21-01-2015, 07:56 PM
(21-01-2015, 07:44 PM)Paul Baldwin Wrote: That's quite a saving :-) At least you have a chance of finding some panels for your car too, even tho I know Met-rots are far from immune from tin worm!
Has it rapidly set in since you bought the car? I would have thought you'd have been over the new donor with a fine tooth comb.
sadly I never really got the chance to get the carpets up, as we needed the space, so I couldn't really pull the new shell to bits in an extent, like I did with the 1st one.
But from what I was told, and looking at the mot, history. It should have failed the mot last year. So I think it was just given a pass for the sake of it. As when I bought the car, there were mot failures, pedals, the handbrake. ( that didn't even hold the car)
As for the rot setting in, nah it didn't rapidly set in at all, as the lad who welded the floors said that's, been like that for 3 to 4 years tbh. The mot history had put it as advisory back in 2012. So its had a bit of an easy mot tester, in fact a little to easy really.
But Ironed out the mot failures, as was bolt on shite.
sadly panels for these cars now are starting to get very thin on the ground. So I have snapped up what I can now for the other side, if it goes.
got to say you have been lucky getting panels for this, if they are rare! But then again it could be one of them cars, plenty of spares, but not the cars.