Wanted Escort Cosworth front towing eye cover

[Iamgroot]

Hello all,

 

As per the title, looking for a front towing eye cover for an escort Cosworth for my mate who is doing one up. There is a part number I have 473 176 rtpu 2 but I can't find one except one on eBay for £85

 

Can anyone help please?

[AlabamaShrimp]

Get one 3d printed.

[Iamgroot]

The only problems with that being not having an original or access to 3D printing unfortunately.

[tooSavvy]

The only problems with that being not having an original or access to 3D printing unfortunately.

Seemplez! (to quote Mrs May) buy the £85 quid one and commission 3D scan/sell on copies to recoup....

[AlabamaShrimp]

This^^ while you're at it I need an XR2 one

[egg]

Here are all the part numbers for all the different colours of cover. See link. I have googled them all. No joy.

 

I think they are 45mm?

 

Maybe worth asking a Ford dealer, or Ford parts UK - they have been very helpful to me in the past

https://www.fordpartsuk.com/contact-us

 

http://www.catcar.info/ford/?lang=en&l=bWFya2V0PT1ldXJvfHxjYXRfaWQ9PTUwMXx8Y2FiYnI9PUVBfHx0aGs9PTB8fHN0PT02MHx8c3RzPT17IjIwIjoiRXVyb3BlIiwiMzAiOiJFc2NvcnRcL09yaW9uIEVBIDE5OTAtMTk5NSIsIjQwIjoiQSBCb2R5IEFuZCBSZWxhdGVkIFBhcnRzIiwiNTAiOiJBMDMgQm9keSBBbmQgUmVsYXRlZCBQYXJ0cy5CdWxraGVhZFwvQnVtcGVyXC9HcmlsbGUgJmFtcDsgSG9vZCIsIjYwIjoiQTAzMDE2IFJhZGlhdG9yIEdyaWxsZVwvQnVtcGVyICYgU3BvaWxlciJ9fHxhbHBoYT09QXx8Z3JvdXA9PUEwM3x8c2VjdD09QTAzMDE2fHxzZXQ9PUVBQTAzfHxpbWc9PVowMDEyNTQxMDF8fGYxMj09MjE0NTQwOCsw

[barefoot]

TBH, I'd tell your mate to worry about something else instead.

[Iamgroot]

TBH, I'd tell your mate to worry about something else instead.

That would be my mates customer who my mate is trying to help out though by finding a cheaper one.

[Iamgroot]

Here are all the part numbers for all the different colours of cover. See link. I have googled them all. No joy.

 

I think they are 45mm?

 

Maybe worth asking a Ford dealer, or Ford parts UK - they have been very helpful to me in the past

https://www.fordpartsuk.com/contact-us

 

http://www.catcar.info/ford/?lang=en&l=bWFya2V0PT1ldXJvfHxjYXRfaWQ9PTUwMXx8Y2FiYnI9PUVBfHx0aGs9PTB8fHN0PT02MHx8c3RzPT17IjIwIjoiRXVyb3BlIiwiMzAiOiJFc2NvcnRcL09yaW9uIEVBIDE5OTAtMTk5NSIsIjQwIjoiQSBCb2R5IEFuZCBSZWxhdGVkIFBhcnRzIiwiNTAiOiJBMDMgQm9keSBBbmQgUmVsYXRlZCBQYXJ0cy5CdWxraGVhZFwvQnVtcGVyXC9HcmlsbGUgJmFtcDsgSG9vZCIsIjYwIjoiQTAzMDE2IFJhZGlhdG9yIEdyaWxsZVwvQnVtcGVyICYgU3BvaWxlciJ9fHxhbHBoYT09QXx8Z3JvdXA9PUEwM3x8c2VjdD09QTAzMDE2fHxzZXQ9PUVBQTAzfHxpbWc9PVowMDEyNTQxMDF8fGYxMj09MjE0NTQwOCsw

Thanks, I'll pass that on to him.

[Iamgroot]

Seemplez! (to quote Mrs May) buy the £85 quid one and commission 3D scan/sell on copies to recoup....

As a great lady once said "ain't nobody got time for that"

 

Good idea if it was his own car though

[egg]

Also, assume here has been tried?

 

http://www.rscosworthbreakers.co.uk/home.html

[Iamgroot]

Also, assume here has been tried?

 

http://www.rscosworthbreakers.co.uk/home.html

I think he did try there yes, but thanks

[tooSavvy]

That would be my mates customer who my mate is trying to help out though by finding a cheaper one.

