April 18th, 2007 by admin

I’m thinking now that the car never had an oil leak on the sump and only had a leaky oil sensor which could of been fixed with a spanner. I should of payed closer attention myself but I was very busy at that time, and it still doesn’t excuse bad workmanship. I feel because the car is old it sometimes gets disrespected by some mechanics as its not worth a lot of money and its not superior like there BMW or AUDI lol. I feel this is an unprofessional attitude as I pay the same money as the next man and really don’t give a f*** what you think of my car or me and just expect a proper job doing when I pay for one.

April 17th, 2007 by admin

Slight corrosion fixed and under seal applied, the car has previously been under seal but a few spots were missed. I Asked a mechanic to take a look at the oil leak, he told me it was the sump which shocked me as I’ve had many xr2’s and none have ever had a leaky sump, leaky elsewhere lol but never sump. I asked him to do the job as I’ve only ever done it once before on an escort mk4 that had a bunged up pressure problem and it was a total nightmare as the seal would slip as your trying to put the bolts in. The job got done and the car came back, I decided to test it using a light colored blanket and parking the car over it, sure enough it spewed out oil worse than before! I took it back to the mechanic and told him to take another look, he told me that it was the oil pressure sensor and he had replace it with a new one. The car still spewed oil so I took another look and saw that the sensor had been replaced but still leaked oil, so I tightened it until it stopped but this wasn’t the end of it as another blanket test revealed that the sump was leaking from both sides! That’s some shoddy workmanship!!

April 16th, 2007 by admin

it passed its MOT, went straight threw without needing any work. There were a couple of advisory notes about signs of corrosion and an oil leak

April 7th, 2007 by admin

Fitted vapor sheets as the car came without them, this caused the door card plastic to peel away from the cardboard
Also fitted some sony speakers I had hanging around! see pics

April 4th, 2007 by admin

MOT time coming up very soon.