My car arrived back today!
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 4:02 pm
So about a month and a half ago I was driving along the highway and next thing I hear is the sound of the engine failing.
I was ready to sell it but a friend at work told me about a good cheap reputable garage. I agreed to take it there for an evaluation, so I put it on a trailer and much to my disgrace a 2.0 diesel Hyundai ix35 was the tow vehicle. I had to have the car repaired as I did not want to sell it as scrap.
I sourced a early model 407 V6 engine with only 56,000miles from the wreckers and bought it for the equivalent of £490.
I only recived the car back today with a more or less new engine in it. Runs perfect except for a couple of small things. I also have ordered a engine cover off eBay.
The whole job cost the equivalent to £875. Not too bad considering the time that I have owned the car I have already spent £4000 repairing it. Funny that I bought it for £3000
Here's a video of the first start up I did.
https://vimeo.com/144636976
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I was ready to sell it but a friend at work told me about a good cheap reputable garage. I agreed to take it there for an evaluation, so I put it on a trailer and much to my disgrace a 2.0 diesel Hyundai ix35 was the tow vehicle. I had to have the car repaired as I did not want to sell it as scrap.
I sourced a early model 407 V6 engine with only 56,000miles from the wreckers and bought it for the equivalent of £490.
I only recived the car back today with a more or less new engine in it. Runs perfect except for a couple of small things. I also have ordered a engine cover off eBay.
The whole job cost the equivalent to £875. Not too bad considering the time that I have owned the car I have already spent £4000 repairing it. Funny that I bought it for £3000
Here's a video of the first start up I did.
https://vimeo.com/144636976
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
