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My smoothed estate
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Basically, I had enough of it because it was the only vehicle I had, and a daily driven one at that. The mounting list of problems became too much for me to cope with, every time I fixed something, more went wrong. Problem is that prior to my ownership, it pretty much sat stationary for the best part of 5-6 years, only racking up 3000 miles in that time, which is as bad for a car as being driven daily.

The list of issues goes something like this:

It is leaking oil from either the feed or return to the turbo, basically sprays a fine mist when on boost, but has liberally coated the whole back of the engine and subframe.
Also leaking water from a perished rubber bung on the radiator.
Tracking is miles out, have chewed through the inside edge of a new set of front tyres in just over a month, everywhere I've taken it say they can't get their tracking equipment on it because it's too low.
Rear beam has some camber.
I believe the bottom engine mount wants replacing, there's a lot of movement from the engine when coming on and off the power, also seems to knock when changing gear, but top and gearbox mount have been changed.
Reciever/solenoid have given up on the smoothed bootlid so it won't remotely pop any more, currently has a highly technical bit of wire poking out of the inside trim to pop the boot open.
Oh, and the rubber exhaust mount by the midbox has given up, there are spares in the glove box, I just haven't had chance to change it yet, only started making a noise the other day.
O/s/f brake disc is warped.

Think that's the worst of it tbh, there may be more, but I can't think off the top of my head....

To someone that has the space and time to fix this properly, I'm sure it could be a nice little project, but for me as a daily, it's just too much now.

I will see about getting some more pics asap, and will get them up here. Smile
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My smoothed estate - by WiNgNuTz - 24-01-2016, 05:18 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by WiNgNuTz - 25-01-2016, 03:34 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by WiNgNuTz - 26-01-2016, 10:50 AM
RE: My smoothed estate - by Redordead89 - 26-01-2016, 08:19 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by WiNgNuTz - 26-01-2016, 08:32 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by Redordead89 - 26-01-2016, 08:56 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by WiNgNuTz - 26-01-2016, 09:04 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by Redordead89 - 26-01-2016, 09:37 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by WiNgNuTz - 27-01-2016, 08:05 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by Toms306 - 27-01-2016, 08:14 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by WiNgNuTz - 27-01-2016, 08:15 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by Toms306 - 27-01-2016, 08:19 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by WiNgNuTz - 27-01-2016, 08:37 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by Mattcheese31 - 27-01-2016, 09:04 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by 1616six - 27-01-2016, 09:40 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by Mattcheese31 - 27-01-2016, 09:45 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by 1616six - 27-01-2016, 09:50 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by WiNgNuTz - 27-01-2016, 10:27 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by WiNgNuTz - 30-01-2016, 01:05 AM
RE: My smoothed estate - by Eeyore - 30-01-2016, 04:53 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by aaron_one - 30-01-2016, 06:18 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by WiNgNuTz - 30-01-2016, 06:21 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by ash23 - 30-01-2016, 06:36 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by aaron_one - 30-01-2016, 07:18 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by WiNgNuTz - 30-01-2016, 07:19 PM
My smoothed estate - by aaron_one - 30-01-2016, 07:27 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by WiNgNuTz - 30-01-2016, 07:56 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by aaron_one - 30-01-2016, 08:20 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by WiNgNuTz - 30-01-2016, 08:34 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by aaron_one - 30-01-2016, 08:45 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by Redordead89 - 31-01-2016, 01:10 AM
RE: My smoothed estate - by aaron_one - 31-01-2016, 02:32 PM
RE: My smoothed estate - by WiNgNuTz - 15-02-2016, 07:30 PM

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