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19th Feb 05 at 14:41

btw sorry drew

[Edited on 19-02-2005 by jr]

Adam_B

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19th Feb 05 at 14:42

what happened?

Marc

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19th Feb 05 at 14:42

You only posted pics of it other week

sorry lol

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19th Feb 05 at 14:45

quote:
Originally posted by Adam_B
what happened?

taken from spadges post on pf

"Happened just round the corner from my house. Was going to a shop after fitting my wheels and thought i would make sure they weren't rubbing or anything. Was going round a long sweeping left hand bend at a reasonable rate of knots, backed off as a roundabout was approaching and the whole car started snaking all over the road At one point i thought i had it back and then it just swerved to the right violently accross the path of an oncoming sprinter van, hit a large kerb, across the grass verge and sideways into a lampost! It then continued between 2 big tree's and came to rest when it hit a grass bank!!
The car is proper fooked as the floor,roof,a post etc are mangled and i somehow managed to snap the gear lever with my back and bend the clutch peddle and steering column It also snapped the rack"

StuartVRS

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19th Feb 05 at 14:45

that looks a little fucked

Adam_B

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19th Feb 05 at 14:47

least the engine looks ok

StuartVRS

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19th Feb 05 at 14:47

so basically, he was driving like an idiot and has suffered the consequences. Poor car

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19th Feb 05 at 14:49

quote:
Originally posted by StuartA3Turbo
so basically, he was driving like an idiot and has suffered the consequences. Poor car

no, it is belived the how car had been involved in a crash before hand

the whole rear of the car was out of shape before the crash, as one wheel sat 2" further in the arch than the other, the previous owner had fitted a spacer to try and hide the fact of what had happend before

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19th Feb 05 at 14:49

yeh looks fucked, BUT he can still jus pop the engine out, find another deacent escort shell, fix that up and drop the lump in again. not gona cost alot if he does it all himself.......

but, yeh, nasty

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19th Feb 05 at 14:51

quote:
Originally posted by Dave17
yeh looks fucked, BUT he can still jus pop the engine out, find another deacent escort shell, fix that up and drop the lump in again. not gona cost alot if he does it all himself.......

but, yeh, nasty

there not alot of gartrac shells dave, difficult to find one

belive th eengines going in a 3door or a escoss

StuartVRS

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19th Feb 05 at 14:52

quote:
Originally posted by jr

quote:
Originally posted by StuartA3Turbo
so basically, he was driving like an idiot and has suffered the consequences. Poor car

no, it is belived the how car had been involved in a crash before hand

the whole rear of the car was out of shape before the crash, as one wheel sat 2" further in the arch than the other, the previous owner had fitted a spacer to try and hide the fact of what had happend before

Well, sorry mate but that was just asking for trouble then. I know, get a fucked shell, fit a spacer on 1 wheel and give it stupid amounts of BHP

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19th Feb 05 at 14:53

quote:
Originally posted by StuartA3Turbo

quote:
Originally posted by jr

quote:
Originally posted by StuartA3Turbo
so basically, he was driving like an idiot and has suffered the consequences. Poor car

no, it is belived the how car had been involved in a crash before hand

the whole rear of the car was out of shape before the crash, as one wheel sat 2" further in the arch than the other, the previous owner had fitted a spacer to try and hide the fact of what had happend before

Well, sorry mate but that was just asking for trouble then. I know, get a fucked shell, fit a spacer on 1 wheel and give it stupid amounts of BHP

i dont belive this was found till after the crash, and didgy handling was put down to shite coilovers on the back

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19th Feb 05 at 14:57

quote:
Originally posted by jr

quote:
Originally posted by StuartA3Turbo

quote:
Originally posted by jr

quote:
Originally posted by StuartA3Turbo
so basically, he was driving like an idiot and has suffered the consequences. Poor car

no, it is belived the how car had been involved in a crash before hand

the whole rear of the car was out of shape before the crash, as one wheel sat 2" further in the arch than the other, the previous owner had fitted a spacer to try and hide the fact of what had happend before

Well, sorry mate but that was just asking for trouble then. I know, get a fucked shell, fit a spacer on 1 wheel and give it stupid amounts of BHP

i dont belive this was found till after the crash, and didgy handling was put down to shite coilovers on the back

If it wasnt found til after the crash, wouldnt alarm bells be ringing when you see the fact one wheel is sitting 2 inches further into the arch? If i personally had realised that, i wouldnt be driving anywhere til i found out why.

