Tango91
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New Disco, who dis?
Tom from the future here, turn back now, it's not too late to stop reading
So yesterday I made the biggest error of my life to date and and picked up this 99 TD5 GS for £1900. I'm pretty happy so far. Just over 200k miles, Structurally it seems really good. Minimal-ish rust. Mechanically... we'll see. A few months ticket left on it, which by my reckoning means i might actually make it to the next MOT before it explodes. My vehicles usually don't.
I told the SO that some people spend thousands on useless things like drugs or tickets for reformed 00's boy band gigs, so why shouldn't I invest in this future classic? But she still seems pretty mad for some reason.![Roll Eyes :rolleyes: :rolleyes:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
I picked this up off a nice couple on a farm near Salisbury, and now the task before me is to un-farmify it, by which i mean I'm going to slowly replace the wood screws and zip-ties with proper fasteners, the duct tape with electrical shrink-wrap, and the baling twine with proper wood screws and duct tape.
Please note the entire front clip and lights held in with cable ties. Only one of the headlights has decided to work today, which is nice.
First step has to be the crank pulley/dampener which sounds like a bag of spanners in a washing machine:
Followed by replacing the indicator fluid which is dangerously low and looks like it hasn't been replaced in years:
I'll be mostly probably posting interesting things I find along the way.
Peace.
Tom from the future here, turn back now, it's not too late to stop reading
So yesterday I made the biggest error of my life to date and and picked up this 99 TD5 GS for £1900. I'm pretty happy so far. Just over 200k miles, Structurally it seems really good. Minimal-ish rust. Mechanically... we'll see. A few months ticket left on it, which by my reckoning means i might actually make it to the next MOT before it explodes. My vehicles usually don't.
I told the SO that some people spend thousands on useless things like drugs or tickets for reformed 00's boy band gigs, so why shouldn't I invest in this future classic? But she still seems pretty mad for some reason.
I picked this up off a nice couple on a farm near Salisbury, and now the task before me is to un-farmify it, by which i mean I'm going to slowly replace the wood screws and zip-ties with proper fasteners, the duct tape with electrical shrink-wrap, and the baling twine with proper wood screws and duct tape.
Please note the entire front clip and lights held in with cable ties. Only one of the headlights has decided to work today, which is nice.
First step has to be the crank pulley/dampener which sounds like a bag of spanners in a washing machine:
Followed by replacing the indicator fluid which is dangerously low and looks like it hasn't been replaced in years:
I'll be mostly probably posting interesting things I find along the way.
Peace.
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