...did i buy this You know the old saying "Surfing eBay with a drink and you'll never stop to think" Well it turns out that going on there with a stinking hangover is just as bad.
I've been on the lookout for something diesel powered and German to replace my current Volvo daily when i stumbled upon this with 4 hours to go and no bids. I decided to ignore, not only my better judgement, but the list of problems the car had that the seller had listed. Needless to say i won the auction and when the horrible haze of my hangover had lifted i was left with the reality of what i had just purchased:
This...thing...this testament to the art of bodging has been so badly looked after for the past 2 years i'm sure if it could cry it would. Now i like a good Peugeot, i've had many, but this one needs some serious looking after, there are many strange things that have been done to it, my favorite example being the previous owner told me that when he bought it the Aircon wasn't working. Now a sensible man would go to a garage and pay £40 for a re-gas, if it works that all is well and if it doesn't you can just mull over your wasted £40 and get on with your life.
In this case what the owner did was to cut the aircon pipes out from under the bonnet and throw them away, then glue the button for the aircon in place so it can never be pressed. Once he had completed that you might imagine he would remove the pump and fit a new belt....you would think wrong, it's still there whirring away pointlessly
The logic applied (if any) is baffling and the car is full of "fixes" like this and now it's up to me to pick up the pieces and try to restore this car to some sort of functioning use.
The first thing i had to do was to fit a new thermostat as the old one (god know how long it's been like this) didn't like letting the coolant rise above 70c.
Out with the old and in with the new:
While i was at that i noticed this pipe was split and leaking:
so i took it off, cut it and replaced it. I also went along the whole intake pipe and found that every hose clip was loose and leaking air. Hopefully all sorted now.
I then wanted to start cleaning the interior as it stinks of wood (the material not the smell of a boner) in there and is full of dust. I started with the boot and cleaned out the slightly odd collection of spare parts inside:
Then lifted out the boot liner to reveal about 1/2 a ton of finely ground wood dust:
I tried to hoover it out but first i had to give our hoover a birthday as the guy i share the workshop with had cleaned the mill off with it:
There was about 3 times more metal shavings in there than you can see in that pic. Anyway after about half an hour of hoovering in the car it looked...exactly the same so i think i'm going to get a valet to come round and give it a full service and wet-vac inside to get it done properly.
Hope to get some more done on it this week. Peace out.
I've been on the lookout for something diesel powered and German to replace my current Volvo daily when i stumbled upon this with 4 hours to go and no bids. I decided to ignore, not only my better judgement, but the list of problems the car had that the seller had listed. Needless to say i won the auction and when the horrible haze of my hangover had lifted i was left with the reality of what i had just purchased:
This...thing...this testament to the art of bodging has been so badly looked after for the past 2 years i'm sure if it could cry it would. Now i like a good Peugeot, i've had many, but this one needs some serious looking after, there are many strange things that have been done to it, my favorite example being the previous owner told me that when he bought it the Aircon wasn't working. Now a sensible man would go to a garage and pay £40 for a re-gas, if it works that all is well and if it doesn't you can just mull over your wasted £40 and get on with your life.
In this case what the owner did was to cut the aircon pipes out from under the bonnet and throw them away, then glue the button for the aircon in place so it can never be pressed. Once he had completed that you might imagine he would remove the pump and fit a new belt....you would think wrong, it's still there whirring away pointlessly
The logic applied (if any) is baffling and the car is full of "fixes" like this and now it's up to me to pick up the pieces and try to restore this car to some sort of functioning use.
The first thing i had to do was to fit a new thermostat as the old one (god know how long it's been like this) didn't like letting the coolant rise above 70c.
Out with the old and in with the new:
While i was at that i noticed this pipe was split and leaking:
so i took it off, cut it and replaced it. I also went along the whole intake pipe and found that every hose clip was loose and leaking air. Hopefully all sorted now.
I then wanted to start cleaning the interior as it stinks of wood (the material not the smell of a boner) in there and is full of dust. I started with the boot and cleaned out the slightly odd collection of spare parts inside:
Then lifted out the boot liner to reveal about 1/2 a ton of finely ground wood dust:
I tried to hoover it out but first i had to give our hoover a birthday as the guy i share the workshop with had cleaned the mill off with it:
There was about 3 times more metal shavings in there than you can see in that pic. Anyway after about half an hour of hoovering in the car it looked...exactly the same so i think i'm going to get a valet to come round and give it a full service and wet-vac inside to get it done properly.
Hope to get some more done on it this week. Peace out.