DHallworth wrote:Ben,
I certainly managed with just the coolant reservoir removed. I did wonder about removing the LDS reservoir but couldn't see it adding that much of a benefit to be honest.
The belt change was a fair bit easier on this then it was on the XM V6 as the engine bay is wider allowing for slightly better access between the chassis rail and the cam pulleys.
David.
Thanks David.
SWMBO seems to be on board with getting a very similar car to what we have just manual instead, she realised that I'd have knowledge of both cars very well to be able to do work on them.
I have two concerns with it though....
1) the odometer with 365,000km on it! But the price does reflect that (by swedish standards anyway) - at just under £1K, the other one I was looking at had done 100,000km less, and cost 3x as much
2) That it's unlikely to have had the 360K service done, as the parts in Sweden alone come to at least £700, I really can't see it being the case. This in itself isn't too much of an issue, as I want to do the stuff myself, but driving back ~120km, I think I'd be on tenderhooks, especially since it's about 5000km over.
Hopefully if it hasn't had the 360K service done I can knock the price down even more or get them to include (at least some of) the parts for the service.
However at the moment I'm under orders not to do anything until a certain big day is out of the way a week on Saturday
The Opie stuff turned up today, so really pleased with that

For some reason they decided I needed 6 copies of the invoice (to be honest I didn't even need one!)
