Repair or replace?
#1
Posted 12 March 2007 - 02:01 AM
I have a slight conundrum in my life. To which the logical answer does not go well with the answer I would like.
The question relates to my El Gordo and asum of money (£2000) I shall receive soon. With this money I have two choices.
1) Rebuild El Gordo. Meaning rust removal, engine overhaul and respray.
2) Buy......another mini and bit farewell to El Gordo.
Thing is the cleaver logical choice is buy a new mini with less/no rust and use that. My choice would be rebuild El Gordo. Not too sure if I can do it for £2000 and loose my daily driver for X number of weeks. The main problem with the 1'st choice is that the number of parts I will need. I need;
2 x doors,
MIG welder,
full front end,
Paint (and all part in-between)
Compressor,
New interior,
new door hinges,
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Skuttles is fairly rusty,
So I don't know. Anyone think it's do-able for £2000?
#2
Posted 12 March 2007 - 07:13 AM
#3
Posted 12 March 2007 - 07:45 AM
just see what dog, mowog and jack have done
#4
Posted 12 March 2007 - 10:26 AM
#5
Posted 12 March 2007 - 11:26 AM
Alternatively, Buy a mini for 1500 (which will have less rust than that) then use 500 on tarting the new one up a bit.
depends how much you've modified el gordo? if not alot, id go for a new mini, that rust looks pretty bad!
Dave
#6
Posted 12 March 2007 - 12:46 PM
#7
Posted 12 March 2007 - 01:20 PM
#8
Posted 12 March 2007 - 02:42 PM
#9
Posted 12 March 2007 - 05:49 PM
#10
Posted 12 March 2007 - 05:57 PM
Althought does mean for one I have to....pa....paaa.........PAY people to do stuff for me. Damn my lack of a full automotive machine shop. Damn it to all hell and back!
#11
Posted 12 March 2007 - 06:57 PM
Ah bugger it, I shall keep El Gordo.
Althought does mean for one I have to....pa....paaa.........PAY people to do stuff for me. Damn my lack of a full automotive machine shop. Damn it to all hell and back!
Hey dude
Me and me dad are rebuilding his mini at the momet. You could do alot of that body work at home with just drill wire bit, new parts, body filler, welder ect
Ill try and find some photo of how bad me dads mini was... and i mean bad you could put your finger thourgh some of the rust it was that bad lol.
Save her go on she will love you long time for it.
lol
#12
Posted 12 March 2007 - 07:03 PM
#13
Posted 12 March 2007 - 07:39 PM
As for the bodywork you can pick up a decent welder for £130, as you don’t need an all singing and dancing high-powered welder for a mini, well that’s unless you want to blowholes all day long.
And to keep the costs down, for the smaller repairs you can make them your self with a few basic tools. I only have a selection of hammers, some wood and a few clamps, made out of a few old rot free mini panels. A mini roof would be ideal and shouldn’t be that much from a breakers.
I’ve been using my old rotten doors for some of the patches, so in a way I’m repairing the with the car, so at least the patches are original to.
And don’t buy the first things you see, shop around and you might get lucky like I did with my new doors for only £20 the pair, as the car they came off was being scraped and the bloke was moving house so wanted them shifted ASAP.
Edited by 1984mini25, 12 March 2007 - 07:43 PM.
#14
Posted 12 March 2007 - 09:13 PM
It could be a TMF SAVE A MINI CAMPAIGN.
If theres anything i can do let me know (lend tools help with stuff etc) though i dont know how far away i am.
If old El is such a TMF legend it would be a shame to see it go!
blakie
#15
Posted 12 March 2007 - 09:17 PM
I don't do charity. I'll borrow tools but I will not take money (fear me and my morels!)
Ta tho everyone. Just got to get round to a few places to get prices. Should be fun. Going to see if renting a welder is cheaper as I have some of the clobber to go with it.
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