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Post by Trevor on Mar 28, 2018 22:38:36 GMT 1
Diagnosing the fault,fitting the chain,and confirming the fix after a test drive took 20 hours lab altogether, the timing chain kit cost 130 euro,
The car has just been through nct and it has only 42k miles on the clock,so she has a really nice little car now,
The car is old but even so it will be every bit as reliable and much cheaper to fix than the new stuff thats going now a days,
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Post by studabear on Mar 28, 2018 23:10:43 GMT 1
Diagnosing the fault,fitting the chain,and confirming the fix after a test drive took 20 hours lab altogether, the timing chain kit cost 130 euro, The car has just been through nct and it has only 42k miles on the clock,so she has a really nice little car now, The car is old but even so it will be every bit as reliable and much cheaper to fix than of the new stuff thats going now a days, any change from a grand then?
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Post by Noberator on Mar 28, 2018 23:53:51 GMT 1
Diagnosing the fault,fitting the chain,and confirming the fix after a test drive took 20 hours lab altogether, the timing chain kit cost 130 euro, The car has just been through nct and it has only 42k miles on the clock,so she has a really nice little car now, The car is old but even so it will be every bit as reliable and much cheaper to fix than of the new stuff thats going now a days, any change from a grand then? I would say not and spent more than the car is worth IMO after all it's a fifteen year old motor.
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Post by Joepublic on Mar 29, 2018 8:58:25 GMT 1
any change from a grand then? I would say not and spent more than the car is worth IMO after all it's a fifteen year old motor. If she’d have sold the car spare or repairs for £200 and put a grand to it what could she have bought? If she gets 3 years out of it now = £400 per year that’s cheap motoring by any standards?
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Post by Rhubarb on Mar 29, 2018 22:20:24 GMT 1
I would say not and spent more than the car is worth IMO after all it's a fifteen year old motor. If she’d have sold the car spare or repairs for £200 and put a grand to it what could she have bought? If she gets 3 years out of it now = £400 per year that’s cheap motoring by any standards? Exactly, the modern version is a pile of shite.
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Post by valhalla on Mar 29, 2018 22:35:00 GMT 1
This is also the way with the recent Landrover products. They really are an utter pile of whatnot, and I wouldn't have one myself even if it was given to me.
Hence I'm quite happy to fix Disco2 TD5's and get my customer base back into those. After all, if the owner of the car is prepared to pay for the work, and the parts are still available for reasonable price & quality, then it makes financial sense to support them. The labour rate is just the same, and the risks quite often are considerably lower with regard to breaking parts to fix their neighbours!
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Post by Noberator on Mar 29, 2018 22:38:22 GMT 1
I would say not and spent more than the car is worth IMO after all it's a fifteen year old motor. If she’d have sold the car spare or repairs for £200 and put a grand to it what could she have bought? If she gets 3 years out of it now = £400 per year that’s cheap motoring by any standards? I wasn't implying it wasn't worth repairing but sometimes you have to way up is it worth spending the money. In this case it was but not always. Just over three years ago now (February 2015) I was in a similar situation if you remember with my ST. New LUK DMF Clutch kit and a new cat. Not cheap. I agree a £1000-£1200 these days doesn't get you much. Hopefully it works out for the Micra owner with no more large outlay.
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Post by studabear on Mar 29, 2018 23:08:23 GMT 1
Sometimes it's better the devil you know.
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Post by Noberator on Mar 30, 2018 0:01:55 GMT 1
Sometimes it's better the devil you know. True.
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Post by remmington on Mar 30, 2018 8:25:02 GMT 1
Sometimes it's better the devil you know. With my own cars I always keep repairing them till the actual final death. Normally at about its twentieth birthday, I or the car just can't take anymore. But I have seen so many customers dig themselves a hole. Pay for one large job, commit themselves to the car with money. Then something else goes wrong. They pay for that. Then it happens again... But within reason, I think buying a good used (low value) car and maintaining it - paying for a few big repairs! Would work out cheaper in the long run than buying new - then watching it halve in value every three years. I often loose touch with how much new cars actually cost. Pretty standard run of the mill cars start at £20k
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Post by valhalla on Mar 30, 2018 17:14:07 GMT 1
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