So over Christmas week I came across an utter shed on scumtree, nothing unusual there, there's alot of sheds on scumtree. What was unusual was the fact that it is a very rare 3dr 206 DW10 HDi Eco and wasn't advertised as such. A quick check on the DVLA showed it was in the £30 tax bracket and for £400 it was just too good an opportunity to pass up.
Here she is in a rough part of Glasgow fro the add picture complete with vaguely offensive sticker on the boot.
Went up the next day to pick her up
And after a monster journey here is the first photo I took of her. It turned out she was a bigger dog than expected, there is a big patch welded on the nearside sill, half the bulbs were dead, the speedo didn't work, the exhaust was blowing and it has a steering vibration at motorway speed. Interestingly there was a milk carton full of power steering fluid in the boot. Problems aside it would have cost me a fortune to get a train home so I just paid up and she drove "fine" all the way home and thankfully at 2200rpm at 70mph showing it has the correct gear box.
I noticed there was a bit of a power steering leak at a services so topped it up with stuff out the milk bottle. Next day driving to work flap flap flap smash whir. Yeah turned out my power steering pump was seizing and trying to spit the belt leaving it a a couple of ribs short.
Bypassed the PAS with one of these.
Fitted a fake OMP wheel to try and improve a terrible the seating position.
Spent £60 on some GTi wheels
Gave the wheels a blow over with cheap BBQ paint
Fitted 302mm brakes and coilovers which was a mission for a myriad of reasons
And now she looks like this awaiting me painting the rear wheels.
Here she is in a rough part of Glasgow fro the add picture complete with vaguely offensive sticker on the boot.
Went up the next day to pick her up
And after a monster journey here is the first photo I took of her. It turned out she was a bigger dog than expected, there is a big patch welded on the nearside sill, half the bulbs were dead, the speedo didn't work, the exhaust was blowing and it has a steering vibration at motorway speed. Interestingly there was a milk carton full of power steering fluid in the boot. Problems aside it would have cost me a fortune to get a train home so I just paid up and she drove "fine" all the way home and thankfully at 2200rpm at 70mph showing it has the correct gear box.
I noticed there was a bit of a power steering leak at a services so topped it up with stuff out the milk bottle. Next day driving to work flap flap flap smash whir. Yeah turned out my power steering pump was seizing and trying to spit the belt leaving it a a couple of ribs short.
Bypassed the PAS with one of these.
Fitted a fake OMP wheel to try and improve a terrible the seating position.
Spent £60 on some GTi wheels
Gave the wheels a blow over with cheap BBQ paint
Fitted 302mm brakes and coilovers which was a mission for a myriad of reasons
And now she looks like this awaiting me painting the rear wheels.