For Sale The Crying Pumpkin - Dire MOT fail on rust - any takers?

[twosmoke300]

I'd say on an old Range Rover that was prob a fair test

[Guest Hooli]

I'd say on a new Range Rover it's probably a fair test.

[AMC Rebel]

How much would you like for the old gall ?

£800 to a shiiter?

[AMC Rebel]

Any forum wisdom on who/where might be able to repair this for me?

There don't seem to be a lot of folk in the queue to take it on.

 

If it can be done for, say 1/2K to a reasonable standard it would only be a slightly stupid idea

[BorniteIdentity]

If it were me, I think I’d want out tbh. 99p eBay auction over 10 days and it WILL find its value.

 

Sadly I can’t even sellotape, never mind weld. Good luck with the next move.

[AMC Rebel]

Hell! Love how you were finding crispy bits but the priority was getting the RANGE ROVER lettering right, very "Autoshite". I failed an MoT once because sticking the badges back on after a respray was a more enjoyable use of my time than replacing a seized brake valve!

Ahem - I have renewed -

 

All four springs

Front Shocks

Swivels

Two track rod ends

Radius arm bushes

Fan belt

Steering lock/ignition switch

 

oh, and got the stereo working and done the lettering 

 

whilst it rotted away

[AMC Rebel]

Now listed on eBay if anyone fancies a punt on there -

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1994-Range-Rover-Classic-Td-MOT-Failure/292277579446

[Eddie Honda]

"Like" for the cut 'n' paste beige in the listing from here.

[AMC Rebel]

"Like" for the cut 'n' paste beige in the listing from here.

 

Autoshite sticker is clearly visible in the rear view too

[oldcars]

Its up to £660. Will be a labour of love for the buyer.

[DodgeRover]

Its up to £660. Will be a labour of love for the buyer.

Hammering a pre '77 vin number into it...

[richardthestag]

plate-rape I reckon and sell the rest for bits, these are worth a bag and a half at least in parts and scrap.especially with the newish bits on it

 

welding guestimates are based on my own experience and include a wedge of stripping out, cutting out and putting back together.

 

to weld a cross member, rear boot floor area and all the other bits around curtains and rear arches I reckon is getting on for 4 days work

to weld repairs to a pair of sills and 4 mounts is going to be another 2 days

to repair bulkhead and mounts on both sides - expect to see extensive welding repairs to bulkhead side and floor about 2 days

to patch up the front inner wings to an MOT standard probably a day, to replace both inner wings maybe 3 days, a lot of stripping out involved

 

By no means is this outside the scope of an amateur but I would have thought that commercially not viable. what is 9-10 days labour for welding £3-4k +

 

If it still had air suspension, v8 I would have been very tempted. but would have to admit to too many projects on the go and this would be at least a years wait

 

hope the bidders dont fuck you about

[Bren]

Its up to £660. Will be a labour of love for the buyer.

I hope he does't turn up and say "whats this welding nonsense?"

[AMC Rebel]

I like the fact that he appears to have made a separate entry for each and every bit of structural rust and then, as a final 'Fuck You', gives you an advisory for

 

 

You really did kill his dog, didn't you?

 

How much for the DAB radio please?

Radio is £800 but comes with a free Range Rover

[AMC Rebel]

I hope he does't turn up and say "whats this welding nonsense?"

No doubt there will be something like that - or “oh I read that as MOT pass”

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

Its up to £660. Will be a labour of love for the buyer.

 

 

Shill be all right 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BTW Absolute no implication the AMCRebel knew anything about it whatsoever.

[AMC Rebel]

5 mins to go - at £910 

 

Top bidder is a Land Rover breakers - shame in a way, but hopefully not a time waster

[bub2006]

Its a shame but with all respect he more than likely wont piss you about. He may not even break it.

[AMC Rebel]

Not sentimental about it - I did as promised and offered it back on here - and the high bid is more than the autoshite offer price

[bub2006]

Fair enough. It may become his recovery vehicle. Who knows.

[Talbot]

It could well be put back on the road.  Friends father sold a totally and utterly rotten Disco 200tdi several years ago.. it had no rear arches, no rear floor, no sills and almost no body mounting points to speak of.  I'm sure the body would have just lifted off the chassis without unbolting anything.

 

Some madman bought it for about £6 and then promptly re-manufactured every panel, cut the rot out and welded it all back together to an astonishingly high standard.  In two weeks.

 

Stranger things have happened.

[dieselassist]

...its a very handsome looking old range rover - I love the look of these late ones; n 300tdi would be the preference for me; I promised myself id not buy anymore rusty cars for myself to weld up...

...as said above, it all looks 'doable' - many folk (well more so in UK) spend weeks welding up disco's - the endeavour seems more 'worthwhile' on a RangeRover -to me at least...

...my disco was a month outta test when I got it; seems its was being carefully 'buttered up' with underseal n bitchumen on the sills n inner rear wings/body mount to achieve its previous tests.... so I had to get busy with the zintec n welder to replace all the drivers side sill...

...the exhaust n stuff like that is cheap n easy to rectify - I think a cheap rear section was €38 for my disco; universal so the bore was bigger- easily clamped down...

I spose it depends on what tester you get; the CVRT inspection here, once I keep bringing it back to the same outlet don't seem to concern themselves too much with the inner wings being fizzly - theres a bitta tin under my battery n large tie -wraps effect a battery clamp, which doesn't deem to bother them...

...whoever buys it will be buying at least one big spool of MiG wire for their machine...

[AMC Rebel]

Man from eBay turned up today in a Soft Dash Classic RR  and with a paint job about as good as the Pumpkin's his oppo drove it away on trade plates - think he was for breaking it, but said he wasn't sure now.  Turned up on time, paid cash, can't fault him.

[AMC Rebel]

DVLA site for change of keeper is down.  Good old DVLA.

[Pillock]

Someone on trade plates is unlikely to razz it through speed cameras and ram raid a branch of Currys so just do the owner change when it's back up. Doesn't it go down every Sunday?

 

Good news on the sale price and lack of dicking around though

[bezzabsa]

as an owner of 3 RRc in the past . yup thats pretty much a typical fail sheet..pity it wasn't still on air as theyre getting rare and saught after now...

cure would have been boot floor - box section sills...few strategic plates...and bobs ya brothers sisters nephews dog walker!!

 

PS my Last discovery fail sheet was 2 pages....needless to say it went over the bridge!!