For those that don't know who I am, a brief history lesson... I had this Mk3 for many many years:
To say the least, I got up to some 'antics' in that car...
Started out as a bog standard 1.4 Merit... ended up as a completely stripped out XE hoonmobile. Ragged the living death out of that car every day I got in to it. Eventually time took its toll, so I bought this:
Mint 2.2 SRi... Made quite a lot of tweaks - exhaust, wheels, coilovers, stereo etc... Then one damp Sunday morning on the M62, I had an 'incident'
Fast forward several years of expensive insurance and cheap Ford Fiesta's, most recently this one:
...in which I may have slightly put a rod through the block... Needed a car for work desperately so stumbled across this little beauty at a local Vaux dealers.
We were fortunate enough to know the staff there so got a substantial discount, Network Q warranty, new brakes, some bodywork doing etc etc...
Its a 1.7CDTi SXI with some nice factory options like mudflaps, boot storage shelf, AFL headlights (£800 option when new!) etc...
Naturally I couldn't leave it standard - so I will cover the mods in my next post...
To say the least, I got up to some 'antics' in that car...
Started out as a bog standard 1.4 Merit... ended up as a completely stripped out XE hoonmobile. Ragged the living death out of that car every day I got in to it. Eventually time took its toll, so I bought this:
Mint 2.2 SRi... Made quite a lot of tweaks - exhaust, wheels, coilovers, stereo etc... Then one damp Sunday morning on the M62, I had an 'incident'
Fast forward several years of expensive insurance and cheap Ford Fiesta's, most recently this one:
...in which I may have slightly put a rod through the block... Needed a car for work desperately so stumbled across this little beauty at a local Vaux dealers.
We were fortunate enough to know the staff there so got a substantial discount, Network Q warranty, new brakes, some bodywork doing etc etc...
Its a 1.7CDTi SXI with some nice factory options like mudflaps, boot storage shelf, AFL headlights (£800 option when new!) etc...
Naturally I couldn't leave it standard - so I will cover the mods in my next post...