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Long story.
I left my car with my mechanic on Monday evening, to get timing belt and water pump fitted, along with MOT prep, hoping to pick it up on Tuesday evening.
Gave him a call on Tuesday afternoon and turns out he has been without power all day and has got nothing done and can't guarantee he will get looking at it on Wednesday.
I need something to get me up and down to work, so decided rather than go to the hassle of organising a hire car, I would just buy a cheap runaround to get me from A-B.
Stuck a post up on Facebook, to see if anyone had anything and within half an hour had a message about this 1995 Polo sitting 2 miles from me.
Went to see it and was pleasantly surprised - a 23 year old car with only 74k miles, 9 months MOT and a stack of old MOT certificates to give some proof to the mileage (not that I was overly bothered given the price).
Car drives like a dream and has loads of modern luxuries, like electric windows, electric mirrors...and a tape deck.
Everything even works as it should!
There are a few spots of rust that need dealt with - worst is on the grill surround, where you can basically poke your finger through, but other areas are nowhere near as bad.
Paint is also flaking off the front bumper quite badly.
There's a few scratches and things, but no major dents,
Initial plans are:
A good clean
Replace grill surround
Address other spots of rust with Dremel, rust treatment and paint (rattle can included in sale)
Rub down and paint the front bumper (again using a rattle can)
Rub down and spray the wheels
A few pictures of it sitting in the garage:
Will hopefully get better pictures at the weekend.
I left my car with my mechanic on Monday evening, to get timing belt and water pump fitted, along with MOT prep, hoping to pick it up on Tuesday evening.
Gave him a call on Tuesday afternoon and turns out he has been without power all day and has got nothing done and can't guarantee he will get looking at it on Wednesday.
I need something to get me up and down to work, so decided rather than go to the hassle of organising a hire car, I would just buy a cheap runaround to get me from A-B.
Stuck a post up on Facebook, to see if anyone had anything and within half an hour had a message about this 1995 Polo sitting 2 miles from me.
Went to see it and was pleasantly surprised - a 23 year old car with only 74k miles, 9 months MOT and a stack of old MOT certificates to give some proof to the mileage (not that I was overly bothered given the price).
Car drives like a dream and has loads of modern luxuries, like electric windows, electric mirrors...and a tape deck.
Everything even works as it should!
There are a few spots of rust that need dealt with - worst is on the grill surround, where you can basically poke your finger through, but other areas are nowhere near as bad.
Paint is also flaking off the front bumper quite badly.
There's a few scratches and things, but no major dents,
Initial plans are:
A good clean
Replace grill surround
Address other spots of rust with Dremel, rust treatment and paint (rattle can included in sale)
Rub down and paint the front bumper (again using a rattle can)
Rub down and spray the wheels
A few pictures of it sitting in the garage:
Will hopefully get better pictures at the weekend.
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