If it was me i'd get a new one BUT you said 'The problem i am having is that this car means more to me than any other car i have owned'
And it's a shame to see another F vanish from our roads, so your call. :dunno:
Not much help there was I :lol: Sorry about that.

 

Wow I got all the way to the end of your post lol.

I fully understand the emotional attachment, i feel the same about mine, i'd be broken hearted to have to part with her.

But on occasion I have had to think about the financial cost each time she goes wrong and mine is on the road and in half decent condition, and given the repairs etc you mention, and your pennies situation, I can understand how you feel.

I'm not much help, but I do understand, if i was in your position i'd seriously have to consider buying another, there comes a point where it's beyond financial repair, just my thoughts !!

 

buy another one,

strip yours and sell parts to rake back the cost. keep parts spare if you have the room that you may need in future ie hydrogas shperes ect. if the engine and gearbox is good, then thats a few 100 pounds already then you can strip off boot bonnet and doors, interirior (seats, dash ect) alloys

if you have the room and time a new car could really pay for itself.

once everything is removed, you can get a scrappy to lift the shell onto a truck and take it away, most do it for free as they get scrap money for it.

 

If it need that much money on it i'd be breaking it for bits, you could fund a really decent F with the procceeds. an engine is going to fetch £500 ,
Couple of more bits and youre up to a grand. nice 51/02 plates going for less..

just my way of thinking....

 

Tough choice. From my detached point of view it's simple. Get another one. Get what you can for the old one and start a new relationship.
I've been in similar situations with motorcycles that I've got attached to. On one I spent nearly £2000 on a bike worth £1250 and then just ran out of cash.
Seriously, Greengoblin, it is time to let go.

 

thanks for taking time to read all of that :lol:

I hadn't really thought of stripping it for parts as i had always wanted to sell it to somebody who would get it back to it's best again but having priced it all myself now i doubt anybody would be willing to spend what it needs.

The engine should be good, Russell made it as good as new a few months ago, if i had room i would keep it as a spare, doors, boot and bonnet are rust free but the rest is crumbling.

Would advertisng it on here for people to come take what they need be worth while (I'm not the best when it comes to cars but i do have a go at fixing things and have few tools so stripping it myself would be difficult/impossible )

I really do think it's time to let go but i can't help feeling bad about it after everything that people did to help me out with it. at least it has convinced me I need another F so i have a good excuse to meet all the great people from this forum

 

No brainer really....... ITS A CAR.....!!!!!!

get them parts listed and look for a new baby......
Phil..

 

I have found some interesting cars, i wish i had the money to buy one now :lol

I even found a nice looking 2003 TF 135 sprint in trophy blue, 88k with its belts and head gasket done about 18000 miles ago with a hard top for only £1100 it was posted at the end of july though so is probably sold by now.

 

Strip it, sell the bits and weigh in the shell, then add that to your £1200 and you should have enough to by a straight clean TF or a late low miles F if you prefer.
Its only a car after all...

 

what about this

Buy a good solid car with a knackered engine for cheap, put my fine Russelled engine in that car and invite any members of .org to come take anything they want off my car for free (and a little help with the engine swap maybe )?

how much am i likely to have to pay somebody to swap an engine? think that's something i should consider

 

Have you got some pictures so we know how bad it really looks if it is that bad

 

some pictures here

It's a bit worse than it looks in the pictures, especially the bumper, really needs a new off side front wing and the pictures don't show the huge dent in the passenger side sill or the very worn out roof although you can see some of the lovely green mold

 

Is this the one we all gave you money to fix? I can't remember, I gave someone a tenner sometime :dunno:

Mate, its a car, drive it, but don't hump it :dunno: If its uneconomical, just bin it and move on. A bit like a girlfriend that still dips you for cash but doesn't put out anymore. Its a pointless activity, clear it out, and get something new.

 

It was indeed and that's what has made me try to get everything sorted and get it back on the road, if money wasn't such a problem i would carry on too and spend what it needs to be a great car again, It's just that it's proving to be a very uneconomical.

It does make me feel a little sick that everybody did so much to get my car running again and I'm going to give up on it and strip it for parts, I tried a while ago to sell it as a project so at least somebody could get it good again but even though a few people were interested the cost of transporting it was prohibitive so i decided to sacrifice other things and try and get it done myself and have only now sat down and worked out all the costs and it's going to cost far much more than i can justify.

I won't have the money to do anything for a few weeks until i sell my Rover 75 so still have time to decide what to do but it's looking like this car is a lost cause. I hadn't originally planned on spending all the money i get from the sale of the rover on a car since i need other things for my flat but I decided those can wait, I don't have much these days so I promised myself I can at least have a nice car :lol:

 

i had by sunspot bumper repaired, they did a good job amnd it was blown in. was down to the black plastic, if that can be done anything can..... no one at the weekend could see where it had been done and for £160 it was a cheap job

depends how much you want to keep the car.

 

repaqir it - buying another is defeatist - i like the satifaction of doing up a rough car to top notch condition

 

repaqir it - buying another is defeatist - i like the satifaction of doing up a rough car to top notch condition

+1 better the devil you know


i thought we were enthusiasts???

we bought monty as a non runner and restored him, why let another be broken for parts

 

how much is it going to cost?
fit the sub frame bolt yourself. then mot it, see what needs doing, then decide how much it'll cost to put right.
dont worry to much about the rust, just look at it as a job to be done in the future, when funds allow.
bumper = £100
tires = £200
ebay exhaust = £70
alot cheaper than buying another. even if you only get another year out of her, youll still have 104 more chances to win the lotto

good luck whatever you decide

 

how much is it going to cost?
dont worry to much about the rust, just dont wash it like me :lol:


good luck whatever you decide

hehehehe :lol:

 

I'll have an exhaust you can have FOC when I get my Toyo one finally fitted.

 

You might want to hang on to that to refit when your hanger brackets snap off

 

Why not MOT it? Costs less than £50 - and if it fails and you don't want to fix it - at least you can sell it on saying "it needs x, y and z" to pass an MOT. Also, if the MOT station says it needs £1k of work (plus the body work you already know about) - then you can break it with a clear concisions. You never know - it may surprise you and pass