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 when do you stop spending on a money pit ?? - wotspur
Last October was my cars MOT

With over 120k miles -I knew I had to replace the headlights - as they hadn't worked for months , on an Espace, Renault quoted 1200 Each for XENON lights. -Yeah right !!

A week before the MOT the exhaust Fell off , it needed replacing immediately, shame I couldn't have got one off Ebay, or similar - £600 ish due to the cats - I then suffered radiator problems , and needed a new one fitted- this combined with the lights ( i bought some on ebay for £45 work brilliantly) and got the new radiator and new front disks and brakes ALL done by a local 1 man French specialist for £900 - then in December my battery needed replacing £85

When the snow was down, I noticed I had little grip, and upon checking had to buy 4 new tyres - because I thought all my works had been complete I spent 500+ on them.

Last monday week I went out to drive the car, it wouldn't start see my previous post - Mr AA came out 1.5hrs before towing it to Renault - where they spent 3 days trouble shooting before finding it needed a microchip ( micro it might be but expensive) including investigation and fitting around 900.

On friday they got it fitted, and apparantly is now loaded with my details so no use to anyone else - when they noticed the engine was noisy.

They rang me to say there was a " cracked manifold inlet " which to replace is about £300 but with problems associated with breaking glow plugs and necessary items is about 1k in total.

I have investigated getting a 2nd hand engine, been offered one from a scrapy 03/04 82k for 650 + vat , A Recon engine from "Engine World" for 1395 + Renault have quoted 1100 for fitting

now in hindsight back in August if Id known all the rest I'd have spent the 600+900+85+500+900 = nearly 3k already, either on a good holiday or a 2nd hand van - do I go for just the replacement inlet job that will cost a minimum 1200 or spend 2.5 on a recon and get it fitted.... or just go to bed and take a long drink.....

any suggestions - I live in Weybridge and will contact Hardys(Leatherhead and my 1 man on monday but what would you do
Last edited by: VxFan on Sun 23 Jan 11 at 03:49
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 when do you stop spending on a money pi.. new wotspur 22 Jan 11 18:46
 when do you stop spending on a money pit .. new Zero 22 Jan 11 18:49
 when do you stop spending on a money pit.. new RattleandSmoke 22 Jan 11 18:55
 when do you stop spending on a money pi.. new Harleyman 22 Jan 11 19:04
 when do you stop spending on a money p.. new Old Navy 22 Jan 11 19:10
 when do you stop spending on a money pit.. new tyro 22 Jan 11 19:35
 when do you stop spending on a money pit .. new MD 22 Jan 11 19:20
 when do you stop spending on a money pit.. new Stuu 22 Jan 11 19:54
 when do you stop spending on a money pi.. new tyro 22 Jan 11 20:04
 when do you stop spending on a money p.. new bathtub tom 22 Jan 11 20:15
 when do you stop spending on a money.. new Zero 22 Jan 11 20:18
 when do you stop spending on a money p.. new madf 22 Jan 11 20:17
 when do you stop spending on a money p.. new wotspur 23 Jan 11 00:38
 when do you stop spending on a money.. new Old Sock 23 Jan 11 10:15
 when do you stop spending on a money pit.. new John H 22 Jan 11 20:15
 when do you stop spending on a money pi.. new madf 22 Jan 11 20:18
 when do you stop spending on a money p.. new DP 22 Jan 11 20:29
 when do you stop spending on a money pit.. new WillDeBeest 22 Jan 11 20:28
 when do you stop spending on a money pi.. new swiss tony 22 Jan 11 21:04
 when do you stop spending on a money p.. new corax 22 Jan 11 21:29
 when do you stop spending on a money.. new Runfer D'Hills 22 Jan 11 21:30
 when do you stop spending on a mone.. new nyx2k 22 Jan 11 21:34
 when do you stop spending on a mone.. new corax 22 Jan 11 21:35
 when do you stop spending on a mon.. new Runfer D'Hills 22 Jan 11 21:36
 when do you stop spending on a mo.. new corax 22 Jan 11 21:38
 when do you stop spending on a mo.. new Zero 22 Jan 11 21:39
 when do you stop spending on a m.. new Runfer D'Hills 22 Jan 11 21:44
 when do you stop spending on a.. new corax 22 Jan 11 21:48
 when do you stop spending on a m.. new Bromptonaut 22 Jan 11 22:50
 when do you stop spending on a m.. new bathtub tom 22 Jan 11 23:06
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 when do you stop spending on a mon.. new Old Navy 22 Jan 11 21:41
 when do you stop spending on a mo.. new corax 22 Jan 11 21:45
 when do you stop spending on a m.. new Old Navy 22 Jan 11 21:50
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 when do you stop spending on a mone.. new captain chaos 23 Jan 11 11:56
 when do you stop spending on a money.. new swiss tony 23 Jan 11 11:59
 when do you stop spending on a mone.. new corax 23 Jan 11 12:14
 when do you stop spending on a mon.. new wotspur 23 Jan 11 13:40
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