another saloon added to the fleet
being as the estate costs so much to insure i decided a new daily driver. being as its me it had to be a saloon and being as its supposed to be cheap it had to be a 1-1.2L. i thought i had found one but that fell through and then this came up. rysee sent me through some pics so i could see what it was exactly and i decided i wanted it.
set off at 9am today and got up there at 10.30 to be greeted with this
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and im sure you all remember this **** up
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anywho, fired it up, ran ok, had a quick look round and done the deed. set off for the nearest petrol station and on the way there noticed a missfire, MEH i thought. put some fuel in and tried to start it and nothing, oh well ill bump it its all good. bumped it and set off. as i drove the misfire got worse but i carried on. it was at this point i decided to explore why the clocks wernt working, simple blown fuse so swapped it and we have life, however the battery light is on, ok that explains a few things but ill carry on. misfire got so bad i could only do 60mph without it misfiring until i joined the m6 when i ended up pootling along the hard shoulder on 3 cylinders at 30mph. this was all very well i would just get to the next exit until i was suddenly greeted by a row of cones!!! feck, couldnt rejoin and it stalled. i had completed only 20 miles.
oh well ring home and get someone to set off with a battery. i was waiting for about 20 mins when suddenly a tow truck pulls up, result free recovery off the motorway :d
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they took me back to there depot where they had a pukka waiting room.
an hour later and me new battery turned up, i decided to have a poke around and found the nut for the main power lead missing :confused:, still found one that fitted and bolted it on and lobbed the new battery on and she fired up but still battery light on. screwed alternator FTL :(. **** it ill try and get home, cue very boring 60mph journey all the way home but i did make it.
so the work commences. start by bolting on a new alternator and lob another battery on and thats fixed :D. so then i changed the rocker gasket being as there was a new one in the boot, then took the points out and cleaned them up followed by cleaning up the leads aswell. then i straightened out the front end abit and changed the boot lid.
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imminent jobs are fix this
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that was clicking all the way home lol
then need a new backbox and steering column then sort the spare coilovers ive got for it
