I'm getting a bit too attached to my shed

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I bought an £800 168K mile LS400 originally intending it to be a stop-gap until I found something new to buy (I'd changed jobs and lost my company car so needed something immediately).

This was a year ago. Since then I've enjoyed wafting around in utter comfort and haven't even started looking for something new. I've had a few suspension bits replaced, but it's going to be due a timing belt in the next year or so, plus I'd like to replace the engine and transmission mounts and get some crappy paint sorted.

Total cost for this is looking at about £1k and the head says that I should start looking for something new. However, it's such an utterly relaxing place to be, even in the worst of traffic, that I'm seriously considering stumping up more than it's worth to keep it running and make it look nice.

Anyone else have a similar dilemma?

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Sod it, time to find a cheap body shop

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carinaman said:

Being a '96 one is it VVTi? The earlier ones are non-interference aren't they? If they are you could chance your luck and see what happens when the belt goes.

Sounds like Garlick's LS400 thread.

It's not a VVTi, unfortunately only the MK1 and MK2 are non-interference and mine's a MK3 so I don't really fancy having a valves meet pistons moment!

I should have bought his when I saw it in the classifieds last year