Transit van abused but cheap.

[SherpaMog]

Thought I'd share this transit mk 8 that I've picked up for a bargain £300. Can I get it an MOT and useable for reasonable coin? That is mouldy, leaks like fuck, no 4th gear, turbo doesn't.

Edited July 14, 2024 by SherpaMog
Editing

[DeanH]

And I thought my vehicles were a biohazard... Well bought!

[RoverFolkUs]

Bargain of the century, can't go wrong at that money

[Popsicle]

Thats a steal at £300, but fuck my old boots its spectacularly grim, there are some scruffy buggers about.

Should be perversely quite therapeutic cleaning it up, turbos and 4th gears are over rated.....

[Crackers]

How the fuck does a new* van get in that condition? Like, I know there are some scruffy people out there, but to care that little about your working enviroment? Jesus wept. 

[Cavcraft]

Shitting hell, that was cheap. Surely if even running the engine must be worth twice that. Take it it's from Whitchurch/Malpas area with the '01948' area code?

[Lord Sterling]

For the purchase price of £300, you should be able to make at least make some decent coin.

The 4th gear issue, *if you're lucky,  it could be down to the syncro, but if not, it could be the input shaft that has broken which means its an 'out with the box' job.

Other than that, chuck out all the shit in the van, take the seats out and give them a wet vac and long dry, vacuum the dash and only use spray liquid cleaner and a paint brush with a couple of old cloths handy so no electrical get wet and maybe source some trim bits and (genuine) hub caps. 

The biggest profit eater is going to be the turbo and gearbox, after that it's whatever you can get to hand.

The maddest thing is, it was only a few years ago I used to drive these brand new from PDI yards to their new owners.

[stuboy]

billy bargain, get rid of the crap, wash it inside and out.. id rock about in it for that kinda coinage

[Asimo]

£300?

Yuck.  Weigh it in for fragging and then forget it forever!

[Dobloseven]

Is it a proper RWD one?And has someone tried to hang themselves inside?

[warch]

Paving companies are staffed by people who are too sensible to work as scaffolders but too deranged to work as roofers. The van's too new to be full of Nuts (the magazine not the snack/scrotal contents) but will contain enough Ginsters flakey pastry particles and Relentless residues to sustain a its own unique ecosystem. 

[sierraman]

Good luck with finding an engine that’s not nicked to fit. It looks totally, totally fucked. 

[Mrcento]

I know it's only £300, but holy shit, i'd probably have given £300 to not be handed the keys to that! 😂

The more i see of this gen of Transits, the more it becomes pretty clear Ford dropped the ball pretty hard with them. I know that one's had the hardest of lives, but even the ones that don't seem to be/look utterly fucked pretty early on.

They also seem to have this quirk Fords always seem prone to, where a model will ALWAYS end up dented in the exact same places. Mk2 Focus was always the drivers side rear quarter corner stoved in, this gen transit, it's the back doors, 3 of them down the road from me, all different owners, all have creases in the same part of the back doors, just under half way up at their most 'proud' point, which is off given that's well inside the rear bumper line, no idea how drivers keep reversing into overhanging things at the exact same height 😂

[Bren]

Just looking at that interior has exacerbated my asthma.

[Boycie]

It's a fake ........where's the sun faded 6 month on old copy of the sun on the dash ....

[sutty2006]

That picture of inside the back is hard to tell it’s a van, it looks like a shed in some old blokes back garden that’s been over grown and unused for 26 and a half years. 
 

please put pictures on of the clean up process to satisfy my ocd! 

[warch]

31 minutes ago, sutty2006 said:

 please put pictures on of the clean up process to satisfy my ocd! 

 

[sutty2006]

15 hours ago, warch said:

 

This is the way. 

