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[Kiltox]

Been tasked with trying to help sell my brothers 307 diesel...

 

It's a face lift, 1.6 diesel with not much over 100,000 on the clock, and 10 months MOT.

How much are they worth?

What year?

[17-Coffees]

What year?

 

2005 if I remember correctly. 

 

Never paid attention to it other than the fact it's taking up space on the parents driveway which i could use to plonk something on my parents would rather have for them self's again. Likewise with my Civic Aerodeck. 

 

A quick look on the trusted* auction site shows prices are between £500 - £2000 by the looks of things...

[Kiltox]

Probably worth about £1300 or so if it runs OK, maybe £1500 on a good day if it's tidy

[Coprolalia]

May have found a new bit of storage so I can start tinkering/ working/ buying and storing some other shit cars. Cheap double garage with power and a yard, near my new rented terrace.

Waiting to hear back from vendor.

Fingers crossed.

[stuboy]

Its only gone and passed its mot... ive owned the beast 10 years and 12 days

[They_all_do_that_sir]

I had a mk1, fantastic car. Mega comfy. Yours has actual bumpers too, mine were 50% gaffer tape....

 

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[wuvvum]

The new brake pipe is now on the Rover.  It has taken me all afternoon and well into the evening (I've only just finished washing brake fluid out of my hair), apart from a brief break to pick up jonathan_dyane who had come to collect the Primera.

 

The first half hour or so was spent lying under the car trying to find alternative routings for the pipe.  After much deliberation I reached the conclusion that nope, short of doing half a lap of the car the only way to go was the original route, which meant dropping the fuel tank.  This on its own took over an hour, due primarily to the bolts having sat under the car being sprayed by muck and salt for the last 18 years and therefore being understandably reluctant to undo. 

 

With the fuel tank moved down and back I was able to see the whole of the existing brake pipe. and removing it was actually reasonably straightforward - both ends undid with a bit of persuasion and a long screwdriver was sufficient to persuade it out from its various plastic retaining clips.  I had to cut it into three bits in order to remove it from the car completely - top tip: when cutting through steel brake pipe with tin snips, keep your thumbs out of the way as it goes with quite a bang.

 

Refitting was almost the reversal of removal, although obviously I didn't have the luxury of cutting the new pipe into three bits to get it on, but fortunately copper is rather more flexible than steel.  I followed the original routing as closely as possible, even clipping the pipe into the original clips above the fuel tank where you can't even see it.  It took a while to get it fully fitted, but then it is a fiddly bastard of a job at the best of times.

 

Then it was time to put the fuel tank back where it belongs.  Inexplicably (to me at least), despite having undone (albeit under protest) a few hours earlier and having been saturated in GT85 in the meantime, the offside strap nut simply would not do back up.  After about an hour of fiddling and swearing (and putting the breaker bar on it which succeeded only in bending the bolt into a banana shape), I gave up and cheated, bringing the lock nut down to meet the main nut to make it look like it's tight.  Hey, it's on there, it can't fall off, and it doesn't feel loose, so it'll do for now - it was well after dark by this time.  If MOT man doesn't like it, I've found a new strap retaining bolt complete with nuts on ebay for 8 quid - which is a lot for a bolt but not much in the grand scheme of things.

 

I had a quick look at the bleed nipple on the drum, and it didn't look very hopeful.  When I drove the car down off the ramps the pedal felt fine, so I might not bother bleeding it.  To be fair, there was already brake fluid flowing from the new pipe by the time I tightened the union onto the flexi, and I didn't notice the flexi losing much in the way of fluid when I removed the old pipe, so there's probably not much air in the system anyway.

 

So that only leaves the handbrake, which I'm pretty sure is going to be another arsehole of a job.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

The new brake pipe is now on the Rover. It has taken me all afternoon and well into the evening (I've only just finished washing brake fluid out of my hair), apart from a brief break to pick up jonathan_dyane who had come to collect the Primera.

 

The first half hour or so was spent lying under the car trying to find alternative routings for the pipe. After much deliberation I reached the conclusion that nope, short of doing half a lap of the car the only way to go was the original route, which meant dropping the fuel tank. This on its own took over an hour, due primarily to the bolts having sat under the car being sprayed by muck and salt for the last 18 years and therefore being understandably reluctant to undo.

