Farewell my old friend [*]

No...

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You are beyond pathetic. Twingos are worth basically nothing. Saving it would be the most stupid decision anyone could make, looking at how rusty it is.

he stated a blown head gasket as reason, see if a lot more is fucked then it is plausible but otherwise, a headgasket is like 20 bucks and 2 hours of labor on a twingo.

And it will blow once again in a few months. Changes are, the head is warped or something along the lines.
Also, a headgasket job shouldn't be the first thing you do if you have no experience, and not everyone has experience.

*Chances
fuck you autocorrect

I've also recently scrapped my 1996 scénic because of a blown headgasket.

Typical for '90s Renault

>Also, a headgasket job shouldn't be the first thing you do if you have no experience, and not everyone has experience.

But having a shitbox that is worth literally nothing is the best fucking way to learn things though?
Experience certainly does not come from oil changes, user.

this mong doesn't know that when replacing headgasket, one have to polish a cylinderhead.

this.
this is the best case scenario to learn things. if you fuck up the engine you can still just toss it.

>one have to polish a cylinderhead.
hence 2 hours and not 30 minutes

Always sad to see a Twingo bite the dust. Renault heaven will receive it with open arms in its kingdom full of blown head gaskets and broken gearboxes.

The actual work usually does not equal the length of the tutorial video. You'd know this if you'd ever worked on a car. Also sanding a head isn't the right way to do it. You should let a professional do it.

>a bright early morning
>my master opens the garage door
>my happy smile and cheeky eyes shines back to him
>my master appears weary and downtrodden
>no matter, my happy-go-lucky drive with my master will surely lift his sprits
>ONWARD AND AWAY
>our adventure out seems to be missing something, as if there is a hollow in the soul
>we venture down a new road
>it appears to have an air of dread about the place
>once mighty cars
>that look abandoned
>missing parts
>corroded
>litter the landscape
>we rest for a while
>my master has walked on to another man
>if fear this stranger, what is my master discussing?
>i feel safer now he is walkimg towards me
>and now past me....
>....master?
>master
>MASTER!!!!
>.......
>dont leave me....

>You should let a professional do it.

Yes yes, let a professional do it! Never do work on your car on your own!

you have 30 seconds to tell me what tools do I need to properly replace a headgasket on a parking lot. Share your wisdom with us.

Well sure, you could buy a resurfacing machine that costs at least 2k. Your call.

>resurfacing machine

>he needs a fucking resurfacing machine to plane a head on a shitbox with several hundred thousands of miles on the clock and is worth next to nothing

You can literally do this shit with a block wrapped in sandpaper of several grits for multiple takes.
Apparently you don't even know how all those poor ass Eastern European car mechanics do it and those cars have to keep driving for many years or he won't get any work anymore.

>resurfacing machine
that's cute

Sure, I'd sand it too if I was some 3rd worlder with no alternative, but I'm assuming OP won't be staying without a car.
Maybe I'm autistic, but if I'm repairing something, I want to it the right way.

rather:
>my master has to drive his preggo wife to hospital
>let's do a brap brap
>brap-brap
>park in the street
few months later:
>master says it's time to say goodbye
>jump-cables and off we go
>brap-brap two cylinders have no compression
>about 10hp off we go
>we have to merge but i barely make 35kmh
>3500rpm and second gear just not to stall
>no brakes because months of abandonment
>handbrake on stoplights and floor it just to keep engine running
>racecar noise
>accelerating from 20 to 30kmh takes 10 seconds
>traffic, traffic

fuck, that was intense

I'm trying to figure out what is your point. Should I waste money on worthless junk? Should I drive a mad max car repaired with a zip-ties that can't fucking pass tests? Should I turn a shitbox into a project car? Decide, faggot.

It took me 6 hours to take my scénic to the scrap yard 50km away.
>have to stop every 5km to refill the engine coolant reservoir
>have to floor it to go past 50km/h
>engine temperature always above max
>no speedometer or tachometer
>the broken water pump prevent the serpentine belt from spinning the alternator
>mfw it's getting dark

Calling a tow truck wasn't an option? I mean was it worth wasting 6 hours to cheap-off 100€ or something? Also if you drove all the way there how did you come home, by foot?

