SupStacey

Just logged back in for the first time in forever- WOW!! What an amazing job you've done. We've had to SORN ours until we have the money for repairs but this will make me push harder for it! I wonder how much someone would pay for a rebuild like this...!

Would be very interested if you manage to do this/find someone. We are in bristol and have the fun pickup too although it's currently SORN after an MOT failure that would cost too much to do in one go. Ours also needs a fair amount of welding so please do update if you get it done

Wedding out of the way... meaning we can get some funds on the go and get her back on the road again... I'm looking at taking a car restoration course at a local college (10 week - £130, I think that's pretty good!) which teaches welding amongst other things - so hopefully with a bit of help she'll be SORN'd no longer! Watch this space... P.s if anyone is in Bristol one weekend and wants to lend a hand...

Wow, that went completely over my head! lol. It has always been terrible on fuel, so if it's running rich that doesn't surprise me. I just hope we can save her :( We have a few friends who are "mechanically able", and are hopefully going to have a look and see if they can help us out... Watch this space, I guess! I don't think i could bring myself to scrap her. I wonder if there is a quirky organisation or company out there that might want some free advertising on her in trade for repairs...

Yeah, we've been quoted over £900 and that's if they don't come across anything else amiss... It's a shame as the mot runs out at the start in November and then we are getting married so just can't afford it :( We have a friend who is a welder, we are hoping he'll be able to help somewhat and bring the cost down otherwise it's rip little truck :(

Dohnjoe it does idle very low on start ups but is then absolutely fine once you drive away. I don't think the throttle has ever been cleaned... Defo not a crack in the manifold - bloke has been on the phone again today and it's leaked gas from every join... Oh joy!! I'll take a picture of the cert now... Only had the emissions one at home before and have this one now

Thanks Tom, that does make sense as the exhaust is noisy, didn't realise a blow would cause it to fail though. We'll take a look at the exhaust. I'm super annoyed because the mot guy did say it was the worst fitting of an exhaust he's ever seen. Covered in paste apparently? Sigh! Thanks so much for you help though If I put the fail results up on here too, do you reckon you might be able to see if we have a really poorly fun or are perhaps being ripped off??

Managed to get a picture hope this helps?

Hi Tom. Stupid me left the certificate at home - i will take a look and pop them up here later. I think it failed on everything except idle... but not certain until i double check.

It's that time of year again... MOT on our X reg fun. Having already had a new exhaust, Cat & Lambda fitted earlier in the year, is there any other reason why (other than a shoddy fitting) it would fail on emissions? There are a few other minor things too. It may be the end of the old girl... perhaps she can find a better life with a new owner :( This isn't me asking how much i should sell her for, but could anyone tell me how much they purchased their fun for? Currently for sale I can only see prices of the area of £1.5K in great condition, or something stupid like £100 for a shell and a non-working engine... not exactly the best market to try and find a price for! (i will totally take out my last question if its not appropriate)

What did you use to clean the yellow leather up so well? (if you dont mind me asking?)

Think I may have seen this one for sale! Looking forward to seeing more

I knew I was being stupid! Thanks so much! I think I tried to over complicate things.... Blonde moment :(

Firstly, apologies for the stupid question! Our passenger side rear light has gone (as a policeman kindly pointed out to me the other evening) I cannot for the life of me find one online. My usual go to (euro car parts) doesn't stock them online. Rang them up - they don't stock them. I can find one set of them on Ebay, under a shop that has loadddsss of bad feedback recently, but ideally we need this ASAP, not waiting a week for it to arrive. Am i most likely being silly - yes :( Can anyone shed any light on where to source a replacement? I haven't had a look yet, but any idea how to access the bulb to replace it? its a W Reg 2000 1.6 felicia fun

Hello all! Apologies for this post. I can see this has been asked before, but i haven't managed to find an answer :( We are looking at 2 things - a tonneau cover and a bed liner (or lining spray) I don't want the hard workman top, just a soft tonneau cover. I've seen images of them everywhere but don't know where they are sold! These are the ones which fits flat to the back with zips down the edges so you can bring the back seats out, and a separate part which also clips over the back seats too, with clear 'windows'. I haven't had any luck with this, and have tried a few companies around Bristol/Swindon but they don't make them. With the bed liner/spray, I've had a few quotes of around £400+VAT - which seems quite expensive when i'm sure we could either do this fairly easily ourselves, or borrow the services of our friend who does bodywork/resprays for a living. Anyone have any luck with either of these?