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[vulgalour]

Cost to repair Princess:  Ã‚£100-150.

 

 

 

Fuck.

[trigger]

Currently sat waiting for a pair of part worn 155/80/13's to be fitted to the Accliam, £48 fitted is more then I want to spend but the side walls are starting to crack and they have no grip in the wet.

 

[Bobthebeard]

Cost to repair Princess: £100-150.

 

 

 

Fuck.

My ebay MIG welder cost £80 complete with some gas bottles and two rolls of wire... Must have saved me £££££s so far. Plus I know that the rust was all cut out and not just patched over as I did it myself. Peace of mind plus saving cash.

Just saying like......

[320touring]

Cost to repair Princess: £100-150.

 

 

 

Fuck.

Cost to buy another car that may be just as fucked £300

 

Git er dun!

 

My father is facing £108 a tyre (needs 4) and £170 on discs and pads on his 10 yr old BMW..

 

So it could be worse

[derskine]

Cost to repair Princess:  Ã‚£100-150.

 

 

 

Fuck.

 

Buy a cheap mig off ebay (sip migmate) with both gas and gasless.

The gas/regulator usually costs a fair bit - so maybe just get a reel of gasless wire to tide it over until you can afford to do a proper repair with proper gas mig.

That should only cost £100 or so, I got my migmate 150 for £70 and it's been great, though I don't use gasless much, but it is usable.

[Bobthebeard]

I don't use gasless much, but it is usable.

Only tried gasless once....' Useable ' in the sense that it blew holes in everything it touched and the resultant brown streaked burnt out mess looked worse than before I started.

Ok for thicker metal, but hopeless on cars in my limited experience!

[vulgalour]

Buy a MIG?  I'd love to.  But where am I going to get the time to effect the repair, get my welding skills up to scratch and actually be sure the end result doesn't look like I've used pigeons and bricks?  My fabrication skills are not to the level required to do this repair properly and I don't want to bodge this area of the car because I'll just have to do it again.  I want it done right so hopefully it only has to be done once.  Paying a professional is the sensible course in this instance, though not exactly the route I want to take.

 

Having spoken to the welder at the garage I got him to show me what he needed to replace and the work is more involved than I'd expected.  He highlighted some rust that's appeared under some seam sealant where the floor and inner sill meet, something I'd managed to miss when inspecting the area earlier in the year.  This in turn joins up the hole that failed the MoT and the small crusty area inside the car that didn't and turns what was probably a £60 repair into a much larger one.  The inner sill needs a 6" square patch replacing, the floor about an 8" square, the lower sill rail needs up to 12" replacing and some of the outer sill may also require remedial work.  This is a complicated and involved repair, well outside of my skill and expertise and something I want done right.   I don't feel the £100-150 is unfair having seen what's needed and unfortunately the orange car cannot give me a good piece to cut out to resolve this cheaper.

 

To their credit, the welder will not do an MoT bodge repair, and I honestly don't want him to.  It'll see me through an MoT no doubt, but it won't do the car any favours.  I have to suck it up and pay to get this done, he can get the car in by the end of this week so in the meantime I shall attempt to get the brakes fixed.  If I'd gone with my original welding appointment and got it done I would have had the cash to sort this out.  However, if I'd done that I wouldn't have had the spare cash to get the spares needed to sort out the other MoT fail points.

 

Anyone fancy a bit of artwork? I could do with the cash right now

[cort16]

Gassless is fine if you're trying weld up a gate outside or something and you've got it cranked up to 1.21 gigawatts but on car stuff I found it pretty hopeless. Mind you my welding's pretty hopeless on gas as well.

 

Also 100-150 doesn't sound too bad as long tbh. Is he confident he's found all the rot and it's not going to creep up in time and price once he gets into it?

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Also 100-150 doesn't sound too bad as long tbh. Is he confident he's found all the rot and it's not going to creep up in time and price once he gets into it?

 

That's all I'd be worried about - up to £150 for a high quality non bodge repair sounds pretty good value. I had to pay £70 for an MOT standard patch the size of a single electron on the Fiesta, £100 for some very simple bodge patching on the Herald and £300 for rear arch repairs on the Mini (although that was a high quality job and included an MOT). 

[trigger]

Today is my Acclaims 30th birthday so I've treated it to a good polish and clean, It looks pretty tidy now considering, it's now got a new second hand set of tyres fitted too so it should all be ready for Shitefest next month.

 

 

 

[Lukas]

Very nice!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

That looks very smart. Acclaims are really growing on me. Plus I liked Junkman's Colt when I got a closer look at it... am I starting to like Japanese cars?

[Lukas]

 

am I starting to like Japanese cars?

 

OMG! You will die!!!!   :shock:      

[Junkman]

That looks very smart. Acclaims are really growing on me. Plus I liked Junkman's Colt when I got a closer look at it... am I starting to like Japanese cars?

 

It's the Junkwoman's Colt. I buy British.

[Lukas]

 

I buy British.

