Having trawled the interweb I've sourced three 185x65 tyres AND wheels for £50 delivered (taken straight off another Espace)!!
I've just called them back for a quote for all four tyres (then we can use the random 195x85 as the spare).
Update: They'll do us 4 tyres for £60 delivered! :)
Also during lunch I went to a local breakers yard and they've got two espaces in (or what's left of them). Anyway after a bit of haggling I'm going back tomorrow to extract the battery (£15) and the replacement hose (£1) we need. Subject to more haggling I hope to get the coolant reservoir and the drivers side wing mirror (in green - a special request from Tim). They had tyres for £15 each, but we'd somehow need to get them on our Espace's rims so the £50 delivered option is much better.
So there's a 1% chance that by tomorrow night we'll be back on the road. Did I say 1%, its more like 0.001%. If it doesn't work the next thing is to try and work out wether its the starter motor that's gone? (does anyone know how you can tell?). Could the alternator cause it to not start - surely it would just mean that the battery would just keep going flat but wouldn't effect it jump starting?
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Well done Brad for getting it back in the world of the living. From memory, starter motors usually develop a flat spot before dying completely, if you can rock the car while in gear round a bit and take it out of gear and try it. If then the starter motor starts, then its dying other wise it's something else . Keep up the good work.
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