Bollix.

[denny]

And to reward me for spending money on shiny new wheels for it, the car died today, stranding me (and duranorak) on the M25 for the best part of six hours. I've just got home a few minutes ago with it on the back of a flatbed.

I'm guessing it's the rotor tips/seals - the symptoms are about right (similar to a head gasket failure on a piston engine) and the car is at the sort of mileage where this does have a tendency to happen. Repair bill is likely to be in the region of 3000 pounds.

I really must learn to be more suspicious when I buy cars. The guy selling it obviously knew it was on its last legs... you don't buy a car and have it blow up less than a thousand miles later out of sheer coincidence.

Update: £4000. And four weeks. *sigh*

Comments

[djlongfella.livejournal.com]

Aww Man, what a bummer...

[wood-rose.livejournal.com]

Arse !!!

Sorry to hear that,

J
x

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Aye. This leaves me with no transport for reaching the party next weekend, any thoughts/ideas regarding that?

[bluecassandra.livejournal.com]

Oooh, poor you.

[ev1ldonut.livejournal.com]

Shit...
I hope it's not as fatal as you fear. :/ Can you afford the repair if it is that bad?

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not fatal, it's just bloody expensive. I can afford it, although obviously there are things I'd far rather have done with the money.

[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

That sucks more than several of my ex's.
*Offers hugs*

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Would it be cheaper to get a new engine??

[djlongfella.livejournal.com]

When you were first researching rotary's didnt azekeil find a place that did lumps for about 1700 reconned and fit them for about 900 ?

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

That was stuartl I believe. Half the links on some of the RX-7 sites don't work unless you're using IE, so I never saw the prices on the page you're talking about - I only remember it because you commented on how cheap they were.

I can only presume that there's a reason why a rebuild to standard spec is three and a half grand... if a replacement engine for half the price was just as good, then they wouldn't do many rebuilds I wouldn't have thought...

[djlongfella.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's like the engines we have been looking at for the pontiac, a complete strip and tune costs about 6 K but we can buy a factory tuned brand new lump for around 2K I guess it's the labour cost that bumps it up.