Hi All,
I have a manual 1.9 CDTi 56 SRi 150 Nav estate, I bought it from my company and I know they service and repair their vehicles regardless of costs because it costs them a lot in lost revenue if the car ever breaks down. The owner of the firm also happens to be a confirmed petrol head (has had an R8 and does track racing in other modded cars he owns).
I put it in for a service today since I got no history with it, accounts department lost the whole folder for the car...
I know it had a full service with the MOT 4 weeks before I got it in August 2012 and although I have only done 12K miles in it since then I thought it would be nice to service it and get it inspected underneath as the next MOT is due in July.
It has had a warning light on for the last few weeks, since it has covered 239K miles now I thought a bottle of injector/fuel system cleaner wouldn't hurt so I ran two full tanks of diesel through it with the recommended dosage.
The car seemed a little smoother on the next tank of normal fuel and I reset BC2 after the last of the fuel that had cleaner added was used. The average MPG on BC1 over 12K miles is 44.1, BC2 now says 44.9 after 600 miles so I am pretty happy with that.
The garage read the fault code and it said EGR, they cleared the code but told me it will probably come back unless I replace the EGR, but then siad buying a bottle of fuel additive from them at 12 quid might just sort it.
I didn't buy it as I have just used a bottle of the Halfords stuff instead. Since I left the garage this morning I have done 95 miles and the fault light hasn't come on again so maybe the additive did its thing ?
So after the service they gave me a list of faults including;
Front flexi exhaust section blowing (I only hear it under hard acceleration)
Mid section corroded and needing replacement (is this where the DPF is ?)
Rear discs lipped and pitted
Rear pads
3 tyres on 2mm, one on 3mm
Geometry out by 5 degrees on rear and 4 on front
N/S/F drop link dust cover split
All 4 wheels out of balance (will be sorted when tyres are replaced anyway)
Brake fluid very dirty
They couldn't give me a price for the exhaust because their supplier was closed today but they said the rest of the list except the tyres would be about 450 plus VAT.
I reckon 4 new tyres 215/50/17 91W will cost me 320 quid for a half sensible set, was going to get the alloys refurbed too but not sure if spending all that is really worth it on this particular car given the 239K mileage ?
I did only pay a grand for her but 770 quid plus whatever the exhaust parts are going to cost is a big lump.
She still runs like a dream btw and smoked my mates 61 plate insignia design 130 lol
What do you think guys ? Mend it or get another ?
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