Blackbirds rambling - Nissan content, Terrano terror , Bluebird savior

[blackbird]

So I bought a Terrano II R reg same weekend as a Nissan Bluebird G reg last year

 

The Terrano had a huge stack of paperwork ( some for expensive recent welding work , pay attention this is important later !!) ,

 

amazing condition inside with leathers electric everything (not your usually dog chewed farm van

 

no rust on front wings (rare)

 

it had about 9 months MoT , what could go wrong £700 quid ......

 

Well

 

Around January it started not starting , just click .

So new battery first , still sometimes not starting

 

So looking to do the starter motor and maybe the ignition switch

Not too bad , about 200 for the starter motor , willing to invest that in it , lets try that 1st

 

Took it to a garage I've used for years , and that look after my bluebirds ,

I get a call off them asking if I want to invest the 200 , as they think its fubar'ed !!

 

I was a bit surprised by this , they said come round and we'll put it up on the ramp for me to see , they basically said this was dangerously rotten on the chassis

 

So I went round and yes , bugger me , its rotten , VERY Rotten

 

This has not happened since the last MoT (late September ) , deep horiible , split !! rusty rot !!!

 

Basically I guess it was a dodgy MoT or a blind tester , no way it should have passed the last MoT

 

This garage I use has a welding fetish and even they wouldn't go anywhere near it !!!!

 

The Rot was on the front chassis where the front diff rests

 

 

It had rot in other places , that could have been done , rear spring mounts for example

I said hold on the starter motor for now and off I went

 

I liked the truck , So I popped round to a local Landrover specialist

These people are very well know , restore land rovers , put in whole new galv. Chassis on etc

Ive always wanted to go round to see them , now here was my chance , they'll be up for this I thought

 

No.

 

They had a really good look over it , fair play, and instead of maybe giving me a price

he basically told me it was absolutely F'ing F'ed !!!!

Asked me what it owed me, and said if not too much I should scrap it !! , told me I was lucky to have not tried to tow with it !!

 

I knew these things were rot boxes , but FFS ( I think DollyWobbler did actually directly warn me !!)

 

My plan was to get it to the next MoT and then Scrap it , I knew I wouldn't pay to get it trough the next one but thought I could get it there

 

So off it goes to "Remove my car " for £340 quid

 

so £360 quid for 2 Months use ,

 

Shame I did like it , Much prefer the rounder pre-facelift one

 

 

 

So the Bluebird I bought the same weekend (which I actually thought was a bigger risk that weekend then the Terrano ) is my lovely daily ,

 

In Bluebirds we trust

 

 

 

 

 

Anyone else check the scrap value of their cars before they buy .........or is that just me ..

 

My basic shite calculation on the value of a car starts at scrap and add on up from their

 

But then I do live at the spikey end of the pineapple car wise

 

 

[richardthestag]

blimey at the risk of being unsupportive that is difficult to read

 

are you raymanboy and ICM£10

 

that is really bad luck though

 

My RR disolved 9 months from a valid MOT so I can understand how it might happen

[richardthestag]

Sometimes, just sometimes there is value in them as a breaker. dunno about Terrano but anything RR or disco up until silly prices kicked off was worth 600 - 700 as a rotten wreck. They still are worth that But folk pay over a bag for a RRC or Disco1 wreck it seems these days

 

Is it worth a punt on the bay of time wasting knobends

[blackbird]

Mmm

On my edit , I had gaps and everything

 

and when I go to edit the line breaks are there ,

What am I doing wrong ??

[richardthestag]

Mmm On my edit , I had gaps and everything and when I go to edit the line breaks are there , What am I doing wrong ??

 

Buying terminally rusty chod, like the rest of us?

 

Are you using tapatalk or browser, I was only being a bit cheeky in my first post. Made me laugh like some of those ebay adds which read like tolstoy

[tooSavvy]

Mmm On my edit , I had gaps and everything and when I go to edit the line breaks are there , What am I doing wrong ??

... looks like your text is wrap-around (post without breaks)

 

TS

[oldcars]

There is a dealer near me selling a 05 plate for 3k. I mot checked it  . Its rotten.