My £1,300 2.5 tonne box of unreliabilty

[deadtom]

CAPP0 said:

Whereas I insure a 5.0 Supercharged 510bhp version of that car, worth about 20 times more, for £300 fully comp inc business use

It took me a moment to realise "that car" you are referring to is the RR, not mine. That would be quite something in a 206 though.

[rich12]

I've decided to sell.

I was laying awake at 1am this morning trying to get to sleep and all I could think about was do I really have the time and know how to fix this car.
The answer is no.
Things like the suspension i'm fine with but the tappets etc I can't do and that just leads to more time and money being spent on it that I would like.

I've done 130 miles in it since it went to the garage and the noise tapping noise has changed so just have to assume it does need replacing.

I did put £30 of lpg in it on Tuesday (That was an interesting experience) and that works really well. It changes over smoothly, no loss of power and it changes over to lpg i'm assuming once the engine has warmed up enough.

I'll put it on ebay but just wanted to see if anyone on here fancied it and is a bit more capable?
My spend so far
£1300 for the car
£150 for transport
£86 for oil and filter
£113.88 for the diagnostics
£14.99 for new lower boot hinge thingies
£1,664.87 TOTAL

It is a shame as now i've realised the bloody TMC was kicking in which made the system stop playing bluetooth, i'm actually quite enjoying it but I don't want to spend £1k at a garage to sort the tapping/gaskets out when another problem could be looming.

[prand]

rich12 said:

I've decided to sell.

I was laying awake at 1am this morning trying to get to sleep and all I could think about was do I really have the time and know how to fix this car.
The answer is no.
Things like the suspension i'm fine with but the tappets etc I can't do and that just leads to more time and money being spent on it that I would like.

I've done 130 miles in it since it went to the garage and the noise tapping noise has changed so just have to assume it does need replacing.

I did put £30 of lpg in it on Tuesday (That was an interesting experience) and that works really well. It changes over smoothly, no loss of power and it changes over to lpg i'm assuming once the engine has warmed up enough.

I'll put it on ebay but just wanted to see if anyone on here fancied it and is a bit more capable?
My spend so far
£1300 for the car
£150 for transport
£86 for oil and filter
£113.88 for the diagnostics
£14.99 for new lower boot hinge thingies
£1,664.87 TOTAL

It is a shame as now i've realised the bloody TMC was kicking in which made the system stop playing bluetooth, i'm actually quite enjoying it but I don't want to spend £1k at a garage to sort the tapping/gaskets out when another problem could be looming.

Is a well sorted one really only £2.5k? This is pretty tempting. My initial insurance quote is £500 too.

Edited by prand on Thursday 10th October 10:10

[rich12]

prand said:

Is a well sorted one really only £2.5k? This is pretty tempting. My initial insurance quote is £500 too.

Edited by prand on Thursday 10th October 10:10

Going off what others have said and AT, a well sorted one seems to be around £3500.

I also think I may have stopped the struts from leaking.. At the top of the strut, I could hear a very faint hissing noise so I tightened it up the best I could and even after being here for 2 hours, the front is still up.

[geeks]

rich12 said:

Going off what others have said and AT, a well sorted one seems to be around £3500.

I also think I may have stopped the struts from leaking.. At the top of the strut, I could hear a very faint hissing noise so I tightened it up the best I could and even after being here for 2 hours, the front is still up.

Nice fix, you sure you dont want to fix the rest?

[rich12]

geeks said:

Nice fix, you sure you dont want to fix the rest?

I was all for it is the ticking noise got better as I would've just done the cam gaskets to stop the oil leak but doing more than that is too much for me.

[bolidemichael]

Rich, stick it on the barge thread

[bungz]

I cannot see anything on AT for under 3K that looks like it isn't ready for banger racing or has trim held on with self tapping screws.

I would run it for a bit see if anything else rears its head then maybe just sort the niggles.

But maybe that's man maths coming into play.

[geeks]

rich12 said:

geeks said:

Nice fix, you sure you dont want to fix the rest?

I was all for it is the ticking noise got better as I would've just done the cam gaskets to stop the oil leak but doing more than that is too much for me.

Why not do the cam gaskets and run it into the ground?

[rich12]

geeks said:

Why not do the cam gaskets and run it into the ground?

I don't like the noise lol.

[geeks]

rich12 said:

geeks said:

Why not do the cam gaskets and run it into the ground?

I don't like the noise lol.

God you're so fussy!

[rich12]

geeks said:

God you're so fussy!

You want to buy it?

[Jasonday2015]

Is there a risk the hydraulic tappets will “fail”? When I first bought my 987 Boxster it was tappety. After an engine flush, fresh oil and a good few sprited drives, all was well.

[prand]

rich12 said:

You want to buy it?

I'm very tempted, though the distance is putting me off and making this less of an implulse purchase. Plus I really don't think my wife has forgiven me since my Jaguar XJ8 experience...

V8s are great though.

[rich12]

Jasonday2015 said:

Is there a risk the hydraulic tappets will “fail”? When I first bought my 987 Boxster it was tappety. After an engine flush, fresh oil and a good few sprited drives, all was well.

I'm not 100% sure to be honest.

The garage said no it's not likely to fail it just won't ever get any better etc.

[V8RX7]

prand said:

Is a well sorted one really only £2.5k? This is pretty tempting. My initial insurance quote is £500 too.

God no.

£2500 is generally what the non basket cases start at, a mate owns 5 new ones and 3 of them have been at the Dealers multiple times within the first year.

[prand]

V8RX7 said:

God no.

£2500 is generally what the non basket cases start at, a mate owns 5 new ones and 3 of them have been at the Dealers multiple times within the first year.

Thing is - how much of trips to the garage are just general annoyances and warranty work, and not actual issues that make them undriveable (my usual trick is to put a post it note over the warning light!) with a £1300 10 yr old Range Rover and just carry on driving.

[V8RX7]

prand said:

Thing is - how much of trips to the garage are just general annoyances and warranty work, and not actual issues that make them undriveable (my usual trick is to put a post it note over the warning light!) with a £1300 10 yr old Range Rover and just carry on driving.

IIRC the vast majority of issues are Air Con related - one side blows hot regardless.

Then warning lights and niggles.

I don't think they have broken down

[The Mad Monk]

V8RX7 said:

prand said:

Thing is - how much of trips to the garage are just general annoyances and warranty work, and not actual issues that make them undriveable (my usual trick is to put a post it note over the warning light!) with a £1300 10 yr old Range Rover and just carry on driving.

IIRC the vast majority of issues are Air Con related - one side blows hot regardless.

Then warning lights and niggles.

I don't think they have broken down

Define "Broken down"?

[V8RX7]

The Mad Monk said:

Define "Broken down"?

Needing a recovery truck

(bearing in mind he changes them at 2 or 3 years old this is hardly an accomplishment)