Lord Sterling's fleet of failure - Goodbye Micra 😢

[Lord Sterling]

Lol yeah, I am poshing it about a bit. I do live in a nice area and some people do like both my cars.

[Split_Pin]

Good to get a bit of an update from you anyway LS, hopefully time etc will help your Mojo return!

[Bren]

When you find your mojo LS do me a favour and see if mine is there.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

My mojo is weather dependant. I've all the stuff I need to do a lot of little jobs on the citroen but it's cold and dark and wet.....

 

Is the e reg the closest to being Road legal then?

 

 

 

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[beko1987]

I know the mojo feeling, I have a boot full of little pottery things to fit. Never the time, and when I have the time something else crops up.

 

And the rusty door shuts grow rustier. Their beyond sanding back and anti rusting so sod it, they may as well carry on until I can get them fully replaced!

[Lord Sterling]

Is the e reg the closest to being Road legal then?...

I would say, both D-reg 820e and the E-reg 825 Sterling are closer to being on the road, but then so is the KV6, it still runs and drives as it did when it was in everyday use but it needs some fettling and money chucked at it. I can afford it but I can't spare it as there are other priorities.

[Billy - Medhurst]

Found 3x 800's and 1 coupe style 800 yesterday dumped by some flats. 2013 tax discs in them. Thought of you then MO....

May picture them when no ones around one day.

[Lord Sterling]

Found 3x 800's and 1 coupe style 800 yesterday dumped by some flats. 2013 tax discs in them. Thought of you then MO....

May picture them when no ones around one day.

Wow, I can certainly assure you they are not mine......

 

But then again, I'm not around in the day so goodness knows where my pack of Rovers go or get up to.

[Lord Sterling]

Thought I may as well include this here, it is technically part of the fleet...

 

ANYWAY. Way back on the Isle of Wight, I found out that the little Micra had run out of MOT. So chancing it I thought I might put it in for a test at a local garage in Newport. Apparently it failed, badly with more than a few failures noted as *DANGEROUS*. Bollocks to that I thought, I knew the car had some rust issues and I knew it wasn't as bad as they were making out.

 

Soon though it was time to leave the Isle of Wight;

 

 

The Micra came to live with me for a week before heading off to my garage for some fettling and a re-MOT.

 

However, the second MOT revealed this:

 

 

Oh.

 

Actually I knew this was bad and was only going to get worse. However I also knew it could be saved with a bit of rust cut out and welding. My MOT man confirmed that the IoW MOT place were trying to kill the car and extract money out of us for work that wasn't really needed. Excellent

 

So at the end of last week off the little Micra went for some work and a re-MOT. Today I jumped in the BMW to go and get the Micra (also found out that the battery in the Sterling had run out again)

 

When I arrived I saw this;

 

 

Both sills were like this, the tide mark looks the same as those on the later Micra so it doesn't look bad or out of place.

 

As a celebration, I gave the Micra a minor valet as it hadn't been washed properly for a few months. The BMW also got the wash it badly needed.

 

Micra has another years MOT so here is to another year of motoring for the Micra!

[Rave]

Is that a whole replacement sill, or have they ground the patches down before stonechipping it?

[Lord Sterling]

Is that a whole replacement sill, or have they ground the patches down before stonechipping it?

Basically this.

 

The underside still needs tidying and some Vactan treatment, now it also needs an expansion tank as the old one os starting to crumble.

 

After that it'll need some minor fettling like new wiper mechanisms and a board for the heater controls as heaters/cool air only work on full blast.

[chaseracer]

Nice one, Mo.  Not so many K11s left now.

[oldcars]

Result. Sills look good. I loved my old 96 K11.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

A rising tide lifts all Micras.

[Rave]

Basically this.

 

The underside still needs tidying and some Vactan treatment, now it also needs an expansion tank as the old one os starting to crumble.

 

After that it'll need some minor fettling like new wiper mechanisms and a board for the heater controls as heaters/cool air only work on full blast.

 

Nice. I should have done that on my Fiesta I suppose, but ran out of time, and grinding discs!

[montytom]

I have a soft spot for these little micras. My friend has one and they seem bulletproof and very economical

[D Spares & Tyres]

Nice one, Mo. Not so many K11s left now.

You haven't been to Bordeseley Green lately then? Its full of them, except they are used as MPVs there

[Burnside]

Hi Mo, well done on getting the Micra sorted out, it looks a tidy job.  

 

If your passing over Derby way on your travels try Albert Looms Scrapyard, they have 5 Micras currently listed on there website. a 93 LX, 98 GX, X2 00 S, 03 S 1.3.  

 

Might even be able to give you hand and my tools if I'm free! 

[Pillock]

An Autoshite Looms Party you say?

[D Spares & Tyres]

I parked in 'your' car park yesterday

 

Coming out was a red 800. Reg number R***GCD. Friend of yours?

[Lord Sterling]

I parked in 'your' car park yesterday

Coming out was a red 800. Reg number R***GCD. Friend of yours?

Ah yes! I know who that is. It belongs to an old brummie chap who moved to Button Bridge a year or so ago, I left a note his car way back in late 2015 when he still lived by Coventry Road near Tyseley. Since you saw it though it suffered some sort of engine failure. I found out through his reg that it was registered and probably sold throigh the same dealership as my Sterling as both our regs end "GD" which denotes Glasgow.

