Charity rally in a £500 Octavia VRS - Progress being made!

[Hofmiester]

Right folks, just 4 sleeps now until I embark on the epic TWIN TOWNS CHALLENGE as team ROADHAWKS

http://www.twintown16.co.uk/ 

We've been busy behind the scenes and we now have our blog up with progress on our £500 car to track Demon tranformation https://atomhawk.wordpress.com/

Last time be did this event in 2014 in a 728i BMW but this time we were lucky enough to score a non runner Octavia VRS for £500.

The car was overall very good and worth a lot more than that, but it had developed an electrical fault preventing it from starting just a couple of days before the MOT ran out.

 

So the owner decided to cut his loses and buy a new car and put this up for sale on the forum, late last year. A deal was done and we had it towed home to Newcastle.

 

It turned out that the car's ECU had failed due to water ingress caused by a badly fitting rain tray under, a new ECU, a track rod end and a couple of brake pipes later and we had a running car with a fresh 12 months MOT!

 

 

[sigarland1987]

Really good read, what happened to the E38, looking for a set of those wheels lol!

[mac11irl]

Brlliant

[Hofmiester]

The E38 was a pretty sickly motor. Engine was solid as you'd expect but the body was very corroded and the fuel tank rotted through. I sold it to a fellow Corrado forum member, who drove it to the Nuremberg ring and back.....sadly it died in Birmingham city centre RIP

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[Hofmiester]

Little update today, decals arrived!

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[Hofmiester]

Final pics!

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[mac11irl]

Love the colour combo

[Outofthi5world]

Liking this, a lot! I remember the for sale thread with this car, I was going to buy it but you got in there about half a day before me. Damn. Anyway, good luck!

[Hofmiester]

Cheers folks. We've already hit a snag. On the way out it started misfiring badly and after a vag com session it looks to be a coil pack. I am literally writing this in the queue at Euro Car Parts

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[Hofmiester]

All sorted!

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