A free K11 Micra 1.0
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Time to bring this thread up to date!
I've spent a lot of my time being rather poorly so the "restoration" took from March until July and Mr Toad was duly sold to a friend who gave it to his son as his first car. He wanted something to learnt to drive and learn to work on. I can't do much myself now so can point and let him use my tools to service it etc.
The sill was welded for the MoT and one bulb had blown above the number plate (the only thing I forgot to check). Apart from that the result was clean enough. I had flogged the old manky alloys with their MoT fail tyres and bought some steelies before having new tyres and wheel trims.
The sunroof mechanism got stuck open. A quick strip of the handle showed that to be the fault rather than the complicated bits.
The battery connections kept popping off the posts. Terminal collets sorted that out.
The stereo was binned and replaced with a bargain £25 unit with aux-in which worked surprisingly well.
Here in all its £642.32 12 month MoT glory the completed Mr Toad:
These are great little cars to work on, yes the front cross members and the sills will rust but easily welded for not much and the rest is pretty sturdy.
I've spent a lot of my time being rather poorly so the "restoration" took from March until July and Mr Toad was duly sold to a friend who gave it to his son as his first car. He wanted something to learnt to drive and learn to work on. I can't do much myself now so can point and let him use my tools to service it etc.
The sill was welded for the MoT and one bulb had blown above the number plate (the only thing I forgot to check). Apart from that the result was clean enough. I had flogged the old manky alloys with their MoT fail tyres and bought some steelies before having new tyres and wheel trims.
The sunroof mechanism got stuck open. A quick strip of the handle showed that to be the fault rather than the complicated bits.
The battery connections kept popping off the posts. Terminal collets sorted that out.
The stereo was binned and replaced with a bargain £25 unit with aux-in which worked surprisingly well.
Here in all its £642.32 12 month MoT glory the completed Mr Toad:
These are great little cars to work on, yes the front cross members and the sills will rust but easily welded for not much and the rest is pretty sturdy.
Edited by Six Fiend on Friday 1st December 15:47
Thanks for the kind comments. Sadly I won't be getting better as my illness is progressive and blighting me with more complications as the years go by.
The 540 and the Micra were both a bit of a last hurrah and huge fun. For now I shall hibernate, maybe clean up the tools over winter and see what next summer brings. Rather than getting oily I'd like to spend some time visiting car museums and shows and seeing other people's hard work!
The 540 and the Micra were both a bit of a last hurrah and huge fun. For now I shall hibernate, maybe clean up the tools over winter and see what next summer brings. Rather than getting oily I'd like to spend some time visiting car museums and shows and seeing other people's hard work!
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