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17th July 2011, 21:25
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bad times  another one down! looked like a fairly clean base
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17th July 2011, 21:43
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Sad to see it getting scrapped is that nathan's blue saxo getting scrapped to? he should sell the beam off it first seams a shame to scrap good parts of cars if he is.
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14th August 2011, 21:06
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I was on the look out for a cheap S1 XSi/Rallye for a project over the winter and Nicole found this one on ebay. Got outbid but no one ever went to collect the car so I went to have a look on Saturday. The car had no MOT or tax, but the shell was solid; no rust in the usual places, took it out for a test drive and drove okay. So bought the car for a total of £250 and found in the car after it had service history an MOTs dating back to 2000 and had receipts for head rebuild, head gasket, water pump, clutch last year and loads more.
Driving home down the M6 we could hear a noise coming from the back and next thing I know the drivers back wheel fell off and overtook me into the fast lane. Luckily the wheel didn't hit anything and i managed to carry on driving into the next layby. The highway agency, incident unit and police came out, checked all the details for an hour pissing about. They even closed a lane and had a 40mph limit due to an 'abandoned vehicle in the road' according to the overhead signs lol.
Once we'd sorted everything with the police, we then drove back the hour to Nottingham to get a spare wheel and some bolts, drove back to the car, changed all the wheels over just incase and drove home again! What should have been a 4 hour trip turned into a 10 hour journey in the end.
Gave it a quick clean today and here's some pictures.
stopped on the M6
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14th August 2011, 21:13
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love the 106
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14th August 2011, 21:21
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they look like reallllllly big wheels for some reason??
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14th August 2011, 21:37
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How'd you get it home with no tax or MOT?!
Looks a perfect project car in pretty good condition! What sort of plans you got for it?
Presume it was the sellers fault the wheel fell off as nuts were loose?
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14th August 2011, 21:39
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Quote:
Originally Posted by raunchz
How'd you get it home with no tax or MOT?!
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good question...
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14th August 2011, 22:13
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jayyoung
they look like reallllllly big wheels for some reason??
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There only 15s, probs look bigger as the car pretty low on the back.
Wanna get some standard XSi wheels for it soon.
Quote:
Originally Posted by raunchz
How'd you get it home with no tax or MOT?!
Looks a perfect project car in pretty good condition! What sort of plans you got for it?
Presume it was the sellers fault the wheel fell off as nuts were loose?
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Used trade plates and booked it in for a MOT that day round the corner from where I work.
Erm not a lot really, be a long term project lol. Get it MOT then going to change wishbones, droplinks, track rod ends as knocks on the front end and change all the engine mounts, BakerBM group N ones and give it a service too
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Originally Posted by LeeumH
Looks good.
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I wont do lol, you going to Trax?
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14th August 2011, 21:46
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Looks good.
Don't you dare scrap this one!
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14th August 2011, 22:18
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major bargain at 250
looks awesome in that black. me personally i like the wheels!
id give u that lol
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14th August 2011, 22:40
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Is that all it cost?! £250?! That's a bloody bargain if it did!
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14th August 2011, 23:37
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what kind of wheels are they?
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15th August 2011, 02:26
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I had a wheel fall off on me too only I lost a front one which made it a little harder to steer =/
The 106 looks decent, is it the 1.4 or 1.6?
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15th August 2011, 10:18
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Just 15'' steelies. Yeah only cost £250 pretty good really as got loads of receipts with it as well
1.6 engine too.
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15th August 2011, 14:08
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im so awsum for finding this 
and liam over my dead body will this get scrapped too lol
its his erly birthday pressie and its not gunna end like the mango i gave him 
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16th August 2011, 20:03
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if ben gets his hands on it too long it will be lol spose i cant talk lol havent finished mine yet lmao 
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16th August 2011, 20:04
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it was a very long day though and it handled superb on three wheels mate i didn't even notice lol
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16th August 2011, 20:22
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Ben you kept this quiet!
LMAO 3 wheeling down the m6 is pretty hardcore! Go boost 
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4th October 2011, 17:42
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Well nothing been done to the car, just been sat on the ramp at work since I got it lol.
But Nicole got me some new bits for my birthday,
BakerBM Engine Mounts, PolyRace Front Wishbone Bushes and PolyRace Front ARB Bushes
and also some Collineite 476S Wax and Chemical Guys wet mirror finish.
Just need to get Spoox hose kit, Nissans rad, rear wishbone mounts and new wishbones. Going to get them in next few weeks then should be back on the road hopefully.
On the other hand after renting a house for around 8 months, we finally got our own house sorted 3 bed semi-detatched with a garage too . Just getting the mortgage finalised so shouldn't be long now.
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4th October 2011, 17:56
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Which plot is that, where abouts?
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