"Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell." (oppisitelock)
09/21/2015 at 11:06 • Filed to: None
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"Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell." (oppisitelock)
09/21/2015 at 11:06 • Filed to: None | 1
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To trade the Shitroen Crapso for this Micra. It’s hideous but it’s cheap and should be reliable, I’m sick of fixing his junk cars at this point.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/adv…
CalzoneGolem
> Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
09/21/2015 at 11:19 |
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Hammond approved.
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Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
> CalzoneGolem
09/21/2015 at 11:29 |
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Cé hé sin
> Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
09/21/2015 at 11:30 |
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You can rarely go wrong with a Micra especially as they don’t convert themselves to ferric oxide at quite the feverish rate they used to.
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Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
> Cé hé sin
09/21/2015 at 11:45 |
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Yeah he literally just needs an A-B car to get to work (if there was public transport available to get him to work he’d just take that) so one of these will do fine. I’m a little stuck between the K11 and K12 though. The K12 doesn’t rust as bad but seems to have more common issues like timing chain failure. I can’t tell whether these issues are actually common or just internet overreaction.
RWS Motorsport
> Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
09/21/2015 at 12:42 |
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Without wishing to be a doom and gloom bastard, if the fix was so simple, why wouldn’t the seller have done it? he’d get more for the car with it working fine. feels slightly like a ‘just needs a regas’ to me, sorry. FWIW i got very badly burned on a used car sale a few years ago, so i assume a seller is just lying to me as a default. makes me a very cynical person when it comes to buying a new car.
I had a friend who had one of these that had done maybe 120,000 i think, and she got 2 years and about another 30,000 out of it before i think the head gasket (but might not have been, my memory isn’t great) killed it.
Vicente Esteve
> Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
09/21/2015 at 13:00 |
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Does it have the trip computer that tells you happy birthday?
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Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
> RWS Motorsport
09/21/2015 at 13:19 |
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It was going to get an extremely thorough inspection, but a friend of mine actually bought an old non running Micra and some new sensors did fix it so it is possible it’s genuine.
I have found that the K12s seem to be less reliable, so I’m starting the daunting task of finding a K11 with no rust. Even then it’ll be getting a nice thick undercoat.
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Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
> Vicente Esteve
09/21/2015 at 13:19 |
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I have no idea haha, haven’t had a chance to look at one yet.