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19th Feb 05 at 14:58

no the spacer had made it look like everything was normal

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19th Feb 05 at 15:00

taken from spadges post on PF

Lol so the fact that the nearside rear wheel,hub.coil over etc...were 1 inch nearer the chasis rail than the offside one was my imagination then I told you this on the phone weeks ago and you pleaded ignorance! Also you had fitted a 10mm spacer to the offside to make it less aparent. I even swopped that side rear arm the other day as i suspected it may have been bent and this made no difference Also one of the coil overs that you had fitted to the rear only (with standard suspension front!) was bent and no doubt caused by whatever else it wrong at the rear end.
I actually said in one of my previous posts that you may not have known about these problems but maybe i was being too kind After what you posted above and the insults contained within i'll be totally honest and say you knew this car had a major rear end problem but just didn't give a fook as you didn't do corners

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19th Feb 05 at 15:02

Im not digging at you mate, but im assuming he fitted the spacer when fitting his new wheels. Most people would step back and think wtf, somethings a little wrong there why do i need a spacer on one wheel??? By fitting the spacer thats just covering up the fact there is a problem rather than dealing with it.

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19th Feb 05 at 15:04

quote:
Originally posted by StuartA3Turbo
Im not digging at you mate, but im assuming he fitted the spacer when fitting his new wheels. Most people would step back and think wtf, somethings a little wrong there why do i need a spacer on one wheel??? By fitting the spacer thats just covering up the fact there is a problem rather than dealing with it.

i know i was just trying to explain (badly) thats al

the spacer was found when he changed the wheels, put on there by the previos owner and was found when the mo's where put onl

StuartVRS

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19th Feb 05 at 15:05

this makes more sense now, i got ya. Basically someone sold him a fecked car that was potentially life threatening

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19th Feb 05 at 15:05

quote:
Originally posted by StuartA3Turbo
this makes more sense now, i got ya. Basically someone sold him a fecked car that was potentially life threatening

yes

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19th Feb 05 at 15:07

phew we got there in the end.

James, im hijacking this post :

Are you going to PVS, when is it? can you take me, ill bring beer, porn and a blow up doll.

Im planning my holidays so i dont wanna go away when PVS is on as if you can take me ill be going

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19th Feb 05 at 15:08

6th of june i belive

yes no probs

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19th Feb 05 at 15:10

what was it on a q plate for tho - had it been involved in an accident and written off - hence the q plate - or was it deemed to be a kit car??? - if the first is the case then surely he should have suspected something was wrong.....

also whats the difference between a standard shell and a gartrac one??

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19th Feb 05 at 15:10

superb, in that case, when the ferries start up again after the calais port is fixed, i believe we need a pre-PVS meet, quick round trip on the ferry for cheap beer, fruit machines and laughing at the french.

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19th Feb 05 at 15:13

quote:
Originally posted by LiVe LeE
what was it on a q plate for tho - had it been involved in an accident and written off - hence the q plate - or was it deemed to be a kit car??? - if the first is the case then surely he should have suspected something was wrong.....

also whats the difference between a standard shell and a gartrac one??

all gartracs are q plates

gartrac where a company that took mk3 and 4 escorts shells and converted them to RWD for rallying puposes so they could provide an allternative to te ageing mk1 and 2 escourts

[Edited on 19-02-2005 by jr]

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19th Feb 05 at 15:16

arr I see - fair enough - could he not buy a standar shell - and transfer the drive chain/floor pan etc over?

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