Bunglebus buys a lemon again, and actually does some work on it

[bunglebus]

Stage 1

Poos: ½

Stage 2

Yep here we go again, spotted a cheap Lupo on FB fairly close to us so hopped in the yellow one to look at...another yellow one

It's a 1.4 auto, as usual it needs a new jobs but it seems honest and the MoT history is clean - funny enough this one previously lived in Southend where Victor the silver one came from.

Decided to leave a deposit rather than risk a drive, as everything's expired and we couldn't get an MoT booking - plus it needs a battery and we had no jump leads to restart it after the required fuel stop.

Unfortunately I'm now going to be working away for 1-2 weeks so collection will have to be rescheduled 

[bunglebus]

OK here we go again - today was the only day I've been home from work in the last week and I'm off again tomorrow. 

Armed with a battery, (leaky) fuel can, footpump and various tools, we headed off into the arse end of nowhere. Poo count - too many, I blame the lamb bhuna microwave dinner I had the other night.

 I've been keeping myself up at night stressing about this one as the tax and MoT had expired and it's not been driven for a long time - only done 1100 miles since the last MoT, I had visions of rusty/seized brakes etc. 

However once the battery was swapped and a fair bit of oil was added (why does every car I look at buying have almost no oil in it?), it fired up and drove very nicely.

Obviously it has a few needs, mirror caps are broken (and aren't colour coded), rear wash wipe doesn't work, driver's door doesn't unlock from outside and it hunts a bit at idle and is too fast - hopefully an air leak somewhere.

I'm going to try and keep a running total of the costs on this as the idea is to sell it on for a bit of profit

[bunglebus]

Interior is tidy, has the early dash with the switches in the "wrong" place, white clocks which are quite a rarity and pop-outs

[bunglebus]

Bad bits

Monies so far;

Purchase price £600

Two hour insurance policy £18.37

Fuel £7.00

Battery £35.99

Oil £23.66

Oil filter £5.23

Air Filter £6.41

Fuel filter £4.99

Cambelt £72.53

Running total £774.18 

[purplebargeken]

Lupos are quite cool. Auto.... who knew.

[bunglebus]

Yeah apparently fairly in demand, there's a woman on FB looking for a yellow auto at the moment. 

Wonder if these guys enjoyed being spun at 60MPH?

[Stanky]

Nice work, I have to ask though, were you not a tiny bit tempted to bring the numberplates from your manual one with you and have them 'fall' onto the auto to get you home? 😁😁😁

[bunglebus]

2 hours ago, Stanky said:

Nice work, I have to ask though, were you not a tiny bit tempted to bring the numberplates from your manual one with you and have them 'fall' onto the auto to get you home? 😁😁😁

Well that would work were it not for the manual being the only one my partner can drive, so she was following me back...

Oops just realised I forgot to let the MoT place know we'd changed our minds 😆

[brownnova]

43 minutes ago, Stanky said:

Nice work, I have to ask though, were you not a tiny bit tempted to bring the numberplates from your manual one with you and have them 'fall' onto the auto to get you home? 😁😁😁

Can’t imagine such a thing ever being done… 

But anyway… 

Greta purchase, Lupos are cool, Yellow Lupos doubly so. So two yellow Lupos must be quadruple cool? 

[bunglebus]

1 minute ago, brownnova said:

Can’t imagine such a thing ever being done… 

But anyway… 

Greta purchase, Lupos are cool, Yellow Lupos doubly so. So two yellow Lupos must be quadruple cool? 

One day I'll find a Fantasia Green open air TDI and my life will be complete

[bunglebus]

Work plans have been postponed so I had a tinker. Air filter replaced and hunted for air leaks. Several iffy looking pipes located - and is that round part incomplete (don't know what it is)?

No ABS! Very odd seeing a space where it should live

NS headlight polished up

[bunglebus]

Purchased a few bits off a Lupo being broken, so I could fix some problems.

First up, rear wiper motor not working

Yep that's had it

Fitted the replacement and it wipes but doesn't wash. Found the hose off at the pump - still no wash, and a puddle under the left sill

There's a connector hidden in here that was also apart

Now all works

Mirrors were both damaged, and interestingly both the smaller one which is usually only on the N/S. As the originals are unpainted plastic, I just did the new ones in satin black, easy enough to colour code if needed later

 

[bunglebus]

Thought I'd do a nice easy job today, door check straps. As easy as removing the lower door card, drilling the speaker rivets out and unbolting the check strap. Except

That's the sheet metal of the door still attached to the O/S check strap. It's obviously been stiff for years, and instead of fixing it they've just forced the door until it's ripped out. Large washers will be employed to fix it, need slightly longer bolts and the weird specific bolt that retains the strap to the pillar