 

No wonder. Support your native country!   :mrgreen:    

[Junkman]

By buying a Steyr-Puch?

[vulgalour]

That or Denzel.

[crapcarcollector]

My lease car goes back at the end of April and I'm thinking of saving some dosh and buying something for about 3 and a half grand to get me up and down the road. Ive been looking around but can't see past Alfa 159s. A cheap Alfa wcpgw?

Absolutely nothing will go wrong. They are ace.

 

For extra points get a V6 Q4

 

 

Sent from my Nokia 3310 using the force.

[derskine]

Gassless is fine if you're trying weld up a gate outside or something and you've got it cranked up to 1.21 gigawatts but on car stuff I found it pretty hopeless. Mind you my welding's pretty hopeless on gas as well.

 

Also 100-150 doesn't sound too bad as long tbh. Is he confident he's found all the rot and it's not going to creep up in time and price once he gets into it?

 

It is pretty crap compared with gas, but if you made the repair sections from 2mm steel and kept most of the heat on the thicker steal you would be okay.

Only reason I suggested it is because it's £6 a reel whereas gas + regulator would be £100+.

That quoted price seems very fair though.

[The Moog]

Fuckstixs. Now the front wheel bearing is humming on the xantia. Time for a change...

[stuboy]

asked if i could change bulbs on picasso dash.. piece of poo to get it out.. crappy fiddly bulb holders to remove but the ones for speedo and temp fuel gauge are deeper recessed and bulb holders slip out the pliers....arrrggghhh...lol

all done..

[richardmorris]

As I was going home from work in the 2CV last night (road I cycle to work on is closed for resurfacing, at last), a lovely looking beige A35 pulled out in front in a cloud of oil  - lovely smell. It pulled over before long presumably to tuck the passenger side seat belt back in the car. Lady driver waved at me too! From the back her haircut was like Gwendoline  in Wallace and Gromit

 

Not much, but it brightened my day.

[nacho man]

On I player there is madness in the desert about the Paris Dakar and full throttle about British bikes, both a good watch both on bbc4 last night. I think there repeats but worth a watch.

[theorganist]

The Princess has now been MOT'd for over a week and a half but still awaiting for the tax from the DVLA. As I only had an old logbook from 1992 I had to send it off as the post office can't process old log books. And, as they have closed all the local offices (in the name of efficiency no doubt (or just cost savings)) I am now having to wait, ten working days I was quoted! Meanwhile the poor Princess is sitting on my drive looking all forlorn and I am dying to drive her/him!

 

In other news thanks to the help of the very kind Craig the Princess I will be going to collect the Talbot Horizon from Suffolk on Maundy Thursday.

[phil_lihp]

I know the feeling, the Rover is freshly serviced and begging to be driven but I've lost the v5 so can't renew the tax! I'll look everywhere before admitting defeat and paying £25 for a replacement.

[theorganist]

It's very annoying, the Worcester DVLA office were very helpful when I registered the 14 and my boss has used them several times.

 

I worry at Swansea paperwork could easily go missing, we lose paperwork in our office and there are only four of us!!

[SambaS]

Just applied for another job to complement my current job. McDonalds... dear God what have I done!!

 

In fairness to me I know the job inside out having worked there 4.5 years as a manager, also if I move about it's easy to transfer, so I could officially live in a camper and travel ! they even run a scheme "McPassport" where I can transfer abroad for a bit. Anyways I fancy setting up a mobile welding shizz myself, or camper caravan renovation. But in the short term. more cash to fix my SHITE!

[vulgalour]

I realised earlier today that I've got two OMGBARNFINDYO cars.  This is a highly desirable thing to a lot of people if the eBay statement of this phakt is anything to go by but in reality, it's a stupid thing to desire.

 

You're signing up to perished rubber everything, rodent damage (though I'm lucky on those), mould on all interior surfaces and lots of strange corrosion often on electric components.  Putting a car into storage is a good thing if you do it right, but a barn is not the way to do it.  Then there's the thing everyone seems to forget; why was the car put in the barn in the first place?

 

Would I take on another OMGBARNFINDYO?  Of course I would, I'm a mental.  Would I advise someone else to do it?  Definitely, 100% no, especially if it was something I wanted to torment myself with.

[320touring]

Omgbarnfindyo is at least honest, as opposed to '15,000 miles from new, immaculate condition, always garaged, only used for 2nd coming' etc at eleventymillion pounds

 

should really read 'fusty old turd with perished hoses'

[saucedoctor]

Jasmine's VAGSHITE hat gestern abend der turboanlager noch einmal gescheisst. Sehr viel nebel von der auspuffer heute morgen. Noch einmal nach der Volkswagendealerwerkstatte um reparieren zu warden. Mit ein grossen twattenstick, hofflich.

 

And when she gets the car back, it's getting chopped in for a Hyundai. Good warranty, and a dealer 2 miles away. In the meantime, she's driving the 14 year old Fiat Punto I got at the auction for 300 bills.

 

There's a lesson in there somewhere, I'm sure.