The Raven

Awesome thank you

I need to replace my low oil bulb as it’s given out. What are they spec wise, Never had to change one before

The lesson is dont ever listen to the local guy who is clearly a total con artist. The guy legit told me its totaled and would be 4k plus vat to fix. My guess is he would have done next to nothing charged that and laughed all the way to the bank.

So nissan looked it at yesterday. I also decided for 55 quid a month with service and mot included i would get them to do the check to take out the warranty. Sadly they found both front tyres at half tread..........thats it............Utter utter scum bags attempting to con 4k pus vat for a rebuild it never needed. Its now sat with the nissan warranty and no more stressing.

This is my thoughts however having never heard the car without the cap on and having two guys tell me it’s fubar and that sound isn’t normal confused the hell out of me. I’m more inclined to air on your and the moblie guys side and there isn’t anything majorly wrong with it. Its off road until o take it to Nissan on Thursday to put mine and more importantly the wife’s mind at ease and will report back. Meantime the new daily is a 2005 Mini Cooper s. A family car it isn’t,

If the price of parts continues the way it is I’d guess in about 3 months time?

Engine rattles, now I have heard it to be fair to them. However for it to go away or be intermittent is super odd. I assumed it was something loose rather than internally broken. To the point I wasn’t over concerned The thing I don’t like was he removed the oil cap and was like listen the car banged like it had a rock in it. Now I can safely say I’ve never listened to car run for a few seconds with no oil cap. I do know it shouldn’t sound like that. Or so I thought until the moblie guy took the cap off the qash and low and behold same thing. I’ve been using the guy for a while he’s always been super reliable honest. i guess it’s possible I’m being scammed that both him and the engine guy are saying it needs a rebuild to get a ton of cash then split it. Or it’s really that broken which I find hard to believe with zero symptoms of by all accounts a problem so bad I’d be lucky to make it the 5 miles home. For now I’m willing to give the benefit of doubt and believe he does not know what it was and the engine guy is scamming me. Nissan have allowed 3 hours with the master tech next Thursday. One way or another I will know what’s up. While I’m awake at 5 am worrying I found this on YouTube. This is exactly how my sounds as was used to prove how knackered the engine is…….

Can i play the 2016 car knocking game? Xtrail 50k on the clock serviced by nissan. The front fan was making a noise so took it to the local guy to swap it out, on inspection he said the engine is making a horrendous sound, he went to the unit a few doors up that does rebuilds who more or less said something is very very wrong. quoted 4k for the rebuild. I owe nissan 6k on finance....... Phone nissan who say......away go. Or its 2.5k to look at it or 15k for a new engine. Odd the car makes no missfires or acts like its on its last legs no warning lights nothing. Anyway i nip into my sisters for a breakdown and a tea, She is having her mobile tech working on her qashaqi. So i thought may as well ask him what he thinks. "Seems fine to me wouldn't worry about it" To the point he parked it next the Qash with the same engine and turned them on. Low and behold they both sound like tractors. So now i have 1. a car on its last legs 2. A guy that i thought was very trustworthy telling me crap. I phoned a different nissan dealership back and told them. I decided to bite the bullet let them diagnose it. Its going in next Thursday. They also said should they find it to be ok they will happily stick a 12 month warranty on it for £50 a month with free servicing and free mot. So.......yeah....Who knows now? Maybe i should drive it to we buy anycar?

I used strong flex kit on mine. Made a huge difference.

£40 for the shagged pair it is then

The pair?

So I continued to find supra parts I no longer need. I found two arch liners and one lower bit. As per photo. I’m so out of touch with pricing I have no idea what they are worth anyone got a clue?

My agreed is 30k. 6k? yeah im buying it back all day long

I have both of these.

I thought about this. Comes down to 2 options. 1. Is it repairable? Im convinced any form of crash at anything over 15 mph front back or side its getting written off. Hit from behind? Probably isnt a hard fix. Id attempt to buy it back and fix it. 2. Its hit in the front and bent some stuff. Personally id call Keron and see if we could come to a deal where i buy it back he buys it from me. The thought of having a supra sat and attempting to strip it myself would be a nightmare Price wise they say a CAT N is worth between 20 to 40% less repaired. Supra is insured for 30k. Id doubt insurance companys have any idea about switches being worth £500 etc. Id offer them Low low low figures. I have salvage rights on my car insurance but i will admit i have no idea how that works

Dont feel bad, I once lost a small vac hose, spent 6 hours looking for the issue before giving up convinced the engine was fubar. Mate came over looked at it for maybe 2 minutes and popped it back on

Awesome job thanks for that. I am waiting till summer summer and booking a day with my bro in law to do all the jobs planned. Lucky the barrel is fairly simple to change back. I lack the skills and patience to do fiddly stuff he has a much more chill approach to things than me.

Out of the list, sl63 for me, what a engine, comfy and a hardtop to boot. The when you want........that sound. Zero idea on running costs, reliability or anything that matters however

Bit rich for me as I’m going to paint them anyway

Anyone got one mine had a few broken tabs and it’s starting to bug me. thanks

My parts from Japan finally turned up. Rear aero bolts and fixings. Once these are done I’ve changed every fixing on the roof.

Yeah they are fine mate.

The shed clear out continues. 6 rear lights all in rough rough shape so I will say they are good for only lenses inside or any other parts you may be able to get from them. I don’t think they are fixable to being able to put on a car. 60 quid the lot plus post or collection preferred

As above was removed from car years ago and I’ve just found it the shed. I doubt it’s genuine from memory the rear bolts lined up but the front needed to be bonded. it also put up a fight when removing it so will need work to put back to 100% I have loads more photos of damage if anyone is Interested it’s probably easier to send over WhatsApp. seeing the only price I can find is here https://bulletproofautomotive.com/product/do-luck-rear-wing-spoiler/ at a grand.. I will offer this for 200 quid? I have zero interest in posting it it’s large and I wouldn’t want to risk further damage. collection from ct12 please.

No really alot to add to the other comments above, Anything rubber needs to go and be replaced take the chance to do as much as possible while its easy to get to