abz-zero<\/a> Till went to the Maidstone car auctions to find a CHEAP set of wheels. Lot’s of crud went past with no MOT. I bought a pice of Crud with a fairly long MOT (8 months)..<\/p>\n\n\n\nSomehow I decided to bid on a Nissan Sunny, A reg in RED. The bidding started at \u00a350, and went up dramaticaly with me putting in the final bid at \u00a350… Add sales charges and I was \u00a362.50 lighter!! It ran prety well, and appart from the front and rear valances it was bodily not too bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The brakes felt a bit dodgy..<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A week or so later the starter motor started to play up. but I had made a half decent job of sorting the valance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The breaks were BAD! I ended up slewing sideways on the motorway under heavy breaking, and then later the friction surface departed from one of the front pads. new pads were fitted and I tried to repair the rear wheel cylinder that was leaking. That was a bad idea as I lost all pedal preasure during the test run, down a steep hill!! I managed to pump the pedal and make it back to base. A new wheel cylinder was purchased to fix the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The car lasted about 2 months and 1200k.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was then put in the garage and left ( I was to own 2 cars!! ) Ian put it in the garage for me, but managed to totaly miss seeing the HUGE capstan lathe into which he reversed, smashing the tail light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The car languished in the garage for a few months before being towed away be and engine rebuilding company..<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And she was gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have one crappy picture somwhere which I will find at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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