Can you tell what it is yet?

[crapcarcollector]

Customer drops car off, complaining of a rattle and a clunk.....

 

 

Question is, can you guess what it is?

 

 

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[chaseracer]

A very large fracture where one should not be...

[Asimo]

Toyota Hiace.

 

(Suitable for export)

[richardthestag]

Nurse ! New chassis please

[crapcarcollector]

 

06 Nivara....

[Sloth in a bowl]

A bit of wob for the chariot and a pair of ear plugs for the owner. Problem solved.

[crapcarcollector]

 

 

 

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[crapcarcollector]

Owner also complained that leaning on the pick up part resulted in his arm being pinched between the pick up bed and cab.

 

Strip down shall commence next week for repairs. Will try to get more pics as it progresses.

 

 

 

 

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[Micrashed]

Nissans rust PHACT

 

as the owner of two modernish ones I can confirm that this is a factoid of life that even in 1999 they were churning out things with bugger all rust protection, indeed the number of frilly wings on Terrano's attests that they still were doing this well into the Noughties.

 

Coupled with likely being as overloaded as a Geordie the day the Newky Brown Factory openes their gates and said "free ale lads" it does not bode well for the poor thing.

[crapcarcollector]

Overloaded. Nah. Local farmer, on the way to market with a few cows in tow that's all !!!!

 

 

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[Junkman]

I was about to say that this looks like a stress crack from towing heavy trailers.

[Lacquer Peel]

Christ, those Navaras are shite.

I know someone who owned one, if I remember correctly he said the owner's manual advised against fitting a towbar, mud terrain tyres and doing anything outside the remit of a 'sports utility vehicle'.

[cort16]

And they crumple like a wet tent if you crash them.

[HH-R]

An all round hateful vehicle then.

 

My 1999 Micra was rotten underneath by 2008 and had been welded for its MOT since 2006, possibly earlier. Gearbox was singing louder than Mariah Carey at 70k too, it amazes me that there are so many K11s left. It lasted another 4 years or something after I got rid, it must have been totally knackered by the end.

[Junkman]

Those are intended for carrying lifestyle equipment to lifestyle venues, and the occasional visit to the Opera and Country Club.

For farmers, God created the Unimog.

[Cavcraft]

Oh much lolage, we've just got a metric shit load of them in at work.

[Micrashed]

Those are intended for carrying lifestyle equipment to lifestyle venues, and the occasional visit to the Opera and Country Club.

For farmers, God created the Unimog.

My wife learned to drive in a Unimog. 300 series I have a picture somewheres.

[bigfella2]

I would just send it straight to the bridge, engine will probably go OMGITJUSTWENTBANG. Cos the engines were shite on these too.

[Lacquer Peel]

http://www.carsguide.com.au/news-and-reviews/car-news/nissan_recalls_40000_navara_d40_4wds

 

Might be useful for the owner.

[Lukas]

Many engine-failures on those 2.5 dci-Navaras too. When they came out, many farmers bought one and some of them died because too much power, RWD and no load was too much for them on wet roads.

 

Bad quality (built in Spain), good engineering (from Japan).

[spike60]

http://www.carsguide.com.au/news-and-reviews/car-news/nissan_recalls_40000_navara_d40_4wds

 

Might be useful for the owner.

It appears Nissan will pick up the tab if you have one of their towbars but won't if you've fitted an aftermarket one. Seems crap when the chassis cracked with either towbar.

[Squire_Dawson]

If the owner could be arsed to clean the caked-on shite off that chassis, he might have seen the damage himself. Dirty cars aren't nice to work on.

[crapcarcollector]

I would just send it straight to the bridge, engine will probably go OMGITJUSTWENTBANG. Cos the engines were shite on these too.

It already did.

 

That was a big bill.

 

 

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[crapcarcollector]

This same farmer also has a Rover 75.

Now let me tell you when that was in several weeks ago for unspecified electrical gremlins, I went to jump in and the stench from inside made me physically sick. Unbelievable.

Full of rats that had eaten the loom.

Owner doesn't give a fuck. One if the farm hands collected it after the repair, told us he actively uses it on the farm for "carrying dead sheep, and shutting gates."

Wish I'd taken a pic now.

Maybe I should start a tales of looks what the fook came in today thread.

 

I must hasten to add it's not my garage, but a very good friend's whom I do work for.

 

 

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[crapcarcollector]

Actually thinking about it the nirvana had been in with a bust clutch and a dead sheep in the back.

 

It was quite clean today.

 

 

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[cort16]

My mate's a farmer and he's got an L200 that could cause an international incident because of all the shite, mud, potatoes and dead animals he's had in there. I wouldn't fancy working on it.

It reminds me of a program I watched about the guys who work on the trains and have to work around all the human shit stuck to the bottom of the carriages. Nasty.

[tooSavvy]

^^^^..... and no one gives one for the guys who do all the track maint [err... flying carriages excepted] who must come across 'sun baked' odure everyday...grughh!! 

 

 

TS

[ChinaTom]

I had Navarras in Laos - they were terrible. Always breaking. One of my guys threw the keys back at us when the back axle exploded and used his Daewoo Tico to bounce around the fields. Most of the Ozzies I worked with swore by them. But then they swear at anything...

[stuboy]

will that just be plated over with arc welder?

[crapcarcollector]

^^^, No, goodness. Gaffa tape n wob.