I bought this car roughly around three months ago to use to get to work over the winter whilst my erst in my sig is having cosworth treatment. i had been getting water on the carpet in the passengers footwell so decided to investigate today and what i found was alot of rot!!! here are some pictures of the afore mentioned problem:
This is the car when i first bought it:

The damage sustained by the ice and a farmers fence:


and the deadly rot:



The rotten tailgate:

and the rotten petrol cap:

What should i do and realistic cost of this in parts to repair?

 

you could sell it to me as i need some parts for my wifes car

 

youd have to be devoted to save that

 

not "THAT" bad but still as said above will have to put in quite abit of time and to save it, but still it could be done...

and i think you may aswell sort it....

 

thats a lot worse than mine
https://passionford.com/forum/viewto...light=#4319594

but i just need to pull my finger out and finish it now its all painted now i just need bits / parts to finish it off

 

as it ever had a m.o.t?

if you got the time mate do it,
or get a fiesta van & swap everything over

 

let it die

the plating isnt the end of the world but that A pilar is, i wouldnt wanna have it poke me in the guts in a med/big crash and you know the insides are 10 times worse

 

and I thought my escort was bad

 

this makes my fezzy look mint defo save it mate dont let another one die or get wasted by sum daft chav good luck

 

If it is to bad to save, remember the more you strip out the more you will find ,it may be worth buying a late mint mk3.5 for peanuts, and putting it all in that

 

as Twins suggested..best idea really

 

as said above, n again, makes mine look ok now! but then again depends how much passion u got for the car...

 

Strip it for parts save up and go and buy a minter because the amount of cash your gonna spend on welding and spraying to get that mint it will be in the thousands mate.Be worned i been there.

 

i'l have it off you!

 

Agreed!!!

 

re shell it. would be much easyer & safer in the long run

 

fuck trying to repair that!! prob the worst ive seen
trouble is they rust from the inside out and once u start welding u will never stop

either strip it for a reshell or just sell the parts and move on

 

if you do wanna sell let me know or if you break i need all the efi parts of it

 

Car is possibly for sale now as its started to smoke quite bad on over run so piston rings r naffed i think. open to offers or will just put my zvh in another shell and strip it.

 

id re shell it if it were me
plus another dead frst makes mine just that little bit rarer lol