My 407 is in for its major service. Mainly through need, rather than preventative. Recently the DMF has been making a horrible rattling noise, mainly at idling and setting off/reversing. Won't be long till it disintegrates. The clutch itself is, annoyingly, still fine. The cost of LUK parts alone is over 600 Sovs (DMF+clutch+release bearing/slave cylinder) - this doesn't include any extras, like seals and gearbox oil and anything else it needs. Or labour even.
As it's also now 10 years old and approaching 90k miles, the belts are also due - so that's being changed as well. It's an expensive month - with insurance due in Nov too!
And MOT in Dec....In the meantime, I have been driving in my wife's Swift. It's basically a bug with a 1.5l pezzle engine, which, when revved over 3k rpm, isn't too slow. Zero low down grunt though but so easy to park - it seems to fit almost literally in any parking space, no matter how shite the BWM's parking in the next bay is. Of course, getting back into my car is like going from a Skoda Estelle into a Rolls - smooth, quiet and so much lazy power pretty much anywhere in the rev range.
My courtesy car is a 190k miler 406 HDI 110 SE (half levvers an' all). To be honest, other than the engine and gearbox, it feels like a 15 year old car with 190k miles on it. Rust everywhere, steering wheel isn't on straight, right speakers don't work with a Sony HU, the Flintstones sat-nav display is impossible to read (though I can just about make out the 38.7mpg average consumption on it) and absolutely ALL drops links needs replacing. Oh, and there's something rattling in the boot as well, which is annoying.
But anyway, hopefully, after this service, it will be good for a few more years until I decide to sell it. And that's a whole other question (don't think I'll be getting a diesel again - they are bullied far too much by the clueless twats in government).
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) SOLD I've sorted the airbag light 