Hi Guys.
Just posting this here as a WTF!!!!
currently own a 2008 MK7 Jumbo.
But I also have a MK4 Transit 1993.
Well this old girl failed it's MOT miserably back in about 2005
Basically it's chassis rusted out (Long story:( )
Well it had been standing at the bottom of my garden since that time, so over 10 years.
It had been used for nothing else but storing gardening cr#p .
Last month SWMBO said time to get rid, so thought I'd chuck a battery on it to see if it would turn over.
Thinking I might be able to salvage some engine parts.
NOW HERE'S THE SHOCKER !!!!!!!!!! (Yea you know what's coming)
It hadn't even done a full revolution on the engine, and it started right up and run as sweet as a nut.
Even with the old fuel in it, even the clutch was free.
Ya could have knocked me over with a feather, even my father in law, who had been a motor mechanic all his working life couldn't believe it.
We chucked it in gear and drove it back up the garden as if it'd just been parked last week.
The only thing that showed it's long rest was the brakes, having no signs of wanting to work.
So now I'm wondering if I could make project out of it, certainly I ain't getting rid of it.
Now here's the irony, went out to move my Mk7. The F###er wouldn't start!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just thought it might make an interesting post.
ATB Dog