Anyone know of or seen this fiesta about?

Looks clean, but am going to view it tomorrow evening.

what do you think, judging on the advert?

Cheers.

 

Link would help really wouldn't it.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1991-FORD-FIES...QQcmdZViewItem

 

Looks the part mate standard looking the best i think personally and of course the best colour sounds like a good bargain i'd go with cash and barter with him flash the cash in his face and im sure you could get it for 2400 cash

 

Thats going to be the idea tomorrow night.. hopefully he'll sell it there and then if its a good one. cheers for your opinion

 

Links stopped working has the lad withdrawn the auction???

 

As far as I know, no? I text him last night and he didn't know anything about it being cancelled. Said its still for sale but can't do anything about the auction until today which suits me fine

Basically, its a J reg, Red RS, standard apart from exhaust. RSOC members car with 90k on it, service history and looks very very clean.

 

If you have forgotten some of the things to check for on a frst post a new topic and people will add there pointers... i always do this as i forget a couple of things and 9/10 they fuck when i got the car home.

 

I think i'm pretty ok on what to look for.

Rust on sills, bootlid, bonnet, under bodykit, under door sills, boot floor etc.

Check for new panels and how well they've been done.

Smoke on start-up and whether it continues when its warm

Knocking, weird noises, bearings etc.

Other than that I should be ok.. 2 of us going so if i forget then he'll pick up on it.

 

sills - pull the door rubbers off, as they are going / gone, it will be rusty in the corner. get under the car, and where the jacking point is, around there, look at the sill, i will gaurentee you it will be rusty (as you prob know, its where the water drain is for the sunroof) it all depends how bad it is.

boot, the boot floor doesnt tend to rust, but the back panel does, again, pull off the boot seal. and also check below the rear lights on the inside, the panels tend to rust a bit.

inside, check if the carpet is wet, again, this is due to the slam panel join leaking, or worse case, its where the front struts are welded to the bulkhead, water gets behind, and rusts through to the car, and when it rains, thats where the water comes in. unfortunately, you can never tell how bad till you remove the dash and carpet.

rear arches, have a prod about.

same for front

engine, make sure you see it started from cold. and then started after its been left for about 30 mins from hot. they are the times you will see smoke if there is any. and obviously look for smoke when he is on boost, off boost, and when you accelerate and back off the throttle

 

Sorted, bought it, no rust outside anywhere at all apart from surface underneath, arches and petty cap were absolutely spotless. Under door rubbers were a little manky but all surface bar a small hole where they always rust. Engine didn't smoke at all.. not on cold start or when we'd been out in it. Engine bay looks dirty apart from that, she's a gooden. Oh and got him down on price a lot. Proper good lad.

Pics don't do it justice, need a better camera, paint is sooo deep:





3.5 tailgate was off-putting but its been put on properly and painted well (or its been filled) one of the 2.. anyway cheers.

 

how much did you get her for then mate she looks nice a good buy i think red is th ebest when polished up pukka. hope everything is going ok with it.

So what you got in mind for her then mod's wise i say get th eengine bay minted up and chrome and samco's on her keep it original as they seem to fetch far more money.

 

So take it you want be coming to view mine anytime soon then

 

look like a nice motor mate nice 1