Well that went well-NOT!

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Dropped off at scrappy now-very lucky with outcome-with tax for a month, change of insurance I'm £200 quid up but a nervous wreck.
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How much did you get for it?
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I’d say you had a great result…….you bought an old car, had a problem and got your money back in full.

It went well……..no NOT required!
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If I ended up with a free car I'd fix it, not scrap it.

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Yeah you did really well there. So it caught fire a little bit these things were pretty normal motoring 30 years ago. I remember trying to kip in the back of a Land Rover 110 back in the late 90's whilst following the RAC rally. A live wire somehow got trapped under the board I put in the back and smoke started to pour from the dash. It was no fun but I survived and no fucker gave me a free car, burnt my hand ripping the burning wire out mind.
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paulplom wrote: Fri Dec 03, 2021 12:56 pm How much did you get for it?
£257
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panhard65 wrote: Fri Dec 03, 2021 9:29 pm Yeah you did really well there. So it caught fire a little bit these things were pretty normal motoring 30 years ago. I remember trying to kip in the back of a Land Rover 110 back in the late 90's whilst following the RAC rally. A live wire somehow got trapped under the board I put in the back and smoke started to pour from the dash. It was no fun but I survived and no fucker gave me a free car, burnt my hand ripping the burning wire out mind.
I’ve had a diesel Land Rover short out the glow plug circuit behind the dash-earlyish one and fairly easy to fix, also a friends RS2000 radio wiring went up-but again an easyish fix. This was more smoke and as SiC has said could have been the control panel etc. All fixable -but I was glad to get my money back.

Could have kept it- but the agreement with the seller was full refund, scrap it and keep the scrap money. I offered to tow the car to his house (didn’t know if it would start at that point) but he didn’t want to as he had too many cars and not an off-road space. Offered to keep it at my gaff until he had a space but he declined.
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Talking 10 years off your life , the client i went to today was driving down the A21 at 60 in her Freelander this morning ..and the airbag light came on ...and then a fucking rat appeared from under the passenger seat ! Unfortunately her gun dog ,who woulda sorted it , was in a cage in the boot ! She managed to stop after a little swerving ,and other cars tooting at her , and she saw her tunic in the passenger footwell moving . She got out opened the other door and lobbed the lot out !! She said it shook her up LOL . It would me too !
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I had a small fire behind the tin instrument panel on a series 2a land rover early one morning on my way to work. No surprise really, it was an ex military 24v one so redundant wires everywhere from where the radio stuff had been ripped out. About the only time I'd been warm in it.
Luckily I had my flask so I coffeed it out.
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I'm amazed and pleased you got your money back. Was it a garage you bought it from?
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