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Swedish.Net meet

Yeah Sunday for me if possible

yeah, Motorist ?

Down to £13,900 now Running engines make £10k, sell the engine and do a M57 swap then take it to AMOC events to see people's head explode

192k mile DB9 £16k Full Aston history £100k in service receipts

As long as the pcv valves are changed on the spark plug service and the oil level regularly checked there reliable

They're not that costly to maintain as long as you can do it yourself, they're just awkward as f**k to work on so the big service bills are mostly labour, the engines rarely give much problems and the gearbox is just a 6HP from BMW etc of that era, rear diff's s**t themselves occasionally buts...

The brake system is a diagonal split so you can have more effort on one side to the other through the rear compensator if it's faulty, I would also look at bad corner weights if the car is on coilovers and hasn't been corner weighted and has considerably less load on the corner with the...

I took the Cup for a early morning drive this morning, there's still nothing that can touch them for driver engagement sub £10k.

The Headlight level sensor ball joints can cause random squeaks when they start to seize, iirc the Passat CC has one on all 4 suspension arms, just spray some wd40 in the joint and see if it stops.

It'll open the valve in sport +

You need a Renfort plate or fit a 182 diff

Lead shot in the selector rod tube or pms did a weight you bolted to the selector rod, it helps but it wasn't a 100% fix

A clutch is a piss easy job on the Mk7 anyway Also look into the clutch delay valve mod to, it's worth doing regardless.

The timing chain tensioners let go occasionally and water pumps leak fairly often, Also the stereo can just decide it dosen't want to work anymore and they're £500 -1000 to replace. Still bloody good cars though