£100 Fuego bought - needs trailering Devon to Yorkshire - HELP!!

[Angrydicky]

Yeah, it's really not worth the hassle of doing it yourself for the price you'll be able to get on shiply if you and the seller are flexible with times.

[red5]

Hmm.

 

Does it roll? Anyone there to help push it onto a trailer?

 

Anyone able to get it closer to Worcestershire?

 

[Mally]

If its a licencing restriction then its the max plated weight that counts - eg if the car has a max gross weight of 1800KG and the trailer has a max permissible laden weight of 2000KG then you're over even if the trailer is only loaded with helium balloons - even the lightest car trailers tend to be rated to 1800KG minimum so it doesn't leave much margin, most will put you over on a standard licence

 

If you have a B+E licence then its the actual weight being carried that counts and you can't exceed the tow cars max train weight.

 

I'd vote for the transporter hire too for that distance - or 'get a guy in' to do it.

 

Agree, but our car trailer is not the smallest, weighs 300kg, max laden 1,300kg.

So can carry a car up to 1000kg.

We used to tow with a Sierra and be under 3,500 total train, but it's a bit of a minefield.

Puts us overweight with the Fuego on though.

[Mally]

I would carry it home on my back to get a Renault Fuego Turbo for £100!

 

The jobs yours!

[richbraith]

I got my Tipo from near Peterborough to North Yorkshire for £100 via Shiply last week, which was probably less than what the total cost of fuel including a two way trip in a collection vehicle, plus a day off work and food on the way etc. would have cost.  That's if the car had insurance, MOT and tax (which it doesn't).

This was because the driver was taking a load to Norwich and returning empty.  You just have to put it out to tender and catch one like that.  The quote was about half what I got from anyone else, but of course as it was a specific day I had to act quickly.

[phil_lihp]

For adequate compensation I'll go and get it, get it fixed up, MOT it and deliver it right to your door

 

Seriously though, if it does need to be moved to a more secure location and/or assessed by a trustworthy mechanic before it travels then drop me a PM.

[richardthestag]

For adequate compensation I'll go and get it, get it fixed up, MOT it and deliver it right to your door

 

Seriously though, if it does need to be moved to a more secure location and/or assessed by a trustworthy mechanic before it travels then drop me a PM.

 

Where abouts in you then out of interest? Fatha Thestag lives near Brayford and I am often that way working on the aswas rust ranger

 

edited to add, awesome luck on the fuego, always loved these

[Bren]

I would have thought a £100 fuego would go in a hoover bag.

 

Get Hermes to deliver it.

[Junkman]

I got my Tipo from near Peterborough to North Yorkshire for £100 via Shiply last week, which was probably less than what the total cost of fuel including a two way trip in a collection vehicle, plus a day off work and food on the way etc. would have cost. 

 

That sounds about as much fun as drinking water while watching on telly how people are getting pissed at a party.

Having fun is priceless.

[red5]

Well, I have a proper trailer, a proper towcar and a proper-ish licence.

 

I'd rather not go that far south solo, but am going to collect a dead-ish Proton vaguely northwards.

At some point.

 

Sam.

 

(same one I used for the Princess collection of win)

[phil_lihp]

Where abouts in you then out of interest? Fatha Thestag lives near Brayford and I am often that way working on the aswas rust ranger

 

edited to add, awesome luck on the fuego, always loved these

 

Barnstaple, the most metropolitan part of North Devon, so some say.  Certainly more so than South Molton but has the benefit for the purposes of this thread of being near it.

 

Good to find another local shiter, I had a feeling you must be nearby when you put up the Braunton show photos.  I am no mechanic myself (I merely know a couple) but if you ever want a hand with the Range Ruster feel free to give me a shout.  

 

Basically I'm just angling for excuses to go and play with a Fuego, I don't think I've even seen one on the roads this century.

[anonymous user]

 

You are Phillippa Vale, and I claim my reward in uncut diamonds

[nigel bickle]

As alluded above, find the empty back load, then haggle.

 

I've just had a Zuk truck delivered from Poland. £400.

 

Couldn't do it myself for that.

[Timewaster]

Dream car when I was about 10.

In red too.

 

Not sure I would be brave enough to live that particular dream.

 

Good Luck and happy welding.

[panhard65]

Unfortunatly I sold my trailer a couple of years ago and I am off on holiday on Sunday but if you want to bung it on a ramp down here in Somerset let me know. I have had a few Fuego's in the past and the turbo's are great fun, but no quicker than the 2.0 GTX I sold my last one a couple of years ago. They do like to rust pretty much everywhere and getting parts is now starting to be a struggle. I have fitted a 2.0 engine into a turbo many years ago and it is pretty straight forward but the front cross member is different and if you don't fit the front mounting it can rip driveshafts out if you pull away too quickly as I found out. I nearly went after it myself, but I would only of bought it as a car to make a few quid on and there is not much chance of that buying a Renault.