[Lord Sterling]

CHECK IT YO. Been meaning to update this for a bit now.

 

As we all know, I won a roffle (well, technically I didn't but the rest of the tickets were generously gifted to me )

 

A week before last weekend, myself, Loserone and Dollywobbler concocted a plannfor a Northern invasion by 2 Midlanders, both of us Midlanders were to pick up 2 small Japanese cars, similar but different at the same time. So come last weekend Dollywobbler of this parish arrived to pick me up and after some tea and toast, off we went up North towards Durham, me to pick up the Micra and Dolly to deliver the Lexus and pick up his Toyota Starlet.

 

Our gentlemans conveyance:

 

I drove the Lexus for a good 100ish or so miles. It was DEVINE to drive, a nice smooth 4.0 V8 is really what I'd require on my life. But 2 homes, a wife, bills and a job that has questionable pay means; it ain't gonna happen anytime soon.

 

Driving up to Durham is something I've done a few times before. But this time the weather was just wiered. One minute dry, happy and sunny, then 10 minutes down the road; snow/hail/fog were hitting us with real mite. The weather seemed tightly localised around Nottinghamshire.

 

 

Anyhow, Durham was achieved by 2pm, log books filled, tea drunk and some nostalgia talk and then it was off to try the 'new' Micra, a 4-hour journey back down south home. Sis_Sterling received a text from me confirming purchase, she was well excited. But I was feeling quite headachey despite taking some paracetamol earlier.

 

I made it home and mentally noted the things that needed doing to the Micra. On the Sunday I couldn't be arsed to even leave the house for very long. I was tired, out of money and it was cold and snowing. The Micra was happily tucked up near the BMW. I did however try a small half-arsed valet. Sweeping up what I could, giving the plastics a wipe over and successfully cleaning some marks off the headlining. I even managed to knock a large dent out of the bonnet thus making look a bit better presented. I also fitted a genuine Nissan stereo I bought for £6 on eBay from a K12 Micra, it didn't have a code but one was easily and freely obtained, and it worked first time! (After 1 hour of waiting)

 

ANYHOW. Yesterday eventually rolled around, I had a tiny bit of money and some time. The Micra was taken to a car wash, got completely covered in suds and washed vigorously. The interior got a hoover and off I went to present it to Sis_Sterling, she was utterly ecstatic. Her own car. Man, even I didn't get bought a car for me by my Mum or Dad, I bought my own, but I was happy and determined to present a car to her, finally a great present, something she could work toward and help her to become a young independent woman.

 

The 2 Micras finally meet;

 

I'd decided that the Micra needed some higher-spec improvements. So up to loft I went where I discovered the plethora of Rover 800 parts I still have and many, many floor mats I collected over the years, they were strewn all over the place as I'd previously stored them in a cupboard but they were then chucked into the loft by sis and a friend so some tidying up was in order. I found and added some rubber K11 Micra mats on top the existing ones (changed the rear capet ones as they were some oblong universal-like things (although they are genuine Nissan, they were later ones) and a speaker'd parcel shelf from a higher-spec model was added and connected up. I was gonna hold back on the parcel shelf as there are subtle differences but I can always buy a later one at a later date.

 

As the Micra stands today. Cleaned and with added extras:

 

This car has had the seal of approval from both Ma and Sis_Sterling. I'm happy with that.

 

All this was made possible thanks to; Loserone, Dollywobbler, Cavcraft and Wilsonx2.

 

Cheers guys!

[clayts450]

I will have a K11 at some point in time, there's just something right about them. Seem to be pretty cheap still too.

[Lord Sterling]

They are honestly great little robust things. I love this one as well as Ma's Micra. I might get Ma's Micra anyway when/if she upgrades.

[Noel Tidybeard]

roughly where does ma live cos the road pics look awfully familiar lol

[loserone]

Yeah, sorry about all the bits of croissant, it gets everywhere

[Lord Sterling]

roughly where does ma live cos the road pics look awfully familiar lol

Down the road from Weoley Castle. I thought you were on the otherside of Brum?

[Noel Tidybeard]

ah yes Weoley Castle- the standard municiple houses but the larger than normal grass verge makes sense now

yes i am over by robin hood but that was part of my "patch" at work when we still had the South Birmingham OOH doctors contract- you may have seen various silver polos and latterly 208s with doctor wrote on them and maybe the focarse that even had PRIMECARE written down the doors in a not subtle way! lol

[Lord Sterling]

ah yes Weoley Castle- the standard municiple houses but the larger than normal grass verge makes sense now

yes i am over by robin hood but that was part of my "patch" at work when we still had the South Birmingham OOH doctors contract- you may have seen various silver polos and latterly 208s with doctor wrote on them and maybe the focarse that even had PRIMECARE written down the doors in a not subtle way! lol

I vaguely remember that, but very vaguely. Do you're by Robin Hood as on Hall Green? I used to study at Hall Green tech (South Birmingham college) when I lived in Moseley.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Cmon Lord sterling stop teasing with the micra..... We all want some Rover updates!

 

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