Mike And Elvis Revive A Rusty Old 1989 Ford Escort XR3i | Wheeler Dealers 

please make these a bit longer so we can see them being driven when finished and final selling price :)

Love the look on Mike's face, as he looks in the rear vision mirror when road testing the hunk of junk and see's 3 litres of engine oil turn to blue smoke 😂

I had a B reg for 2 years and an E reg for 10 years. They were very reliable and never failed an MOT. It made me popular with the girls too.

The XR3 Pram 🤣😅😂

An absolute tart up of an XR3i, I bet the battery tray is non existent and the rear chassis legs have long gone! 😂

Had a silver one with a black stripe ! and a rear aerofoil.

One of my favourite cars of the 80s.

Hats off to Tony the roof guy, doing his highly skilled and difficult job in front of the camera.

Elvis revives it whilst mike blabs utter bull 😂

I had one of these in red, except it was the mark three, it was known as the 1600 injection cabriolet, and was half the price of the XR3 and XR3i to insure… yes had everything an XR3 had interior and engine wise

I went to this guy to sort my roof out on my Alfa Romeo Spider. He did a great job!

I had a 1990 G plate 2 tone blue and silver with RS alloys, looked awesome at first glance. It was the EFI so fuel pump in tank problems, rear trailing arm SNAPPED, roof leaked like a sieve, engine sounded like a sewing machine, starter wouldn't spin when hot, wheel bearings needed doing every other MOT, door handle snapped off one morning! All that said, I'm looking at buying another 🙂

Growing up my parents had a pink one of these convertable Xr3i. My dad still says to this day he wishes he never got rid of it, such a cool car have to dig through some paperwork in a bit to find the reg and see if it's still on the road

Just this last year I found 91 xr3i cab hiding in Manchester so I scooped it up for 8k and brought it back with me to the states where it’s happily lives in Arizona

Mike looked all shook up when elvis had finished the car.

I still have a valve stem oil seal tool in my tool box! Easy job.

Blue cars had a black stripes in the bumpers and down the sides. Also this car had slightly earlier style alloys rather than the later lattice ones which this year of car would have had. It was probably delivered with steel wheels & wheel covers when it was new.

Love this car! XR3s were all the rage in my country (Brasil) during the 80s, and the convertible bacame one of the most desireable cars since then. They used the 1.6l CHT engine on the beginning, and later received the 1.8l and 2.0 AP angine from VW. CHTs were a local chimaera that starte life back in the late 60s as a Renault engine, developed by Willys that was inherited by Ford, and reached VW by the end of its days. It was a very reliable motor and fitted well in the XR3. The VW AP is a lengend by itself. While it has some inehent flaws, it is also have been heavily upgraded for racing. To make it short: this car is remarkable!

Wonderful tv shows, PLEASE keep making them, we all love them.

Had many Xrs and they went well (especially on the arches)

I remember the blue xr3i on itv,s garages form hell .that one was a real horror story .if you want one of these it shows you the areas where to look on these .

I've changed the valve stem oil seals in situ on CVH engines several times. Not sure why Elvis went to all the trouble of dropping the engine.

I had one of these on a 1986 C plate same colour with dog leg alloys but my roof was manual for some reason

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE UPLOAD THE FULL XR3i I NEED TO SEE THIS COMPLETE

You don't need to take the engine out to change the valve seals.

crazy prices on the UK shores, you can get a xr3i coupe for 2.5k here and a cabrio for just over a grand.

Sadly we never got these Fords. This was way too short. I'd like to see much more of the work that was done. Thanks.

Owned my tin top 3i for 23 years, can't wait to get it back on the road

Hello guys. Can you share tips to restore those cars. I have an rs turbo 88. Please please help

Hi I need a tutorial video to explain how to put the roof XR3i can you help as I looked all over RU-vid

Mike.. stay off the sausages

Beautiful blue ; soft top job was tricky ; i really wished i was there when she got an overhaul ! btw i own a ford & i'm a ford fan !

You haven't seen my 1986 xr3i convertible 👍 How much did your one sell for ??

