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Hi from Sheffield and a few more

Postby WarthogARJ » Thu Mar 15, 2018 9:40 pm

Hi,
Hi inmates.

I have a pretty abused 3rd/4th hand Ford Transit SWB 2004.
I was trying to ignore it, and just fill up oil and check diesel level, but I had a few issues....

Like I'm a 2 wheel guy: bikes or motorbikes.
Four wheels is what you use when you need a taxi.

However, I got a van, can put toys in it.
And jeez, it's REALLY nice, I mean cannot fall over, no putting on helmet, gloves, riding gear.
Fits as much as you can imagine: don't even need to take it out, can use as storage!!!

OK, so I bought a van: £1500, 120miles, 2004.

The last clowns to look after it didn't assemble the timing chain right, and it seized on me...in Rotherham getting spares for my motorbike.
Let THAT be a lesson....these extra 2 wheels are an issue I'm sure, TWICE as many hassles.

Towed home, and £700 later another engine.

OK, all good, sortof.

THEN it snows a few flakes, UK grinds to a halt...well actually slithers to a long drawn out halt.
And I get a LWB fully loaded Mercedes Sprinter towing a 2 ton loaded trailer sliding backwards down my hill....into my Transit.
Parked in front of my hovel, minding its own business.
Wham bang thank you ma'am.
Didn't even get foreplay before the heavy stuff...sigh.

Write0ff: £1500 payout, £290 scrap.
So now I need to start paying attention and pickup spanners.

Anyways, have found good help here: thanks very much.

Alan
Sheffield
from The Hague, Joburg, Secunda and initially Deep River..:-}
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Re: Hi from Sheffield and a few more

Postby andz327 » Thu Mar 15, 2018 11:17 pm

WarthogARJ wrote:Hi,
Hi inmates.

I have a pretty abused 3rd/4th hand Ford Transit SWB 2004.
I was trying to ignore it, and just fill up oil and check diesel level, but I had a few issues....

Like I'm a 2 wheel guy: bikes or motorbikes.
Four wheels is what you use when you need a taxi.

However, I got a van, can put toys in it.
And jeez, it's REALLY nice, I mean cannot fall over, no putting on helmet, gloves, riding gear.
Fits as much as you can imagine: don't even need to take it out, can use as storage!!!

OK, so I bought a van: £1500, 120miles, 2004.

The last clowns to look after it didn't assemble the timing chain right, and it seized on me...in Rotherham getting spares for my motorbike.
Let THAT be a lesson....these extra 2 wheels are an issue I'm sure, TWICE as many hassles.

Towed home, and £700 later another engine.

OK, all good, sortof.

THEN it snows a few flakes, UK grinds to a halt...well actually slithers to a long drawn out halt.
And I get a LWB fully loaded Mercedes Sprinter towing a 2 ton loaded trailer sliding backwards down my hill....into my Transit.
Parked in front of my hovel, minding its own business.
Wham bang thank you ma'am.
Didn't even get foreplay before the heavy stuff...sigh.

Write0ff: £1500 payout, £290 scrap.
So now I need to start paying attention and pickup spanners.

Anyways, have found good help here: thanks very much.

Alan
Sheffield
from The Hague, Joburg, Secunda and initially Deep River..:-}
Is this hello and cheerio or was the £290 scrap, actually 290 quids worth of parts from scrappy to repair........or just scrap value??
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Re: Hi from Sheffield and a few more

Postby WarthogARJ » Sun Mar 18, 2018 3:36 pm

The underwriter said was a write-off (as I guess most accidents on an early 2000 Transit will be that involved anything more than damage to 2 panels).
So I got paid out £1,450 (bargained up from initial £1,000 offer).

Then I (in effect) bought it back for the scrap value of £290.
As a DVLA "Non-structural" category ("N").
I didn't really buy it back, because the ownership didn't change hands, but in effect that's what happened.

And since the other driver admitted fault, his insurer paid.
So I didn't lose my no claims bonus, nor was I assessed a deductible (was £100 if I had claimed on my insurance).

So now I have a Van that needs (well, it DID need) work to get through it's MOT, and £1,160 cash to do it with.
When it goes through it's MOT, it goes back up to its fair market value (of ±£1,450).

Work to pass MOT:
- 2nd hand bumper part: £20
- 2nd hand right front wheel panel: £20
- new front tire: £40 (well, I replaced both front tires so they match, but were about to need it anyways)

Plus some brackets I made to hold stuff where the panels/bumper would normally go that had been dinged.

I did end up doing more, once I started i thought i might as well.
So I fixed:
- Reversing lights (switch was never wired up, although it still passed its last MOT: don't they check that?)
- Wiring (some bad connections to starter, ended up stripping off a lot of the old wrapping and renewed it)
- Rusty rear light fixtures
- Various leaks in roof
- Spare tire holding mechanism (very rusty, and fitting to hold jack to wind up was broken)
- Various lights
- Added neoprene seal strip to front hood (for some reason there is ZERO sealing, when it rains, water just pisses in thru the gap between hood and body, and then goes onto engine: that seems a bit poor)
- Fixed glow plugs (well am part way thru, hadn't been wired up, or were and blew the wiring. I got 3 out after much WD-40, soaking and judicious application of heat-gun, but 4th is rusted/seized. Pulled part out, will soak in more WD-40, then pull out the upper M10 threaded part, and tap and pull the inner part)

Engine leaks oil a bit, haven't really traced the issue yet.
Maybe i'll fix that, is no big deal, just a little thirsty.

The only real issue is rusty undercarriage.

In South Africa would be easy to get sorted: lots of places that will weld up stuff like that very cheaply.
Maybe is case in Sheffield, but I don't really know them.
At least nobody that is good price and does a reasonable job.
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Re: Hi from Sheffield and a few more

Postby Altransit » Tue Mar 27, 2018 9:01 am

Welcome to the forum :D
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Re: Hi from Sheffield and a few more

Postby Luke » Wed Mar 28, 2018 6:45 pm

hello and welcome to the forum :D
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