1988 Mk2 Fiesta. Classicford feature

Very nice!
Love the steel's...what size are they?

I have a MK2,too.....waiting for a restoration .



Soon.....

Keep up the good work!

get to it1 whe all have seen your amazing work

Done a bit more today but first up I had a delivery this morning of these NOS centre caps off ebay.

First up got the inner wing patched up, not really going to see much of it once the tray goes in, I am still waiting for the tray to come in at my local factors.

My mate Jim done the front arch. What a legend all the arches are now flare free.

Got a few more pics of the other repairs this side with the rust treatment cleaned off.
Front arch repair

Rear arch


Sill

Inner wing has been ground back now so ready for primer and sealer.


I am getting to the point where the prep work is going to start, I am undecided weather to respray the bottom half myself or prep the whole thing doors off etc and get a pro to paint the lot in a booth. In the past I have sprayed for a living although not cars I can do a half decent job but if it was in a booth it would come out to a better standard. Something to mull over for the next few weeks.

Yes I agree that it would be better sprayed in a booth and the finish and overall apperance would be better too, it is just the hasstle of getting to the body shop and back that puts me off. I favour masking them up before I take them so they can just roll them in the booth and paint it. This also rules out overspray which is a pet hate of mine and something body shops seem to have very little time for especially when it's a self prep.

Got a couple more pics.
I ended up doing a repair on the drivers floor, it was a fit soft so thought I would sort it now rather than later.


Got a coat of etch primer on the inner wing repair and seam sealed it so I am ready for the tray which I hope will be in stock tomorrow.


Also got a coat of etch on the drivers inner wing so ready for sealer here.

These are very rare now Phil, seen them going for £80 for a nos one. There only spotted on, so people will sell there's from a scrap vehicle, this is your best bet.

Join the mk1/2 fiesta facebook pages, lots being broken over here, every little part available.

Failing that, join www.xrtwo.com, good chance on there too.

Lots of people are relocating the battery to the boot these days.
Going to pickup some XR2 steels tonight

Another project ?
Looks pretty good, I've always had a soft spot for mk2 fiestas.
I'm still getting the itch for another ford but at the moment still ain't got a garage.
Will be good to see it coming along and also finished.

Yeh still got the golf, loving your cossie looks really nice..
Chap in the next road to me at the little car sales has a h reg mini he's thinking of selling but I think I'm gonna wait till my garage is sorted and maybe find something else but hold Onto the golf as well.
Recently sold my mondeo and currently running round in a seat Leon cupra r which is putting a big grin on my face.

Started a thread on the Facebook page for you about this tray. Getting harder to find now, the mk1/2 escort ones use the same clamp but that's about it.
A mk3 escort tray is £18 on ebay brand new, these use the same support mounts as a fiesta and is practically the same tray, just a little bigger.
Hopefully this helps.

I had a couple of hours on it this afternoon and managed to remove the tired shocks that offer no resistance when compressed by hand.

The springs seem to be ok and should go again, I was concerned that they had been cut but thankfully they are intact. I could do with some new top mout bearings for the fronts aswell as some dust covers. I have messaged a guy on ebay about some bearings to see if they are for a fiesta as the listing is very good at not telling you what they fit.

Before I went on holiday I collected a pair of 175/50/13 Nankang tyres off a local chap via ebay that were as new as he had only used them to set his suspension up then ditched them in favour of Yokos. Why he didn't just buy the Yokos in the first place is beyond me but at £50 his loss is my gain.



I had them fitted to 2 of the wheels but unfortunatly 1 of them is losing pressure fast via the rim which we think is a failed spotweld. I hope we will be able to fix it with the welder as finding a spare is going to be worse than finding a battery tray. The other 2 wheels hold air fine and have legal tread but they are the tyres I fitted back in 2008 and the walls are cracking, so need another 2 really but I will see how the repair goes on the bad one before I spend anymore on them as I may have to buy a set of alternative wheels. Before I had discovered the bad wheel I had scored a set of wheel trims off ebay that need a paint so may go this route if the wheel repair goes ok.



The powder coating on the wheels is not bad after 7 years but is far from brilliant and there were a few dings in the rims off the previous owner which I have straightend out but has affected the powder coating. I could get then redone but as I will be using it daily they will do as they are and if I paint the trims and fit them they will be respectable enough.