Why scrap?

This is a perfect opportunity for a project car, one the likes of the world has never seen before. A blank canvas, you can use it to make the perfect weekend car or track car

>This is a perfect opportunity for a project car
OP is not a car guy

>Twingo as project car
Dude I could by one of those for 1/6 of the price of the new iPhone. Why would someone care to project such shithole

The tow truck was something like 350euro and my brother was following with his car.
Anyway I never thought the car was in such poor conditions

>my brother was following with his car

Why didn't you just tow it then?!

It's illegal where I live

This, after the first 5km I would've already strapped the car to the rear of your brother's one.

Also that's not possible, where do you live, the USSR?

>This is a perfect opportunity for a project car
No it's not. It drives like shit. At least get a Civic

>small
>light
>simple
>costs fuckall
Sounds like a pretty fun little project to me.

>Countering a shit meme with a shit meme car

>not keeping it in your yard as a tool shed

What engine would you put in it? I'm pretty sure no worthwhile engine fits there without serious modifications.
Civics are pretty good for projects. You can put any Honda engine in it and they won't roll over in a corner even with the stock-ish suspension

Smiling even in death
;_;

I mean you can tow a car out of a ditch but not on a main 90km/h road.
Also with the engine off I have no brakes

n-no...

>I'm pretty sure no worthwhile engine fits there without serious modifications.
That's where you're wrong. On pre-2000 Twingos (the ones with the C3G engine), the 1.4 turbo from a Renault 5 Turbo is a direct bolt-in swap and those can go over 200hp with minimal effort.

Yes but then what? It's still a 2m long, high center of gravity car, with a very small wheel base. You're literally asking to do a barrel roll in that car. Not all cars can be raced my friendo

youtube.com/watch?v=v_Ui2pULeos
They make for pretty fun little autocross beaters thanks to their low weight and short wheelbase.

Renault 5 Turbos are rare as fuck. Good luck finding that engine for a decent price.

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It's not clever to argue about if a Twingo is a good base (especially a really bad condition one) for performance tinkering.
It was never meant for going fast and that is okay. It did its job as barebones, upbeat happy transportation tool damn fine.
You can make them go fast but only if you're actually a fan of the car, otherwise the amount of worn and money that goes into it to make it reliably fast and STABLE is too high compared to some Japanese counterparts.

Just enjoy them for what they are.

Also came in the 5 GT Turbo, 9, Turbo,11 Turbo. It's basically a regular 1.4l Cléon-Fonte engine with a turbo strapped to it.

>Dodek Twingo RIP 2016
>Dolphine decal Twingo RIP 2017

It keeps happening

The Jägermeister Twingo will be next in 2018.
I can smell it.

DO NOT

There's also that German dude lurking here who semi wrecked his Helios Twingo this year but keeps clinging to it.

So we almost lost 3

Jägermeister Twingo is much younger
Dodek's was 1993-95

Anyway. Dolphin served me for 5 years. It was definately worth every penny. It was a very nice and practical car. Cuteness was just an added value. Little gimmcks and clever design tickled my autism. Squeezing into tightest parking spaces has become my hobby. I transported furniture parts with it, I slept in it on camping sites. It was a great journey.
Bought for 500€. Got 80€ for scrapping, so I'm okay with it. I have a new car now.

Respect for getting over it so easily.
I always get way too attached to my shitboxes, especially back then with the first one.
It really fucks with you when you want to go forward in things.

suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/details.html?id=250549709

>240k km (149129 miles)
> "little green fella looks for a new home :)) sadly I have no clue about cars, thus can't say what needs to be done for TÜV, and didn't drive it since I got another one. But it's definetly to nice to scrap it!!"

Q T W I N G O
T

>16V
>R A R E color
>fucking MINT
>for 500 eurobucks
Somebody buy this, that's a fucking steal.

