McQueen (Puma Black, RIP)

[slayllian]

This is my second Puma (actually my wife's, but I do all the work). We were trying to find a cheap one to save and restore. We plan to keep this car as standard but get it back to a fairly decent level. We will use this as a daily allowing me to get my silver puma to a better standard.

Its a Puma Black series, built in late 2000 with no mods. It had done 126,000 miles when we picked it up.

The car need a fair amount of work the main points are:

• Expansion tank level keeps dropping (spare water bottle in boot, along with a rubbish heap and the spare wheel).
  Suspension knocks
  Oil off dipstick (put some in on site to get the 100 odd miles home)
  Engine light up
  ABS & TC light up
  Holes in rear of sills
  Grinding noise coming from aux belt area

The car had no service history and the bodywork looked like it had been cleaned with scotchbrite and both mirrors were hanging off.
He wanted £900 but I knocked it down to £500.
Had road tax and somehow miraculously an MOT.
A complete shed, but I was finding it hard to locate a Puma Black edition at the time (one she wanted) and on the plus side the interior leather was in good condition.

When we went to pic it up from London:

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[Anonymous]

That's nasty!

Looks like you've got a bit to do on this one!

 

[The Arch Bishop]

Blimey, the seller must have cacked themselves when you turned up in your minter!!

That looks like a lot of hard work to sort out!

 

[slayllian]

lol all good fun saving another puma from the scrappy. needless to say been running this little car for nearley a year now with next to no problems. more updates to follow tomorrow.

 

[Cherie]

From experience, I would never buy a puma that doesn't have any oil in it. I'd set aside some money for a new engine, because if there's one thing that kills Puma engines, is letting it run out of oil.

 

[slayllian]

Its the car that turned up at Rockingham Cherie. I bought it with an engine change in mind but it just keeps plodding on :wink:

 

[aberdarepuma]

nice lil project there keep u busy :-D

 

[slayllian]

Here's a few more pics when we got it home last June....


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Lots of rot.......

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Spare tire was bald (had been living in the boot)....

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Bad repair job, bumper had been red and rubber skirt was missing:

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Leather was ok considering.....

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Someone had somehow melted the volume button....

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Flashing lights like a Christmas tree....

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So all in all a "small" project on my hands :-D

 

[The Arch Bishop]

Wow! That'd led a HARD life in the hands of uncaring owners! Still, I reckon you're the best person to take it on!

 

[slayllian]

lol I wanted a complete heap to do up... and I found one. will post sone more pics tomorrow had the car since june so managed to do most bits.

 

[slayllian]

First thing to do was change the oil....

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Yuk, been in there some time.....

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Few more of the dings.....

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[slayllian]

So next up I decided to give it a tidy up....

Used clay bar and some serious polishing to get from this......

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To this.....

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[Blue3]

wowzers, looks great I would never of thought it would come up like that

Simon

 

[slayllian]

Fitted a new (second hand) back box...

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Then tidied up some of the body work...

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Replaced the rear fog lights and fitted new wiper arm and wiper

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[slayllian]

Fitted new washer jets as the old ones were corroded up...

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Tried to clean up the bad paint job someone had done on front wing, but came up like this!!

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General under arch shot (just for the hell of it)

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Set about removing wing and bumper, to replace...

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Typical cack in bottom of wing.....

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New parts fitted....

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Found this bodge in the burnt roof lining, someone had just tied the wire together....

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So I soldered....

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Then fitted new roof lining....

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Bits for tip....

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Bit of an oil leak, so replace rocker cover gasket...

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Replaced the noisy idler gear....

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Then checked condition of cambelt....

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[slayllian]

Few exteriors......

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[evilrob]

Blimey - you've cleaned that up nice, Rich! Amazing work, sir! If I had a hat, it would be tipped in your direction. In fact I might buy one so I can do just that. :thumbs:

 

[slayllian]

Thanks lol, wait till the next update, Pippa might make a cameo! lol

Cars not looking so good at the moment had a run in with a cat at the end of last year and smashed the bumper :-( and the poor cat didnt come off to well either :-( :-(

 

[Anonymous]

Crikey, that's some hard graft gone in to that so far. That paintwork after the clay and polish is the nuts...!

 

[Xparty]

*Get a Black Puma alive* - Achievement Unlocked :grin:

Nice Job there mate :thumbs: