The Best ///M/Barge/General Rant/Look at this/O/T(Vol XVIII)
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ATM said:
Chris Stott said:
My 996 has 168k on it now, and although it can be a little lumpy at low revs when it's cold, it absolutely flies along when it's got some revs on the dial... owner of my Indy said 'she still goes well!!' last time it was in for work.
When I was assessing the quality of the home brewed engine rebuild on mine thats what I was told to check. Low revs is where you notice hesitations and irregular rhythms. ferrisbueller said:
Patrick Bateman said:
NomduJour said:
Old cars = trouble. Who knew?
There's varying degrees of 'acceptable' bork for the return you get though.Get a 730i and you've reduced your headaches exponentially while not really missing out on much.
Edited by Patrick Bateman on Thursday 22 February 13:45
ATM said:
Problems with the 745?
A few. How far to go is the problem.It needs a new right hand upper timing cover gasket (and therefore also the right hand rocker cover gasket). That's £450ish just sticking to one side.
The misfire on a cold start is due to the valvetronic intermediate levers being worn based off my own diagnosis and lots of googling. Not even worth bothering with given the cost and the fact the misfire buggers off quickly.
Based on the symptoms I've described on a thread here and bmw5, the gearbox could do with getting looked at. A few folk reckon the torque converter could need refurbished and get a fluid change. The folk that did work previously did not use the recommended ZF fluid so I don't know how big an impact that's had/having.
The trouble is I've only had it since Christmas so would lose a fair chunk of money in no time if I was to get shot of it. The alternative is spend a decent amount on the above and hope that nothing major happens for a while but at least get some use out the thing. That is assuming the gearbox does only need what I've said above.
L100NYY said:
And yet there's a Thread questioning why people buy new cars.
I'm neutral
I'm neutral
I've always been pragmatic, it's new and depreciation or old and lots of maintenance, for high end stuff anyway.
Where do you draw the line at maintenance for a car that isn't worth much is the question.
anonymous said:
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I'll certainly never assume again that n/a and petrol means automatically less hassle than a diesel- certainly not with a BMW V8!I think in future a general barge rule for me might be Mercs/Jags for V8's and BMW's for 6's.
Shows how good the M5's S62 ultimately was though.
E24man said:
ferrisbueller said:
Patrick Bateman said:
NomduJour said:
Old cars = trouble. Who knew?
There's varying degrees of 'acceptable' bork for the return you get though.Get a 730i and you've reduced your headaches exponentially while not really missing out on much.
Edited by Patrick Bateman on Thursday 22 February 13:45
Always E38.
I don't care that it's £60k when I was selling them for sub £20k not long ago....
..... I Bloody well want it, a lot.
https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...
..... I Bloody well want it, a lot.
https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...
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