Hi guys
I have just called the AA out and been informed that my timing belt is buggered. You guys would know better than me that this is not a cheap job to get done and I dont have the mech skills to do myself.
Bottom line is i dont think i can afford the repairs at mo so am having to decide the now best course of action. Unless anyone knows a good mechanic that will do at good price as opposed to going to a main stream garage.

Should i sell as a job lot to someone for spares or as scrap value? What might u get for either option? Even if some one wants to strip down and then i scrap whats left?

We are talking a 16v Turbo in Blue N Reg, basic car, good condition black leather interior, no enhancements but in good condition for year.

Its a sad day as I love driving this car that i have owned for a couple of years.

The car is located in County Durham.
Paul

mate i really frrl for you but at the current prices i would buy another coop and break your car you might make more than a working car to be fair as the prices are really low

There are a couple of options;-

• Repair the engine, but this may prove costly
  
  
• Sell it for parts, but I don't think you'll get much back
  
  
• Or get a good second hand engine* and stick it in

I feel for you, but I think it's perhaps best to cut your loses.

*A good 16vt engine is quite hard to find.

well as a not bad 16 valve can be had for around 1k then i would sell the part as even the leathe is worth £100 and just build up the money and i doubt you would need to put more than £300 towards a new one and lets be reall, a 16 valve engine will cost that and to fix the 16 valve engine atleast double that.
although if you get it fixed you know you have a good strong car and it will be reliable. you will have to keep it quite a while to get the use out of it though

Maybe try contacting countrycruising on here, to see if he'd want to buy it off you to break or just to give you an idea what a breaker would take it off your hands for?

depends,

i just spent what my car is worth on a repair bill. the bottom end went on mine.

if i was going to sell the car tomorrow. then it wouldn't have been worth me doing. if you walk in to it and recognise you wont see that money back then i would do one of two things

1)take the head off and get it repaired. i know some one who just had theres done for about 300 quid. that was new valves and everything

2)source a good 16vt engen. do a transplant. but you may as well do the clutch and the belts wile your at it then

the other option is to scrap it and move on. be under no illusion. you will walk away with a few hunderd quid..if you have the time and space. Or give joe a call as he will scrap it for you

my repair will was over 1k for my work. but i can be sure that there is little else to go wrong with it now as the belts, clutch, and all the other odds and sods are as new

if you want any one to do the work i would recomend County Crusing aka Joe.

how do i contact this joe?

PM countrycruising or number next to name http://www.fiatcoupeclub.org/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=563742#Post563742

Hi,

We have a engine or two if that helps.

Rick

I have a similar problem, nothing wrong with my car as such, but I've spent a fair bit on it the last year and need to spend more to get it through the next MOT in Jan as well as up to the standard I want. I'm tearing myself apart deciding if I should move onto another more sorted coop and sell or scrap mine, I hate seeing cars scrapped but it's worth less than I've spent on it this year as a complete car!

Gareth

If I do scrap it though, the engine is superb, 79 k with no problems, if you haven't got anything by the time I decide what to do with it, just drop me a PM, I won't be after mega bucks!

G

famous last words

i implicatively trust the bloke who did the work, that much that im buying a coupe for the weekends off him