Worth breaking my Sainz?

[capman]

what do you mean it comes in two sections? 

Bonnet isn't too bad, a skim of filler and a respray would have it dead on. I agree though, a respray would be the best option, then again black is black, could get away with just doing the needed panels.

[paul_gt4]

i replaced the sills on my sainz before the respray last year, and they come in 2 sections and one slides over the other under the plastic side skirt, their not cheap but i'd rather use genuine parts than make up a sill cover from fabricated metal

[capman]

Ah ok i think i get you, that plate that is welded is sort of half under the sill cover so thats probably covering the join. Have had loads of enquiries about the car but no-one turned up with proper cash as yet. If i get anymore offers of less than a grand then i might just pull the sale as i really can't be arsed dealing with people wasting my time 

[paul_gt4]

couldn't find a pic there last night to show you about the 2 piecs in question but i'm sure someone on here might have one

[capman]

were yours as bad as mine when you replaced them?

[paul_gt4]

no, no where near as bad, mines were just blistering and i replaced them before it travelled, only way to see how bad it is is to cut it out, i have a guy in Derry who's super at that kinda of work, he's actually doing my womans puma as we speak........ putting wider arches on it at the rear, trying to gt it ready for the ford fair next sat in Portrush

[capman]

yeah cutting it out is definitely the proper option. if the car doesn't sell soon i'm just gonna hang onto it and do the work. i don't want this to drag on for weeks/months with hanging about waiting on people coming to view the car.

my phone has been going mental today from 11am this morning, people foning from all over Ireland looking to come up.

couple of boys were up looking at it tonight... turns out one of them owned my old white Sainz that was an insurance write-off, and i seen it in the trader about a year ago for £5k 

[capman]

Been out enjoying the weather today and going over the car with Megaiurs 3 stage polish stuff and looking at the car now i think i'm mad selling it at this price, seriously thinking about holding onto it.

[paul_gt4]

you'll enjoy driving it more when you do the work yourself, and you have a pm

[capman]

back at ya

yeah i know what you mean about enjoying it more, i was like that putting my 205Mi16 together, and if you know anything about Peugeot/French reliability/electrics... you'll know that a lot of blood sweat and tears went into that car!

Just when its something that is beyond my own personal capabilities it kind of gets put on the backburner then i get sick of looking at it and throw the head up 

[paul_gt4]

yeah understand fully about french crap sold my d turbo and was i glad to see the back of it, i done 250 miles in it from november mainly when the sainz was away getting work done, it was that bad i drove the womans puma day in day out if the celica wasn't about

[Gary ST165]

don't break the car....it will be worth a pittance in spares.

but as a whole it could be worth a lot more as a clean stock example. keep it spend the money and then sell...

[capman]

well for the money i'm asking (or what i'm willing to accept) i'm confident i could break it for more. i used to break a lot of cars years ago and still have a load of parts lying here as i rarely throw anything out 

anyhow, i've pulled any for sale posts i had on various forums, leaving only the pistonheads ad.
 
theres a guy coming tomorrow night who has been wanting to view the car for the past week but i've been putting him off each time. can't remember if i told him the lowest i'd take as theres been so many people calling/texting/emailing i've lost track. if he isn't prepared to pay it then i'll think about get cracking on getting her sorted 

[paul_gt4]

let us know how you get on and don't sell it too cheap

[capman]

I put the guy off (again) about viewing the car tonight, as i was unable to get the thermostat refitted (lent my vice grips to someone last week and need them to release the clamp on the hose going to the inlet). He is adamant that he still want to buy the car though, but don't want anyone accusing me of selling them a boiler by not refitting the thermostat.

Was going through the history today, theres a FTSH upto 108k miles then independent garages upto 130k. The timing belt has been twice from what i can see from the history and invoices. Theres 139k on the car now.

There seems to have been some sort of 100k Toyota extended warranty on the car as theres items in the folder to suggest this, then about £5000 worth of invoices from when that expired. So it seems to have been well looked after, to be honest i never looked at the history very closely before.

Also found a certificate thing in the history from 1997 showing an agreed insurance value of £10,000. Not relevant now obviously but thought it was quite interesting.