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swill_omnibus
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29th Jan 09 at 21:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Well that's it, the cars nackered.

It driven into the garage to diagnose a mild misfire, and was towed out by THEAA with a broke gugion pin and collapsed con-rod and i guess it's going to the great scrapyard in the sky now due to the times being hard and that

Let's take a moment:


Oh woe is me.......................................













































Well the engine is going to the sky anyway, the car however will be staying here with me where i will (eventually) be getting round to sticking a X18XE1 init with if plans go2 plan aswell, the car may look "slightly" different again as got a few bits

[Edited on 29-01-2009 by swill_omnibus]

[Edited on 06-02-2009 by swill_omnibus]
supremefaulk
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29th Jan 09 at 21:35   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Thats shite mate!
Hope that you manage to get the new engine in soon!

Mine is going in tomorrow morning with a suspect slipped cambelt!
So hopefully mine is repairable!

buggered otherwise! lol
swill_omnibus
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29th Jan 09 at 21:43   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Lol well fingers crossed you will catch it before it does what mine did before it wouldn't start "bang bang bang crunch *cut-out* **CRY** " lol
tom_simes
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30th Jan 09 at 01:08   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Sorry to hear that Steve

Any ideas about when it'll be back on the road with a new engine? Have you got other transport to get about in at the moment, or you having to use good old public transport?
swill_omnibus
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30th Jan 09 at 01:10   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Well fingers crossed i shall be having my "dads car" to borrow, when i do, i'll show some pics of it, but til then

[Edited on 30-01-2009 by swill_omnibus]
swill_omnibus
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6th Feb 09 at 17:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Banged a deposit on a full engine just now.

For literally EVERYTHING (except gearbox and shafts) am gona be paying £300 including delivery and VAT so £300 all out, mega chuffed with that

1.8 power soon to be

[Edited on 06-02-2009 by swill_omnibus]
gez bay
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6th Feb 09 at 19:46   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
well done buddy get it fitted for the rr day
swill_omnibus
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6th Feb 09 at 20:54   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Fingers crossed 2weeks TOPS! Thats including a full service of the engine and new belts etc.

Any date for that yet?
supremefaulk
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7th Feb 09 at 14:31   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
That sounds brilliant!

Where did you manage to get that from? I ended up paying more than that to get my engine fixed, would have much rathered a new engine like you though!!

Sounds like you got yourself a really good deal though fair play!
swill_omnibus
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7th Feb 09 at 21:24   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I found it on:

www.carsparefinder.co.uk

3 companies responded but only one of them actually ang me up asking if it was competitive and so on! Their price was in the middle but chose them because they seemed interested in business!
chunky_nb
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8th Feb 09 at 00:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
awesome news mate, just out of interest whoes doing it for you, how much and what mounts etc to they fit on?
swill_omnibus
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8th Feb 09 at 20:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Well on the 1.4/1.6 sport the XE1 fits on the standard mounts but think for eg the 1.0 & 1.2 all you gotta change is the driver side mount i think.

I got a lady contact in Aberdare, the same lady who did the bodywork on my car, she's gona give the engine a FULL service inc timing belt, fan belt etc and installing it = £200

So to say im chuffed is an understatement
swill_omnibus
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9th Feb 09 at 13:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
The bar-stewards sold it............ Back to the drawing board, can't explain how truly ****** off i am!
swill_omnibus
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9th Feb 09 at 16:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Ah well, found another one, paying £350 this time but it's got 8K less miles on it, so swings and roundabouts i suppose!

 
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