how much to fix it Mister ?

It needs work but then the price reflects and it does have a few bells and whistles

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Renault-Alpin ... 6016.l4276

[BIG_MVS]

It's not going to cost



+



to fix then?

[stephendell]

Someone buy it and save it please before it ends up being relisted as individual spare parts!

[BIG_MVS]

It's got till just after Xmas (don't want to take the wee wee out of Lee and leave it at his place for any length of time without doing anything or paying him any money like some people). After that it will be broken for spares I'm afraid.

Hope somebody buys this. I thought it was a rather nice car when I saw it at the Northern Meet a couple of years back with some tasteful mods making it look like a rather mean machine. Defo worth the £6k sorted. Please don't let the butcher of Sandbach have his wicked way. Here endeth my plea

[BIG_MVS]

Please don't let the butcher of Sandbach have his wicked way. Here endeth my plea

I resemble that remark.

I've seen your garden.

Blimey, where's that GTA 'garden'?

[stephendell]

I don't want to take the wee wee out of Lee and leave it at his place for any length of time without doing anything or paying him any money like some people

Like who?

At present we have one here for nearly two years ,one getting on 6 months and one just two weeks in but pushing his luck already .Space costs innit ,I still have rent to pay whatever the weather ......
I have had this week off mostly 'cause I'm sick of the sight of them ATM but normal service will be resumed tomorrow I'm sure ....

Don't ya just luv this instant,open and warts an all age we live in I find it most refreshing and am often hoisted on my own petard

[BIG_MVS]

I don't want to take the wee wee out of Lee and leave it at his place for any length of time without doing anything or paying him any money like some people

Like who?

Turbo 2 man and Silver GTA man of course.

Mind you I bet it happens to every garage around the country, man buys car, man can't afford to fix car and has no where to keep it so leaves it at the garage for free storage.

Just want to keep RATS going that's all. We need to support our "Northern" Alpine specialist as it's hard work running a garage and no doubt even harder when you specialise in a 300 user base french car.

[stephendell]

Lol. I had the conversation earlier

Agreed. It is a challenge to make a car business work and many customers don't realise how much time and effort goes into maintaining / working on older cars. We often spend hours / days trying to diagnose faults or replace rusty crusty parts that you just can't charge a customer for. And then they pick them up and quibble on you charging an hour to do a job that actually took 8!

I probably have to deal with 8-10 cars that people have dumped on us long term and in most cases there is nothing we can do. They are either waiting for stuff we have no control over or need a huge amount of work that quite frankly, we can't even think about doing when we are so busy with the day to day running of the business. And then they turn up and comment that the car is deteriorating. Well yes, take it away then sunshine and put it in your own garage (O yes, you haven't got any space hence why the bloody thing is left here). I've had a major moan at a few people this week funnily enough.

Must be the time of year for a good old moan
to be fair I've only ever had two bad customers but nightmare ones ....the T2 and a GTA still here after two years .T2 got legal and I won but could have well done without the 18months stress and 3.5k lawyers fees

[mettersl]

So turning back to the GTA...how bad is it , if its a "DIY not professional job"?
Should I call for details?