Sold BRG HGF MGF MF. Force ale. MOT'd £225!

[Cavcraft]

2000 'W reg MGF 1.8

MOT October 9th 2015

TAXED TO GET YOU HOME

Metallic council garage door green (BRG, to you)

85,000 miles.

To be fair, it actually looks really tidy.

 

Take a guess at the first fault...

 

'It hasn't overheated, but sometimes loses water, but it's not bad because I put some of that cement dust stuff in that seals it' 

 

Also:

The exhaust blows quite badly

The n/s door handle surround is sellotaped on.

I think he said the fan belt squeals.

 

 

£225 collected from Chester.

 

Hopefully it's worth that in parts/weigh in if nobody wants to fix it up, the interior is nice and it has alloys.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Partridge]

Dugong (Parts Dept.) to the front desk please.

[Bear]

That looks nicer than mine. Damn. Fan belt squealing might be that sodding alternator sticking problem.

 

How would one go about getting it from Chester, I wonder. Did someone have a trailer?

[Cavcraft]

One would risk it for a chocolate biscuit and drive the motherflipper back.

[forddeliveryboy]

I'd risk it, with a few cubies of water in the boot. And breakdown recovery. PM sent.

[filthyjohn]

Does it drive without overheating? Or have you not had the chance to check? It's cheap enough to rip out the lottery engine and fit something mental.

[Cavcraft]

The truthful answer is I have no idea. I haven't driven it yet, that pleasure will come tomorrow afternoon where I might try and ride up there, take both wheels off my bike, chuck it in the car and drive it back.

Or just get a lift up there.

[Craig the Princess]

God that is tempting. Very tempting

[purplebargeken]

Worth 150 to 200 for the seats and about 100 to 150 for the wheels.

 

Colour code HAM or HFF?

[purplebargeken]

CTP - get it man, you enjoyed driving mine didn't you?

 

Get it bought! 

 

If it died you would get your money back just on the wheels and seats.

[Craig the Princess]

Just deciding which kidney I will sell to raise the funds.

[brownnova]

Often fancied an 'F' I'll join the queue that seems to be forming!!

I await with bated breath the drive home report...

[purplebargeken]

Coolant loss could be any of the following:

 

Coolant bottle cap (more common than you might think) - replace and monitor, do this as a yearly service item

Hoses - various - replace

Underslung coolant pipes - replace with stainless pipes

Coolant pipework fixings - whatever

Rad leak - replace with ally rad from a TF

 

None of the above are major or that costly.

 

OMGHGF

 

Drain coolant to get rid of that shite he has put in, flush, refill and bleed the system properly (3 bleed points), use OAT coolant. Monitor closely. 

 

Exhaust - it's only small and pretty bloody easy to access. Get one from a breaker or cheapish on fleabay.

 

 

Get the fucker bought

 

Billy you git, one car I cannot buy. Thanks a bundle 'mate' 

[320touring]

Jeesuuussss Billy- you dun gone dun us proud!

[dome]

Hnnnnnngggg!

[stripped fred]

It's like a blinkin car supermarket on here at the moment, shiters heaven, and not much more than a grand would buy them all!

[purplebargeken]

This is the problem with autoshite, a never ending smorgasbord of interesting and currently available chod that threatens to overload my 'sensible gland' with the sheer 'wow-ness' of it all. I'm having real automotive psychological issues now. Damn this forum.

[320touring]

Hnnnnnngggg!

Do it! I can run you down in the skudder:)

[purplebargeken]

C'mon folks, get this bought. You are not going to lose money on it even if it is OMGHG.

[Taff]

C'mon folks, get this bought. You are not going to lose money on it even if it is OMGHG.

 

don't tempt me...

[Taff]

as PBK has said, exhaust is cheap enough to put right, mine was £35 quid inc gaskets.

 

Those seats look nicer than mine, as do the door cards, and the alloys should probably fetch £100 if the tyres are any good.

 

As for the water vanishing, follow the procedure that PBK suggested and keep an eye on it. Beer money motoring in a soft top in this weather? get it bought

[purplebargeken]

You know you want to Taff. You also have the seat gloop. It was meant to be. 

[Taff]

You know you want to Taff. You also have the seat gloop. It was meant to be. 

 

are you suggesting some sort of BRGMGF sandwich with an X1/9 filling?

 

you disgust me. In a good way

 

edit to add:- that would some photo, eh? F, X, F side for side outside my gaff

[Pillock]

Do it, these are a hoot.

Worst case as Ken says, interior and wheels will see you even, the hood looks OK too so £100 there. Then just list panels on eBay waiting for all the Fs that haven't been driven all winter to go backwards through a hedge on their shiny tyres.

[Taff]

good point, whats the hood/rear window zip like? as in, does it work at all?

[Station]

K-seal 'cement' is the best thing you can do with these stupid engines, it's the only thing that fixes them permanently.

[BorniteIdentity]

^I have to agree^

 

I had a leaky K Series in my 75.  It was a straight choice between £350 for a specialist to do it on my driveway after a 6 week wait, or £15 in Tec 2000 "Stop Leak".  It worked a treat for 10,000 miles before beginning to lose coolant again.  Another £15 and it bought me another 10,000 miles before it started to go again.  Repeated for the third time and sold the car.

 

So a saving of over £250 and it kept me on the road.  It's not all shit.

[Cavcraft]

Provisionally sold/first refusal given to a fellow shite fanatic, will keep everyone updated.

[purplebargeken]

Yay!

[Cavcraft]

LWD approval