You ever watch 'Chico and the Man'... ?

 

He sorted out a broken hearted customer, who had lost one of their highly obscure/nls hubcaps, by nipping around the other side and [shell game like] whapping one off/ whapping it onto the visible side = happy customer!

 

Why not tell customer they are rockyhose dropping but - against the prevailing £trend - he unearthed one at a surprising discount @£85... Happy Customer?

[sierraman]

Could be shared with another model, I’d see if a cooking Escort one could be adapted.

[Timewaster]

They must be unobtainium as I remember lots of angry people on P*****n Ford a few years ago had parked up at Ford Fair or the RSOC National day and some scumbags had robbed bits off cars in the car park.

 

Towing eye covers, jacking point covers, centre caps, that sort of thing.

Some cars disappeared too.

 

Shit bags.

[Sir Snipes]

IIRC tow eye covers use to be a big problem for the Escort Series 1 RS Turbo boys.

[Iamgroot]

Hmmm not looking good then, he normally asks me for hard to find stuff as I have a knack for it, but I'm coming up with nothing on this except the kindly provided links that I have passed on to him.

 

Thanks for all the input

[Mr Laurence]

Probably stating the obvious here, but looking at photos, it’s a flat round part. Would a generic cover the right size work?

[omegod]

If he can't afford £85 for a part for his cossie should he ask himself can he really afford to run a cossie ?

[loserone]

Of course he can, they're just an escort.

 

 

Right?

[sierraman]

Worth a few bob those Cosworths now. I’d love one but what are you going to do with it, it’s a liability. There’s no end of stories about them being fitted with trackers at shows and getting nicked, plus parts are crazy expensive ‘old skool ford tax’

[Iamgroot]

If he can't afford £85 for a part for his cossie should he ask himself can he really afford to run a cossie ?

I'm fairly sure with the money he spent so far on the restoration, he can afford an £85 part, but who wants to pay £85 for what is effectively the top of a Smarties tube?, I might have suggested using one of those if only smarties tubes hadn't had the fun removed by a folding cardboard lid. Damn the health and safety brigade

[Iamgroot]

Worth a few bob those Cosworths now. I’d love one but what are you going to do with it, it’s a liability. There’s no end of stories about them being fitted with trackers at shows and getting nicked, plus parts are crazy expensive ‘old skool ford tax’

To be honest, I can't get that excited about it, my mate got it in for a restoration, mainly welding and paint and everyone else who's seen it has been very excited, but I'm not feeling it at all.

 

I had the opportunity of driving a very heavily breathed upon Sierra Cosworth a few years ago and I was so excited before I got in but when I drove it, it felt like a 30 year old family car with way too much power to make sense, I have had much more fun driving my old TD Sierra P100, even though the Cosworth was so fast I time travelled 17 times and got out of the car both 3 years younger and 4 years older at the same time and with an unexplainable German accent.

[Pillock]

I'd love something like a Sapphire or Escort Cosworth. They can't be driven fast though - not on the road, because of cameras and other traffic and not wanting to be a cock. And not really on a track because someone will turn up with a £5000 Civic Type R and wipe the floor with you - both through better use of power, and less fear about stacking it. They're really toys to add to a collection which is what is pushing prices up, if you're going to lock one away in a humidity controlled garage you're going to choose a really nice one.

[sierraman]

They’re fantastic cars, they actually look special unlike a Focus ST RS Turbo nutter Mountune thing. Years ago you couldn’t touch the gravitas a ‘cossie’ had.

 

But now they’re unusable. You couldn’t go out for a drink and leave it in the car park, it wouldn’t be there when you returned. That’s assuming you got as far as taking it out and it wasn’t relieved in the middle of the night by some oik with a beaver tail. Anything specific to the model is also mega expensive. Any tidy original stuff is tucked up in bed in a collectors heated garage so it just leaves all the modified, crashed, nicked rubbish.

 

Biggest put off of all is being an old Ford you’ll forever be getting idiots who sound like they’ve got a mouth full of bread when they talk spewing out bullshit about it about how their uncle had one and sold it for 50 pence. There’s nothing worse than the demographic you get at the classic Ford shows, the bulk of the people there are a cross between Levi Bellfield and Walter Mitty.

 

Most are now owned by folks maybe in their fifties, so in time as that market depletes then the prices might come down. Can’t imagine one would last 5 minutes in the hands of someone who is used to Traction Control and anti skid this that and the other. Get it out of hand on a wet roundabout and it’ll put you sidewards on round a lamp post quicker than you can say ‘Cozzy’