bunglebus Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 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 Shite Ron, stuboy, 500tops and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted July 31, 2023 Author Share Posted July 31, 2023 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 Shite Ron, RayMK, w00dy and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted July 31, 2023 Author Share Posted July 31, 2023 Interior is tidy, has the early dash with the switches in the "wrong" place, white clocks which are quite a rarity and pop-outs Shite Ron, jon.k, somewhatfoolish and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted July 31, 2023 Author Share Posted July 31, 2023 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 FakeConcern, goosey, Split_Pin and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 Lupos are quite cool. Auto.... who knew. bunglebus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted July 31, 2023 Author Share Posted July 31, 2023 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? AnnoyingPentium, Coprolalia, somewhatfoolish and 3 others 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanky Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 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? 😁😁😁 CGSB, Shite Ron and timolloyd 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted July 31, 2023 Author Share Posted July 31, 2023 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 😆 Shite Ron 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 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? Stanky, bunglebus and AnnoyingPentium 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted July 31, 2023 Author Share Posted July 31, 2023 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 AnnoyingPentium 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted August 1, 2023 Author Share Posted August 1, 2023 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 AnnoyingPentium, Schaefft and RoadworkUK 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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