Soldato
Very nice, doesn't look like it needs detailing 
Show Us Your Motors!
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Thanks, Its got its fair share of swurls when the suns on it, just aiming to get them out really.
Soldato
Nice looking motor dude 
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My new Focus ST-3 - happy boy!
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Yeah my bad - teach me for trying flickr instead of the usual imagine hosting sites.
Underboss
Oooh I do like the front of that Focus!
much nicer than the older ones, good choice
much nicer than the older ones, good choice
Soldato
Well, it's been a while - someone bought the silver 75 off me, so while planning a replacement I had a poke around a couple of E39s (520d and 530d), however I got offered a ZT-T for pennies as it was being scrapped.
I begged work for some time off, they approved it and as such I had 3 days to repair the 11 MOT failures, make it roadworthy after being sat for 9 months and get it looking reasonable.
This involved many suspension parts (142k so can't complain), new front discs and pads, rebuilding both front calipers (brake fluid was aincient, and had rusted the caliper pistons), replacing a bit of brake line and cleaning underneath up.
The reason I bought it was that it was reasonably well specced, had a lovely smooth engine and had a lot of work done in the past (namely a new clutch, DMF, slave and master 20,000 miles ago) and was generally quite clean.
Total spend £900 inc MOT and 6 months tax, sold the 75 for £700. Very happy with spending £200 and getting a 3 year newer car with full MOT and tax.
Since buying it, it's towed a Peugeot 406 for 80 miles, carried a bootload of spares home from the scrapyard, jump started a few cars and has generally been a useful tool.
Already had a tuning box fitted, and due to have a remap too. Goes well as it was a 135PS out of the box, now probably running about 150BHP at a reasonable guess from the bum-dyno.
Still to do:
In tank fuel pump needs swapping, grabbed one for a fiver from the yard. Needs a few paint imperfections touching up too, it's a little tatty towards the front end.
Some pics:
Projectors fitted - just need to fit the washer jets through the bumper:
I begged work for some time off, they approved it and as such I had 3 days to repair the 11 MOT failures, make it roadworthy after being sat for 9 months and get it looking reasonable.
This involved many suspension parts (142k so can't complain), new front discs and pads, rebuilding both front calipers (brake fluid was aincient, and had rusted the caliper pistons), replacing a bit of brake line and cleaning underneath up.
The reason I bought it was that it was reasonably well specced, had a lovely smooth engine and had a lot of work done in the past (namely a new clutch, DMF, slave and master 20,000 miles ago) and was generally quite clean.
Total spend £900 inc MOT and 6 months tax, sold the 75 for £700. Very happy with spending £200 and getting a 3 year newer car with full MOT and tax.
Since buying it, it's towed a Peugeot 406 for 80 miles, carried a bootload of spares home from the scrapyard, jump started a few cars and has generally been a useful tool.
Already had a tuning box fitted, and due to have a remap too. Goes well as it was a 135PS out of the box, now probably running about 150BHP at a reasonable guess from the bum-dyno.
Still to do:
In tank fuel pump needs swapping, grabbed one for a fiver from the yard. Needs a few paint imperfections touching up too, it's a little tatty towards the front end.
Some pics:
Projectors fitted - just need to fit the washer jets through the bumper:
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Excuse the Autoglass back drop
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Soldato
How does it compare to the Mondeo in terms of performance, out of interest?
I prefer the Mondeo in every way personally but we were in a sticky situation so I bought this for my mrs as a snap decision. I miss the space, boot, climate control, cruise control, better audio, V6, recaros etc etc but I won't miss the fuel costs.
However, it makes a lot of noise and is extremely well put together, it feels remarkably solid. The supercharger whine is pretty cool and it accelerates well, feels like a little go kart in comparison.
The mini is hugely impractical given our young family but we were desperate for a car and looked at some absolute sheds when we were looking for a Mondeo or similar. In the end these caught my attention and as my mrs had always wanted one so after a bit of a trek to the other side of London I went for it.
Picked it up for a good price, £4500 with 50k on the clock. Has a few marks to the front bumper and linglong tyres but I will swap the alloys and tyres over at some stage I suspect. A decent buy to get us out of a bit of a hole I think.
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