Project passat..

[supafrisk]

No I took the speedo pics at the same time but one has been taken off the boss's camera phone cos mine was grainy
As for the vandalism, somebody didn't want to see it get tarted up

[Welly]

Bloody hell, the scratcher needs to wake up and smell the coffee the world doesn't owe HIM a living - it's tough out there and whoever makes the most effort wins........

[sirwiggum]

Wow! A story Steven King would be proud of!

Do you work with the keyer?

Did you buy the car privately?

[supafrisk]

If it is him that did it, then yes I do. I never bought the car, I'm just restoring it so the next full time driver who gets in it will hopefully have a trouble free drive.
I treat other people's cars how I would like mine to be treated - I may be guilty sometimes of driving "naughtily" but would never push any car above its limits and am used to nursing OAPs around, I once had the dubious pleasure of nursing a mondeo with a leak so bad it needed a litre every few hours, no heating and had to drive with gloves on, and it drank petrol like you wouldn't believe. Oh and the suspension was non-existent. All in a night's work, really

[sirwiggum]

Par for the course with Fords, from previous experience.

My last Ford I had to use 1950s style hand signals because it had no right hand lights. Even the Pug COM2000 units aren't that bad!

I can see where you're coming from, if it is a small organisation. Similar to what I have seen old computers getting reconditioned for use as servers, makeshift routers / training etc.
Fair play to you, better renewing the old cars than just outright scrappage and buying a new fleet car.
I hate waste, consumer driven society loves destroying the old.

[FarmerPug]

is that really 450k miles thats amazing

[SimonTNUK]

is that really 450k miles thats amazing

I drive this for a living.


When I parked it up last weekend it had 499876 on the clock.
When I started work again on Sunday morning I found it had been working over the weekend and done about 250.
Someone had taken it through 500,000
(Thats km btw, but not bad for under 4 years old)