Recent content by bassman1

GOING ........GOING ..........GONE ! bye bye little red rooster , what a great little car that was .

plain irritating to put it mildly , i wanted it out of the way by now , i've just replaced it with a 2.5 litre V6 rover 75 , sublime to the greedy ! i'll get another k10 one day though they are bloody good fun to drive .

Scrap man didnt show today last chance saloon tonight !

its typical weirdness , sods law will have someone on the lookout for a 1.2 engine next week ....DOH !!!!!!

Thanks for looking gents , sadly no takers so car gone to the scrapyard , bloody shame the rad and engine were very very good, oh well, if the bloke collecting it this morning is breaking it i'll post his contact details .

thats a lot of postage stamps ;)looking likely to be a scrap job as zero interest, will wait till monday night see if anyone wants it and ring scrapyard tuesday morning , wish i could break it myself .

So thats a Good 1.2 engine good radiator good rear section exhaust all for £75 and i'll throw in the rest of the car free ! ;)

My K10 failed its mot on saturday i've had it for almost 5 years and its without doubt the best car i've had for economy both petrol and general reliability ,i dont have the time to do the work myself , i live in a flat in the middle of town with nowhere other than the street to park so breaking...

found details on the golf gti site

lost the wiring diagram the black leads are colour coded i can remember the red tag is permanent live but the rest i didnt take much notice of its really pissed me off i've looked online but no good so far i now have the info from other sites but only word of mouth no diagrams if anyone has an...

i'm trying to work out how to cover the dented roof now after some feckin twat jumped all over it !!! i left it parked in the street as per normal and a day after i took this pic it got jumped on, front passenger door booted in and the bonnet front .....micra envy !!!

:D aw shucks i thought i'd got away with it .

i've got the 1.2 and get about 48mpg on a run , if you dont thrape the bollocks out of it sit at a steady 70 on the motorway you should do o.k , depends on how well the engine is serviced plugs etc around town i've never really checked accurately but its pretty close to 40 going by how often i...

i had a problem about 3 years ago turned out to be a couple of things there is a plunger rubber ? in the carb that can perish and i had water in my fuel tank which turned out to be from a filling station, i had the system cleaned out new fuel line filter and the carb repaired but the water in...

I've just fitted some of these,2 of my wheel arches had just bubbled through in a few places and rather than spend hours trying to get a pro finish i just rubbed em down treated the metal with rust converter and primer and fitted these over the top...