How much to get this beauty through an MOT

[Cosmocattell]

Ford Transit, Diesel, 2004, 155,000m

Reason(s) for failure:

Parking brake lever has no reserve travel (3.1.6b)
Exhaust has a major leak of exhaust gases centre box (7.1.2)
Nearside Front Body or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings (6.1.B.2)
Offside Front Body or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings (6.1.B.2)
Nearside Rear Body or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings (6.1.B.2)
Offside Rear Body or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings (6.1.B.2)

Advisory notice item(s):
Front brake disc worn, pitted or scored, but not seriously weakened (3.5.1i)
Body has slight corrosion (6.1.B.2)

Just looking for a ballpark figure and whether I should buy or not - up for £1.295 + Vat

[Sir Bagalot]

Cosmocattell said:

up for £1.295 + Vat

[Hammer67]

If you can weld virtually nothing.

If you can't weld shedloads of cash.

HTH.

[Toed64]

A leggy, rusty, Transit of that age, that has failed its MOT, is only worth its weight in scrap metal...

A friend bought a rusty 2006 high top to store parts, he paid £100 and the seller drove it down to his unit to get it off the street.

[BugLebowski]

Hah, god loves a trier but who ever is selling that really is pushing their luck. Unless I've completely underestimated the demand for old, high mileage rusty vans without an MOT...

[HustleRussell]

I didn’t realise there was only one transit left in the world

[Cosmocattell]

Thanks for the replies. So should I buy it or not?

[Toed64]

Cosmocattell said:

Thanks for the replies. So should I buy it or not?

No!

For £2000 you could buy a VW, Merc or Iveco van with similar mileage and a fresh MOT. That series of Transit rusts very badly, they are nowhere near as good as the old smiley Transit that you could bodge up and run for years.

[Pericoloso]

S.H.A.D.O. said:

Body mountings on a Transit? Is it sat on a Land Rover chassis?

That's just stuff the computer spat out when the tester inputted the fails.

Van sounds a corker for 12.95......offer a tenner.

[OldGermanHeaps]

Your overpaying its just under £1.30p

[steve-5snwi]

Walk away, if its a RWD then it will cost £80 for 2 locknuts and a gasket set just to get into the rear wheels to strip clean and adjust the brakes. With that much rust you will be lucky if there is something to weld to.

[elanfan]

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[Mexman]

Its scrap.