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Maybe a bit OTT but I usually ask for an inspection of my car before it goes into a stealer for work, i even went to the lengths of taking pics of all 4 speedlines on the 200 before it went into Parks Reno near Glasgow a month ago so they couldn't back out if they'd damaged them at all.
As i said horses for courses, clearly people are reading far too much into what i'm saying and getting the hump about it. I've had 3 MK2 Clios, a brand new 1.2 16v 53 plate which was my frist car 10 years ago, a 55 plate 182 a year a half later, an R27 after the 182, an absolute heap of shite...
Note the IMHO.. Then again I only keep cars for a year or so.. Only ever changed one cambelt and that was due to one failing.
Regards to the topic of the thread, spending over 1k on a car that's worth 4.5k at best seems a false economy to me.
Sounds about right.. I had a de-phaser pulley go on my 52' 172 two years ago, the history said the belts and water pump had all been done the year before but i'm not so sure, i spent nearly 900£ putting it right, needless to say i didn't hang onto it long after that, it never ran the same...
Christ!! I read these threads and i do worry about my 60 plate 200, it's just clicked 27,000 miles and so far in my ownership its only had a wiper stock/mpg button thingy under warranty, are boxes common to need replacing on them or is just luck? Thankfully mine has full reno history, reno...