Mk3 Cav Expression on ebay. Potential AVAS exception!

[Lord Sterling]

5 hours ago, warren t claim said:

Lol! Chris Jury (aka: Eric Catchpole from Lovejoy) as the Cavalier SRi driver.

I like how the scene was heavily inspired by the "Over Moon with a Cavalier" documentary. 

Love the Cavalier @Sir Snipes. Get it bought. Seeing one of these at nigh-on £4k is a bit baulking, but it's your money and to be fair, some of us will spend around that amount if not more on maintaining them.

[Peter C]

That is highly specced for a base model. My base model Ford Sierra Sapphire makes do with a carburettor, no PAS, no electric windows, no central locking, no sunroof, no metallic paint, no alloy wheels…… 

[tooSavvy]

My *AVAS has done 20k since I bought it on 01Aug '24.

Apart from ToMM©.... I've never had such a serene driving experience!

I can't see smoke from the fuse.... but, presumably, it's going to go BANG spectacularly at some point 👀

😂😂

🚙💨

[DavidB]

11 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

All MK3 Cavaliers can rust spectacularly, literally anywhere. The worst place is the bulkhead, water comes in via the holes fornthe track rods, runs down the angled chassis rail and soaks into the insulation against the bulkhead. That's where you can see why they were essentially cheap mass market cars. Engine too noisy? Rather than develop a new one, GM just bashed a load of insulation in. That's one way I guess!

The other place they go really bad is the rear chassis rails because you can't see it easily. 

My last one had 147,000 miles but was inexplicably mint underneath. There was zero rust, anywhere, not even the start of any. I should maybe have kept ot but it was just too ordinary to drive and I got a bit bored.

 

yeah all because of those ridiculous blocked rubber drainage ‘socks’

[riek]

6 hours ago, Peter C said:

That is highly specced for a base model. My base model Ford Sierra Sapphire makes do with a carburettor, no PAS, no electric windows, no central locking, no sunroof, no metallic paint, no alloy wheels…… 

It's not the base as such, it's a special edition with a couple cheap upgrades on the base. Iirc they're all J plate and the facelift came out on a K so that's probably why 

[Sir Snipes]

18 hours ago, grogee said:

I think that's a non interference engine so you can win any game of cambelt roulette. Plus it'll have the ace sliding first motion shaft + access plate for sub-1 hour clutch changes

Playing Cambelt roulette with something like this, which some old boy dearly loved, would be rude. Not as bad as putting an angle grinder to the coil springs and bodging on some Rota reps but similar.

However, I'm doubting my bike will go in the boot. Bear in mind a Sandero with the seats down only just manages to swallow it - better if I remove the rear wheel on the bike too, but that's a faff. Being a modern MTB bike it has very wide bars.

[Sir Snipes]

2 hours ago, riek said:

It's not the base as such, it's a special edition with a couple cheap upgrades on the base. Iirc they're all J plate and the facelift came out on a K so that's probably why 

Reminds me of an old Fiesta Mk5(?) Flight - very much BASE with body color bumpers and alloys.

Nowhere near as nice the Mk3 Flight, which actually looked very snazzy. 

[lisbon_road]

9 hours ago, DavidB said:

 

 

yeah all because of those ridiculous blocked rubber drainage ‘socks’

I reckon you're better off throwing the socks away.  I'm not really sure what they do - apart from block up that is.

[Sir Snipes]

39 minutes ago, lisbon_road said:

I reckon you're better off throwing the socks away.  I'm not really sure what they do - apart from block up that is.

Have you a picture of these "socks"?

[New POD]

3 hours ago, lisbon_road said:

I reckon you're better off throwing the socks away.  I'm not really sure what they do - apart from block up that is.

When I had my mk3, every time I checked the oil, I gave them a little check. 

[Lord Sterling]

3 hours ago, Sir Snipes said:

Have you a picture of these "socks"?

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[DavidB]

https://m.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1017734936535322/

 

This might interest you, I think 1500 is good for a clean one of this age

[sierraman]

On 20/04/2025 at 21:06, Sir Snipes said:

This could only be improved* with a set of steels and trims and pulling out that needlessly extravagant 1.6 engine and replacing it with a much more austere 1.4......and then abandoning it inexplicably for 20 years. I really wanted to rescue this thing back then but that was never going to happen.

 

That red one was fucked when it was laid up 20 years ago!