Yes I'm participating in Bangernomics, today I acquired a 1994 Mondeo Turbo Diesel with the small sum of 221,000 miles on it. Needs a straight bonnet, bit of rot on rear quater doing and Tax/MOT. Drives nice and brakes straight.
Total cost £2.60. I brought the chap a pint for it.
So lets see how long I can run a car without spending any money on it bar Diesel.
Matt
3 weeks after you do an Iain Dingsdale and the turbo dies :P.
"Doki" wrote
whatever happened to him? will there be a Hugo Taylor Jones style comeback - only to be bullied out of sight again? :)
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You see that fueling screw. Won't cost any money unless you get it wrong :)
Disappeared because everyone was laughing at him too much. If you really heavily overfuel a diesel turbo does the turbine start running like a jet turbine?
I lasted about 2 months in a Volvo doing absolutely no work. Except topping the oil up with some used stuff i found in the shed (tight me? nah never), AND its still in perfect working order. Reckon you can beat that?
Kids can be so cruel....
21 was cheaper/taxed/tested/lower mileage AND i sold the alloys for 100yoyos.
Had to pay money for the headgasket and timing belt tho :(
-- Chet
Good lord - £2.60 for a pint.
Most expensive one of the many i had last night was Stella at £1.69 :)
yer well at least we get a nice shiny pint glass to drink from, not a plastic jug.
Plastic? We get paper :)
Hello Doki.
09 Feb 04 22:28, you wrote to snipped-for-privacy@btinternet.com:D> 3 weeks after you do an Iain Dingsdale and the turbo dies :P.
What is that?
Pardon my ignorance.
Sergey
... The lab called: your brain is ready
--- GoldED+/W32 1.1.5-031023
Iain Dingsdale bought a Mondeo turbo diesel from someone on the group (Jackhac?) and after he'd had it a while he decided he'd like it to go a bit quicker, so he increased the fuelling, and then a few weeks later he posted about the turbo making funny noises.
Did he blow the turbo on his mondy??
Peter
I'm still here :)
Whatever happened to you Fishman? You quit posting for months!
Hugo T-J
"Hugo Taylor-Jones" wrote
LOL! This has to be a fix up. I've not had anything interesting car wise - Diesel Rover 825 so just been lurking.
Got another flippin dedra turbo. Causing me aggro already :/
I've just looked on google groups, and now I'm not sure. There certainly were posts to the effect of "Where do I get a new turbo", but there were also posts saying "Someone I've phoned says it's the exhaust manifold". And then were the posts saying "I need a new car, ideas?".
If i had your money - i'd buy a noble - then come back and try wind up all these poor people by telling them about it :D
Back from the dead.
And to that, I say "HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA".
That Ian guy was a gimp :)
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