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Feb 24, 2007 21:58:26 GMT
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last june I smashed the green favorit into a pole! very nasty, but it still went and wsn't long through the MOT neither. still used it the next day to take the (ex)fiancee out to a high-end play in the city (about 140miles done that day lol) and then out for a meal, for her birthday you see, with smashed bits and all for ultimate Don't Care About Your High Society Poshness pointZ!  ta-da! found this orsum double-vision pic btw...  so, it has sat under a tin roof for, well, since the end of june 2006. it still goes, although i'd have to put back the radiator, starter and battery which i've used to keep other motaHZ going  so here goes. out comes the subaru leather...  and then to the screen...  and what became obvious at this point is that it would be an EXCEPTIONALLY brilliant idea to fold the safety glass up to fit it into the bin yeah... ouch!  time to strip ya baby (oh yeah, oo er, etc...)     unfortunately, the more I go back, the worse it looks. thats crumpled inner wing you can see there...behind the front panel which is pushed back at least 10 inches.  the same can be said for the a-pillar which is decisively worse than I first imagined, although I knew it would be bad...  need to find a more suitable hammer than the big block on a stick option, and try pulling that pillar out. windscreen to come out of the now dead favorAt 1, along with headlight. inner wings a problem though... |
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J.P
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I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
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Feb 24, 2007 22:17:50 GMT
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Oooo Unlucky dude! Shame  Car looks solid enough everywhere else? Tie the rear to a wall or something and the parts that need pulled to another car? I did that once with a heap of a Corolla. Or you could trade it in for something really original, like a Bora/Toledo with a Re-map or a Screwed out D-turbo....Ohh wait, everyone has those! |
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paul4be
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Feb 24, 2007 23:14:26 GMT
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As suggested above, I've used another car to pull things back almost into shape. Had to do it when I ran myself over and ended up with a Nova I had at the time nose first into sombody's stone garden wall.
Nova wouldn't start, thought I know, bump start will do the job as I live on a hill. So, driver's door open and I give a push to get it moving. Plan was simply to then jump in and away. However, it was winter and snow/ ice on the road. I slipped and missed getting in. The car was picking up speed down hill. I found myself with 1 leg under the car, other foot in, hanging onto the steering wheel whilst looking under the open drivers door. Managed to pull the wheel to steer into the wall rather than on down the rest of the hill to a T junction.
Not 1 of my better ideas!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But anyway, you should be able to get that back close enough to be usable at least.
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Feb 24, 2007 23:26:59 GMT
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 Good luck with it mate, your commitment to this car is great to see.
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Feb 25, 2007 15:29:30 GMT
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To remedy the damage shown below I tied the inner wing to a concrete fence post and got someone to hold the replacement wing over the location holes and reversed until they lined up. If using a concrete fence post make sure its a very sturdy one! The A-pillar damage had to be left to the pros, costing £200, but yours doesnt look as bad.  |
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Feb 25, 2007 19:32:22 GMT
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vic, i would say the damage done to my car looks the exact mirror of that colt(?), just on the other side. i was going to leave the A to the pro's but being of no money and lots of time, i decided i'd do it myself. i have a big support post holding up the roof where the car is, chains and padlocks tomorrow  |
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Feb 25, 2007 19:33:56 GMT
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Good luck with it mate, your commitment to this car is great to see. its one of 4 cars i have that i will NEVER sell. it has major plans drawn up for it which will see fruition sometime hopefully. its a gorgeous colour too, my 3rd most expensive car ever and has too many fond memories. its all sentimental! |
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Feb 25, 2007 19:43:24 GMT
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Yep.... new paint , like haircut.... fix it all.
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Feb 26, 2007 10:26:35 GMT
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Looking at it again the damage is very similar, similar reasons for having it fixed, too. Its the 323 from my current avatar by the way. A lot of modernish cars are hard to tell apart from the front once the grilles gone. Coincidentally, the car it ran into was a Favorit, I`m pretty sure it was the same colour...
