F-Reg 340 Redline - No tax, MOT failure

Post by **Wildfire** » 06 Jul 2008 12:55 am

Well, hate to be doing this, but my Redline has just failed it's MOT and the repair bill was estimated at £500-600... Tax has also expired and I just can't afford to get it running again.
Bodywork and interior mostly in excellent condition, other than damage to one of the front wings, nothing major though.
Engine runs fine.

Anything else you need to know just ask

Looking for offers around £150, you could scrap it for more than that! But I'd rather see it put to good use for parts or whatever!
Also comes with around half/three quarters of a tank of petrol (tenner of which is shell v-power!) which is worth a fair bit at current prices!

Unfortunately I don't have the technical knowledge or ability to break it down for parts.

I believe I have its full service history, and even have the original receipt from 1989!

- Pics coming soon

Post by **Bazboy** » 06 Jul 2008 01:22 am

If i had a place to put it and u weren't to far away id definitely take u up on this. Good luck with the sale, Also what did it fail on?

Cheers Dan

Post by **Wildfire** » 06 Jul 2008 01:55 am

Other details: It's black, with the red-line obviously!
119702 Miles on the clock

This is everything (I think) listed on the fail certificate, as you can see there's quite a bit to be done, hence £500-600 repair quote

"001 Nearside headlamp not working on dipped beam
002 Offside (main beam) headlamp not in good working order light output severely reduced
003 Offside headlamp aim not tested
004 Exhaust emissions carbon monoxide content excessive
005 Offside front (cross member - anti-roll bar mounting) suspension component mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded
006 Exhaust system has part of the system excessively deteriorated
007 Exhaust system has a mounting that it does not fully support the exhaust system
008 Nearside rear (sill) suspension spring mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded
009 Offside rear (chassis) suspension component mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded
010 (both front) brake disk excessively pitted
011 Nearside brake binding
012 Parking brake efficiency below requirements

Advisory items

013 Exhaust system has a minor leak of exhaust gases
Note: An advisory notice has also been issued
Measurements
Brakes Failures: RBT Park brake efficiency: 15%"

Post by **bodejodel** » 06 Jul 2008 09:21 pm

If someone buys it, I'm up for the interior at some point for my newly accuired 360 GLT (the German, Hör modified one)

Post by **Wildfire** » 08 Jul 2008 02:11 pm

Price drop to £140 ono! Really don't want to scrap this, someone buy it, even if you just want a couple of parts and plan to scrap the rest!
I'd rather someone gets something from this before it ends it's driving life forever!
Ideally would like this gone soon to help pay for repairing my Fiesta following a hit and run on it in when parked in Swindon

Post by **Bazboy** » 08 Jul 2008 04:28 pm

would you be able to remove some parts from it? because im sure there are loads of people on here who would want/need parts from it, If you didnt mind waiting you could try ebay, or you could put an ad in retrorides forum.

Shame to scrap a car when so many people could benefit from parts it has to offer.

Dan.

Post by **trabitom99** » 08 Jul 2008 04:53 pm

A good redline interior might certainly be worth hanging on to if you have to scrap the car.

If you have the space keep it ...

Tom

Post by **Wildfire** » 08 Jul 2008 09:20 pm

I considered breaking it up, but I don't have a clue how to do any of that, plus wouldn't have anywhere to store it if I did - couldn't fit it on the drive as there's already 5 cars parked up there so had to park it up in a car park (with council permission of course!)
Going to put an ad up for this on retrorides though, someone out there must want this!

And sorry for delay in getting pics, keep getting called into work every time I plan on taking them!

Post by **Wildfire** » 14 Jul 2008 01:36 pm

Pics can be seen here!
http://s303.photobucket.com/albums/nn13 ... or%20Sale/
It's been raining quite a bit which is why it's rather wet!

Couple of other notes -
One of the gas struts for the boot broke so has to be propped open with a broomstick at the moment!
The Drivers side window is quite hard to wind down for some reason

Current mileage now 119736 - Taken it around the block a few times recently to make sure nothing seizes up or anything (highly unlikely to happen, but knowing my luck!)

Post by **bodejodel** » 14 Jul 2008 10:15 pm

Man, that interior is sweet! It competes for first place with leather and the Blueline interior...

Post by **foggyjames** » 15 Jul 2008 02:05 am

If it does come down to scrapping the car, perhaps someone local could head over with spanners and remove parts that people want and hand over some beer tokens...Pete Farrell, perhaps? I'd help if I were more local.

cheers

James

Post by **Bazboy** » 15 Jul 2008 02:19 am

I wouldn't mind a spot of summer traveling to get some parts if you do have to scrap her, and there are a few parts id love to have off that car. Think i may have replied to your retro-rides post as well.

Cheers dan.

Post by **bodejodel** » 15 Jul 2008 09:54 pm

foggyjames wrote: I'd help if I were more local.

I'd too, but 600 km is not local...

Post by **Wildfire** » 15 Jul 2008 10:06 pm

Final price drop: Any offers over £100 considered
Won't sell this for any less than £100

If it doesn't sell, then I'll be open to arranging breaking this on route to the scrap yard, however, I have no way of getting it to a scrapyard, so anyone who can help me get it to one can take what they want from it extra cheap!

Post by **foggyjames** » 16 Jul 2008 02:49 am

£100 is a fair price. It's going to be a case of finding someone who is in a position to take it. I suspect you're going to end up yanking a few easy parts (seats, lights, etc) and having a scrap yard tow the rest away...but if someone can help you do a better job, I'll be very happy to be proved wrong.

cheers

James