New member with an Mi16x4

[Timythenerd]

Hi all,

Recently entered the strange world of French cars by way of a crazy rare barn find. A friend was selling a 1990 405 Mi16x4 on behalf and after figuring out what it was I jumped straight on it. Now, it has been off the road for ~12 years and in needs a lot of love, but I've already started on that.

I'll start a build thread later, but in the meantime things I've done are: stripped out most of the interior to remove an awful alarm system and get to the heater core which is leaking; replaced the compromised AFM with a new chinesium one; started rebuilding parts of the... interesting... Bendix ABS system after a bleed screw snapped and I found rust around the base which has also gone through the firewall.

Currently it looks a bit worse for wear and I'm actually looking into either doing a full resto or just swapping the Mi16x4 bits into a good Series 1 SRi if I can find one.

Anyway, hello all.

P.S, here's a couple pics from when I first got the car. I'll put more in a build thread.

[Mungous]

Cool car - good luck with the rebuild!!


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[dowleh]

Cool! Love those things, good luck!!!

[SpikeUK]

Cool find good luck with the build 

[NoShoes]

Enjoy - it's fun!

[Pee Dubbaya]

Welcome, and cool car. Will be interesting to see the rebuild.
There was a couple of good 405mi16 bodies tucked away by someone on here - not sure but he may have binned them recently though. If not could be good donor body for ya...

[cams16v]

Wozzers great barn find, I have a few 405 mi16 that you can pillage any parts you may need for beersies, Im located in Feilding 

[Timythenerd]

Thanks for welcomes guys.

@cams16v, thanks for the offer, there doesn't seem to be too many 'highline' 405s or parts up for sale. Maybe I just don't know where to look. Pity I'm located down in Chch though, else I'd trade you a lot more than liquid for a clean chassis. 

[Pee Dubbaya]

Getting a body shipped down and swapping parts in may be better economy than running around trying to find parts from all over, plus painting it if pics of your bonnet & bootlid are anything to go by...

[Pee Dubbaya]

One of the cars was mine that I stole the engine out of for my 205. Pics of it immediately before and after engine removal:

I refurbished the wheels and still have them in my garage (along with some 17" gti180 rims) if you're interested.

[cams16v]

Yep if i could remove this 405 mi16 without the rims I currently have on it that would be even better 

[Pee Dubbaya]

Yep if i could remove this 405 mi16 without the rims I currently have on it that would be even better 

[Timythenerd]

Oh wow guys. This is super tempting because I actually have a car trailer and would totally justify driving up myself. I'd even bring my own wheels, haha. Most important thing to me is that it's a series 1.

If there's another car I'd love to see some more pics of both.

[Pee Dubbaya]

Yes this is a series 1. Even has most of the dash if I remember correctly. It was meant to have been put back on the road already...!
Other car was just a stripped out rolling body, if he still has it that is.

[cams16v]

The other mi16 is a wreck, that one above is the best one