Wow where to start! Firstly dragging up a thread over a year old?!
James, you had every opportunity to view and test drive the car before purchasing, we stood in your garage for an hour or more with the bonnet up, I invited you to put it up on ramps and have a good poke around (which you didn't, just for the audience), you were happy with what you were buying and paid £1000 less than the advertised price. I told you about every problem on that car I was aware of in detail, including the dash lights not working and that kill switch packing up the day before, you didn't seem phased until you (by your own admission) fucked the rev counter soon after purchase whilst swapping the clocks, which I imagine is what lead to your pulling the dash out. I can't comment of the state of anything behind it as I never had it out myself.
The milk bottle tops were there when I bought it, never really questioned it, the Barclays pen was me, if it were any other tube/pipe joiner would it have been a problem? If it works, it works, I'm sorry that the fact the hollow tube used to join 2 hoses together was not up to your standards.
If you were that unhappy with it, the logical thing to do would have been to break it and recoup the cost, you could have got 75%+ of your money back with just the contents of the engine bay.
I drove that car Cornwall>Nottingham and back half a dozen times and used it regularly around Cornwall and it never skipped a beat, so how you managed to pretty much write it off overnight I don't know. I'm glad you are sorting it out though, good luck with it.
Nextly, Mark (Vorsprung now you've learnt that it is Vorsprung and not Voursch Sprung Dirch, genius) - You've had an axe to grind ever since I asked you about those rad hoses, so let me just screen shot those unsavoury cocky emails of mine
Maybe I am deluded but to me they don't look that abusive from my end?
£180 for 6 radiator hoses and 2 bits of trim from a car worth £500 is a mental price, I'm absolutely thrilled to bits for you that you managed to sell them, now if you could kindly stop following me around forums trying to drag my name through the mud, get the **** over it and grow up, that'd be great.