ATR84 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:38 am
@EddieMunster Glad to hear you will look to get it sorted, it is just strange that new arches would be rusting already. You can tell these are new panels by the fitment.
Almost everything that'd been done to it was reversed, save for the manifold. I did find evidence of some mods, including the ARB mounts on the rear which were larger than standard, and I decided to leave the manifold as I couldn't find a nice original one at the time when I had the top end off to do the other work.
The previous owner to me wasn't just under-zealous with the truth, the MOT supplied was absolutely, without question bent. It had the ABS/4ws fault, and having removed it and reconditioned it all, it took several weeks to work out that amongst other things the wrong sensors were fitted; the dash was lit like a Christmas tree, it wasn't as though you couldn't see that there was an issue. The suspension was in such a poor state too, it had been put back to "standard" and every top mount and bearing was knackered, and you could hear it too; it knocked on every corner, there was so much play on the wheel/strut that a jemmy was able to pull it out of shape so much that each corner would have been an immediate MOT failure. Granted, the cheap nasty tyres could have been changed after that MOT, but the alarm bells rang when it turned up with Rama-lama-ding-dongs on it, I knew I was going to have to reach into my pocket.
I knew that the car would have been known, and that's partly the reason the eBay advert was so specific, as I knew there'd be people that would have known about its faults and I felt obliged to show that each and every one of them had been put right, and put right properly too. Indeed, one of the previous owners emailed me to gloat about what I had to do to put it right since their ownership...... which was nice of them.
5g 2.2 Motegi in Blue.