definately so! fingers crossed that when it does work your happy with it!

I could have used it today! Won't be for a little while that I get the work done - it's my sister's wedding this week, and then I'm off on holidays and there's still bills to be paid!

Milton,

I am sorry to say this, but you clearly dont love your car enough :p I mean, c'mon, who really wants to go to their sisters wedding AND go on holiday afterwards when their car needs attention :p lol

I can see why the money is tied up though! I was without aircon for 3 months in my car, it was not too bad, it was irritating, but it meant I had a lot of fresh air coming into the car as I was driving along :p

Milton,

I am sorry to say this, but you clearly dont love your car enough :P I mean, c'mon, who really wants to go to their sisters wedding AND go on holiday afterwards when their car needs attention :P lol

I can see why the money is tied up though! I was without aircon for 3 months in my car, it was not too bad, it was irritating, but it meant I had a lot of fresh air coming into the car as I was driving along :P

Well the holiday is free, as is the wedding (for me) :D There's no getting past it now - I have to play praise music for my sister's wedding, and then the holiday is actually a sailing holiday around Scotland, which is all paid for now, so I can't very well cancel

The satellite pictures of Ireland today show... not a single cloud in the sky. My car is currently parked around the corner - baking. I don't look forward to hometime. Might have to leave for a while to put one of those heat deflectors in the windscreen B)

haha, perhaps we can let you off! :p

I know what you mean, I went out at lunchtime to offer a bit of polish to the car, the polish had just touched the bonnet and it dried solid, meant I needed a good bit of elbow grease to get it off :p I didnt even dare open the doors, but when I opened the boot, the heat hit me like an oven....

Thank goodness for global opening, I shall just open, allow the heat to dissipate for a few minutes then jump in!

haha, perhaps we can let you off! :P

I know what you mean, I went out at lunchtime to offer a bit of polish to the car, the polish had just touched the bonnet and it dried solid, meant I needed a good bit of elbow grease to get it off :P I didnt even dare open the doors, but when I opened the boot, the heat hit me like an oven....

Thank goodness for global opening, I shall just open, allow the heat to dissipate for a few minutes then jump in!

Luckily for me, I had parked with the back of my car pointing towards the sun, so it wasn't too bad. Wound the windows down and got moving straight away - It cooled down fairly soon then! :D

Crazy that the polish dried so quickly. Shows how hot your car was! looking at your avatar though, it's a greyish-black, so I'm not surprised. My focus is white :D Well... it's white, but the previous owner(s) were stupid !Removed!, and decided that to fix the rusty arches, instead of actually fixing the rusty arches, they would just paint a black boarder all the way along the bottom of the door, around the arches, and down the bumper. They didn't even have the decency to use a can of aerosol paint. They went to B&Q, got the cheapest brush and tin of Hammerite they could find, and plastered it on. Absolutely. Heartbreaking. :(

yeah mine is sea grey, the second Ford I have had in this colour and I love it, just not so fond of the touchups!

As for the black strip, your best bet is to grind it off and do the job properly! better to have a white aerosol spray line on the white car than a black one! although better still to have it done properly but at the cost of it.... its just too much!

yeah mine is sea grey, the second Ford I have had in this colour and I love it, just not so fond of the touchups!

As for the black strip, your best bet is to grind it off and do the job properly! better to have a white aerosol spray line on the white car than a black one! although better still to have it done properly but at the cost of it.... its just too much!

As my old carpentry tutor always said - If you can't hide it, highlight it. So, it's probably best left black. A badly bluffed-in paint job looks worse than a dirty great black line around the car, IMO.

Although, I think most of the panels need resprayed anyway. The bonnet and driver's-side wing look like aftermarket replacements, probably those ones that come with that crap black primer on them, that nothing ever sticks to, and if it does, the paint just fades. And behind it all, the poor quality material just rots away before your eyes.

My plans, at this point, are to get a new bonnet and wing, have them sandblasted, then dipped in rust-neutraliser, then galvanised (in zinc-suphate solution, not hot dip galvanised), then have it resprayed. The bumpers need resprayed too.

