Sorry last reply was from phone, I wanted to give a more concise account
77 quid for a brake fluid change? I just paid a BMW main dealer 58 quid.
Yes I probably could
The parts prices for both front suspnsion arms from ECP before discounts are £103.20 each (guessing your engine and year but i doubt the price will change much).
With the 20/25 off that's both parts for £150...so nearly £400 worth of labour...and i bet they'll just replace the bush...
There's 4 and they are 1.2 hours per corner I'll let you do the maths
He's about to buy a new car and scrap his as he thinks it will cost £5k to repair, its only right we tell him he's being taken for a complete ride.
No I'm thinking about selling the car as is and putting the repair money and some more towards a newer better car, maybe justifying a new car for me
But he might WANT a Lexus IS
I was sort of hoping to get some advice on the IS
Lolwut? Has he priced that with a brand new torque converter? You can get a perfectly good rebuilt one, installed, for a fraction of that. I paid £600 inc. a refurbed torque converter for my 530i.
Yes yes he has, I'm not going to sling a s/h ebay job on it, I do 20k business miles a year I need a reliable car at the very least there is a £1500 refurbished ebay one including fitting available
OMG £158 geometry 'check'?!
OMG your right
I thought you had a warranty, will the tourque converter not be covered under that at least?
I did, we as a family decided to ditch all insurances for this and that and bank the money, my unemployment insurance was £125 pcm the car was £36 pcm and other, however I'll give you a run down of what would have been covered
Torque converter in auto box is going / breaking up £3k rebuild
Possibly covered although £50 excess and 30% parts contribution & query if they would write the car off
Centre exhaust bracket £76.56
Not covered
AC Service £99.00
Not covered
Brake fluid change £77.52
Not covered
PAS reservoir leaking £176.00
Covered although £50 excess and 30% parts contribution
Lock stops worn out £55.68
Covered although £50 excess and 30% parts contribution
Front wishbone bushes split torn X 4 £524.54
Covered although 4 x £50 excess and 30% parts contribution
Geometry check £158.40
Covered although £50
PAS pump leaking £490.20
Covered although £50 excess and 30% parts contribution
Circas
Both NS wheels buckled £300?
Not covered
Park assist not working £100?
Not covered
Sounds like you don't even want to consider fixing the car if you're accepting those jokes of prices. Granted you are looking at a minimum of £1k which is a lot, but £5k is several times too much in reality.
I'm not not considering the prices and if you think you can do all that for £1k, get it done for me and I'll give you £500 cash
I wasn't having a go, I just meant that it seems you have no interest in repairing it, meaning regardless of the actual cost of repair you want a new car.
Fair play if that's the case.
It's more of a case of good money after bad, if now looking I can sell the car for £5k put the haggled repair costs down another say £3k then £2k out of savings I could get a fundamentally newer and better car for £2k over and above what I could be spending
The Lexus is, by all accounts, a bit dull. And the one in matte black just looks daft.
Ah ha at last thanks, I'm used to Mondeos Mazda 6's and now an S80 boring is a given, I want somewhere nice to sit in traffic on the M25 5 days a week
Personally unless you are looking at doing stellar miles I would not get a 220,pootling round town does them no favours. DPF and fifth injector problems cost £££
250 engine is pretty bulletproof and so are the autoboxes. You might find a manual petrol if you are prepared to look around/wait. Think I have only ever seen a couple.
Known issues with the rear caliper slides seizing although that has been counter-measured (applies to both models)
If you have any questions email address is in trust.
I'm doing 20k a year 1/2 of that is in London stop start, next year I may be lucky and be closer to home or unlucky and further away
Having a look there are very few petrols about most are dervs 220s, auto now I'm not too sure, this is the second auto I've had and second to go wrong last one (3ltr Accord Coupe) cost £1100 to fix with no warranty, the only way they would warranty it was by spending another grand for a full refurb bit hesitant now to plump for another auto athough it makes driving to and from work easier
Cheers for the advice
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