My Grey 1.9 General Overhaul

[GWtaylor 8 1 Cars]

Just bought this

G reg 1.9

Full service history

Recent engine rebuild

Upgrades as far as i can tell so far

Lowered with koni shocks and springs on the front

Lowered rear with koni dampers

New bottom arms

2 brand new wing mirrors still boxed

Original radio

Interior in good condition

Rear stainless back box

 

Bad points so far

Needs new drivers side full sill

Drivers door dropped

Passanger door dont open

No mot or tax

Each door on its own lock and key

Bonnet paint cracked and has horrible bonnet pins in

 

 

Well here she is

 

 

 

[GWtaylor 8 1 Cars]

All comments welcome positive or negative

[welshpug 1,657]

sort them brake hoses!

[GWtaylor 8 1 Cars]

Yea will be found a full set of brand new braded hoses in the boot so they'll be going on

[GWtaylor 8 1 Cars]

Managed to get under rear this morning

 

HORRIBLE

will be stripping it back to get some hammerrite smooth black on it

 

More horrible yellow

 

Horrible bonnet with pins

This is going in the bin

 

Some sort of saxo rear wiper arm

 

2 bloody ariela

[GWtaylor 8 1 Cars]

Seems to have had welding done luckly it doesnt look like hedge damage

[JakeMathias 6]

not a bad base car for a project ! what was going through somebody's mind though when they decided to paint the rear beam yellow ?! Are you planning to do any modifications to it or just restoring it ?

[GWtaylor 8 1 Cars]

Restore it and x2 what could possibly of being going threw is head. Everybody to there own just not to my taste so i'm eventually going to strip it off and paint it black

[GWtaylor 8 1 Cars]

Looks like another one for the scrap yard in the sky

As i cant weld and imagine this is going to cost a fortune

 

 

Inner sill

[welshpug 1,657]

Its quite extensive but certainly not the wost I have seen and wont be hard for a decent fabricator to fix up, certainly not something I would scrap it for.

[Anthony 1,003]

Puzzled why you bought a car that you knew needed welding and a replacement sill if you weren't in a position to do it yourself nor were willing to pay someone else to do the work?

 

Whilst sills in that state are still comparitively rare, it's certainly not unheard of, and all 205's are getting to the age now where tin worm is beginning to take its toll and repairs are going to be needed. Front inner wing seams, lower rear quarter panels, rear bumper mounts, headlight panels, above/around the fuel tank, and the boot floor are all becoming very common areas.

 

Have a look at M@tt's CTi project thread as he's repaired/replaced a sill in much the same condition, and doesn't look to be difficult for someone experienced. Certainly similar repairs are going to be very common on other cars from that era, just a question of whether replacement sill panels are easily available to make the job comparitively easy.

[JakeMathias 6]

Defernatly not worth scrapping..

[GWtaylor 8 1 Cars]

When i bought the car i thought it was just bottom half of outer sill and my sad was going to weld bottom half but he's only good at simple welding so on discovering more he said it's too much for him to handle.

I've already go replacement outer sill its the inner sill which i can't get hold off

I've got a bloke coming round tomorrow to give me a quote so fingures crossed then it will be in my budget then it wont have to goto the scrap heap

[GWtaylor 8 1 Cars]

On another note

This is the crappy induction kit on it so what can i do with these 2 pipes may be get a oil cath tank for them to go to?

[welshpug 1,657]

you need a K&N induction hose, it will have the two takeoffs you require, did you not place a wanted ad for one of these recently?

 

one pipe is a breather the other is a feed for the SAD which should be connected engine side of the AFM, not to atmosphere which will in effect introduce unmetred air into the engine causing issues.

[GWtaylor 8 1 Cars]

WELSHPUG

thanks for that and yea i ordered a k&n arrived yesterday

Judt fitted it and plumbed in the sad pipe an presto my car now idles perfectly

Thanks

[GWtaylor 8 1 Cars]

Now for the next wiring and odd plugs

That was back of block

[GWtaylor 8 1 Cars]

Ohh and YET another biggy

My passanger door wont open

From either inside or out i've got door card off looking in but everything seem to move freely

[GWtaylor 8 1 Cars]

UPDATE!!

 

First real day around the car as per some of the pictures above

so stuff I found so far

Faults

Front right indicator not working

rear left indicator not working

rear fog light not working

Passanger door won't open

Ideling issues

blown centre section of exhaust

bonnet hinge bolt snapped

Drivers door sagged