 

With the fuel tank moved down and back I was able to see the whole of the existing brake pipe. and removing it was actually reasonably straightforward - both ends undid with a bit of persuasion and a long screwdriver was sufficient to persuade it out from its various plastic retaining clips. I had to cut it into three bits in order to remove it from the car completely - top tip: when cutting through steel brake pipe with tin snips, keep your thumbs out of the way as it goes with quite a bang.

 

Refitting was almost the reversal of removal, although obviously I didn't have the luxury of cutting the new pipe into three bits to get it on, but fortunately copper is rather more flexible than steel. I followed the original routing as closely as possible, even clipping the pipe into the original clips above the fuel tank where you can't even see it. It took a while to get it fully fitted, but then it is a fiddly bastard of a job at the best of times.

 

Then it was time to put the fuel tank back where it belongs. Inexplicably (to me at least), despite having undone (albeit under protest) a few hours earlier and having been saturated in GT85 in the meantime, the offside strap nut simply would not do back up. After about an hour of fiddling and swearing (and putting the breaker bar on it which succeeded only in bending the bolt into a banana shape), I gave up and cheated, bringing the lock nut down to meet the main nut to make it look like it's tight. Hey, it's on there, it can't fall off, and it doesn't feel loose, so it'll do for now - it was well after dark by this time. If MOT man doesn't like it, I've found a new strap retaining bolt complete with nuts on ebay for 8 quid - which is a lot for a bolt but not much in the grand scheme of things.

 

I had a quick look at the bleed nipple on the drum, and it didn't look very hopeful. When I drove the car down off the ramps the pedal felt fine, so I might not bother bleeding it. To be fair, there was already brake fluid flowing from the new pipe by the time I tightened the union onto the flexi, and I didn't notice the flexi losing much in the way of fluid when I removed the old pipe, so there's probably not much air in the system anyway.

 

So that only leaves the handbrake, which I'm pretty sure is going to be another arsehole of a job.

This always boils my piss, every bloody car I've had to replace the brake line on has it routed above the tank in some daft shape. I've cheated once before and just cut the rotten bit out, flared the steel pipe and added a union to the good steel....not really the proper way of doing things but it passed an MOT like that

 

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[wuvvum]

This always boils my piss, every bloody car I've had to replace the brake line on has it routed above the tank in some daft shape. I've cheated once before and just cut the rotten bit out, flared the steel pipe and added a union to the good steel....not really the proper way of doing things but it passed an MOT like that

I did think about trying that, but the problem was that between where the rotten bit ended and where the pipe disappeared up over the tank, there wasn't anywhere with enough clearance to get the flaring doobery in.

[cort1977]

This always boils my piss, every bloody car I've had to replace the brake line on has it routed above the tank in some daft shape. I've cheated once before and just cut the rotten bit out, flared the steel pipe and added a union to the good steel....not really the proper way of doing things but it passed an MOT like that

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Is that bad practice then? Obviously it increases the number of potential failure points but the new unions will have the same chance of failure as any of the others so I wouldn't think it was a big deal. Did exactly that on a Mercedes self-levelling system recently.

[hairnet]

This always boils my piss, every bloody car I've had to replace the brake line on has it routed above the tank in some daft shape. I've cheated once before and just cut the rotten bit out, flared the steel pipe and added a union to the good steel....not really the proper way of doing things but it passed an MOT like that

 

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and if the ni lot pass it then it must be ok as they can be tuv strict

 

not rusty + secure = win

[plasticvandan]

Went to look at a Trabant Kombi this afternoon, absolutely loved it but think its a bit too salty for me

[vulgalour]

Trabants being salty is the fault of U2 isn't it?  Something to do with Prince Bono of Stupidboat-on-Thames having them in a music video back when those were a thing.

[plasticvandan]

Found a couple of holes,and the passengers door rotted out,hoped that would have dropped the price to my level,but no word yet.worth the test drive though!

[SiC]

A trabbi is most certainly on my bucket list of cars. When I first thought about one a couple years back, decent ones went for £800-1k. Now decent ones are starting to fetch £2k to £2.5k.

 

I better get onto it soon...

Watching with interest to see how you get on.

[plasticvandan]

I've got the price down to 1600 from over 2k.if I can get it down a bit more then collecshun Fred beckons!

