Kessy mk2 340, no more scrap yard fun

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Re: Kessy mk2 340, scrap yard fun

Post by foggyjames » 14 Aug 2011 11:42 pm

I bet the things we never think of today will prove to be the biggest problems. There's something random which has failed on every mk1 I've had, but I've never had to touch on a mk3...can't think what it is right now, but it's clearly an age problem...

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Re: Kessy mk2 340, scrap yard fun

Post by Hell Driver » 15 Aug 2011 11:58 am

macplaxton wrote:Reflectors I'm less worried about as they can be fixed much easier that making new glass lenses.
How do you fix the reflectors? (insert another make of cars' reflector?)

What I meant was that the reflectors are effectively a perishable item long term. Lenses don't deteriorate except in an accident (although at the current rate I think we are loosing more headlamps to accidents :P ). I take you point though.
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Re: Kessy mk2 340, scrap yard fun

Post by MCHUDD » 15 Aug 2011 12:54 pm

Hi Theo.
Well done on that find.
Cheers Mark. sm4

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Re: Kessy mk2 340, scrap yard fun

Post by foggyjames » 15 Aug 2011 01:09 pm

No, that's just Theo sm56 sm56 sm56

You can get them re-chromed, I presume?

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Re: Kessy mk2 340, scrap yard fun

Post by macplaxton » 16 Aug 2011 12:30 am

Hell Driver wrote:How do you fix the reflectors? (insert another make of cars' reflector?)
Re-plate / re-silver them. It's a damn sight easier than making a new glass. The idea being that you do it before the reflector bowl has turned completely to dust.
Hell Driver wrote:Lenses don't deteriorate except in an accident
I didn't crash my Citroen, but a stone or something took a corner out of my headlamp glass. sm2 (if you look closely at this jumbo pic, you'll see the bottom outside corner of the offside glass is missing)

I agree that the whole cars seem like perishible items at the minute.
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Re: Kessy mk2 340, scrap yard fun

Post by foggyjames » 16 Aug 2011 12:32 am

I forgot that you had a GS....awesome! Two of my friends are big GS/GSA nuts.

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Re: Kessy mk2 340, scrap yard fun

Post by theo2468 » 27 Aug 2011 02:52 pm

a few pics.
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diffs, are like pubs and legs.
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Re: Kessy mk2 340, no more scrap yard fun

Post by theo2468 » 03 Sep 2011 12:32 pm

Well i went back up to the scrap yard again today because speedy wanted me to get a rear door for him but unfortunately it had gone( which mean there must be some one around here with one!!)
now some more bad news, as i was walking out of my car two lads in a mk2 golf lowered on bmw mim alloys shout "oi mate want to sell your volvo" i said no but ive got another one for sale at the minute on ebay (said he will bid on it). so spoke to them for about half an hour about volvos and shit :lol: sayin how they really love them and how different they are and then they go yeah some old boy just drove in here in one and we thought he was dropping some scrap off in it and he scraped the car we were gutted, so then after all of that i finally got to go in the yard but before i did i went up to the scrap guy and asked if he would sell it( because hes sold my dad some cars before) and he just said no its going in the crusher and dropped a transit on top of it!! i reckon if i was with my dad i would been able to save it as my dads a local there ha it was a mint and i mean very tidy 360 GLT in silver. still gutted about it :\
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Re: Kessy mk2 340, no more scrap yard fun

Post by volvosneverdie » 03 Sep 2011 12:43 pm

Ouch.
Thats a stinger.
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Re: Kessy mk2 340, no more scrap yard fun

Post by L14MNP » 03 Sep 2011 02:24 pm

Death to the 12 door! :lol:
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Re: Kessy mk2 340, no more scrap yard fun

Post by MCHUDD » 03 Sep 2011 03:13 pm

Hi Theo.
He would have been better off selling it to you for scrap value.
It would have saved him the time and effort of having to take it to the crusher.
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Re: Kessy mk2 340, no more scrap yard fun

Post by mattywatsit » 03 Sep 2011 04:41 pm

Gutting that Theo - Looks just like my Vera :(

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Re: Kessy mk2 340, no more scrap yard fun

Post by Chris_C » 03 Sep 2011 07:03 pm

It's a Volvo, therefore must weigh 12billion tons and worth weighing in :(
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Re: Kessy mk2 340, no more scrap yard fun

Post by SteveP » 03 Sep 2011 10:42 pm

I remember seeing a mint silver 360 GLT in a scrapyard about 5 years ago, with about 55k miles - absolutely gutted when the 360 I was driving was a shed in comparison. Id've bought it if it hadn't had a car on its roof :(

Suppose the good thing is Speedy may get some good doors off it!? Mind you with that kind of attitude, I'd be taking my business elsewhere to be honest
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Re: Kessy mk2 340, no more scrap yard fun

Post by foggyjames » 04 Sep 2011 02:10 am

Some scrapyard people are great...but many are dicks.

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