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MiniGrin
So, the 2 week repair by my local garage of the driveshafts has finally been done, only for the garage to call me and say, actually the final drive is also done for, so another month of waiting and a heap more money :@ Starting to fall out of love with it now, it never seems to be working, im on a very low apprentice wage and these bills are killing me, and i commute 70 miles a day which causes huge probables when i dont have a car cus its in the garage. Not a well behaved little car, and at...

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miniman24
I would have just slapped a different engine in there!
Nov 22 2013 06:15 PM -
robminibcy
Mmm I was doing 60 miles a day in mine until march! to be fair for a 34 year old car she only let me down big time twice. once wen loom burned out and once with a head gasket. You really need to learn how to mend it because like you say it will cripple you! You could probably do drive shafts in a day even with out much mechanical knowledge as long as you had some help and a Haynes manual
Nov 22 2013 08:53 PM -
MiniGrin
Yea i guess for an 80,000 mile car its not doing too bad :/ and i like to do as much as possible but cus of difficult access and just plain laziness to be honest :P the garage got this one XD. And I have to say in a crazy hour today the idea of a new enginge had crossed my mind ;) hahaha
Nov 22 2013 10:09 PM