[doubleyeller]

Unfortunatly I sold my trailer a couple of years ago and I am off on holiday on Sunday but if you want to bung it on a ramp down here in Somerset let me know. I have had a few Fuego's in the past and the turbo's are great fun, but no quicker than the 2.0 GTX I sold my last one a couple of years ago. They do like to rust pretty much everywhere and getting parts is now starting to be a struggle. I have fitted a 2.0 engine into a turbo many years ago and it is pretty straight forward but the front cross member is different and if you don't fit the front mounting it can rip driveshafts out if you pull away too quickly as I found out. I nearly went after it myself, but I would only of bought it as a car to make a few quid on and there is not much chance of that buying a Renault.

 

A kind offer, and thank you,but I have got a quote of £240 for the towing off a reliable guy I've used before,and I think it's a fair price to pay

As for making money - not the object of the exercise, but if you lived next door and didn't have the towing costs to consider, I think you could get £500 immediately if you resold it the next day!

After all I sold the Renault 20 for £700 last week. Old Renaults are not so unloved anymore you know....

[overrun]

Why don't we get it running and retrieve it roadkill style?

Because UK.

[red5]

Well, I have a proper trailer, a proper towcar and a proper-ish licence.

 

I'd rather not go that far south solo, but am going to collect a dead-ish Proton vaguely northwards.

At some point.

 

Sam.

 

(same one I used for the Princess collection of win)

 

So that's a no then.....

[somewhatfoolish]

A kind offer, and thank you,but I have got a quote of £240 for the towing off a reliable guy I've used before,and I think it's a fair price to pay

As for making money - not the object of the exercise, but if you lived next door and didn't have the towing costs to consider, I think you could get £500 immediately if you resold it the next day!

After all I sold the Renault 20 for £700 last week. Old Renaults are not so unloved anymore you know....

You finally found a buyer for the unicorn badermatic?

[doubleyeller]

You finally found a buyer for the unicorn badermatic?

Yep, a little sad to see it leave, but it was a fair price I think.

[nigel bickle]

Nope. Wasn't me. Honest.

[Junkman]

You are my father AICMFP.

 

After a succession of new R16s, he bought an R20TS purely on the grounds that they had stopped making the R16.

He never really bonded with the 20, which also fascinated by not reaching its first TÜV three years from new, due to

succumbing to structural rust beforehand.

By that time, my sister and I had moved out, thus he didn't need a big bloody family saloon anymore and bought a

white Fuego GTX two litre. That one got destroyed in the infamous Munich hailstorm of 1984 and he bought another

white one from the insurance payout. He still had it ten years later, the longest he ever owned a car, then sold it to

his doctor, who still has it.

 

A few Junkfather quotes regarding Fuegos:

 

It's too cheap. If they'd charge twice the price, they'd sell twice as many.

 

The only cars that really don't rust are Fuegos.

 

You can drive winding roads faster than you can think them.

 

Today I pulled away from a Porsche (ed. it was a 924).

 

He bought one of those old fashioned BMWs, you know, where you need to stick a key into the door lock

and walk around it if you want to lock it.

 

Never buy a new car in the same colour as your old one was. None of my buddies realise that I have a new car.

 

Back then they had a traffic safety programme on German telly (Der 7. Sinn, youtube it if you want to see superb stunts

done with old Taunii and VW 1600s). They were 5 minute clips broadcasted before the main film began.

We watched one about Winter driving tips and the presenter said that by night occasionally you should stop and clean

your headlights, then stopped, got out of his Mercedes during a blizzard by night, cleaned his headlights with snow

and then rubbed his hands to get the frostbite off.

 

The Junkfather: Why doesn't that dollop brained spazzer buy a proper car?

[Mally]

I now see the origin of many of your own outbursts.

[Junkman]

It's all hereditary.

[richbraith]

That sounds about as much fun as drinking water while watching on telly how people are getting pissed at a party.

Having fun is priceless.

True, next time I'll get a day off work to go and drive a 23 year old Fiat with no test and negligible braking ability 200 miles along some of the busiest roads in the UK.  Sorted.

[tooSavvy]

Hmm.... 1984 Hailstorm, eh?

 

On July 12, 1984, a powerful hailstorm pummeled Munich. Hailstones up to 10 centimeters in diameter and weighing as much as 300 grams fell in a swath five to 15 km wide and 250 km long, stretching from Lake Constance almost to the border with Austria. This ferocious hailstorm traveled at 60 to 70 km/h and left some 70,000 homes with roof damage; seriously dinged more than 200,000 automobiles and about 150 aircraft; and injured more than 400 people.

