Wurly, I'm so so sorry ...

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 12:42 pm

Which is more appropriate I wonder?

or

bennyboy · Post by **bennyboy** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 12:45 pm

\o/

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 1:14 pm

Mr Credit Card has taken one hell of a bashing the last couple of months...

Which is completely unlike me - goes with my only recently adopted 'start living for the now and enjoying life a bit more' attitude.

Mind you, at least I'm now 'doing my bit' by becoming a dutiful good consumer at last!

bennyboy · Post by **bennyboy** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 1:18 pm

You can't take it with you mate. The last year has made me question a lot, but as long as the responsibilities are taken care of first, I pretty much think drokk it now.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 1:27 pm

I don't take my stuff anywhere though - it just sits in a barn!

Does that count?

bb1boy · Post by **bb1boy** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 1:28 pm

Did you win it for £275 Wurly?

Post by **Doggo** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 9:20 pm

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 10:04 pm

Nope, that's still happening too

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Wed Jul 16, 2014 11:07 am

I don't have one in red yet?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... SS:GB:3160

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Mon Jul 21, 2014 7:48 pm

Righto, so (for any that are interested) just to update this with details of the car that Indigo made me buy...

I didn't get any pics of it when I arrived, but basically it had spent 13 years parked up in the corner of a drive slowly being overtaken by the surrounding hedge... The seller said they couldn't even get the car to turn over despite putting a new battery on it. I had it running within 15 mins of arriving (and only about 5 seconds of cranking with the ignition actually on) and idled nicely straight away

Next thing was to close the hydraulic bleed screw I'd opened and charge the hydraulic system

Charged and rose ok, no leaks

so then shunted it back and forth to try and free the pads off the discs - result!
Then moved it out from the hedge and the steering went hard and the suspension dropped at the back

LHM reservoir empty - needed just over 2Litres of LHM and a system bleed to clear the air lock and we were away again.

One tyre was popped off the rim and I couldn't get it to go back on, but the good thing about a hydraulic citroen is that doesn't matter - it will still drive flat and level so no problems loading up

On my way

Stopped off at some services to meet up with vtecmec and hand over an alternator for his beast. Fail to me for driving the wrong way into the Maccy D's one way car park system

That all important "2" on the end of the badge that I didn't already have

Ready to be unloaded

When I first saw it, I thought it had the wrong exhaust on it - Turbo's should be twin pipe...

Ah, that will explain it

Rusted and fallen off

So what of the rest of it? Well a mixed bag really. It's all there (and bits that have fallen off are in the boot) and it's all straight.

It has the cleanest inner arches of any car I've ever bought

And this side at least (that normally rots at the front, beside the battery) isn't!

Same isn't true of the other side;

There are no hydraulic leaks (tempting fate) and it all runs fine.

You can see it was nicely entagled in the undergrowth and had been sat on its rear passenger disc inner dust cover

Interior though is bloody amazing condition!

Not a split or a crack anywhere

Note more about the hedge growth into the doors

)

The door trims even have the original protective covers from manufacture on them

As well as the usual bootlid and bonnet, the bottom of the doors are rotten as well, as ususal

And the front of the front passenger door

Drivers door has obviously had a repair before - that's not the original seam sealer

Last one, yep also rotten...

Oh, if the warning light is to be believed it also has no oil pressure

There's oil dripping out of the rocker shaft ok when it's running though, so that must be talking bollocks.

I've bought a new one (£7 delivered

) so I'll stick that on and see what happens.

Aside from that, I need to get underneath and see what the front floors, inner sills and rear bumper bar are like, that will determine if it's a breaker or not. I'd like not to (I like the colour and want to keep with having all 3 variants of the model

)but we'll see. If not, the price I paid is WELL WELL worth it for that proper 80's pimp style leather interior, in that condition (let alone the rest of the spares it could give up).