Last week I got some good advice and a couple of pms re a potential purchase - thank you as always.
As is always the case with any car purchase, I’ve almost scared myself out of it.
I’ve decided the itch will never go and am likely to be collecting a 2003 td5.
I’m trading in an ultra reliable hilux for this (man maths).
The car in q is missing a little service hist under 60k but is now on double that with a fair bit of documentation including injector loom x 2, recent o rings and copper washers and a fair bit of work done by the lr specialist selling (all standard non scary stuff)
I thought, going for a 2003 would rid me of head issue threats, however, not only are the plastic dowels in 10p’s a threat but there’s also a trend of failure in head gallery around bank no.1. The biggest scare is that this can lead to runaway.
You’ll know by my posts and project I’m a bit of a worrier, however, I’m happiest at the weekend when music and beers on the go and I’m on a lr. Don’t know why!
So, could anyone help on the list below - I realize many things have been exhausted but I’m pushing my budget to get the new motor and car pot will take a couple months to replenish. Always a gamble but hopefully I’m lucky and do due diligence.
thanks
As is always the case with any car purchase, I’ve almost scared myself out of it.
I’ve decided the itch will never go and am likely to be collecting a 2003 td5.
I’m trading in an ultra reliable hilux for this (man maths).
The car in q is missing a little service hist under 60k but is now on double that with a fair bit of documentation including injector loom x 2, recent o rings and copper washers and a fair bit of work done by the lr specialist selling (all standard non scary stuff)
I thought, going for a 2003 would rid me of head issue threats, however, not only are the plastic dowels in 10p’s a threat but there’s also a trend of failure in head gallery around bank no.1. The biggest scare is that this can lead to runaway.
You’ll know by my posts and project I’m a bit of a worrier, however, I’m happiest at the weekend when music and beers on the go and I’m on a lr. Don’t know why!
So, could anyone help on the list below - I realize many things have been exhausted but I’m pushing my budget to get the new motor and car pot will take a couple months to replenish. Always a gamble but hopefully I’m lucky and do due diligence.
- dmf breaking up - nothing new here. A modern car thing. Is it a case of when or bad luck?
- Injector seals and loom - covered and I’ll replace loom again anyway when I do a full service myself.
- Head cracking and potential runaway - seems I will have time to forecast this? Dipstick oil going up and other symptoms should prevent it happening? I.e I should get warning?
- Theft - covered in many posts and thanks for help.
- Turbo - consumable really? Can do diy
thanks