 

It all started when after an intense heat wave, a cold front approached, weakened, and became a cold air mass below the tropical warm air mass. The next day a low pressure system approached and caused these atmospheric layers to combine. Sun-induced water evaporation from the ground created severe convection within these unstable atmospheric conditions. The first hailstones were observed when a thunderstorm developed over Lake Constance. As it approached Munich at about 8 p.m. the storm strengthened with moist air from lakes in the area (Ammersee and Lake Starnberg) and, fed by the warm, moist air masses over the city, moved on towards the Czech Republic.

 

The storm left a layer of hailstones 20 cm deep in the streets of Munich within 20-30 minutes. These soon melted, but the storm's record as the greatest loss event in the history of the German insurance industry has stood for decades. It was Europe's most expensive catastrophe for years, totaling 3 billion in today's euros (about USD 4 billion), and served as a wake-up call to insurers to the significant loss potential of hail in Central Europe.

 

Christ on a byke!

 

TS

[Junkman]

True, next time I'll get a day off work to go and drive a 23 year old Fiat with no test and negligible braking ability 200 miles along some of the busiest roads in the UK.  Sorted.

 

What? Not from Italy?

[Junkman]

Hmm.... 1984 Hailstorm, eh?

 

On July 12, 1984, a powerful hailstorm pummeled Munich. Hailstones up to 10 centimeters in diameter and weighing as much as 300 grams fell in a swath five to 15 km wide and 250 km long, stretching from Lake Constance almost to the border with Austria. This ferocious hailstorm traveled at 60 to 70 km/h and left some 70,000 homes with roof damage; seriously dinged more than 200,000 automobiles and about 150 aircraft; and injured more than 400 people.

 

It all started when after an intense heat wave, a cold front approached, weakened, and became a cold air mass below the tropical warm air mass. The next day a low pressure system approached and caused these atmospheric layers to combine. Sun-induced water evaporation from the ground created severe convection within these unstable atmospheric conditions. The first hailstones were observed when a thunderstorm developed over Lake Constance. As it approached Munich at about 8 p.m. the storm strengthened with moist air from lakes in the area (Ammersee and Lake Starnberg) and, fed by the warm, moist air masses over the city, moved on towards the Czech Republic.

 

The storm left a layer of hailstones 20 cm deep in the streets of Munich within 20-30 minutes. These soon melted, but the storm's record as the greatest loss event in the history of the German insurance industry has stood for decades. It was Europe's most expensive catastrophe for years, totaling 3 billion in today's euros (about USD 4 billion), and served as a wake-up call to insurers to the significant loss potential of hail in Central Europe.

 

Christ on a byke!

 

TS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Across the street from my parents lived a wealthy doctor's family in one of those vast 1960s bungalows with a four car garage.

Papa doctor and mama doctor were on holidays, but son doctor was at home. He had an old ex Bundeswehr VW 181.

 

There were no warnings broadcasted, despite that thing had already left a trail of devastation about 200km long across

South Germany from the Lake Constance region. So when the sulphur yellow (I kid you not!) cloud front approached,

everyone assumed it's going to be merely a severe Summer thunderstorm.

 

Doctor's son didn't want to get his battered Thing, which was parked in the front garden, flooded, so he thought it would be a good

idea to drive it into the garage in lieu of his dad's merely weeks old BMW 745i, which surely can sustain a bit of rain, right?

 

I was at my parents's place at the time and we shortly afterwards watched our cars and the neighbour's almost new 745i being

hailed to smithereens from our kitchen window.

Then we watched the entire scale of the whole thing on the 9 o'clock news.

My parents were lucky. Only a few rooftiles and no window of their house got broken. The appartment block I lived in at Munich

city centre didn't have a roof anymore and all windows on the Western side were smashed. It was uninhabitable for weeks, since

the glaziers, builders and roofers were a tad booked out.

Thanks God all of my other cars were parked in an underground garage underneath the appartment building I was living in,

so I only had an R4 for my insurance to write off. No glass was broken, but it had craters all over. I kept driving it until it died

the normal R4 death.

[Junkman]

But for the record, the tailgate window of my father's Fuego did not break!

[Pillock]

Holy Mother of Shite. That's a big hailstone.

 

Clearly since that was pre-1986 cars were tougher. We had a hailstorm about three years ago here, with hailstones much smaller than that (at most a golf ball, but most smaller) and still cars got dented, windows broken etc. Houses stood up fine which suggests it's those rubbish post-1986 cars are the issue.

 

Every so often you'll see a car with the damage still evident. Our Touran has a load of dents on the bonnet still, although the roof escaped. Springier panel?