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[Maxwell]

As alot of you may know i have a diamond white Fiesta RS Turbo and it is perfectly fine...don't worry haha!

Anyways, i swallowed my pride and did the one thing you should never do...let your girlfriend drive your car, and she instantly fell in love with my Fiesta RST! So deal is Christmas is coming up and was thinking of things to buy...and this randomly popped up locally! i took the plunge (even though in verbal conversation, i was told how bad this wee car would be) and i viewed it. It is really back and tbh its a breaker. But i thought with it being at really good breaking money and it would be a shame to strike another fiesta rs turbo off the register, i decided to price up panels and order them. So i handed over a grand total of £280 and i was friskly on my way

Plans: cut every bit of rot out of the car and replace with new metal and new panels. It needs rear chassis leg attention, few small patches on the floor itself, 2 x full sills (one has alot of rot...the other actually isnt as bad as i thought), 2 x door skins (1 has a ripple, the other has a small bit of rot), a front panel, a back panel, 2 x front wings, drivers 1/4 and passenger 1/4 (as most know you they can't be got...so a mk3.5 1/4 with the mk3 fuel cap section set in) and im in desperat need of a bootlid (can't get one so i might have to get a mk3.5 bootlid and get the grooves cut out of my boot and set them in)

also my mrs always said if she was to get an RS Turbo, she would want power steering (like her mk5 1.25 zetec...so im gonna put the battery in the boot, get the battery tray cut out and make up a bracket to hold an electric Citroen Saxo PAS pump (i have 2 spare ones) and get a mk3.5 fiesta PAS rack and get pipes made up. Then im gonna stick the engine and T3 etc from my white fiesta into it (as i know its fine, my fiesta is getting a 2.1 zvh and also there seems to be a misfire in this black one) and i will stick in the radiator and intercooler i have sitting, as i knew they where fine before i removed it from my white car in favour of Airtec stuff. Also i have recently installed coilovers into my white fiesta, so this black car will get the lowering suspension that was in it and it will also get the MK5 RS2000 alloys i have sitting - only i will get them mirror polished!!

So all in all this wee car is gonna get saved, it will be a real nice wee car for my mrs and also i think she will appreciate a Christmas pressie like this!

anyways here is the pictures of me picking it up yesterday and then stripping it this afternoon and showing the extent of the rot around it!

enjoy:

[jayrs]

good on ya for saving another mate.

although i wouldnt go mk3.5 on the filler panel

[Maxwell]

Im going for a mk3.5 1/4 panel as its a full 1/4...then cutting out the fuel surround and then piecing in the mk3 fuel hole!! A mk3 full 1/4 cannot be got, but a mk3.5 can be got!!!

[rsturbonutter]

he said that in the post jay skim reading are we

[jayrs]

not at all, i know the mk3 panel cant be got, but you can still get a pattern one, although there getting hard to get, but its not un heard off, ebay is norm a good place to get them.

Maxwell, im well aware that you can not buy the mk3 panel anymore, and you havent been able to to some years now, but i was a little confussed about why you were doing it that way, as i was assuming you were going to get a genuine ford 3.5 panel (which is stupid money), but i guess your getting a pattern one which is cheaper, in which case it makes sense, but as i was unsure i said what i did, although i should of expanded on the comment to make it clearer, blond moment .

i would of said about looking down the scrappy, its rare, but you do find mk3's in the scrappy with mint quarters, ive seen a couple, even cut a section out one once for my own car, but as you cant get a mk3 boot lid, then it shows you cant get a good mk3 panel, so didnt bother saying about it in last post.

also, as your going to adding a filler panel, please dont get them cheap magnum panel ones, there complete crap! if you cant find a gen ford mk3 filler repair panel, then find a mk3 4 door genuine rear quarter and cut the bit out you need, the filler neck and the surround will fit a lot better than the cheap ones, i got a cheap one once and its sat in the garden somewhere where it landed, and thats the best place for it, that was a magnum panel

keep checking ebay, it throws up mk3 panels now and then genuine and pattern, i dunno how soon you will need it, but if you got the time to wait and watch then you might find one, i located a gen ford mk3 full quarter on there for good money a while back for £60

[Maxwell]

f**k SAKE!!!! Rang the Northern Ireland Hadrian dealer...they don't have anymore mk3.5 1/4s

Mk3 and mk3.5 fiesta are hens teeth in northern ireland, hence me trying to source repair panels new. Thats proving to be a f**k up too :'(!!

