Weighbridge awaits. Ford KA £75

[Split_Pin]

Examples with the 1.3 chapper engine are getting rare in Scotland now.

[warren t claim]

Is looking like I may as well flog it to a local Johnny One Bomb so he can use it to smoke weed in until the local council tow it away.

[dougiefourspeed]

I've got a low-mile one of these. Kept garaged all its life, 40-something thousand on the clock and as nice as they come but surprise, surprise..

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

They are if you dont mind driving a car that was designed without brakes, or a glove box , or a boot

 

EFA

[oldcars]

Examples are getting rare in Scotland now.

Fix that one for you 

[UltraWomble]

Bloody cockwombls

 

I'd have had this ( I want a turtle) - I was in Manc today collecting the K75 Ringer kit and I had the tow rope with me. And no there is utterly no fooking chance now of going back that way until in the new year.

 

GLWTS

[Des]

I've never so much as sat in a Ka, but must say that they're one of those cars that were everywhere and then strangely they have all but vanished unnoticed, almost surreal. This £75 Ka is one of the last remaining and for that reason alone surely it should be baled without delay.

[Bren]

I've never so much as sat in a Ka, but must say that they're one of those cars that were everywhere and then strangely they have all but vanished unnoticed, almost surreal. This £75 Ka is one of the last remaining and for that reason alone surely it should be baled without delay.

Vanished unnoticed.

 

Thank fuck for that.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Someone loves them...

[twosmoke300]

Their forum must just be a discussion about welding gas , wire and the best repair sections

[tooSavvy]

.... Or Arc'sunburn'...

 

TS

[pandamonium]

I would actually like this. 

[pandamonium]

But not now I actually read the post properly... 

[sierraman]

Welding those filler cap surround repair panels with minimum distortion, that would be the topic. I think you’d be as well joddling the repair panels and riveting or preferably using panel adhesive to fix them in would be the way I’d go. Otherwise it’s a tank out job.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

It's not a hard repair, You can get the outer skin anywhere and Ford sell the inner 'bucket' - it's when the inner wing part that the bucket welds to is rotten.......

 

The old bucket is cut off (four spot welds), the metal cleaned up and primed and the new unfitted with panel bond. On the outer wing you cut back to good metal, joddle the wing and lay the new outer bit in before plug welding it. You can spot weld or panel bond the outer skin to the bucket but once done, you can get a lot of paint and waxoyl up in there. With the rear interior 1/4 panel trim out you can look directly down into the rear sill and tip a load of waxoyl in and let it slosh about. If you were really keen you could (and Ford should have done) fit rear arch liners from a StreetKa.

 

Having done all this to a Ka, I can report back that these cars have no wax injection from the factory whatsoever. Anything with sill rot is a goner but if you found a late one with just the fuel filler rot you could save it and have a decent small car. Do the fuel filler repair properly and it will never rot out again.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

This is an excellent write up:

 

https://passionford.com/forum/4073353-post3.html

[warren t claim]

As a final offer I'm throwing in an empty Golden Wonder cheese and onion crisp box for the ultimate retro shove-the-pushrods-through experience when the inevitable HGF happens. Pay full retail and I'll include a Watney's Party Four for you to consume before flattening the empty can to patch the sills.

[HH-R]

1) find not too far gone Ka

2) waxoyl etc to the moon

3) put away for years

4) wait for OSF tax to kick in/my dad had one of those/my first car nostalgia kicks in/for them to be rarer than a Lonsdale

5) ?????

6) profit!

[Guest Hooli]

^^ That's probably true as well.

[Cavcraft]

1) find not too far gone Ka

2) waxoyl etc to the moon

3) put away for years

4) wait for OSF tax to kick in/my dad had one of those/my first car nostalgia kicks in/for them to be rarer than a Lonsdale

5) ?????

6) profit!

 

The problem with that is the cost of running a fully heated, insulated and air tight garage while you wait for it to go up 50p per year.

[AlabamaShrimp]

This a problem with mine. It's other that bad now but a dampish garage that's £50 a year isn't going to be making anyone but the scrap man happy in future.

[omegod]

Similar to neo nazis and paedophiles they need all putting down, father in law has one and it's got more patches than a bloody pirate convention 

[Split_Pin]

^^Said everyone in the whole world ever about MK1 Escorts in 1983.

[cobblers]

jesus lads he was just offering a cheap car that might do someone a turn for a few years if they've a spare day to put a clutch in it. I might be naive but I don't think he was subtly asking "What does a KA and a Nonce have in common?"

 

I like Kas, ten years ago. 

[warren t claim]

jesus lads he was just offering a cheap car that might do someone a turn for a few years if they've a spare day to put a clutch in it. I might be naive but I don't think he was subtly asking "What does a KA and a Nonce have in common?"

 

I like Kas, ten years ago.

I'm actually quite surprised and somewhat flattered that my slippy ka has generated so much debate.

[Talbot]

My ex had a Ka. It was a V-plate KA3 model with all the bits and pieces on it, and those slightly odd asymmetric alloy wheels.

 

What a bucket of shit it was. Uncomfortable, slow, noisy, rattly, endless electrical issues. Snapped all the plugs off in the head so had to have the head off to fix it, the beginnings of serious rot at just 5 years old, and generally a nasty hateful little car.

 

The only thing I liked about it was the remarkably powerful aircon. Which sapped so much power from the asthmatic pushrod 1,3 that ypu had to turn it off if you were going uphill.

 

An utter waste of resources,

[Cavcraft]

If this wasn't Autoshite I'd offer £40 and a guaranteed collection this week.

[warren t claim]

Has anyone mentioned skeletons wanking in a biscuit tin yet?

[bezzabsa]

If this wasn't Autoshite I'd offer £40 and a guaranteed collection this week.

best offer so far

 

Do we hear £45????

[sporty-shite]

If this wasn't Autoshite I'd offer £40 and a guaranteed collection this week.

Subtle* way of offering £40 CASH DIS WK M9 

 

Seriously, though, this doesn't actually look like a bad example, and would be worth doing for anyone who could be bothered stashing it away. However, I am not that person.