Engine rebuild

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4321go

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638 posts

188 months

Saturday 10th November 2018
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I’m sure that many of you are aware that I use my 2005 Gallardo as daily transport. Since I purchased it in the early summer of 2013 I’ve taken it from 42,000 miles to 105,000 miles and growing!

And now I feel that it’s probably due an engine rebuild. It’s still as strong as anything; in the words of the (VERY experienced) main dealer technician who test drove it after its last service, it “pulls like a fking train!” But ever increasingly, it LOOKS like it’s pulling like a “fking train”. A diesel one! Oil consumption has reached frankly comical levels.

So who shall I have rebuild the engine? And who should I avoid? And in both cases, “Why?”

Please don’t recommend a business just because they’re your mates! This is too expensive an undertaking for me to choose the wrong people. But if you’ve genuine reason and experience on which to offer me advice, then please do!

PistonHeads posting rules say that you can praise a business to the rafters, but you can’t slag them off on here. Please, if you have genuine reason to suggest that I AVOID a particular business, PM me direct. Just click on my user name, and when my profile pops up, click on “email me”. Anything you say will be STRICTLY between you and me.

Thanking you all in advance.......

4321go

Original Poster:

638 posts

188 months

Sunday 11th November 2018
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Thank you all so much for the replies so far! Thank you for taking the time to write. I’ve also had a couple of PMs so far. I’m at work and busy, so I’ll reply to them later this afternoon.

The two names immediately above are the ones I was most aware of and I’ll be talking to them very soon. REPerformance I’d never heard of, but Swindon is closer to me in Hampshire, so I’ll definitely talk to them too.

Please keep the recommendations and PMs coming.

TIA

Simon

4321go

Original Poster:

638 posts

188 months

Monday 3rd December 2018
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Once again, my thanks to those of you who took the trouble to reply to my query, either on this thread or by PM. Things are moving forward and as developments may well be of interest to the wider audience of supercar owners, I’m going to effectively close this thread in favour of continuing to update the thread of the same title in the “Supercar General” section.

Watch THAT space.........