Jaypee

My felly is for sale in Finland, make an offer! 1.3 MPi Skoda Felicia 1.3 Comfort Viistoperä 2000 - Vaihtoauto - Nettiauto

The felly is for sale as it is for now, if no-one is interested, then I'll fix and repaint the front end and sell it. (link to my for sale ad here in Finland: Skoda Felicia 1.3 Comfort Viistoperä 2000 - Vaihtoauto - Nettiauto ) In the mean time, I bought a new car for myself, an american this time, take a look:

Thanks. I mocked the hood just a bit more, but other than that the car is in daily use as it is. I should buy a headlight and a front turn signal to make the car a bit more legal, but I think the car has reched the last weeks of it's life (under my ownership anyway..). I'm currently looking for a new car, which, I'm afraid is likely not a skoda. I want the new car to have air conditioning, and a bit more power and it seems there are no GOOD conditionend 1.6 felicias with A/C in finland, and a fabia or an octavia go beyond my price limit..

gotcha.

So, as the title suggests, are the felicia pre and post facelift headlights the same?

Another twist in this episode ... The deal about the spare-parts-felly, which I was supposed to buy on monday went sour, and the guy sold it to someone else, so now I have no spare parts and no running car. So what do I do, I need to start going to work on monday and I need a car? I decided to put the one on my yard back together. So after an hour or so of hammertime: And the result: :rofl: Sure, it's missing a headlight and some trimmings + the hood aint pretty, but it still runs like a champ.

The headlamp washers are using the same pump as the windshield washers, don't know if it's a different pump than in the ones that don't have headlight washers.. If you look at the pic below, you'll see a t-connector to the other pump

I might haveto drive around in the "spare-parts-car" for this summer cause I got a new job and I need a working car to get there. Anyways, I started to take a closer look of the damage to my felly. Popped the hood.. as you can see, the impact hit straight to the left headlight, which makes things difficult: After removing the bumper I noticed that the steel body for the bumper also took some damage and is now in a funny angle. First piece of rust on the car found :eek: Headlights off. The total picture of the damage is starting to appear: I started to take the side fender off, which turned out to be a real bitch to do! I'm not sure if the siliconish sealant which is in EVERY seam of the fender is factory made or is it some aftermarket antirust stuff, but I'm beginning to hate it. You basically haveto cut your way through every seam. Also, the fender is held in place by numerous screws and ONE (!!!) spotweld ! After this I had to call it a day since the rain was starting to bother working.. So by the looks of it, I'm in for some serious metal bending or I can just cut the whole corner off the spare-parts car with an angle grinder and weld it on this one..

From the looks of it, theres loads of rust all over.. my guess is that there's rust on the base as well, might be the reason for failing MOT..

I realize the gearboxes have different gear ratios, but are the outer dimensions similar?

...might need to make a new topic for sales, so this one won't be hijacked. vilguy, I don't have the car yet, but I'll check when it arrives and when the tearing begins.

Well, regarding my previous topic ( one sad day for felly - BRISKODA - The Skoda Forums ), I'm now well on my way to bringing that poor thing back to life. I've already found an organ donor: a -99 1.9D dark green hatchback felly. I originally thought about putting the blue 1.3mpi as spares, but the new felly is way more rusty (the wrecked one has no rust what so ever), so the diesel will be torn apart. Few questions and thoughts popped to mind straight away, since I'm scavenging the car and sending the rest out for junk. a) The 1.9D has power steering, the 1.3 doesn't. Does the 1.9 have the same PAS pump as the 1.3 would use? In other words: theoretically, do I have all the resources needed to put power steering on the 1.3 (the piping and drive belts will be renewed)? (and yes, I know it aint easy) Are the transmissions alike? c) I'll get alloys, yeee!! d) I'll keep and do a thorough maintenance on the 1.9 engine, just for fun. Maybe then swap it on the other car or sell it forward.. (or maybe do something crazy with it) EDIT : I will be selling parts from the spare car, but Ill make a new thread for that in the proper section.

update: GREAT NEWS!! The insurance company offered me 2,5k in exchange for the car. I asked about the damage and it turns out there's nothing that impacts the driveability or reliability of the car (except for the radiator), so everything is merely cosmetic damage. I asked for him to calculate a sum with which I coud keep the car as it is and the answer was.... I get 2,2k€ cash AND get to keep the car Another felly saved , phew that was close..

Not sure yet, still waiting for the offer from the insurance company. I haven't seen the actual repair report, so I really don't know what's broken, besides the obvious. But I actually already have my eye on a -00 1.3 dark blue felly with only 110k km on the meter... This might also turn out bad: I might get a ridiculously low sum and end up buying some old crap that's broken all the time.. We'll wait and see

Well folks, it's official now, I'm no longer a proud owner of a felly.. According to the insurance company, the repair costs are greater than the current value of the car and now we're fighting for the redemption price... rest in peace, dear felly, you were a great car..