Interesting it's been stored for a few years and has the rear screen as well.. Wonder how much work would really be needed to make it mot passable again as my iwn experience of stored vehicles would worry me about all sorts of rot on it!!!
Yip! If it could wait till just after the end of the month as it could make a nice one for my dad as his c5 is poorly and it looks mot-able with little work
kingp wrote:Yip! If it could wait till just after the end of the month as it could make a nice one for my dad as his c5 is poorly and it looks mot-able with little work
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Was on Gumtree for £200 with suspected head gasket failure..........!!
1991 XM 2.0 Si auto RP 4903 (12 April 1990) Alpine White
2019 Suzuki Vitara AllGrip SZ5 Automatic 1.4 BoosterJet. White
1972 Banham Sprint kit car (Frogeye Sprite replica, really a Mini!)
Head gasket on a 2.5 can vary between £60 and £600 in parts alone, depends if you need a gasket or a new head.
My experience is that only 1 in 3 get away with the gasket.
I looked at the car some 18 months ago and decided not to take it even as a spares car.
I thought this particular car would need new head and rads plus some cill repairs to get it to MOT state.
The mileage I noted suggested the clutch would need to be done within 50k.
Took a large water can full of coolant before I would risk starting it.
The need for that fill up plus the brown rust lining to the header tank were the reasons I though the rads were past best.
I agree that it was probably worth at least its scrap value as spares but in the main they were not spares that I needed.