Serious Transit neglect

[warren t claim]

I recently had a Transit that siezed it's waterpump at 400,000 miles, yes it was an ex taxi Tourneo. Rather than fix it properly I just bodged it with a smaller fan belt by-passing the waterpump full stop. This happy contraption ran faultlessly for a further 20,000 miles carrying the former Mrs Claim and her brood about and occasionally towing the family caravan! Yes it did sieze now and again but a ten minute rest was all it needed to make itself better again! Sadly a trip to the taxi rank in the sky was necessary when the tax and test ran out. As neglect goes can this be beaten?

[FredTransit]

I am gobsmacked! Was this a TDI?

[warren t claim]

Alas no, but it was pretty damm quick! Even quicker with the water pump disconnected! To cool the engine down I just poured water over it and it didn't crack a block or head. No duratoss engine would ever take that abuse!The only trouble I had with the engine was when I put biodiesel in it. To be honest i don't really know how it lasted so long because the oil was never checked or changed in the 50,000 miles I had it. I was tempted to fix it but that was only because the heater didn't work (obviously with no water in it) but it had heated seats so it wasn't too much trouble to live with.

[Pillock]

Jesus, that's some serious abuse there..... aircooled transit, who'd have thought?

[warren t claim]

Jesus, that's some serious abuse there..... aircooled transit, who'd have thought?

Well, air, water, piss, whatever was at hand really! I liked to think of it as an "omnivourous cooling system"

[andrew e]

I hope the money you saved on a waterpump you spent on patened "Touneo tailgate edge gaffer tape"

[FredTransit]

Depending on it's age, it was probabaly just an 80 ps DI, though the tornies of the same age were TDI not durocrap. You should have stripped it not just scrapped it. The seats sell very well, as do the rest of the trim.

[Station]

I reacently changed the missus' oil in her car. It had 1/2 a litre in the sump (ie. a mug full).

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I think I can equal that - 1600 Passat petrol, 1980 something that had monster miles - gotta be 350'000. It was rattling a bit so as I knew someone who worked at a VAG dealer, I fitted a set of good part worn big end shells and a couple of washers in the oil pump spring. This thing leaked and pissed oil out of every orifice and was doing about 400 miles to a sump of oil. Not a problem - when someone's company A4 or Golf was having an oil change, the used oil went straight into a 25L drum and from there, into the shagged VW. I ran it over the winter of 1994 and still sold it.I think that's quite impressive.

[wuvvum]

I hope the money you saved on a waterpump you spent on patened "Touneo tailgate edge gaffer tape"

That was the main reason the chap who recently bought my Tourneo (OK, Transit Executive) wanted it - the tailgate was completely rust free - he was a big Transit fan and reckoned he'd never seen a tailgate in that condition before.

[warren t claim]

I hope the money you saved on a waterpump you spent on patened "Touneo tailgate edge gaffer tape"

That was the main reason the chap who recently bought my Tourneo (OK, Transit Executive) wanted it - the tailgate was completely rust free - he was a big Transit fan and reckoned he'd never seen a tailgate in that condition before.

Yes it was somewhat frilly. I really wanted an ex RAC orange tailgate to replace it for true shite value (Did I Mention that the Tourneo was beige???). I'm afraid the interior was looking it's age after nearly half a million miles of taxi abuse so i didn't bother stripping it out. besides this was at the height of the scrap prices boom and got nearly three hundred for it. Wish I had kept the alloys for it though. I was offered another one recently but is was a twin cam petrol with little history and therefore it's running costs would of put it in the same league as a Land Rover Safari.

[Rusty Pelican]

Years ago i fitted a scrapyard motor in my Singer whilst i was waitng for Hartwells in Bournmouth to finish my new lump , two weeks before i was due to go to Hartwells to have this lump fitted ( they were fitting this FOC so why not ) my scrap lump developed a rather scary knocking noise , dropped the sump to find the centre main bearing shells in bits , simple fix really take it out and refit the sump , hardly any oil pressure and constant overheating resulting in HG meltdown , Did the two weeks though and got me back to hartwells to have newness fitted , about 300 miles in total.

[Owain-328i]

This is all very Cavalier indeed.

[MrRegieRitmo]

This is all very Cavalier indeed.

No, I would say it was more Ford...