Another stupid purchasing decision

Response 6:

"With a COC paper and a translated report, nothing stands in the way of registration!
Best regards"

Response 7:

"Unfortunately not, there is no agreement for this, you would have to inspect again in Austria and then come."

Best regards


So, a nice consistent set of responses there.

In other news, I have fixed the rear wiper - seized motor replaced.

Next week, insurance and Austrian number plates I hope.
 
Ran another few insurance quotes through.

This is the lowest I can get, and this is third party only.

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Rilot said:
Jesus! For that? Is that normal in Austria or do you have like loads of endoresements or something?
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Clean licence!

Here are some other fun quotes for cars in Austria, randomly selected by me :

2010 M3 - €3,392.07
2009 Civic Type R - €1,857.63
205 GTI - €1,397.01
2015 Focus ST - €2,669.25

I think you get the picture :D

A small car with 80bhp is seen as disgustingly excessive over here.

EDIT - there is no VED, it forms part of the insurance price. But even so....
 
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I was paying £280 to insure a Civic Type R fully comp over in the UK, so these prices are completely incomprehensible to me.

I mean, just getting a V5 in your name is 240 Euros. This is not a car loving nation.
 
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Diddums said:
Your commitment is admirable, I'll give you that :D
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TBH the import complication is the Type Approval and the NoVA.

The rest of the stuff is just general Austrian BS whether you buy something domestic or otherwise.

I can see why so many people just stick to public transport, driving isn't a cheap hobby here.
 
I went to an insurer this morning (very old school!) and eventually we managed to get to a figure of 800 Euros which is better than the online quote.
That included legal cover that I didn't want, but there we go.

I then literally walked 1 metre to the guy behind him who printed me out an Austrian logbook, gave me my shiny new Vienna number plates.
We have a windscreen sticker system here for MOT expiry - he gave me one of those too and despite my Polish MOT being valid until April 2024 he "cancelled" that validity because they consider 2024 a new "reporting period" and therefore my 2 month remaining MOT expired in December by Austrian standards :D

So after all this I still need to get the sodding thing MOTd anyway!
 
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Martynt74 said:
Ouch, at least here in Spain the insurance isn't too bad. Both my Jeep and Kia are around €300 each for TPFT (although i wish the Jeep was fully comp!)
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The previous owner was paying €74 a year in Poland and he was in his late 20s.

I'll never get used to it, I'll never get over it, but it's just a fact of motoring here - everything costs a bomb.

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Is salt used on the roads in Austria and if so, will this Lancia be able to survive 1 or 2 winters before the holes start to appear :D
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They do! But they do the same in Poland, and it's survived that so I have faith :D
 
Ho hum.

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This entire area looked completely solid - underneath the factory underseal though, there is virtually no metal. A bit of "exploration" with a wire wheel soon exposed that :D

This left hand sill is the only place like this on the whole car, the rest of the car is completely solid, including the right hand sill, so I guess either corrosion due to water ingress from being jacked incorrectly at the front where that other hole is, and that rot has spread its way the length of the sill, or a low quality accident repair (though I cannot find any evidence of that)

I'm going to cut the whole sill off and stick a new one on because that will be a git to patch nicely.
 
Haha you are not wrong!

I pushed around and the whole area around there is significantly weakened.

Nobody makes a Y sill either - only repair panels which aren't enough.

I've ordered a Punto sill of the same generation - the shape of the top half is different, but the lower half looks the same, so I am hoping it will line up. Should arrive today and then I can check it against the car.
 
Good timing, thanks GLS....

Front jacking point identical to the undamaged one on the right of my car:

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And the important bit - the rear. I don't want to be too confident, but that looks like a pretty much bang on match to me.

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The curvature at the rear above the dog leg section isn't quite right but I might get away with that. I don't mind both sides looking not quite identical, it's a funny looking car anyway :p

When I told the wife I'd need to fix this because it will fail the technical inspection, her answer was "How do you know that? Maybe it's fine"

I told her I'd ask @JonRGV250 for a second opinion because I'm pretty sure it wouldn't even pass the slackest of EU inspections with two whopping great holes in the sill :D
 
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Yep, the Polish MOT expires tomorrow, there's a hole in my bucket, and I haven't fixed it :D All in all, a resounding success!

I've replaced the springs, dampers, top mounts, wishbones, anti roll bar bushes, front discs and front pads and it drives very nicely after that.

I also need to get it tracked, but I haven't summoned up the bravery to walk into a tyre place and say "Entschuldigung, könnte dir meine rädern in die richtigen richtung machen, bitte?" or some equally atrocious German.
 
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Updates.

MOT expired. Someone reported it to the police and I got a fine of 75 Euros, which could have been worse.

Fitted new springs and dampers and finished most of the underbody schutz :

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The stuff in a tin you put on with a compressor is infinitely superior to aerosol products:

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Next was the sill.

Started to cut out the rot at the front. Plenty of filler in here already, someone's been here before me then :

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And at the back, well that's a new one for me - aluminium foil, and not even the premium stuff! Inner sill/strengthener gone walkies here too so I had to redo all this:

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Phone died at this point and with temps in the Werkstatt at well over 35 degrees I was a dripping mess so I would not have been in the mood for pics anyway.

By the end of the day I had ground everything back (the sill, being for a Punto and therefore both too long and not quite the right shape, had to be cut into three sections to be fitted properly, or as best I could anyway) and drove it home.

End of the next day after a lot of filling and sanding:

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It's not perfect (you can see the high area that's in bare metal where I couldn't get the curve of the sill quite perfect) but once it's schutz'd and painted red, hopefully it will look a bit more respectable. I tested the red matched aerosol on the bottom of the sill and it seems to be an almost perfect match.
 
Schutz'd the sills:

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Painted the sills (yep, in a multi storey car park, sue me. Check out the red overspray dust all over their newly painted floor :o I did go back and sweep most of it away after seeing what I mess I left)


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The colour match is off despite it being a matched aerosol, but I think it looks alright.

I did both sides to match:

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Now I need to say a few prayers, prepare some bribes, and take it for an MOT.
 
dlockers said:
Hahah this middle of this post is super suss. "Phone ran out of battery when anything other than filler wasn't used". Looks like a nice end result; hopefully they use a strong enough magnet to get through the filler :D
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Ha, yes I thought exactly this as I was typing it, because I sometimes watch YouTube videos of people doing car stuff and they often go from "Here it is all rusty and I'm now going to weld it up" and then the next scene is "So yeah I've done all the welding, ground it back and filled everything and it looks perfect" and I always think yeah, righto mate :p

But I really did run out of battery which made driving home interesting, because I don't really know the way that well and I ended up absolutely nowhere near where I thought I was and had to navigate home by looking out for district numbers on the street corners :o
 
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Scania said:
Great thread!

Interesting to hear the update. :)

Have you still got the XR3?
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Yes, it's in my mates workshop in the UK - I left it with him to do a gearbox swap while I was in the middle of emigrating and, well, he hasn't lifted a finger on it.
 
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