Andy's awful autos: Vanden-blah

[Andyrew]

Because its done . . 

[Sham]

Ouch. That's pretty terminal - major surgery or a remembrance service?

[garethj]

Oh, fucking bollocks!  That was solid 6 months ago.  Shit🙁

[Andyrew]

4 minutes ago, Sham said:

Ouch. That's pretty terminal - major surgery or a remembrance service?

No sure just yet.  Will have a think, clean it back and make a decision. 

[Andyrew]

3 minutes ago, garethj said:

Oh, fucking bollocks!  That was solid 6 months ago.  Shit🙁

Think id have been more surprised if it hadnt needed a tickle with the welder there than i am now. 

Out of curiosity, do you know what caused the damage to the rear end?

And the oil looks fairy decent do you recall its last change? 

[garethj]

After looking at a few (and owning another Mk2 a couple of years ago) this one was good and solid on the front chassis legs.  I can’t believe it’s deteriorated so much in 9 months.

Damage to the rear was clonking it against a crash barrier.  It was less than 30mph and we took it for an alignment check to make sure there was no damage on the suspension.

It had a service just before we bought it so last summer.  I don’t think it’s taken more than half a litre of oil in that time.

[Andyrew]

 

*gets scrap price for cat* does man maths. 

"You lucky bastard"

 

 

[Floatylight]

1 hour ago, Andyrew said:

 

*gets scrap price for cat* does man maths. 

"You lucky bastard"

 

 

Yay! Live to fight another day!

[Andyrew]

Blimey!

[Andyrew]

[Mrs6C]

2 minutes ago, Andyrew said:

Crikey! Are they off your dark red car or mine?

[Andyrew]

The mx5, impressive grot.

Like onions 

 

 

[Andyrew]

Quick and ugly but solid enough, rot had gone further that the repair section so some quick patches went in. Needed the welding done today so its was done as fast as possible.

 

 

[Talbot]

That is a lovely repair job.  I've no doubt being able to just chop out everything that is rotten  right back to a decent seam makes things a bit easier, but that's a superb bit of surgery.

[Minimad5]

The level of work on here recently has been top notch, ISOPON and mesh days are in the past.

Keep these threads coming & keep the 'shite' on the road 🥳

[Andyrew]

52 minutes ago, Talbot said:

That is a lovely repair job.  I've no doubt being able to just chop out everything that is rotten  right back to a decent seam makes things a bit easier, but that's a superb bit of surgery.

Having the panels saved a ton of time, the little patches where made as fast and easy as possible. Hence the odd shapes.  Start to finish was 8 hours. 

There are bits that i dont like but its far better than whats been chopped out. probably a fair bit stronger now, The cutting , fit and finish is crude and some bits of heavy pitting left in but given its a 109k scabby mx5 with a bashed rear quarter theres got to be a time limit somewhere. 

 

[Andyrew]

Tomorrows job is to lob all the stuff back in that had to be shifted out the way

 

[Talbot]

Are you using 0.6mm or 0.8mm wire for those welds?  I've got a glut of 0.8mm wire at the moment so am tending to use that for everything, including work that would be better with 0.6, meaning the welds often end up too big as I can't turn the wire feed speed down slow enough while maintaining a stable weld.

[Andyrew]

0.8 wire,  the welder i have is smemi automatic so its happy to do small welds even on thin stuff with .8 ive got a wee roll of .6 for the dyane but have yet to swap it over.  

On my old welder it was a good move for bodywork stuff.  

[Talbot]

I think I might have to upgrade to a decent inverter-type mig welder then, as my current massive cebora panther 200, even on the lowest voltage setting, simply will not do a small neat weld on bodywork with 0.8 wire.  It's amazing for bigger welds, but thin stuff it struggles on.

It also weighs 600 tonnes and is a bastard to move about.

[Andyrew]

Getting tyred

Wheel arch repair kit ordered. Even comes pre painted.  If you look closely you can just notice colour difference

[Andyrew]

The above picture highlights a slight issue with the rear tyre.

Going to need some tyre shine

[Andyrew]

One issue with sorting the tyres is the front pair are one style in 14inch 

The fronts have good tread but are a smigde cracked and a bit old. The rear are mismatched one recent and one shagged.

So 1 part worn?  A pair on the rears? Live with the mis match? Decisions decisions. 

[Six-cylinder]

Hard to justify a set of new Michelin Pilot sport 4s for this!

[Andyrew]

Trying to find a rim with a good used tyre on it seemed to be around 40 quid and not local. A full set for 120 was fairly local but in that there east london. Ballache and ulez whatevs. 

Being next to luton a partworn could be fitted easily with plenty of places in the shithole town selling used tyres but given the shite the locals of luton are happy to drive on and sell as a good tyre id rather not waste the money.

A chap who comes in the shop breaks the odd mx5 up so a message or two later and an order with demon tweeks ebay shop later, some toyo tr1s and 4 slightly scruffy black rims became mine. 

 

[garethj]

I’m absolutely impressed with the work and utterly horrified with how rusty it was,  I’ve looked at quite a few MX5s and plenty of them for £1000 were worse than this one

[Six-cylinder]

7 minutes ago, Andyrew said:

Trying to find a rim with a good used tyre on it seemed to be around 40 quid and not local. A full set for 120 was fairly local but in that there east london. Ballache and ulez whatevs. 

Being next to luton a partworn could be fitted easily with plenty of places in the shithole town selling used tyres but given the shite the locals of luton are happy to drive on and sell as a good tyre id rather not waste the money.

A chap who comes in the shop breaks the odd mx5 up so a message or two later and an order with demon tweeks ebay shop later, some toyo tr1s and 4 slightly scruffy black rims became mine. 

 

Excellent

[Andyrew]

Not too bad condition wise but im not feeling the black tho.  Time to check what rattle cans are in stock, im not buying any paint so the cabinet decides what colour they will be.  

I didnt want to spend more than half hour or so a wheel so a quick scuff with some scotch bright, and some simoniz steel wheel silver gets this result.

Thats good enough,  certainly better. Not too silvery.

Well it would have been left there, but  ideally it wants clear coat over it. I didnt have any. But i did have some matt clear so i went over it with that. This changed the colour however, looked nice enough but i had some Astra star silver too and some masking tape. So the outter rim got some silver to give that " faux machined lip" look 

My friend john then took them and shod them with the new rubber.

 

Ooooooo

La 

 

La

 

Who doesnt love new tyres?

 

[Six-cylinder]

I am favouring tungsten as a wheel colour at the moment so steel wheel looks great.

[Andyrew]

8 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Insanity

FTFY