[SiC]

Traffic light GP ... People really don't like to be out run by Laguna's.

 

Especially BMW owners.

[HMC]

A trabbi is most certainly on my bucket list of cars. When I first thought about one a couple years back, decent ones went for £800-1k. Now decent ones are starting to fetch £2k to £2.5k.

I better get onto it soon...

Watching with interest to see how you get on.

There was a last of the line polo engined kombi on e bay a month back, looked pretty tidy and wasn't too salty, my phone timed me out just as I was swooping in with a late bid. Are the later non 2 stroke ones not as desirable in trabi circles?

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Never mind your trabants, one vehicle high on my want list is a Jawa powered velorex.....

 

I used to own a 350 Jawa motorcycle and wish I'd never sold it the velorex appears to be a standard 350 Jawa twin that's crashed into the back of half a car then the whole thing covered in canvas....

 

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[SiC]

There was a last of the line polo engined kombi on e bay a month back, looked pretty tidy and wasn't too salty, my phone timed me out just as I was swooping in with a late bid. Are the later non 2 stroke ones not as desirable in trabi circles?

A trabbi needs to be a 2 stroke, like a BMW needs to be a 6cyl! The puttering of the little 600cc 2st is part of their charm and character. A 4cyl VAG lump is far too civilised.

[Asimo]

Velorex front suspension looks interesting: trailing arm assembly on an unsprung kingpin. (I think) Can't see what or where the spring is - torsion bar inside the trailing arm hinge?

[andy18s]

5k Euro.....

[They_all_do_that_sir]

5k Euro.....

It's a lot of money I don't have for something I don't have space for unfortunately

 

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[drum]

My TD5 disco died a couple of weeks ago. Chassis cracked on both sides.

I think towing the Davie Broon finished it off.

 

It had been welded before and cracked adjacent to the new* plates. The release bearing on the clutch was squealing, and the transfer box kept popping into neutral. It was a cat ÄŽ and had many dents. The windscreen needed replaced too. Despite all that, I thought about fixing it so sent it to my local garage to see what else it needed for the mot. Then a brake pipe burst while on the rollers.

 

I thought about breaking it as the engine was good and there are lots of bits to unbolt and post off. Not really wanting the faff, I stuck an ad on Gumtree and sold it spares or repairs to a gent who described himself as a scrappy. He needed it to tow his boat and would be driving it home.

 

This despite me explaining all the issues.

He claimed his insurance covered him. "just clamp the brake pipe" he said.

 

It was the front offside wheel that wouldn't brake so not great for straight line stopping.

 

I wasn't happy with that arrangement so fixed the brake pipe. I threw in a spare set of alloys and tyres, but must admit the battery he got was gubbed.

 

I got an angry text when he was half way home waiting on a mate to rescue him. The battery was dead. I didn't feel too guilty though as he got a bargain and knew the battery was fubared. We had started it on a good battery which had terminals in the wrong position, before swapping in the dead one. And I wasn't wanting him to drive it home in the first place.

 

Gumtree joys.

RIP old friend

[stuboy]

Forgot tosay i had food of the gods at hastings seafront

[purplebargeken]

Ok, I recognise the chips but am really unclear as to what the two battered and deep fried objects are.

 

Black pudding fritters??

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Ok, I recognise the chips but am really unclear as to what the two battered and deep fried objects are.

 

Black pudding fritters??

Look like pasties to me but that's a norn iron thing not to be confused with your cornish pasties

 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastie

 

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[Richard]

The 850 went for its MOT yesterday. It may be dead. A bush has given way in the rear axle and it looks like too much to do in the driveway, especially as I'm working away all week and the next two weekends are spoken for. I've been to see the local Volvo specialist and he's going to let me know on Monday but realistically I don't think it's going to happen. It might be James Brown time, which would be the end of private motoring for me.

[320touring]

The 850 went for its MOT yesterday. It may be dead. A bush has given way in the rear axle and it looks like too much to do in the driveway, especially as I'm working away all week and the next two weekends are spoken for. I've been to see the local Volvo specialist and he's going to let me know on Monday but realistically I don't think it's going to happen. It might be James Brown time, which would be the end of private motoring for me.

keep the polo?

[Richard]

I just don't have the time to own a car any more.