So back in January this year I was getting bored of driving a 2004 Toyota Yaris 1.3
Purchased to replace my 2002 Nissan Micra 2002 1.0 Cadbury Blue Tempest Below (Candy) worst thing I ever did as car above cost me over £1000 to keep on the road. Biggest mistake of my life.
So searched around for a Nissan Micra k11 and on 1st January 2020 I was messaged on Facebook about a 1999 Nissan Micra 1.0 Profile in Caldicot that was for sale with only 24,966 miles on the clock and had been off the road for the last 4 years
On 4th January 2020 I went down to Coldicot to see the car and thoroughly checked the car over as didn't know what to expect being that car had been off the road for 4 years and had no mot.
I checked all the usual corrosion spots that micras have like the corner by the vents etc all seemed to be solid just a few bits of surface rust nothing serious.
On 7th January 2020 Red Rose passed mot with only a few advisories and on 11th January I collected the car from Caldicot.
Not long after bringing the car back I removed the scuttle panel to check for corrosion and clean years of debris.
Gave Red Rose a much needed service on 21st February at 25,125 miles the original spark plugs didn't look to bad but the air filter had definitely seen better days so had the oil also fitted a New Yuasa 3000 Battery.
In March I upgraded the stereo from tape deck stereo to the modern equivalent a JVC CD,Bluetooth,Hands-free,Dab stereo.
Back in April work included sanding,repainting and refitting battery mount & horn also fitting headlight protectors and cleaning the engine bay.
Decided To replace the old Aerial as it had perished.
Fitting the new Dab aerial was a nightmare as I had to remove the grab handle door rubbers,seat belts b pillar covers C pillar covers A pillar cover,interior light. I undid every thing got my hand in the b pillar and pull the headliner down quite hard to get it out from the window rubber. The other side just fell down.
Once I had done that I unscrewed Sun visors and removed the plastic clip in the center of the front headliner. And slide the whole headliner forward.
Then Undid the gold bolt on Aerial and it came off in one piece.
Then fitted the new universal Dab radio aerial that I purchased from eBay then wired it all in and made sure all wiring was hidden and put everything back together.
In May the local garage in west Wales removed headlamps,bumper,radiator & trims, drilled out spot welds holding cross member which was badly corroded behind radiator fitted & welded new cross member prepared for paint sprayed it with primer and topcoat. Sprayed inside cross member with clear waxoyl fitted rear mudflaps, lubricated gear linkages checked and adjusted front wheel tracking (was toeing out).
Purchased to replace my 2002 Nissan Micra 2002 1.0 Cadbury Blue Tempest Below (Candy) worst thing I ever did as car above cost me over £1000 to keep on the road. Biggest mistake of my life.
So searched around for a Nissan Micra k11 and on 1st January 2020 I was messaged on Facebook about a 1999 Nissan Micra 1.0 Profile in Caldicot that was for sale with only 24,966 miles on the clock and had been off the road for the last 4 years
On 4th January 2020 I went down to Coldicot to see the car and thoroughly checked the car over as didn't know what to expect being that car had been off the road for 4 years and had no mot.
I checked all the usual corrosion spots that micras have like the corner by the vents etc all seemed to be solid just a few bits of surface rust nothing serious.
On 7th January 2020 Red Rose passed mot with only a few advisories and on 11th January I collected the car from Caldicot.
Not long after bringing the car back I removed the scuttle panel to check for corrosion and clean years of debris.
Gave Red Rose a much needed service on 21st February at 25,125 miles the original spark plugs didn't look to bad but the air filter had definitely seen better days so had the oil also fitted a New Yuasa 3000 Battery.
In March I upgraded the stereo from tape deck stereo to the modern equivalent a JVC CD,Bluetooth,Hands-free,Dab stereo.
Back in April work included sanding,repainting and refitting battery mount & horn also fitting headlight protectors and cleaning the engine bay.
Decided To replace the old Aerial as it had perished.
Fitting the new Dab aerial was a nightmare as I had to remove the grab handle door rubbers,seat belts b pillar covers C pillar covers A pillar cover,interior light. I undid every thing got my hand in the b pillar and pull the headliner down quite hard to get it out from the window rubber. The other side just fell down.
Once I had done that I unscrewed Sun visors and removed the plastic clip in the center of the front headliner. And slide the whole headliner forward.
Then Undid the gold bolt on Aerial and it came off in one piece.
Then fitted the new universal Dab radio aerial that I purchased from eBay then wired it all in and made sure all wiring was hidden and put everything back together.
advice from the garage was that to sort problem that was occurring with problem going into gear was that either gearbox needs taking out to sort the problem ie lubricate clutch fork or change the clutch.
I opted for the clutch to be replaced so the front wheels were removed to take drive shafts out of the gearbox heat was applied to ball joint nuts gearbox was removed from ''Red Rose'' to fit the new clutch kit assembly fork was lubricated everything was refitted and was filled with gear oil and road tested.
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