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Any chance it was massively overfilled with oil? If it's reading ok on the dipstick and there is that much oil on the outside it had to be well above the max mark originally
I have the DTW300Z and used it to strip my R53 down. Not a single bolt it wouldn't undo, even the rear subframe bolts which had never been touched before came straight out without an issue. Have a look on Amazon, that's where I picked mine up from and it was cheaper than the price above.
Entirely depends on the insurer. You don't have an automatic right to buy it back so you may have to buy it back through salvage auction. I had to do that a few years back.
Just after a quick bit of advice from any engine builders out there.
I'm just in the process of a full refresh of the engine in my R53 Mini cooper s. It's done about 110k and was leaking oil like a sieve so took the decision to take it off the road for a few months to give the whole car a...
Makita fan here, but only because when we first bought our house about 11 years ago I picked up a drill set with charger and 2 batteries. I've since added a 1/4 impact driver, and more recently a 1/2 impact wrench and grinder.
https://makitauk.com/product/dtw300z
So far the impact gun has...
I used to have one of these, I treated myself for my 21st birthday (back in 2003!) It was a 95 M reg in the same colour as the OP.
SEB3 chip (back in the days of actually 'chipping' cars!), a random Saab intercooler and a manual boost controller turned it into a flying machine.
Love it - enjoy!
Unless it's changed in recent MOT updates then I understand it as follows: if fitted and connected (but not working) - it's a fail. If fitted but not connected its an advisory. Although the tester isn't allowed to check if the light is connected so it should always be a pass and advise really.
In our previous we suffered a similar issue. The VM router was in the garage (at my request) but it made the wifi signal poor in the living room and a couple of bedrooms.
I sorted it on the cheap with 50m of eBay special cat 6 cable routed around the perimeter of the house externally, an old...
To be fair, my Makita one doesn't cope well with wheel nuts. It's only rated to 160nm and wasn't really what I bought it for though. It's great at making jobs faster, which is what I wanted from it.
I attempt whatever I'm undoing with the impact driver first - if it won't budge I have a...
I use these with my Makita 1/4" Impact driver - no problems at all (I realise it says 80Nm max but seems to have coped fine so far)
https://www.screwfix.com/p/erbauer-socket-driver-set-3-pieces/6297d