[jayrs]

Can't they order some from over here then?

[Maxwell]

I dunno but i put up an advert here looking panels and i can't find feck all!!

[jayrs]

that could be that no one on here has any nor ar willing to go get them to send (if they can get them)

i would offer, but im on the isle of wight, so i cant just go get any as theres no body panel places over here, they order them from a place called solent car panels in southampton, might be worth giving them a bell if you feel it might help?

http://www.touchsouthampton.com/busines ... id/2357676

[Dave G fsi]

Fair play to you for saving an rst in that state mate, hope all goes well

[jonyb4]

good god this is very badly taken by the elements, your a brave man

unless money wasnt an issue, id have to tell you its not worth it, even if it is a FRST


good luck man the missus best be VERY gracious

[Maxwell]

Tried solent Jay, they can't get me one

Gutted to say the least!!

[jayrs]

bugger, erm, cant think of anywhere else tbh mate

[rsturbonutter]

you might be better off finding a nice little 1.1 or something on ebay or the likes and driving it home to cut up you wont have the holes for the bodykit but thats easily sorted. Plus the majority of base models i see are in much better condition than cars of our kind lol. Its a bit drastic but what can you do If theres no panels out there at least you will know they will fit. GOOD LUCK FELLA

[Fraggle]

Now thats taking a bull by the horns

Have you tried any of these? Been a while since i rummaged but maybe worth a punt..

http://hadrian.dominohosting.biz/hadria ... f/MakeList

http://www.carz2.co.uk/index.php

http://www.newfordpartsonline.co.uk/index.php

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Retroford-Int- ... 34.c0.m322

At worst its a re-shell,,shame but better to save as many of its rare parts than worry to much about authenticity,,They are ni on the same anyway...Mr JayRS will confirm the exact details/differences

[rsturbonutter]

could give this a try cheap aswell http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trkpa ... 581&_pgn=2 you never know they may have the other side just a case of chopping a bit and fitting a 3 door arch

[jonyb4]

you might be better off finding a nice little 1.1 or something on ebay or the likes and driving it home to cut up you wont have the holes for the bodykit but thats easily sorted. Plus the majority of base models i see are in much better condition than cars of our kind lol. Its a bit drastic but what can you do If theres no panels out there at least you will know they will fit. GOOD LUCK FELLA

snap

[Maxwell]

Small update:

I stuck the car up for breaking as it was impossible to get bits to repair the car!! Upon the advert i had a friend link me to a gumtree advert, and today i went to a viewing. I managed to leave a deposit on a shell Its a white base mk3.5, but its really really clean. Sills are superb and arches are actually brilliant too. Front wings are good, but one is a replacement...and was badly put on something my bodyman can sort for me! Im also gonna get a mk3 fuel hole and get it pieced into the mk3.5 1/4!! As its white im in debate if i should leave it white or should i shell the car black!! Either way im happy to get saving another fiesta rst and my mrs will get her xmas pressie!!

[rsturbonutter]

If its off a guy called andy i hope the deposit wasn't cash he got a rep and he's selling one on passionford. All the same well done for saving it and keep it white. With the ambers and stripes

[Maxwell]

Andy130??? Turbo2020??? Andrewmcd???

That fudgekin idiot is a time wasting c**t!!! No it was a guy not too far from me. T h i was f**k sick after i left the deposit....i got to a garage to fuel up and in pulled a completely mint radiant red mk3 3dr that was reg'd GIB (this black rst is TIB ..... Same year) But the old guy wouldnt sell it anyway upon approach!! Lol

[brendan2077]

here is a link to a clean car in the south with nct test

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2809661