ach this is bad news. whatever you do dont scrap it!
give me a good deal on the seats
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give me a good deal on the seats
Aah Bugger! The Rs Ltd May Have To Go!
Well bugger my old boots. I have just got the RS back from having its water pump, cam belt, every other bloody belt and seal done and the dark realisation that has been looming over the horizon like a thunderstorm has finally dawned on me. Project RS is probably going to have to go.
I had really high hopes (and a huge pile of bits to fit!) that everything could be sorted by the summer but silly little things like a full time job teaching flying to the military, being landlord to 16 tenants and 13 x 5 bedroom houses to build in the next 18 months has conspired to make an enormous mountain out of what I thought would be a manageable mole-hill.
So I suppose my questions are these.
Should I sell the car as it is (cusco cage, tein flex, rays alloys, full service 30 miles ago, kevlar seats included, chop cam cover with gorgeous paint AAARGH, only did that last week) and sell the Link, BPR 62 charger, intercoolers, ally rad, scroth harnesses seperate or:
Should I sell the lot together to someone else as a project, or:
try and get someone to fit it for me and sell it complete with the spare parts as well, or:
scrap it and sell all the bits (worth a fortune, RS Ltd seats, good diff, tidy shell etc?
And if I do do all that
What the hell would it be worth????
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And what would I get (complete car that requires no time!) instead?
I hate Mondays but this one will go down as a particularly shitty one!
Rossi
I had really high hopes (and a huge pile of bits to fit!) that everything could be sorted by the summer but silly little things like a full time job teaching flying to the military, being landlord to 16 tenants and 13 x 5 bedroom houses to build in the next 18 months has conspired to make an enormous mountain out of what I thought would be a manageable mole-hill.
So I suppose my questions are these.
Should I sell the car as it is (cusco cage, tein flex, rays alloys, full service 30 miles ago, kevlar seats included, chop cam cover with gorgeous paint AAARGH, only did that last week) and sell the Link, BPR 62 charger, intercoolers, ally rad, scroth harnesses seperate or:
Should I sell the lot together to someone else as a project, or:
try and get someone to fit it for me and sell it complete with the spare parts as well, or:
scrap it and sell all the bits (worth a fortune, RS Ltd seats, good diff, tidy shell etc?
And if I do do all that
What the hell would it be worth????
And what would I get (complete car that requires no time!) instead?
I hate Mondays but this one will go down as a particularly shitty one!
Rossi
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It isn't the cash so much (please remove all arrogance from that sentiment-it wasn't meant that way) as the room. I have room for 1 more car and I would really like to tonk around with my top down !!! when the nice weather gets here so I though about an early (crawls under the sofa in anticipation of a banter assault) Z4 2.5 or s2000. I could just keep the RS but it really needs some more oomph with a capital (MPH)
Oh and hands off my Teins!! They really are luvvvverrrly!
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so take it to p5 with the mp62 kit and say phil, please fit that for me.
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if you have all that money AND break an RS just because it's worth more in bits, you want slapping
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tom
if you have all that money AND break an RS just because it's worth more in bits, you want slapping
tom
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Just get a Z4 and save yourself alot of time and hassle, I think they're quite nice, feel abit smaller than a 5 inside due to the rear behind the seats having no space and a large centre console etc;
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Go well, return good mpg on a run and look great.
Go well, return good mpg on a run and look great.
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Well you would go & give yourself a user name like "Fell at the last"
If cash doesn't factor into the equation, why not mothball the RS for 12/18 Months? & I'm sure with your extended list of contacts you can find somewhere for her to be stored
You would have been welcome to make use of my unit on the Deeside Ind Park, had I not given it up recently.....begining to wish I hadn't now
Vince.
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You would have been welcome to make use of my unit on the Deeside Ind Park, had I not given it up recently.....begining to wish I hadn't now
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Vince.
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Thanks mate. It just gets worse. I couldn't open my door today to get in (rod dropped off inside I think) so at 06:30 this morning I was scrambling in through the passenger side. After about 6 miles, my quarter tank of gas was almost gone and I thought (hmm, non-linear gauge maybe?) so I pulled into a petrol station only to smell a huge amount of petrol fumes and see steam or smoke billowing out of the gap by the headlight. This would have been dramatic enough except for the fact, my drivers door (previously knackered) wouldn't open and by now, my passenger side wouldn't open from the inside.
There I was struggling to get out of my harness, open and climb out of the roof whilst people ran away from their cars at the pumps thinking that I was on fire. I opened the bonnet and could see that the no 3 injector o ring had gone and was spraying fuel.
By now I was well hacked off so I chucked £20 in it, jumped back in through the roof and tore off in the pissing rain, roof down, fumes and smoke everywhere thinking, go on then ya bastard, blow up on me!
Got to work 10 mins later! the face of the guard on the gate was a picture, I was piss wet through, coughing like a dog, pale as a sheet with red eyes and hair all over the place like the dunkirk tank defences.
By the time I got it into the garage at work it was hosing fuel everywhere so I pulled the pump fuse and ran it til the pressure dropped.
What was that quote, 'It never rains but...............' oh no, it does, just when you need to drive 9 miles with the roof down!!
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You would have been welcome to make use of my unit on the Deeside Ind Park, had I not given it up recently.....begining to wish I hadn't now
Vince.
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Thanks mate. It just gets worse. I couldn't open my door today to get in (rod dropped off inside I think) so at 06:30 this morning I was scrambling in through the passenger side. After about 6 miles, my quarter tank of gas was almost gone and I thought (hmm, non-linear gauge maybe?) so I pulled into a petrol station only to smell a huge amount of petrol fumes and see steam or smoke billowing out of the gap by the headlight. This would have been dramatic enough except for the fact, my drivers door (previously knackered) wouldn't open and by now, my passenger side wouldn't open from the inside.
There I was struggling to get out of my harness, open and climb out of the roof whilst people ran away from their cars at the pumps thinking that I was on fire. I opened the bonnet and could see that the no 3 injector o ring had gone and was spraying fuel.
By now I was well hacked off so I chucked £20 in it, jumped back in through the roof and tore off in the pissing rain, roof down, fumes and smoke everywhere thinking, go on then ya bastard, blow up on me!
Got to work 10 mins later! the face of the guard on the gate was a picture, I was piss wet through, coughing like a dog, pale as a sheet with red eyes and hair all over the place like the dunkirk tank defences.
By the time I got it into the garage at work it was hosing fuel everywhere so I pulled the pump fuse and ran it til the pressure dropped.
What was that quote, 'It never rains but...............' oh no, it does, just when you need to drive 9 miles with the roof down!!
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