strip

As previously mentioned, a brief history over the past year of how the ts came to be.

August two thousand nine, my first and current car, a mark one citroen xsara westcoast passed it's mot.
The weeks to follow would be a frustrating time for me, with seven thermostats being changed only to finally relise that the head gasket had gone. The option to scrap the car and gain two thousand pounds towards a new car was a much more tmepting offer than to repair the xsara yet again.
Any spare time was now spent researching a new car.
Many cars were considered;

the volvo c thirty and the bmw one series coupe, but both of these were too pricey, even in basic spec.

Other cars which failed to finish at the top of my list included the mark five astra bertone coupe, the mark one xsara vts and a few others. I was after a new car for a change and something where I would not have to worry about constant breakdowns, so these were scrapped (ahem) from the list.

In the end, I was left with three cars; the fiat five hundred, the vauxhall corsa and the mazda two.
The little fiat was then dismissed as I wanted only the top end model and couldn't afford it!

Both the corsa and the two were test driven and out of the two of them, only the two made mke feel like a small eight year old boy, so that's what I chose. So on the sevnteenth of october I went in and ordered a mazda two ts model with crystal white pearlescent paint. Probably not the best colour, especially with winter around the corner but oh well!

With an estimated waiting time of six weeks for the new car to arrive and for the xsara to go to the crusher, I started the stripping straight away. Any modifications that can be sold on to fund my new car would be coming off. Thankfully when changing things, I had kept the orignals so could just swap them back over.


The week before the mot



First to come off the xsara were the alloys but with a damaged locking wheel nut key and the manafacturer being in germany I was a bit pressed for time for a new key to arrive before it was collected. Eventually got the last wheel off the day before collection, phew ;)










The french pressed metal plates has already come off with the standard going on. Have actually kept the french ones as a little memory of all the good times I had in the car ;)
Up next was the exhaust and wow does the original one look tiny in comparison!

Finally, it was towed away one morning when I was in work, never to be seen again!

So with the xsara finally gone I was expecting a call any day now from mazda. They eventually did call me to say that the order had been delayed so there would be an extra month waiting time so I would get it right before christmas, if I was lucky!

Fast forward to pick up day...in the next blog ;)