Cough. Mine is £1053 including declared mods.
thats offset with the tax going up year on year. now up to about £760
Thats where I gain. Only £195 pa
Good luck
My LV renewal came through today, £710 compared to £807 last year. I will do a trawl of the comparison sites to see whether any other big names can do better than that,
Thats not too bad for the work involved, turbo out etc. I did it a couple of weeks ago on my 212 E350 CDI.....but i took the manifolds off, de carbonned them and fitted new oil cooler seals (purely a precautionary "while I'm in there" job). But doing all that was about 16 hrs work.....lots of which was cleaning and getting nasty black yuck everywhere!
im with LV and they were the cheapest on the renewal and on confused.com
Finally got the car back today, £3k lighter after the diff replacement, a rear calliper replacement, rear camber arms and bolts, rear seatbelt retaining trim, a parking sensor and new rear disks and pads.I’ll apologies in advance, this might be a long post.
A few months ago (around Halloween), I was doing the usual drive up to the Lake District late one on a Friday night. Coming across the A66 I had to swerve to miss a little munckjack, however I hit the near side wheels against the kerb face one, enough to grind the faces nicely on the wheels and throw the car up in the air a few inches and land back down, at a guess although it was a 60 limit there, I’d braked at little so still likely hit it at 45-50.
Bambi was fine and I drove on to the house, took a look the next day at the state of the alloys and tires, also a look to see if anything looked bent etc, other than now needing a grind and refurb, all seemed ok.
A couple of weeks later I started to notice a drone coming in at just before 50 and disappearing after 60, though maybe a faint noise still at 70.
I booked the old girl into MB Centre in Nottingham (my trusted Indy) and asked them to investigate, also swapped from the summer tyres and wheels to my winter set to rule out that the tread was just getting low and making the noise. Anyway, the tech found the doughnut to be perished a little so thought it may have been the culprit and also the dust plate at the rear was just rubbing slightly, together probably just enough to make the noise.
Collected the car and as I needed it a lot in December and January just had to live with the noise, however it was starting to get worse.
So it’s been back with the Indy this week, investigating as well as doing some other work they had noticed when it was in last (general maintenance things for a 15 year old car), after doing those things they took it out again and could hear the drone still, so back in and up on the lift, wheels off and run up to 50 in the air. They located the noise, it was coming from the diff. Next step they drain the oil (which I’d only had some earlier in the year anyway) and check it for stuff you don’t want to see in oil, glitter! They found it and some light filings, so we knew it had to be that.
The team gave me a call this morning after doing some due diligence on a replacement diff, giving me a few options, I needed to sit down when they gave me the cost from MB themselves, £3200 for a new one and £2640 for a reconditioned unit. I can’t afford that right now with a house build going on and the car in reality even in as good condition as she is, probably isn’t worth more than ~£5k now, so they had been looking for used options and have found one from a reputable place that test the units, replace the seals and also provide a 90 day warranty on them, all for around £630, which I think isn’t that bad. They rang a few places that were cheaper but didn’t have much confidence in the sellers, so this is what we’ve gone for. Delivery should hopefully be towards the end of next week and then they need to strip the old one out and put this one in, fill it up and road test to make sure it’s all ok.
So, my wallet is going to be lighter and I’m carless for probably about three weeks. Not a great time either with the building work being delayed and us finding more issues from the previous owners bodges. But at least it’s almost February and the days are getting lighter
