Keswick (?)
 
 

 

 

 
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1985 5.3 v12 currently at the end of my road. Perfect for a Withnail and I jaunt to Keswick (?)
 
 

 

 

 
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I think we need a show where we just watch James May, Edd China, Aaron Kaufman and Fuzz Townsend fix stuff. Where the biggest drama is Fuzz and James disagreeing on whether a half inch or three quarter inch socket set is the best all rounder, or Aaron and Edd discuss whether Aaron's beard is shitter than Edds hair or vice Versa.
 
No Brewer, no Shaw, no Rawlings. They can have their own show. Brewer buys something, Rawlings complains about the cost and Shaw has no idea what he's doing. Maybe they could have a comedy cockney wander on and start shouting "Bladdy 'Ell" from time to time....

I figure this little car has earned a thread of its own.

The Twingo joined the shed of shame in a different time. It was a simpler time, when I was just starting the shift from camera to car mags and the occasional bit of photography and car-buffoonery with Keith was fun, and somehow I had relationships and things around life that made sense rather than the relentless shower of shit it all became.

It arrived, as you would expect. on the back of a trailer. Keith had acquired it from somewhere, and it had a misfire. Nevertheless, I hooked up a battery booster to it and it started, and chuntered into the garage. "We'll have that fixed in no time!".





It sat. And sat. Somewhere in the timeline cars and money and storage and stuff changed hands, and the Twingo became mine. It gets wheeled around occasionally, and cleaned seasonally, but overall it is just in stasis.

Work started early last year and I stripped a load of bits around the engine before the folded-over inlet manifold confused me and I got concerned that this D7F was going to be more faff than the OHV engine I thought it had. Nevertheless, the time has come to deal with it.



I think I'm going to keep on stripping this one down to the point where I have the head removed. Then make a decision on buying a secondhand engine or doing these repairs. It has 127,000km on it and started easily enough, just had a gasket blown between 2 & 3, verified by shoving a borescope down the plug'oles.

Some minor detail items also need to be fixed. The top corner of the LHS door has lost paint, one headlight (RHD lights, they were produced for these - shame they didn't do matching RHD rears) has a small crack, the rear foglight has lost the red film covering it so will be replaced (will probably put a Celica one in if it fills the aperture), also the bumper has a crack above the exhaust pipe, and the interior light lens is missing (found it - broken clip so it had been done with blutack) - found a replacement one on eBay easily enough. The glovebox catch handle is also broken - that may prove harder to source, this being a fairly late Twingo, but I will try as surprisingly it's one of the few bits broken, most things are good. It needs four new wheeltrims to look smart, though I've been offered a set of Ronal Teddies which are kinda tempting. Finally, the radio LCD has failed, and I am inclined to fix it but similarly, as it has a conventional rather than remote display it seems just as sensible to put a modern head unit in with adaptor lead for the remote.

It has a full-length glass sunroof, which is why I want to save it probably.