hey I 'm gonna show some pictures and explain a situation i'm in right now.
I know my fords inside out and especially rs's. I know what to look for what things cost to fix on them and basically I could of saved my mate from buying a dog, for strong money !!
If he had bothered to take me!! But he didn't
Ok he owns a dirty d series 2.
I have to be careful with writing this because I am his mate and it's not a nice thing to really do, but i need some advice,
heres the car
its due to run out of mot at the month and this car is a serious money pit, the previous owner never spent a penny on it, and when my friend bought it for £2300, it has all the original parts on it, brakes, lines suspensions you name it.
Hes had to bu ya new set of konis. new bush set, I have had to rebuild the brake lines for the rear end of the car, fit new brake cylinders.
just before christmas my friend was smacked up the arse by a transit, the guy in the transit hit him at 30-40 whilst the rs weas stationary, the whole rear end was stoved in, and the front end was badly smashed as the rs moved into the back of the car in front.
The guy already had previous insurance claims for doing the same thing and so offered my friend a cash settlement or repairs on the car, stu being stu !! despite my advice decided to get a quote from an insurance body repair centre,
lol £3k later the car was repaired which the bloke who owned the transit paid out ofr from his own business money. !!!
i advised stu to take a lump sum of £3k in his pocket, break the car as it wasnt going through the insurance, and make another 1.5k ish from breaking the car. Then that would be some solid money for either a cossie or a better rs turbo !!!
But nope he got it reapired.
Ok bare with me this is a long post but i think its worth the read ..
His mot runs out the end of this month, and he asked me to do some patches of welding for him, I was like ok where are they, he said on the floorpan, drivers seat mount, i was like ok well thats annoying but i can do it sure,
Interior out made up a deflector to stop sparks getting everywhere,!!
carpet up and i didnt like what else i was seeing,.!! hammerite and seam sealer on the inner sills/floor pan, I asked him before you painted that and the underside floorpan was the metal ok, yer yer he said !!! well after cutting out the seat mount
i found that the floor had seperated from the sill and was pretty rusty, after grinding off the paint my friend had put down this is what i've found !!!
Now i aplogise for the long read, but your opinions please !!
Bearing in mind he needs a new gearbox, new rear quarter lower side! new os rear inner+ outer arch, new sills/ patching of the floorpan and the car resprayed too !!
nearside sill is amazingly pretty good
except where some plonk has jacked in the past
