Bebs
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As oneball says, it could have been a lot worse.. very lucky escape first of all what with the chunk of metal from the gear coq and the floating butterfly screw luckily trapped in the corner of the inlet.Wow. This seems like Pandora's Box! I'm guessing you've instructed them to just rebuild anything and everything they can find thats wrong?
Otherwise it feels a bit like going in to fix a broken finger and ending up with a heart transplant!
The cylinders themselves are fine so negate the need for new sleeves (extremely costly) the pistons and the rings are ok also negating the need for new ones (again, extremely costly). The crank we were able to polish up negating the need for a new or used one at £3500-6500.
There was always going to be bits that needed replacing at 20 years old and 105,000 miles but AV are doing their absolute best to source used bits and or resurfacing f.eks. The heat shields that are partly worn through rather than just opting for new ones at vast costs.
Of course ultimately it will be 5 figures, there’s no getting around that as I also need a new clutch, release bearing, ring gear, air con compressor and various other bits.
However, from the outset I had agreed with Aldous that if we were going to take everything apart, then we might as well do it properly give the high mileage.