Free Mazda 6 car from a very generous PH'er
Discussion
Kringle said:
The rust on these is shocking. Mine is just eating itself all over. The rear arches fold under at 90 degrees and habe the arch liners pressed up against them which makes the perfect resting place for crud. What adds to the problem is the liners being made from a flock material which is probably the worst material possible. They may as well have made it from sponge! At least the sound proofing would have been better.
OP, is it just my 6 or do the doors feel suspiciously light and tinny to you?
Congratulations on a free car, even bigger congratulations on knowing someone who can weld. Mine will need such a friend shortly...
On the doors front, I agree with you. It feels a little like someone has been in there and taken all the deadening out. I have a 55 plate 6 some time ago, it was the same. OP, is it just my 6 or do the doors feel suspiciously light and tinny to you?
Congratulations on a free car, even bigger congratulations on knowing someone who can weld. Mine will need such a friend shortly...
pits said:
eltax91 said:
That said, this is cool as poo, good bit of barge and for less than a few hundred on the road, can't fault it at all
eltax91 said:
pits said:
eltax91 said:
That said, this is cool as poo, good bit of barge and for less than a few hundred on the road, can't fault it at all
pits said:
eltax91 said:
pits said:
eltax91 said:
That said, this is cool as poo, good bit of barge and for less than a few hundred on the road, can't fault it at all
Well done to the generous PHer!
eltax91 said:
Kringle said:
The rust on these is shocking. Mine is just eating itself all over. The rear arches fold under at 90 degrees and habe the arch liners pressed up against them which makes the perfect resting place for crud. What adds to the problem is the liners being made from a flock material which is probably the worst material possible. They may as well have made it from sponge! At least the sound proofing would have been better.
OP, is it just my 6 or do the doors feel suspiciously light and tinny to you?
Congratulations on a free car, even bigger congratulations on knowing someone who can weld. Mine will need such a friend shortly...
On the doors front, I agree with you. It feels a little like someone has been in there and taken all the deadening out. I have a 55 plate 6 some time ago, it was the same. OP, is it just my 6 or do the doors feel suspiciously light and tinny to you?
Congratulations on a free car, even bigger congratulations on knowing someone who can weld. Mine will need such a friend shortly...
The rear arches and surrounding bodywork was just starting to rust on mine before I sold it. Mine was 57 plate too.
eltax91 said:
lesstatt said:
That's a very nice thing to do indeed well done, might I suggest that when it is truly dead and possibly scrap that your brother "pays it forward" and gives the money the scrap man gives him for it to a charity of his choice.
He kind of already is. We've both been brought up to believe in karma. I said in my OP it was a long story, but that story culminates in him currently in possession of a very broken zafira. His currently plan is to strip that, make as much cash as he can, and then, after paying me back for the costs of putting the Mazda back on the road, hand the remainder over to charity (help for heroes most likely). He sees it as exchanging a broken car with 5 months ticket for one with 12 months that more suits his needs.
Ultimately, by the time the next MoT is due on this car, he should have finally finished the legal wranglings with the German lorry driver that left him in this situation in the first place. Assuming he has, then he'll have a newer car on the drive on account of finally being paid out and this one may well love on with someone else. Who knows.
eltax91 said:
Thanks once again bill. It was a pleasure to have met you.
As others have said, a shed vs the bus is no contest, ill put some more pictures up as it improves and mrs bill can get less horrified.
P.s. Tell her I hope the mince pies turned out ok.
The mince pies were great, thanks. As others have said, a shed vs the bus is no contest, ill put some more pictures up as it improves and mrs bill can get less horrified.
P.s. Tell her I hope the mince pies turned out ok.
That gouge on the bonnet happened just as it is. She was following a trailer loaded with hay when it stopped. She was about a car length back so had time to react when he went into reverse to back into the farm yard on the right.
She panicked a bit and couldn't find reverse so slammed it into first and pulled forward to the left into the verge. So the wing almost slipped under one corner of the trailer.
The farmer heard all the hooting from in his cow shed but unfortunately the farmhand driving the tractor had music in at full volume.
Bill said:
eltax91 said:
Thanks once again bill. It was a pleasure to have met you.
As others have said, a shed vs the bus is no contest, ill put some more pictures up as it improves and mrs bill can get less horrified.
P.s. Tell her I hope the mince pies turned out ok.
The mince pies were great, thanks. As others have said, a shed vs the bus is no contest, ill put some more pictures up as it improves and mrs bill can get less horrified.
P.s. Tell her I hope the mince pies turned out ok.
That gouge on the bonnet happened just as it is. She was following a trailer loaded with hay when it stopped. She was about a car length back so had time to react when he went into reverse to back into the farm yard on the right.
She panicked a bit and couldn't find reverse so slammed it into first and pulled forward to the left into the verge. So the wing almost slipped under one corner of the trailer.
The farmer heard all the hooting from in his cow shed but unfortunately the farmhand driving the tractor had music in at full volume.
By way of an update. Welding booked for Tuesday, tyres Wednesday morning and MoT Wednesday afternoon. The plate is 'supposed' to arrive before Tuesday. If it doesn't, then I guess I'm putting back the MoT or letting it fail (to make sure this MoT man doesn't pick on something else) and retesting when the plate arrives.
So, Dom the (Landy) welding man got to work on this beast today.
Up on sticks
He made me get my hands dirty taking the front wheels off whilst he started to cut back the rust
Then he showed me what a real man he is, with his heath-robinson tyre changing set up, consisting of a self-fabricated upright, an air ram and a couple of tyre irons. Dom is a co-driver for a land rover eventing type and a proper landy beard, he has this for the MANY tyre changes he goes through.
I had a spare tyre in the garage to fit and bought a 6mm bridgestone this morning from a guy on eBay. So yes, PH, this car is being fitted with PART WORN tyres, and you know what, i didn't die in a ball of flames on the way home!
Next up was the cutting out of the old metal, the second picture is the nasty looking offside cill
And all plated up and under sealed
So, just the MoT to go tomorrow. Total costs so far:-
£6.20 - plate
£120 - Dom the mad welding man
£25 - part worn tyre
£35 - MoT fee
£186.20 - Grand Total. Fingers crossed the MoT man is full of christmas spirit, and my kid brother is back on the road soon.
Up on sticks
He made me get my hands dirty taking the front wheels off whilst he started to cut back the rust
Then he showed me what a real man he is, with his heath-robinson tyre changing set up, consisting of a self-fabricated upright, an air ram and a couple of tyre irons.
Dom is a co-driver for a land rover eventing type and a proper landy beard, he has this for the MANY tyre changes he goes through.I had a spare tyre in the garage to fit and bought a 6mm bridgestone this morning from a guy on eBay. So yes, PH, this car is being fitted with PART WORN tyres, and you know what, i didn't die in a ball of flames on the way home!
Next up was the cutting out of the old metal, the second picture is the nasty looking offside cill
And all plated up and under sealed
So, just the MoT to go tomorrow. Total costs so far:-
£6.20 - plate
£120 - Dom the mad welding man
£25 - part worn tyre
£35 - MoT fee
£186.20 - Grand Total. Fingers crossed the MoT man is full of christmas spirit, and my kid brother is back on the road soon.
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