Weighbridge awaits. Ford KA £75

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Wazzer, msg me bro I’ll have it

 

 

 

I can feel a concours restoration coming on. 

[sierraman]

I could imagine these would be a bit of a swine to restore, the rot round those rear filler surrounds would be a bastard to weld, probably you’d use one of those 3M body adhesives and joddle the panel to fit. Thinking on as would blending those sills in.

[Cavcraft]

It'll be 'restored' via the medium of a Ford Transit beavertail and a crusher.

[mrbenn]

If you wish to pause mid-restoration to remove the interior, I'm happy to advertise it on a couple of Minor forums I'm registered on. Might just get lucky with someone looking to do some winter tinkering.

[warren t claim]

I don't fucking believe this.

 

Today I get a call from my "replacement" regarding the rusted to fuck KA. 

 

"We've been discussing the KA".

 

No, you fucking haven't, there's never a "we" when some poor cunt is in a relationship with her. she's told you her fucking inflexible opinion and you're too spineless to stand up to her.

 

"We (there you go again...) think it's a bit convenient that your mate who took the car for the MOT that it died on its arse so badly that the tester refused to log it on the DVSA computer let alone refuse to test just so happens to be selling a car.

 

The car concerned is a 44,000 mile Nissan Almera that's only had one owner from new.

 

"You are aware of the extensive yellow chalk marks all over the underside of the KA and the fact we had to retrieve the rear quarter bumper from the side of the road after it fell off and when you asked me to reattach it I replied that there wasn't anyfuckingthing to stick it to as there was a distinct lack of metal left?" I replied.

 

"Yes Warren" he humbly said to me.

 

"And you must remember me telling you that I'm glad I didn't just get you a bent MOT off my mate who owns a garage because my kids will be traveling in that rusty death trap" I retorted.

 

"Well Alison and myself* (read Alison) have decided to price up getting the welding, tracking, non-functioning passenger door handle, tyres and suspension bushes sorted to get the KA MOT'd so We're asking if you know anyone who is willing to spend a day welding it up".

 

"What you'll be paying out is a small fucking fortune restoring a worthless KA that'll need the same amount of money spending on it next year" was my somewhat spluttered reply.

 

"You know what she's like" was his glib and somewhat expected reply.

 

"Yeah I do" was all I could say.

 

Now and again I call around to pick up Claim_Jr & Sibling and while talking to Ex very amicably I wonder why we split up, especially as she's not just fit but very dirty and has an Ann Summers wing in the bedroom but conversations like the one I had today conclusively rams home the fact that I was lucky to escape back in 2009. 

[Pillock]

Did you record the conversation so you can play it back in 365 days time when they're looking for some other poor sod to weld repair panels to fresh air again?

[warren t claim]

Did you record the conversation so you can play it back in 365 days time when they're looking for some other poor sod to weld repair panels to fresh air again?

3 KAs

 

3 years.

 

Enough said.

[Datsuncog]

Christ alive. That's the sort of conversation that would make me want to chew my arm off.

 

Incidentally, my (long-since) ex tapped me for car-buying expertise a few years back; she needed a car for work, and a local dealer had a KA and a Yaris, both the same year, both the same price. Which one should she buy?

 

"Easy - get the Yaris. It'll keep running forever, whereas the KA's going to be a problematic rotbox."

 

So what did she do? Bought the KA, obviously. Because it was red, and the Yaris was silver - and "silver cars are boring."

 

Well, her life's been *anything* but boring ever since, especially around MOT time... it failed massively on corrosion this year, and I hope she's finally scrapped the bloody thing...

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

3 KAs

 

3 years.

 

Enough said.

 

And her new bloke is a cunt.

[John F]

warren t claim, on 02 Nov 2018 - 11:05 PM, said:

"... so We're asking if you know anyone who is willing to spend a day welding it up".

 

What planet do these people live on?

 

[vaughant]

 

"Now and again I call around to pick up Claim_Jr & Sibling and while talking to Ex very amicably I wonder why we split up, especially as she's not just fit but very dirty and has an Ann Summers wing in the bedroom"

 

Is she the woman in your profile pic or do I remember seeing that very photo advertised in various porn mags of the 1980's?

