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Marc
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6th Dec 13 at 10:36   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Getting dropped off at the garage this afternoon.
mattievRS
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6th Dec 13 at 10:45   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
God, I remember this from when I first signed up on here all those years ago! Still looks good and I still love this shape of scooby, hope you have many more years of motoring with it when it's back.
Marc
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10th Dec 13 at 12:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Bad news. Inner arches are really bad. Guy says theres hardly anything left of them. Said really I need new inner arches.
Marc
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10th Dec 13 at 13:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Called them back. Said it was going to be at least £2000 now to do all the work and they didn't want to do it.

Charging me £100 for time spent and need to pick it up now.
daine
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10th Dec 13 at 13:35   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
You'd be better off looking for another shell to swap all your stuff over too
Graham88
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10th Dec 13 at 15:44   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Even at £950 for the original quote I'd have told them to jog on. Shame this will probably end up being scrapped due to rust. Unless you can cut the parts out from another shell that's being scrapped for a front ender or something
Ojc
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Location: Reading: Drives : Clio 197
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10th Dec 13 at 16:30   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
You'll deffo get it done cheaper than 2k that's why they said such an expensive price
Jon_C
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10th Dec 13 at 19:41   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I think ojc is right. Mega price cos they didn't want the work. Might be worth asking around a few other places
Marc
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10th Dec 13 at 19:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Other place I took it to weren't confident of doing it and said they would just be blind welding and that it would go through the rear quarter and damage the paint.
AlexW
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10th Dec 13 at 23:24   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Would be a shame to give up with this car over some rear arch rot.

Think how far some people go with lesser cars, entire floor pans and such.

Find somebody good with fab and offer them a few hundred to fix it, and then get it into a bodyshop for paint.
Marc
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11th Dec 13 at 09:11   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Picked it up this morning. Goes too well to be stripped. Going to have to have a think before I do anything.
Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
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11th Dec 13 at 09:53   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Very nice
3CorsaMeal
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11th Dec 13 at 11:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Cut the shell off the floorplans and fit a corsa body imo
Claire
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11th Dec 13 at 12:48   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Don't let it die
Jambo
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11th Dec 13 at 22:10   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote


No idea you still had this
gazza808
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12th Dec 13 at 08:01   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Saw a local place have to fix the rot on a p1 in the same place! Pics all over their Facebook in through the wing.

Is it that common then?
Marc
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12th Dec 13 at 08:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Must be, but I see P reg etc from time to time with better rear arches than mine! Unless they have already been repaired.

Going to jack it up and see how bad it is, I get the impression they just didn't want to do it.
Claire
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12th Dec 13 at 16:59   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Do you want to borrow some Sellotape?
Kyle T
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12th Dec 13 at 18:09   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Marc
I get the impression they just didn't want to do it.


Sounds it, you properly opposed to reshelling it? I'd lend a hand/some tools if you fancy taking it on

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CORSA NUT
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12th Dec 13 at 18:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
No way of fixing this permanently without replacing the rear quarters as they well and truly go from the inside out. Big post on Scoobynet years ago about a really good bodyshop doing both rears.

Ended up selling my RB5 because of the same problem

[Edited on 12-12-2013 by CORSA NUT]

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