So I overheard a workmate telling someone that he was scrapping his wife's old Ka, due to 'the steering being noisy'. So I butted in to ask him exactly what the issue is, basically he is the type of person who is scared of a spanner, and pays a garage to do all his work. He didn't even take it to the garage to enquire about the steering noise, as his Wife has a new car and he didn't want to spend any more money on it.
Anyway, knowing that from the symptoms he described it is likely to just be the pump, I managed to get him to let me take it off his hands for a small sum, it'll be handy to have a second car again as a runabout, plus my Son is currently taking his lessons so it'll be something for him to drive when he passes his test.
Here it is as of now:
Aside from the PS pump (already have one on the way), it has a tendency to wonder about a bit when getting on and off the throttle. Research tells me it is probably a lower wishbone bush, easiest thing is to replace the whole wishbone. I'll do both as they are dirt cheap at £40 the pair.
Other than that it's a pretty solid little car, it has a couple of fairly large patches of rust next to the drivers side door slam, but other than that it's solid, no rust around the filler cap as is usual with these things. I'm going to rub the rust patches back and just flash them over for now, and it has some scrapes and bumps as expected, but generally the paint isn't bad.
Everything works as it should, even the A/C. The interior is in good nick, just absolutely filthy, and it even has some tax and MOT left.
Oh, forgot to say how much I paid for it......
£80
Anyway, knowing that from the symptoms he described it is likely to just be the pump, I managed to get him to let me take it off his hands for a small sum, it'll be handy to have a second car again as a runabout, plus my Son is currently taking his lessons so it'll be something for him to drive when he passes his test.
Here it is as of now:
Aside from the PS pump (already have one on the way), it has a tendency to wonder about a bit when getting on and off the throttle. Research tells me it is probably a lower wishbone bush, easiest thing is to replace the whole wishbone. I'll do both as they are dirt cheap at £40 the pair.
Other than that it's a pretty solid little car, it has a couple of fairly large patches of rust next to the drivers side door slam, but other than that it's solid, no rust around the filler cap as is usual with these things. I'm going to rub the rust patches back and just flash them over for now, and it has some scrapes and bumps as expected, but generally the paint isn't bad.
Everything works as it should, even the A/C. The interior is in good nick, just absolutely filthy, and it even has some tax and MOT left.
Oh, forgot to say how much I paid for it......
£80
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as it was going to need silly amounts of stuff doing to get it through the MOT and it gives me a few months cycling to work and sorting my finances to buy some thing a little nicer to drive.
