Seicento Repo' Sell, Scrap or Fix?

[Relentless Rob]

So I've had to repossess my Seicento.

The guy gave me a deposit and took the pee basically so I now have the car back with a days M.O.T and five months Tax.

Should I sell the Seicento? I don't really have room and there are less than nine weeks to get the Panda 750 (Guff II) ready for the £999 Challenge.

Should I break the Seicento for parts? Have just repaired the engine and driven the car I know she's a good little runner.

Should I repair the car get it tested and sold on. The car needs both CV boots replacing, the back bumper repairing (where the pillock reversed into a fence) and rear wiper removing/replacing. The car owes me £250 and with a fresh M.O.T maybe £350 and in it's current state only worth £400-£500 (so long as I find someone who's not a pillock to sell the car to that is).

What do you guys think?

[kieran07]

Depends how much time you've got on your hands. Personally I'd just get rid, spare and repairs it, concentrate on the project car.

[Renrut]

Sell it. The question is do you fix it first or sell as is. I'd take a long look at the (potential) MOT fail sheet before I decided.

No point breaking it for parts, they're a simple little car so unless there is something terminally wrong either in engine or chassis they're cheaper to fix and sell because they fetch good money as learner/just passed cars.

[Relentless Rob]

I did think about using the Guff drive shafts (if they fit) as I know the CV's are good making up a pair of brackets for the rear bumper is about an hour's work. If I put the car through an M.O.T and it fails on anything else, then it's scrap/spares or repair because it won't be worth what I've spent.

There's the dilemma as well as time if I spend any more money on the car it'd be at a loss.

[Relentless Rob]

Found a pair of drive shafts with good CV's where one has been run dry it's noisy so it's probably shot. £20 for the pair. The other stuff won't fail the M.O.T apparently so I'll put it through as soon as and see what else is wrong with the car.

[Relentless Rob]

Just a little Repo-cento update. I had to take the passenger front seat out of the car yesterday and clean it with a pressure washer, upholstery shampoo and febreeze due to being soaked in urine. Fixed the damage done to the rear bumper and gave the rest of the interior a valet. I was going to pick up a pair of drive shafts as one of the dry cv joints is noisy but after chopping Guff up and dropping it on myself I couldn't be arsed and went to see 'er in panties instead.

I've also noticed the rear brakes are a bit noisy as well but I have a set of nearly new brake shoes from Guff I in my shed.

Spare or repairs is a dead end, Repo-cento owes me a tenner more than this one...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/120904303791? ... 500wt_1373

...it looks better than mine as well.

[Relentless Rob]

So I've been looking at "Spares or Repairs" Seicento's on eBay...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/120904303791? ... 500wt_1373

£250

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/120903142880? ... 554wt_1356

£160 at the moment.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251052362060? ... 540wt_1356

£200 and no bids.

...and ones with T+T.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1998-FIAT-SEI ... 114wt_1356

£595

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1998-FIAT-SEI ... 500wt_1373

£795

[kieran07]

I say just cut your losses and punt it off on ebay as is, take the hit and move on. Unless you've got time on your hands to mess about fixing it up for someone else to drive.

[Relentless Rob]

There is another alternative.

If this vote is a tie and fate hands me a joker it may happen. More later.

[Steve33]

If its a tie is it a sie trailer like in the mag last month ?

[Relentless Rob]

Crap.

The other option is a parts donor for another Panda.

[Steve33]

Or some kind of support car for team rob motorsport panel in rear windows and bobs yer fathers brother a seicento wagon.

[Relentless Rob]

Seicento van?

Not bad.

[Relentless Rob]

Repo-Cento Van?

[url]|http://thumbsnap.com/a1BvgSWn[/url]



Could work.