The Reverend Bluejeans Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 Wait till I've posted up all four pics! It's a 1999 T plater btw. Firstly... And... So that's where all the rust around the fuel filler flap comes from! This one is bridge bound. It's utterly fucked.
ProgRocker Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 Slightly resembles the undercarriage of a SEAT Ibiza. If not then I'll guess it is some other VAG motor.
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted October 20, 2011 Author Posted October 20, 2011 Not even close Chaps. It does have Spanish origins however.
cort16 Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 I'm changing my bet to KA after seeing the filler cap.
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted October 20, 2011 Author Posted October 20, 2011 I'm changing my bet to KA after seeing the filler cap. BING!!! "Look what you could have won'. This thing still has an MOT.
cort16 Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 They're rusty little turds right enough. I saw an 02 one in for considerable welding not to long ago.
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted October 20, 2011 Author Posted October 20, 2011 In rust terms, they're up there with the Anglia, BMC 1100 and Mini. In fact, any sixties/seventies car. They clearly have no rustproofing whatsoever. What 1999 car would have rot like this?
mnde Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 Blimey! As far as other rusty motahs of '99, I was going to say Rover 100 but they stopped in 97... Mark.
trigger Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 As soon as i saw that filler cap i guessed KA, I saw a Y reg one last week that was full of rust with black tide marks up both sides, It's amazing that in this day and age Ford are still able to product something that rusts so badly.
M'coli Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 Inbuilt obsolescence - they knew the running gear would be tough as old boots, that there would be plenty of spares about because the young 'uns driving them would make plenty of them write-offs, so why make them last longer than they needed to?
rml2345 Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 Blimey thats alot of grot! The Ka does seem to be a favourite of tinworm, as every time I see one it seems to have some rust about the bodywork. Could it be a contender of crustiest car of the decade? Autoshiters decide...
barefoot Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 I'm going to compare them to the original Mini Metro which was allegedly designed to last for just 6 years or 60,000 miles.
dollywobbler Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 Moderns that rot - quite a few Alfa 156s have died of corrosion.
Luxobarges_Are_Us Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 The Scorpio is from about the same era and has some wheelarch issues, too. Thankfully, mine got new ones last year from the previous owner. That'll be good for another couple of winters then.
retrogeezer Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 My 96 Mondeo is virtually rust free other than where there was a repair on the o/s/r wheel arch from when it was scraped in a car park.. For 15 years old that is pretty good going I reckon.
Shep Shepherd Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 I've seen several Astra Gs (and one Zafira) with rotten bonnet leading edges and rear wheelarches on my travels.
HillmanImp Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 I was if the belief from reading stuff on here that most fords from the mid 90s onwards were pretty crap. Did most manufacturers stop galvanizing their cars around then? Stuff from the late 80s and early 90s generally looks better than the later stuff. Normally the Kas go under the bumper and trim don't they, in the moisture traps? Still, that's pretty shit. That Fiesta I welded up the other day was a pile of wank too.
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted October 20, 2011 Author Posted October 20, 2011 I had two Ka's, a used 1996 and a new 1999. At the time I didn't give a shit about how rusty it would be in 10 years (or even 5) because I wouldn't be the owner and therefore not my problem. Both will be rotten now although according to DVLC, the 1999 car has just been taxed for a year.It amazes me that all cars don't rot like the Ka - they may as well because by the time they're 10 years time they'll be scrap anyway due to some electrical/mechanical malady that, for some reason, means a car that cost £15'000 10 years ago is junk. I saw a 53 plate Vectra 1.8 in my local yard - some electrical failure meaning none of the lights would work without some control box and coding - £££££££.What a disgusting waste of a perfectly good car. 2 days work, a bit of wire and some remote fuse holders would have got them working again.
AnthonyG Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 I saw a 54 plate Ka the other week with sills that looked they had nearly reached the state of that silver one, all the paint had been replaced with rust all along the bottom.
Cavcraft Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 Hand on heart I'd have said Ka without you having to mention it. It's not like you'd need another reason not to buy one but the rust isn't doing them any favours on top of their general hatefulness.
sporty-shite Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 I think it's a bit of a pity that the Ka ended up being such a rusty nail, because when they first came out, although being a bit ugly, I thought they were a really fun little thing, and would have had them down for "future classic". Although the fact that they rot like fuck probably means the Autoshiters of 2020 will absolutely love them!
cort16 Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 The garage next to my lockup had this V reg astra in the other day refusing to start. He's got a decent code reader setup so got it on the machine, which after he'd went through the 3 pages of general OMG my vauxhall cumpurz says the engines been replaced with a bit of macaroni general faults he found the key had got out of of sync with the immobiliser but couldn't do sod all about it. It had to be dragged over to the main dealer to get it re-programmed for god knows what cost.What's my point again? Oh aye this is the kind of stuff, which will cause future chod to be binned well before it's natural sell by date. The shiter of 20 years in the future will be skinning their knucles on the iphone 7 as it's app tries to interface with the central locking system of a 30 year old renault avantime
Cavcraft Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 I don't know so much to be honest. Half decent generic fault code readers are pretty cheap these days and decent ones do a good job. My lad's Bluepoint/Snap-On one has saved my bacon a couple of times recently after viewing 'faultless' cars that suddenly sprung up faults when plugged in or where the vendort described the fault as something minro and it wasn't.
trigger Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 Here's a test for you, Someone find me a Ford Puma, whatever age, which hasn't got rusty wheel arches... Good luck!
cort16 Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 The fault reader identified the problem but couldn't fix it as it was a previous generation one or summurt.
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted October 22, 2011 Author Posted October 22, 2011 Here's a test for you, Someone find me a Ford Puma, whatever age, which hasn't got rusty wheel arches... Good luck! No such car exists. I'm sorry.
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