Had a wing on already no paint on underside hence the rot

No xr3i cab did 60 in under 10 seconds 😂

Old out ya and

I had 2 MK3 cabs they were thrown together they were not good.i don't know about the MK3 cab. My mate had a astra gte cab bertone was better built

Oh MY GOD I Commented earlier we have to see these so am XR3I I won’t watch this as I need the whole episode

So who fixed the door card

Ok!

:) i got mine, 90spec LOVE IT

What / who is the company that tony works for an did the Roof as🤔I need mine doing,,

It’s pronounced Porscher. a porch is something fitted round a door.

Weird that Ford in the U.K had all these cool cars but never sold any here in the US. Our escort was a boring grocery getter

That CVH engine was nasty even when it was new?

Had one of these and XR3I hard top. But how can you show a resto in 9 minutes. Let's see what you can really do around an hour long. Frigging annoys me. Same with drew pritchard and his mate. 20 minutes to restore a pile of junk.

The first car I wanted to buy and could afford was a black Xr3i coupe. My fiends and dad said no because of the stigma that came with the car 1996.

Had 2 cabs electric blue and gum grey both had the crap cvh engine and the gearbox wasn't any better

Watched this one earlier today. There's an XR3 ?i around the corner from me with the front end partially off, not protected, and crying out for someone to take off the guys hands to restore. Wish I had the time, space and skill to do it.

Elvis looks like he’s gonna screw his boat up an shaaaaaat *Loaaaaadsaaaa Mannnnnay*

nice

there is no way of clothes being clean after working on that car

80 90 best hatchback era

Its a smaller cheaper mustang

Amazing Elvis, he can pull an engine out of an old escort, on his own in a light coloured hoody and not get a single mark on it. load of tosh

So many parts to be removed Today's cars are just a couple of Duracell battery s......and off you go .....

0-60 in 9.8 secs, lol....my 1998 5.4 Triton v8, Ford E250 VAN, with the body extension, does it in 9.9 secs....9.8 secs, that a pig

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The best use for these cars was to fill them with metal and take them to the local scrappy and weigh the whole lot in. FWD Escorts were utter crap. Sorry Ford fans but these tinny things were awful.

The soft top looked very amateur all those creases in the rear quarters ...very badly fitted I would not have let it out of my workshop like that

Wait they stopped showing man hours put into the work? Shame.

Nice car the only problem is the steering wheel on the wrong side of the car

I always wanted one. Then I got a Renault 19 16v executive……. Never wanted the ford after that …..😊

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Member 0nly jackets ......

Mike's changed his tune

God awful piles of junk, I went out with a girl who had one. The scuttleshake was massive, plus they were either referred to as a "Dagenham Dustbin" or the "Clitoris Car" (because every c### has one).

I am one of those people who worked in the car industry in the 80s and had the misfortune of having to drive these regularly. Fortunately I didn’t work at a Ford dealer, but at a car rental company that specialised in non-run-of-the-mill cars. We had Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Porsches, BMWs and fast Fords. This was singularly the most crap car I have ever driven in my life. Absolutely awful in every way shape and form. It was demolished in the magazines by the golf GTi and the Peugeot GTi. Not because of biad, but because the Ford was just so crap in every way, from build quality to handling and performance. if you’re a fan boy of these, good luck to you, just don’t have a drive of something else. Your love for the fast Ford will evaporate very quickly.

It’s not an XRfree i . Mike Brewer is running out of people who will work with him , they eventually see sense .

To sort video and not showing all the repairs

Sorry to say but Ed was a better mechanic and personality

70% electric cars in england?.....where?😂😅😂...its a lie!!!!

How Ugly a car can be. Unbelievable crap!

This show sucked as soon as Edd China was run off. Seriously.

first the escort is NOT a hathback at all second xr3 is the best version of all escort version . all the best versions in ford are ford fiesta xr2 , ford escort xr3 and ford sierra xr4, i never see an escort fuel injected till now most of them are carburated , thanks

These cars use to give me problems all the time, build quality is very poor