Just added this to the stable...

[AXrescuer]

Bought this on the spur of the moment. £150 plus a bit of budget fettling and a full paint renovation should soon see it right!

 

[mk2_craig]

A reasonable deal,a) if the fuel filler is still connected to the rear quarterb) depending upon the engine/box combo, and c) assuming it has a decent amount of tax/test left.Looks like it has already seen some attention to the sills though.

[VWPowered]

cant argue with the price, looks like it should polish up ok

[Milford Cubicle]

What a heap! I've never seen the appeal in these at all.

[Richard]

I had one and I thought it was a great wee car. By far the most reliable car I've owned.I'm guessing it's a 1.1LX with 5 speed box like the one I had.

[RedSparrow]

Nice.As long as it isn't one with the single-point injection engine like one I had. Piece of shit engine that would not idle. I had pleasure in scrapping it!

[garycox]

I had a 1.1LX and it was great, really comfortable and reliable.I paid £100 for mine 2 years ago with just over 100k on it. I sold it when the head gasket went at 123,000 miles for £120 to somebody who I think was intending to sell the number plate on...

[Albert Ross]

I had a 1994 Diesel 5 door LX, which saw my Wife pass her test in it, with one minor, (undue hesitation, it was either a little slow pulling out of a juction, or not overtaking a slow lorry on a country road) I would have been somewhat hesitant at either of those. It got stolen the day she took her test, and 17 days later (Feb 2003) I got a cheque for 1700 quid! That's a bloody expensive Fester. I recovered it the same night, it was taken away and sold on, and was still on the road last year! Great car, would have another tomorrow.

[CortinaDave]

Bought one of these for £150 for my missus last year from the local auction.. same colour, same faded paint... some G3 quickly sorted that outRan it 9 months till the test ran out and weighed it in for £160. Not bad.The N - reg on "sad face" festers are much, much better though.. a far better drive and much more refined for not much more money.

[AXrescuer]

A reasonable deal,a) if the fuel filler is still connected to the rear quarterb) depending upon the engine/box combo, and c) assuming it has a decent amount of tax/test left.Looks like it has already seen some attention to the sills though.

It's taxed until Nov 08, MOT runs to May 09 and has (allegedly) done 66k genuine miles . Needs a new n/s mirror, replacement front tyre and the front passenger door lock needs sorting. It's a first car for my daughter so I'm not looking for perfection, it'll do for her first year of driving.

[Guest]

Looks like a nice buy with that much ticket! Should polish up nice too, give it a few coats of wax after and it won't fade back to pink quickly.The bonus with those red ones is if the bottom half looks tatty, you can do the bottom half black as they actually did some red/black two-tone ones at some point.

[garycox]

My driver's door lock was broken, it would lock but not unlock so entry was always through the passenger side. I used to park it in front of my garage as in the pic below, so hilarity ensued when I parked it the wrong way round and got out of the 'proper' side...

 

 

When I got it the car had 3 wheeltrims on the usual black steels, I just gave them a coat of white Hammerite as a very cheap and quick way to smarten it up and it worked well IMO. Would look good on the red car too I think...

[mk2_craig]

 

I had worn driver's door lock syndrome on the Courier, a new key solved it for a bit but eventually it would no longer work, so I swapped it with the passenger side one, the barrels are identical but the plastic cam screwed to it needed a tiny modification to make it fit the other way round (and I mean tiny - like cutting a 2mm groove in it with a hacksaw or something). All ultimately in vain after pikeys put screwdrivers through both locks

 

Later ones however had different locks related to the PATS immobiliser thing, although they look identical from the outside.

[AXrescuer]

Looks like a nice buy with that much ticket! Should polish up nice too, give it a few coats of wax after and it won't fade back to pink quickly.The bonus with those red ones is if the bottom half looks tatty, you can do the bottom half black as they actually did some red/black two-tone ones at some point.

That's a good idea. My old neighbour had one with a graphite coloured lower half. I imagine if its new owner gets her way, it'll soon be getting sprayed pink!

[Richard]

These Ford locks will lock with any key but only unlock with the correct key (in theory). If you put a lock on the wrong side you end up with a car that unlocks with any key but only locks with the correct key.

[Father Ted]

Why on earth do you all bother with the door lock?

 

From 6 weeks old I NEVER once locked this:

And do you know what, no body ever touched it - heap of shit that it was. How I wished someone had stolen it and gone joyriding in the asthmatic 1100 cc bag of crud. Scrapped at 57K miles with total bollocking engine failure and a nice big hole in the block.

[RedSparrow]

Why on earth do you all bother with the door lock?

 

From 6 weeks old I NEVER once locked this:

And do you know what, no body ever touched it - heap of shit that it was. How I wished someone had stolen it and gone joyriding in the asthmatic 1100 cc bag of crud. Scrapped at 57K miles with total bollocking engine failure and a nice big hole in the block.

I can beat that. My L reg 1.1 (totally underpowered for a 4 door car) 'finesse' (HA HA!) was scrapped at just 41k miles, mainly due to the poor excuse for an engine under the bonnet.

The thing had no charm whatsoever.

That said, I now own a 2001 'smiling' Fiesta which is the most reliable car Ive ever owned.

[AXrescuer]

Why on earth do you all bother with the door lock?

 

'Cos it doesn't work properly and the door won't stay shut!

[AXrescuer]

So we picked the Fiesta up from Dunstable yesterday. First impressions are quite positive. No rot in the usual areas, just a couple of small patches of corrosion either side of the windscreen, but other than that, all is good. It also came with a decent spec remote control Radio/MP3 head unit! :DI'm attacking it with the electric polisher and Farecla compound today to sort out the faded paintwork. Pics to follow this evening.

[MrRegieRitmo]

This was my MkIII Fiesta, bought in Oct 02 & pictured just before I sold it. I had always admired the MkIII Si, much more stylish & rare than the infamous XR2i. Unfortunately it didn't have the guts to match it's racy looks, it was a bit disappointing actually & wasn't particularly reliable either although some of it was my fault. However, I don't regret owning it & as far as I was concerned it was the only Fiesta I was prepared to be seen in at the time, I couldn't have just any bog standard ordinary shopping trolly, I'd rather have walked, hence it had to be an Si, it had to be black, it had to be N reg & it had to be the 1.6 (not the 1.4). However, even so it's still my most 'normal' and 'sensible' car to date - and probably always will be!

 

[Split_Pin]

The first car I drove after passing my test (1996)was my mums J-Plater 1100 4 speed manual choke job and any car that can stand up to the monumental lack of car sympathy and teenage recklessness I showed it is pretty good in my book. I drove it like an arse.I then drove (sensibly) her new P reg- 1300 Endura e (edit - this was a 'sad face' MK4 jobbie) for 5 years before getting my own car. It was an excellent drive, with supple suspension, nimble handling, which helped as you didnt have to slow down as much as the old OHV was pretty wheezy, but reliable.Only prob we ever had was the suspension top mounts and lower arms, a common prob I believe.A much derided car, good buy AX IMO.

[AXrescuer]

Thanks for the positive comments!

 

Anyway, we set about the car with the G220 and Farecla G3. Only did a couple of panels as we had to go out.

The bonnet is graveyard for squashed files and will need some serious attention!

Here's some piccys showing the paint before cutting and after a quick going over with the compound.

 

 

All the replacement bits we needed were ordered from the bay of e today for a grand total of £37.00!

[ashmicro]

I did the bottom of my slightly tatty 1.1LX Fezza with Austin/Rover "Tornado Grey". Looked reasonably good, too.