[paulplom]

On 15/07/2024 at 22:08, Mrcento said:

where a model will ALWAYS end up dented in the exact same places. Mk2 Focus was always the drivers side rear quarter corner stoved in, this gen transit, it's the back doors, 3 of them down the road from me, all different owners, all have creases in the same part of the back doors, just under half way up at their most 'proud' point, which is off given that's well inside the rear bumper line, no idea how drivers keep reversing into overhanging things at the exact same height 😂

Caused by skips. 

Ask me how I know!

[mat777]

2 hours ago, paulplom said:

Caused by skips. 

Ask me how I know!

I didn't think the crisps were that damaging!  

In all seriousness, I echo the comments from Sutty, please do a nice therapeutic cleaning montage! That is properly grim 🤢

[sierraman]

On 15/07/2024 at 18:55, Crackers said:

How the fuck does a new* van get in that condition? Like, I know there are some scruffy people out there, but to care that little about your working enviroment? Jesus wept. 

I suspect they’ve just loaded it full of shit before sending it to the scrappers. I’ve filled the boot of things going to the scrappers with all sorts of shit then bust the key off, used to fill the tanks with waste oil/old paint once I’d took the fuel out. 

[grizz]

On 15/07/2024 at 20:05, Lord Sterling said:

For the purchase price of £300, you should be able to make at least make some decent coin.

The 4th gear issue, *if you're lucky,  it could be down to the syncro, but if not, it could be the input shaft that has broken which means its an 'out with the box' job.

Other than that, chuck out all the shit in the van, take the seats out and give them a wet vac and long dry, vacuum the dash and only use spray liquid cleaner and a paint brush with a couple of old cloths handy so no electrical get wet and maybe source some trim bits and (genuine) hub caps. 

The biggest profit eater is going to be the turbo and gearbox, after that it's whatever you can get to hand.

The maddest thing is, it was only a few years ago I used to drive these brand new from PDI yards to their new owners.

 

100%
 

I love turning absolute heaps like this around. 
 

I have no idea regarding the mechanical side,  can an engine from something as random as a SsssanGYong  Musso or whatever be grafted in there for cheap if a repair is infeasible? 
 

If the mechanical side was manageable I would be happy to take on the cosmetic side. 
 

 

[myglaren]

Why did I read the title as "Transit van abused by a sheep"?

[sierraman]

6 hours ago, grizz said:

 

100%
 

I love turning absolute heaps like this around. 
 

I have no idea regarding the mechanical side,  can an engine from something as random as a SsssanGYong  Musso or whatever be grafted in there for cheap if a repair is infeasible? 
 

If the mechanical side was manageable I would be happy to take on the cosmetic side. 
 

 

No, due to the age it has to have DPF etc and meet the plate value or if that’s defaced the default value for a turbo charged diesel. Absolutely no chance of transplanting a really old engine in and it ever working let alone see the road. No commonality between all the systems required. 

[Mrcento]

11 hours ago, paulplom said:

Caused by skips. 

Ask me how I know!

Now you mention it, there's often a skip parked down the road outside of a roofers unit, and one of the transits with the rear door crease is the roofers......

😂

[cpjitservices]

On 14/07/2024 at 13:52, SherpaMog said:

Thought I'd share this transit mk 8 that I've picked up for a bargain £300. Can I get it an MOT and useable for reasonable coin? That is mouldy, leaks like fuck, no 4th gear, turbo doesn't.

Lordy! Thats had some abuse! Not an old van either?

 

[kevins]

I'd be more worried about whatever they have done to the roof to get it that rusty.  Chinese copy turbo is relatively cheap and easy to fit.  If it's front wheel drive there was a period when bushes in the selectors failed, parts are cheap enough (they went to Bronze from plastic) but you do have to get the box out and dismantle it. Of course if they abused the gearbox like the rest of the van it could be just about anything.

[N19]

I think of this generation as brand new vans, although the oldest are now 12 years old. I remember driving one for the first time and thinking the interior wasn't going to be rugged enough for a hard life as a builders van. 

[horriblemercedes]

Fair play, I'd drive that 

[SherpaMog]