The Scab

20/04/2007

After spotting his for sale on an irish forum i made the mistake of mentioning it to Chris. Anyone who knows Chris will be aware he has a 9000 soft spot. It didn't take him long to convince me and Hanna and I were on the way to collect it within a few hours of talking to the seller.

As advertised the car had a few fault. Namely engine mounts (common) and a dodgy TPS (again common) bald tyres and also the drivers door didn't open from the outside.

When i arrived the the sellers house i don't think he'd even got home from work so hadn't as much as got the car started, we faffed around for an hour or so getting it jump started and the tyres pumped up. On the first test drive it was apparent the throttle was sticking closed after booting it but i didn't think much of it. On the drive home it was faultless apart from the throttle sticking once which was sorted in a few seconds. It wasn't actually faultless as i soon discovered the 2 front headlight bulbs were blown so had to drive behing hanna with just parkers and fogs on.

Pics from the advert