So I bought this on Saturday, I was fed up of putting fuel into my Shogun Sport V6 and my criteria was cheaper on fuel, tax and insurance. It will just be used as a stop gap for the summer between rebuilding my A4 Avant Audi engine and the selling of my jeep.
After searching through all the local rags, gumtree, FB and Auto trader, I went and looked at a good few cars ranging from a 1.4 Seat Leon to 320ci E46 BMW's to Audi a3's, all of which were being sold as 'excellent' or 'mint' condition in some cases, most were riddled with faults and most importantly for myself who doesn't mind doing a few mechanical jobs the body work had seen its best, that was until I seen this thing sat at the side of a local dealers forecourt. I managed to speak to the dealer at 7pm on Friday and asked if he could throw a bucket over it and I would come for a look on Saturday, the car itself had sat around for circa 6 months waiting to be retailed after said dealer had been broken into and various cars/equipment being stolen. I turned up on the Saturday, some air was put in the tyres and the car jump started, I took it on a short run to clear the brakes and give it a little test drive... returning quite happy with what I had seen and heard I offered some money and I was on my way home.
So the car is on 75,000 miles, it's the more sought after 190bhp model and is also a t-sport so the upgraded splitter, spoiler, skirts, leather interior, double din head unit/cd changer and projector headlights from what I know, it also has a detachable tow bar haha which I'm told the previous owner had used for a mounted bike rack, quite handy for myself tbh to shunt my trailer.
Some pics as it was bought.
5 alloy wheels which is a bonus.
The car has some doubtful 'mods' and colour choices but nothing I won't put right myself quite easily.
Fly eye tints on all rear lights.
Celica stickers on rear and side windows.
Painted badges.
Green calipers, including slipped anti vibration pad that was rubbing on disc.
Painted engine covers.
So things that flagged up on the test drive were the brakes needed cleaning up from sitting around, nearly new discs and pads all around though, there's a wheel bearing or two needing done but it's hard to tell as these things have a lot of cabin noise, wheels and splitter need some attention, the splitter is a weird one as it's literally just the splitter that's stone chipped to death. Missing wheel nut from where there was a missing locking key socket and the lockers were removed, new window wipers and an exhaust donut needs looking at, there's a small blow form the front section. Also I'll be doing the cam lift bolts which are only a few pound by themselves but you have to remove the rocker cover and get access to the VVTI unit, this is just a precauitionary measure from where they can shear and are quite a bit of work to resolve at that stage.
The wheels and splitter will be getting some rattle can attention when I get a chance and I'll throw a set of half decent tyres on.
So today I started to look at some of the jobs that didn't take long. I bought some new wiper blades which were well needed and I removed all stickers and fly eye wrap. Already looking better IMO.ill strip the brakes down over the coming days and just out some more miles on it to see if there is anything else that needs looking at, seems a good one though.
Old.
New.
Half way to removing fly eye.
All removed and lenses quickly polished.
More to come over the coming weeks.
After searching through all the local rags, gumtree, FB and Auto trader, I went and looked at a good few cars ranging from a 1.4 Seat Leon to 320ci E46 BMW's to Audi a3's, all of which were being sold as 'excellent' or 'mint' condition in some cases, most were riddled with faults and most importantly for myself who doesn't mind doing a few mechanical jobs the body work had seen its best, that was until I seen this thing sat at the side of a local dealers forecourt. I managed to speak to the dealer at 7pm on Friday and asked if he could throw a bucket over it and I would come for a look on Saturday, the car itself had sat around for circa 6 months waiting to be retailed after said dealer had been broken into and various cars/equipment being stolen. I turned up on the Saturday, some air was put in the tyres and the car jump started, I took it on a short run to clear the brakes and give it a little test drive... returning quite happy with what I had seen and heard I offered some money and I was on my way home.
So the car is on 75,000 miles, it's the more sought after 190bhp model and is also a t-sport so the upgraded splitter, spoiler, skirts, leather interior, double din head unit/cd changer and projector headlights from what I know, it also has a detachable tow bar haha which I'm told the previous owner had used for a mounted bike rack, quite handy for myself tbh to shunt my trailer.
Some pics as it was bought.
5 alloy wheels which is a bonus.
The car has some doubtful 'mods' and colour choices but nothing I won't put right myself quite easily.
Fly eye tints on all rear lights.
Celica stickers on rear and side windows.
Painted badges.
Green calipers, including slipped anti vibration pad that was rubbing on disc.
Painted engine covers.
So things that flagged up on the test drive were the brakes needed cleaning up from sitting around, nearly new discs and pads all around though, there's a wheel bearing or two needing done but it's hard to tell as these things have a lot of cabin noise, wheels and splitter need some attention, the splitter is a weird one as it's literally just the splitter that's stone chipped to death. Missing wheel nut from where there was a missing locking key socket and the lockers were removed, new window wipers and an exhaust donut needs looking at, there's a small blow form the front section. Also I'll be doing the cam lift bolts which are only a few pound by themselves but you have to remove the rocker cover and get access to the VVTI unit, this is just a precauitionary measure from where they can shear and are quite a bit of work to resolve at that stage.
The wheels and splitter will be getting some rattle can attention when I get a chance and I'll throw a set of half decent tyres on.
So today I started to look at some of the jobs that didn't take long. I bought some new wiper blades which were well needed and I removed all stickers and fly eye wrap. Already looking better IMO.ill strip the brakes down over the coming days and just out some more miles on it to see if there is anything else that needs looking at, seems a good one though.
Old.
New.
Half way to removing fly eye.
All removed and lenses quickly polished.
More to come over the coming weeks.
