Been lurking for a while, and have in no small way been persuaded to register after finding the tenth or fifteenth superbly helpful guide after google directing me right on back here yet again.
Name's Chris but people have called me Vard for ten years so Vard I am.
24, living in West Witshire, UK (between Swindon and Bristol along the A4 for anyone who wants to look up the area on maps...
)Have loved the 850 wagon since I watched them in the BTCC when I was six or seven, and have always loved the sound and power of the T5. It had to happen eventually, and back in November one of my friends pointed out that he had an olive green met. 855R needing a little bit of work and some formality legal checks to get her back on the road after she was written off on uneconomical repair basis.
Bought her, spent some time doing the mechanicals and have just put her through the VIC (Vehicle Identity Check - essentially a check of the engine code, chassis code and reg against the database to make sure it's not another car masquerading with the R's plates on after she was bought back).
She's not the tidiest wagon in the world but I'm working on it. Since that photo was taken I've changed the rear lights and side repeaters for clear V70 ones, resprayed the ratty rear wiper arm and given her a bit of a scrubbing up.
She needs a new front bumper, as the R one is rather smashed to hell - looks like the previous owner before my friend drove it into every kerb he came across for fun.
She's also rather low, and whomsoever achieved that also achieved incredibly soft and rather long travel, so she is in fact somewhat unsettling to drive in anger. Within a couple of weeks I'm expecting delivery of some cheap coilovers from Pro Sport (who I gather used to be Jamex) to hopefully sort that out for the time being.
Anyway, I'll stop rabbiting now and go and have a proper nosey about the fora.
Cheers,
Vard.
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Her last day was on 3 cylinders. 