cossiecrew

as above do they have any areas that are bad for rot basically what to look out for bodywise when buying 1

wildheart

iTrader: (4)

If your buying an escos i can point you in the direction of a 36k minter,aprox 350bhp,18's etc
And i mean minter

maxest

iTrader: (1)

Sills on later small turbo's, werent painted the same as the earlier big turbos

Back arches

cossiecrew

kris wont be buying til early next year matey

maxest cheers matey

S3an

to be honest theres no rust or rotting anywhere on my car, its a 93 k large turbo, if i was selling my car i would describe it as mint condition

cossiecrew

yeah this is why i was asking because i can honestly say ive not seen any rotters outhere hence why i was asking thought there might be some hidden bits

S3an

beleive me mate there are some right dogs out there, just keep looking

steano

what are the details on this 350 bhp one ? can you pm me a price ?

Lee Reynolds

they go under the lower spoiler, around the arches, along the top of the window, in where the front indicators are and sills as max said!

cossiecrew

yeah mate i will not looking to buy 1 until march/april time but deffo wont snap up the 1st 1 that i see a mate of mine just brought 1 he payed £15g but he said he looked at so many sheds

EIL132

Same places as everyother Escort

cossiecrew

cheers lee

Damo V

Have a look at my thread in resto section or my old for sale thread in cars for sale, I took HUNDREDS of pics of my car in bits, of all the areas they usually go, so any prospective buyer could see how clean it is.... you wont see any rust but it will give you an idea

Also think you will find the only reason they go above the front screen is where careless screen fitters remove paint with the cheeswire below the rubber

Spax

Nice motor

Karl

Escorts are total rot boxes and go just about anywhere!!! Most common place is front arches to the rear of wing due to stone chips and rear tailgates!! Overall I'd say they were pretty shocking for rotting!!

Ryan

same as any car in general, if there not looked after they will rot.

But i guess there is obviously certain rough area like mentioned above

Karl

Nope disagree Ryan, for a 90's car they are shocking! If you take say a 90's peugeot as long as it has'nt be crashed and repaired it wont rot at all! An esocrt cosworth that has been used as a normal car will likely have large scabs of rust anywhere!! Typical 80's Ford shite in a 90's car I'm affraid just like S1/2 ERST's.

Ryan

yep coz pugs have glavenised shells isnt it? so much more resiliant to rust

Spax

I've seen a '92 Escos that lives by the sea over here,used everyday and it's fine,a minter!

Turbosystems

iTrader: (5)

you don't get many stone chips on a peugeot they are too slow to catch flying stones unlike a cosowrth roflol

Most peugeots are owned by your mother of grandma

AD-RS1600i

I mistakenly brought a 94 shedscort as a daily driver, after my Peugeot crash, as a way of saving money to sort my RSi (my other rusty toy lol). And what a rot box, on the top it looks fine, it fairly spotless, underneath though, it needs welding on both rear box sections at the rear for holes which are about (i kid you not!) two inches wide by about 3/4 inches long and on the passenger side the jacking strip practically all fell off along the whole length of the car. Obviously its not going to have been looked after like a Cossie of the same generation, but it will have been built by the same people to the same specification body protection wise........

I'm never buying another Ford as a 'cheap' lol, daily driver, because they rot like nothing else. Ironically the industrial underseal from a shop to do a whole car throughly only costs £20 (the cans which go on a air gun), so what Ford were playing at I dont know.....

My 92? (K Plate) 205 Gti on the other hand was absolutely fine rot wise, i.e. not a sausage, because the French thought to build them with metal galvanised......My mates Polo as well, K plate, again absolutely fine rot wise.....I can see a pattern here! lol


So after that big rant, the moral is with any Escort (or Ford actually) you go to look at, take a jack with you . I'd like to think the Escort Cossie would be a million miles better, but it's a Ford so I doubt it....

Great cars, but check thoroughly.

So do modern Fords rot like 80s/90s ones, i.e. I haven't seen a rusty Focus yet? I hope not because I want a Fiesta ST as a dailey driver in a few years!

cossiecrew

its just going to be a case of full on inspections before purchase