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Feb 26, 2007 16:19:22 GMT
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i ran into a pole, it was nearly the same colour as the mazda!!!!! you're right with the grille thing - i went on the window profile, I'm sure that could be lined up with a colt later to see... by the way, reason for posting... IT LIVES!!!!111!!one!!tehschnizzle!!!!! gave it back its radiator, bodged a hose up from an estelle, starter motor, new diz cap, new res tank, charged battery... FIRST CRANK!!! and this car hasnt started since it drove in there last june  i wub my favowit |
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Feb 26, 2007 21:24:24 GMT
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so it drove to the other end of the yard for cosmetic repair  once i put some water back into it, i wrapped a chain round the front panel and a HUGE pole, and reversed hard. just bent the panel more. moved to pillar and got nowhere, except to feel what its like for one side of your car to plummet to -18778mm drop and the other side stay raised!   new diz cap. dodgy starter, will need re-replaced for uber-reliability. finally a new water res tank to replace permanently broken original, sealed with bumper paste it was! sorted a couple of rust issues, seems theres a bit at the bottom of the front screen, fuel cap, drivers door corner... might as well make her perfecto! oh there will be so many layers of wax involved lol  TOMORROW: the screen! then clean, clean, clean and clean some more then drive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Feb 27, 2007 13:07:46 GMT
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Glad to see its on its way back. In a way its the best stage, when its "nearly there". Did you get the slam panel and headlamp bowl stright in the end? Sometimes these are better off being manipulated by hand. This whole thing is almost a parallel to how things went with mine, except for the screen pillar, I don't know what went on there I just handed it in and picked it up later with a straight roof!
It even sounds as though yours had been stood for a similar amount of time and one or two bits had been cannibalised from mine. I don't know how it went with you but I was going to break the Mazda and weigh it in, then I was overcome one afternoon with an insane urge to rebuild it.
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hey vic, never noticed reply! yeah, i just cant weigh this thing in, its too spiffing! too much sentimentality, i've already spent more than its realistically worth fixing it... front panel-no. check pix. i cannibalised this quite extremely in the engine dept, to keep 2 others OTR. one of them then died and gave everything back. pillar - comination of getting screen fitted by mobile fitter yay! and lots of silicone have sorted that one. i got it put a bit but it needs cut and welded, and ANOTHER new screen as the 2nd hand one i bought was cracked anyhow it'll do till the MOT!  nasty eh? light sits crooked. fixed rusty bits though. clean-primer-paint-lacquer.  started modifying lightly. now has a renegade (?) amp and fusion sub, picking up box for that soon and its done. wires all tucked away under the mats and trim, even the 0guage amp line (with in-line fuse peeps). the remote wire is joined by the two for the underseat green neon (i know lol) and run off the cig lighter power cable, to the blank switch under the fogs on the RHS of the dash. used the blank over a hazard switch from another car, nice bit of engineering i tell ye even put a light in it too.  white wire is not my fault, i think thats the dead immobiliser wire that needs re-routed to stop it dangling behind the clutch...  hope you like the alu knob and specially created mountney too |
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so, today was HU fitting day. wanted to fit goodmans cd i've had in lots of cars but it has no pre-outs for an amp. so a spare I almost sold last week does, but needs new leads. run round in circles in the yard today, go over to the guy who sold me this spare, as he says he has spare leads I can wire up to it  he does, which is handy. I was over at his recently and he'd got a touchscreen mp3 HU for his focus (not a chavvy one, black 3dr on 17 fox's and lowly). [oh a sidenote says on my first three jobs theres always beena good mate with a modded focus 3dr ) so for £20 I lifted his old pana off him... [edit:@ ok old as in recently bought and pre-owned, it looks curse word in this pic but its a lovely wee modern thing, honestly]  it wasnt fitted long to his car and I'm VERY pleased with it, simple yet effective. nicer colour for the fav too. and sure, while I had the pieces going on, might as well test-run the fusion sub even though ive no enclosure as yet. I can tell you this thing is uber-loud. had the car shaking rightly, will hopefully fit the fusion components in the doors this weekend, which involves a whole doorcard exchange...  |
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Mar 13, 2007 19:37:37 GMT
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well, the fusion 4" set arrived, swapped the doorcards over to low-spec ones as high-end fav estates came with 6x4 speakers which were actually pretty decent. anyhoo, had to do a bit of wiring and all but that happens. thought id do a littel painting too!   I'm off to get two 12" sub enclosures tonight at 9pm on the side of the road lol. will be mega cheaply so that makes it ok |
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J.P
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I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
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Mar 13, 2007 19:57:32 GMT
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Looking good man, should sound good!
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Mar 13, 2007 20:13:06 GMT
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"banging"  T'will be a nice car when done. Is this the fav than came to SH last year? |
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Mar 13, 2007 20:24:26 GMT
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yeah, it was a bit more complete back then though!
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Car looks solid enough everywhere else?
Good luck with it mate, your commitment to this car is great to see. 
