Why Bother ??? (May contain pictures of rust*)

[Jim Bell]

Thats a top job well done and a great attitude to boot.

 

I would have bridged it, but I can not weld.

[brickwall]

Great skills mate!

[bigfella2]

I was in exactly the same position about two months ago. I kind of inherited swmbo 206 gti that she has owned from nearly new. I intended recommission it and run it, even though the sills looked good I applied a bit of pressure to them with my thumb and they moved, and a quick jab of a screwdriver showed they were rotton at front. Peugeot apply that much mastic underseal stuff that even when they the look good, they were indeed shot. Ours was older but but needed money spending on other stuff, cambelt, brakes etc. Never mind matching heavily faded fire dance orange. Was broken for parts and bridged last week. Good save though, nowt up with a 206.

[Austin of England]

Looks bloomin' good to me. Nice work.

The photos do flatter it, the car is finished in a basecoat and clear, I don't have the tackle to paint 2K, so I just got 1/2 litre of cellulose online from a paint supplier and after the filler & primer I sprayed 9 thin coats on it over a period of 3 days, flatting between each 3 coats with 600 grit and then 1200 grit before the final coats,  I think the secret to metallic paints is to avoid the temptation to put too much paint on in one go, There is a marked difference between the new paint and the original, I will give it a cut back and polish in a few weeks when the paint has hardened.

 

I am not in the motor trade and as far as welding goes I am strictly amateur but willing to have a go, I bought a Clarke 151 Mig a few years ago when I started restoring an A35 van, practice welding clean steel at the workbench to find out about settings and weld quality is great, but it can be frustrating welding thin, rusty car bodywork, especially when you blow a hole in it and up chasing the hole across the panel trying to fill the hole.

 

My Dad was a car mechanic before retirement and when I was a kid he had his own garage business, as a result I spent all my school holidays and Saturdays helping out, I spent many an hour perched in a car on the ramp with a fairy liquid bottle full of water fire watching while my Dad welded it from underneath - "there's a lot of smoke there - are you sure its not on fire"

[fordperv]

^ how i learned about motors was similar, my dad and uncle used to spanner, and as a boy i had a great interest in cars so payed lots of attention, fetched required tools, helped out on jobs, my dad taught me loads, i bloody loved it and still enjoy it to this day

 

as i said previous top work

[michael t]

Superb job, not a fan of 206's myself but that's completely irrelevant. Great to see someone actually bother to fix instead of simply throw away

[oldcars]

Nice job. Would love to be taught this sort of stuff.

[sierraman]

Who gives a shit if it was worth doing? It's cost you little but your time and you've done a good job. At this level you've got to forget the perception of value, I once paid £300 to have a clutch put in a £500 Mondeo, people said I was nuts, but the rest of the car was good and I wouldn't have got another car worth having for the same amount. Anyway it meant I got another 2 years out of it...

[dugong]

Thing is, he's probably got another year or two of cheap motoring out of that Pug; it might not be worth anything but in VFM terms, it wees all over a new Corsa on tick.

[chodweaver]

You know the old adage? It takes more energy to make a car than it will ever use from it's fuel. So by far the greener thing to do is not scrap it if it has an ounce of life left in it.

Well done on a top job

 

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[alfetta]

did it have a sunroof and drain through the sills? like old fords...

[New POD]

Seems like good a good practise car to me.  Practice on something not worth too much and then later on apply same skills to something "tasty".  I'm thinking a 205 GTi restoration ?

[stripped fred]

Who gives a shit if it was worth doing? It's cost you little but your time and you've done a good job. At this level you've got to forget the perception of value, I once paid £300 to have a clutch put in a £500 Mondeo, people said I was nuts, but the rest of the car was good and I wouldn't have got another car worth having for the same amount. Anyway it meant I got another 2 years out of it...

These are my thoughts. People generally think that as a car gets older and isn't worth much they don't need to spend out on it or maintain it. I particularly dislike the expression "I'm going to run it into the ground". So, you're going to prematurely kill it when it could give you several more years motoring, 10+ in some cases. Oil changes are the main thing people skimp on which if you do it yourself can cost you no more than £20.

[fatharris]

Very impressive work, you need more practise though.

 

I'm willing to lend you a rotten Mini to fix for me.

 

 

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