 

If the former then that would be hard to give up!!!!

[warren t claim]

"Now and again I call around to pick up Claim_Jr & Sibling and while talking to Ex very amicably I wonder why we split up, especially as she's not just fit but very dirty and has an Ann Summers wing in the bedroom"

 

Is she the woman in your profile pic or do I remember seeing that very photo advertised in various porn mags of the 1980's?

 

If the former then that would be hard to give up!!!!

Sadly not.

[warren t claim]

Well, she's found someone who'll do all the work in a day and return it tested for just £250. 

 

Why do I fucking bother???

[SiC]

I guess filler and rivets are cheap.

[warren t claim]

Now I'm far from risk averse, imagine a graph ???? explaining risk where at the axis is Esther Rantzen and at the top is a clinically depressed lemming. I'd like to think that with my habit of not wearing a seat belt and casual thrashing of 1980s litre sportsbikes with fucked suspension places be above the three quarter mark on said graph. Now even I'd class driving a badly bodged Ka to be a bit more risky than I'm comfortable with.

[jcr]

Well, she's found someone who'll do all the work in a day and return it tested for just £250. 

 

Why do I fucking bother???

 

You could buy another for tha... nah I can't be arsed saying it

[sierraman]

I don't fucking believe this.

 

Today I get a call from my "replacement" regarding the rusted to fuck KA.

 

"We've been discussing the KA".

 

No, you fucking haven't, there's never a "we" when some poor cunt is in a relationship with her. she's told you her fucking inflexible opinion and you're too spineless to stand up to her.

 

"We (there you go again...) think it's a bit convenient that your mate who took the car for the MOT that it died on its arse so badly that the tester refused to log it on the DVSA computer let alone refuse to test just so happens to be selling a car.

 

The car concerned is a 44,000 mile Nissan Almera that's only had one owner from new.

 

"You are aware of the extensive yellow chalk marks all over the underside of the KA and the fact we had to retrieve the rear quarter bumper from the side of the road after it fell off and when you asked me to reattach it I replied that there wasn't anyfuckingthing to stick it to as there was a distinct lack of metal left?" I replied.

 

"Yes Warren" he humbly said to me.

 

"And you must remember me telling you that I'm glad I didn't just get you a bent MOT off my mate who owns a garage because my kids will be traveling in that rusty death trap" I retorted.

 

"Well Alison and myself* (read Alison) have decided to price up getting the welding, tracking, non-functioning passenger door handle, tyres and suspension bushes sorted to get the KA MOT'd so We're asking if you know anyone who is willing to spend a day welding it up".

 

"What you'll be paying out is a small fucking fortune restoring a worthless KA that'll need the same amount of money spending on it next year" was my somewhat spluttered reply.

 

"You know what she's like" was his glib and somewhat expected reply.

 

"Yeah I do" was all I could say.

 

Now and again I call around to pick up Claim_Jr & Sibling and while talking to Ex very amicably I wonder why we split up, especially as she's not just fit but very dirty and has an Ann Summers wing in the bedroom but conversations like the one I had today conclusively rams home the fact that I was lucky to escape back in 2009.

I’d love to meet this bloke that can weld rusty foil.

[Matty]

 

Well, she's found someone who'll do all the work in a day and return it tested for just £250.

Never in a million years surely!!??!! Obviously I haven't seen it but if it's a bad as you say it is then a day? £250? No repair panels being used then? There's hours just in doing one sill properly. So it's probably £50 worth of old bits of tin and isopon and a £200 certificate. Ask if you can borrow it and get someone to back a wagon over it! I'm massively with you on this, you know it's fucked and your kids are going to ride in it. I'm scrapping the mother in law's fiesta for the same reason. Test or no test it's rotten and dangerous and a good shunt'll see it disintegrate!

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Drain most of the oil out of it one dark night. Preferably after they've spent £250 bodging this shitbox up.

 

As has been said, it's a deathtrap and needs cubing. 

[sierraman]

Handful of grit in the filler cap. Mind you on the old 1.3 you’d be pressed to noticed.