nope im not asking im tellling

stripping a few bits from my rs yesterday and figured these pics would be handy if an 1 was looking to buy a erst but dont know what to look for (and scare a few of you who got to excited to look and may reget it come mot time )

behind the rear wash wipe bottle (early s2)
hmm, some1's been fitting half 1/4's (note the speedhole in the floor)



looked ok from the outside so not a real bad job i spose, could have been tidier on the inside tho



oops same the other side , this side arch of kit dint fit right tho, bein as it had a oversized arch welded in (note also the minter rear light panel)


tell tale arch fitting


times 2 (note teh plastic replacement inner arches ) mastique is a wonderfull thing


now it gets nasty, chassis rails as viewed from under the seat, if you lever a screwy in there the WHOLE inner arch and shock turret moves like its made of paper , BOTH SIDES


passenger side footwell ne1??
nah me neither, looks a little raw to me




how to tell if ur A pilar is filler and rust
this is a clue


and you have to love finding a disgustingly huge list of mot fails under the boot carpet (dated '02), who ever done the work must have been bonkers, i'd have strippied it in a second if confronted by that (mind you i am stripping it now, funnily enuff the mechanics are excellent, weird world huh )



let that be a lesson in spotting a rotter

none of the rot was aggrevated in the makin of these pics, it was all waiting to be seen (and used to bargain the price down when i bought the old shed last month)

 

that will help loads of people, nice one mate! scary aint it, the one i stripped was bad but not that bad!

 

Should be intresting what i'll find when i strip mine in july...

 

ill have more pice when i gut the rest of it, wanna keep it a runner really to help sell the parts but if need be ill chop the front off and run it out of a tank to show teh bits are good

the drivers side is yet to be stripped cos it was parked too close to the fence and battery is flat , teh floor is a real patchwork, unbeleveable really
and its got 1 last journey to complete too

just think a week ago i have it off the clock

 

Just rebuilt mine over the winter. Was a little gutted to find over the whole car 3 or 4 areas that needed the old mig. Makes me feel a lot better after seeing that poor old d reg

 

What a state, didn't realise they went that bad, know they go but shit!

 

Now that is a rotten ole shit box, I thought my old black one was bad

 

update, (just taken dash out of it )


aint A pilar's structural??



hmm theres my engine bay



taking me a while to strip this car aint it

it still runs too, just missing its interior, shocks and windows so far
bumpers mite get ebay's 2morra

 

Jesus christ ive neverseen anything so bad!

 

Wow that's shocking

When did the MOT run out anyway?Or was it not road worthy since its MOT in '02

 

Holy fuck!! Shocking is an understatement! Surprised the car is still in one piece. Mines a bit tatty at the bottom of the pillar, but my god, i hope its not like that as im still using it.

 

it ran out of test end of last month i think


i had it off the clock a few times, dodgy huh

 

just reshell it mate

 

ive got 2 other rst's a rs estate (see other topic) and a mk3 3i a mk1 xr2 and a mk2 xr2 mate, best off in the scrappers with this 1, i cant keep any more cars

i was tempted to reshell into a mint 1.3 (found 1 too) but i have 4 full rs running gears as is and am doin nowt with them so i think ill just keep stacking stuff up

 

another one bits the dust