I'm telling you, the previous owners were crap When I got the car, it was 3 months out of tax. The previous lady had never put it into her own name, so she just drove without tax. She never bothered to do any maintenance to it, not even change the window wipers.

christ almighty, you have to love people like that, my car is the same - former owner didnt seem to have a care about it, the bodywork was chipped scratched and just needed a dose of polish now and then! it wouldnt have hurt them!

I look forward to seeing how the car comes about after you finish with the panels!

christ almighty, you have to love people like that, my car is the same - former owner didnt seem to have a care about it, the bodywork was chipped scratched and just needed a dose of polish now and then! it wouldnt have hurt them!

I look forward to seeing how the car comes about after you finish with the panels!

It really annoys me that people don't even do a simple thing like change the wipers. I mean ffs it's £15 and 5 minutes of your time, and the result is that you don't scratch the hell out of a £300 sheet of glass! But no, the previous lady seemed happy enough to scratch the hell out of the glass.

At this point, I'm tossing up whether it's just better to get another car. Sometimes it seems like 2 steps forward and 1 step back with this car.

I have the same feeling sometimes, although it depends how much effort you want to put into it. Is it worth getting shot?

If someone happened to try put a brick in the drivers seat through the front window, you could get it replaced by your insurer and pay a smaller excess than the glass itself, as for the paintwork you could tidy that up yourself.

I have the same feeling sometimes, although it depends how much effort you want to put into it. Is it worth getting shot?

If someone happened to try put a brick in the drivers seat through the front window, you could get it replaced by your insurer and pay a smaller excess than the glass itself, as for the paintwork you could tidy that up yourself.

There's a lot more wrong with it than that, unfortunately. Those are the least of my worries. But I have t-cut and waxed the car. It brought the paint up nicely, but you can still see the difference between the original panels and the aftermarket resprayed ones. The best I could get out of them was for them to look alright.

The car was only £400, so I can't be bad to it that way, but then I paid £225 in tax, put £250 worth of new tyres on it, new filters, new wipers, new wiper mechanism. It's probably costing me about a grand, as it stands right now. I don't think I could sell it for that. I might get £800 for it, though. If I got £800 for it, I could loan another £800 and get a fairly decent one again.

Fingers crossed you can get the best out of it but as a non runner you may find its only scrap value

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Fingers crossed you can get the best out of it but as a non runner you may find its only scrap value

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Well it's definitely a runner! 156k on the clock, and still running brilliantly. :D

well in that case it could definately be worth tarting it up and passing it on!

well in that case it could definately be worth tarting it up and passing it on!

Going to give her an oil change. Got to do more running in it today. It's had a rough ol' week - Sister's wedding was yesterday, and my family are dotted all over the country, and they all had duties for the wedding, which invariably meant me going to pick them up, pick up cakes, flowers, take stuff to the reception venue, guitars to the church etc etc etc.

at least you know the car works well if it managed all that :p

Well, I've just found out today that one of the top-mounts is broken, so... :)

I'm going away on Monday. I might just tell my Dad to have it fixed before I come back :D

hopefully not too badly broken or not too expensive!

hopefully not too badly broken or not too expensive!

Well, left-hand corners are now a cross-your-fingers affair, so yeah, it's pretty bad, I think But looking around online, the actual part is only £20-£30, which isn't too bad. I might even have a crack at fitting it myself! :D I thought there might have been a driveshaft bearing or something done in it, but maybe it was just the strut top wobbling around giving the odd vibration when I floor it.

haha, I am tempted to look at mine, as I have a not so dissimilar knocking and wonder if it might be related!

Hey, did you ever find out what the issue was?

I think I've found another problem, and I can't for the life of me work out what it is. It's maybe not even a problem, I just think it is.

So even when out of gear, and stationary, when I rev, and hold the revs, there's a vibration - not the usual vibration you'd get from the engine, but another one, like it's unbalanced. And it happens right across the rev range. I'm thinking that it might literally be an unbalanced crank shaft. Who knows?

btw - aircon and strut top mount - still not fixed! Trying to save up for a trip to Germany to see my hockey team play! And also apparently England next month. The car is going to be very neglected over the next little while I fear

vibration when stationary is a common feature of fords specifically between about 900 and 1500 revs is when its commonly seen. Otherwise it could be worth checking the engine and gearbox mounts.