It's a literal "I DON'T know what I have" seller. Best case scenario.

>240k km
>no TÜV (not said what needs to be done)
I'm so close to doing it tho

>mfw accidentally finding a gud Twingo

>that conditing
altho it's(probably) been in an accident, I would buy that.
to anyone in germany: BUY IT

The way that ad was done tells you it is most likely a woman selling it.

Be prepared to already calculate a new clutch.

It's right across the border, too. If I already had that job that I'm about to land I'd go for it right away.
As in like contact them now and pick it up tomorrow.

>calculate a new clutch
a clutchjob should be easy to do oneself when you have a lift, right?

it even has a remove top
p nice
should I call and say
>imma offer you 350 bucks and I'll pick it up tomorrow

I love them while they work, and surely have to like'em when I buy them.
Only car that I didn't like was a VW Polo 86c. This was soulless POS shitbox.

Electric windows and mirrors, sunroof, 16v looks nice
But be careful. Dolphin shat itself shortly after clocking 250000km.

>The way that ad was done tells you it is most likely a woman selling it.

>Go to seller with intention to buy Twingo
>Seller is a gril
>who wants her Twingo in good hands
>buy Twingo
>have some coffee with her
>realize you both have lots in common
>have some more talks with her
>go to concerts with her
>date her

>You now have a Twingo AND a GF

do it user, get that twingo

Even at 500, a 16V is a steal. Three pedals, no rust, nice color, fucking do it.

Dolphin had the older engine, no? I know the D4F in the 16V is sturdy as fuck.

>>imma offer you 350 bucks and I'll pick it up tomorrow

YOU DO NOT HAGGLE REMOTELY OVER PHONE OR MAIL. NEVER - EVER.
YOU DO NOT.

That shit only works right in person.

>mfw make 300 bucks a month
> already spent 100 for filling up my car
>have about 120 left on the Bank account
F U G G
I HAVE A FRIEND IN LUXEMBOURG
HE HAS TO GIVE MONEY
sounds logical, who would haggle when not even having seen the car lel
>my fucking face when

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>that color

Inb4 that crazy madman autist from the Twingotuningforum snags it away and adds it to his 20 other green Twingos.

mad jelly desu

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dolphin had D7F. D4F is basically D7F with extra 15hp sqeezed by replacing 8v with 16V head.

...

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Fug, guess they switched earlier than I thought.

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Teal is still the best color.

Teal is the real deal.

Cherry red tho

this man knows

I was one of the biggest advocates for cherry red plushies, so yeah.

pushrod C3G 55hp 1993-1996
D7F OHC 8V 60hp came in 1997, a year before facelift
D4F OHC 16v 75hp came about 2001 or 2002. In some years both 8V and 16V were avaliable.
Also I'm not sure if it's true but in later years when D7F were withdrawn, in some markets there were D4F 16v's castrated to 60hp for tax reasons. That'd be a bummer to get.

still waiting for the D4FT swap to happen

trying to get someone to give me 300 bucks atm
wish me luck in Japan guys

should I start a crowd fund so o can buy me the green twinge?

There's a good chance I managed to score myself an alright paying job, so I'm legitimately looking at candidates.
Soon.

best colors:
(dodek's)
If I got to choose I'd take that fuckin frog green
1997+ red (1993-96 pinkish red was utter shit)
bonus points, this was never offered to customers it's a french road service color

>that one sniffing the other's butt
are twingos dogs?

Can you post some pictures of your pregnant wife? Please

>tfw dodek sold his twingo
>a week later he found it wrecked

Depends on much you want to learn from dying I guess.

>door sill

check your terminology m8

Rocker panel, you happy now m8?

It was even worse than that...

>sold it
>not long after that he saw it with a front collision damag
>weeks later it had trash in it and even human fecal matter
>later again it was even more damaged in a field somewhere

All that after a fulfilled car life as a small family car.
What a fucked up way to go.

maybe
no. Expect beating from my son in about 18 years, muthafucka!