What Does Half A Million Miles Do To A Car?

That's not supposed to be in my hand friend, fubar friend, I think they call it difficult beyond all recognition, look Wow, hello and welcome back to the channel. I'm Alex, I'm Adam. Yes, I am and

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we're going to do. What I'm doing today Adam is taking a look at our new high mileage hero. This car has 540k

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on the clock. First impressions please. Well, I don't believe in mileage. There are a few things I've already noticed. I've done a very good eye, ten points for me, right, ten points, no, no, no, oh, come on anyway, if we put the car in the air, take a proper look and then you'll give me a quote to tell me as. how much would it cost to make this car run properly

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we can't do is remove the head from this one, that's not really what you do with PD engines, they can't be skimmed to begin with, so if we find any deviation in the head we won't we can repair it, it will have to be replaced, no, it's just not worth taking it apart this time like we did with the

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, because if we do that and then break the engine, anyway, let's make the car fly through the air, two things.

The first thing I want to point out is that all four tires are Michelin and they are not cheap tires either, which shows that whoever has owned this car

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n't mind spending a few quid on it, and the second thing you noticed, yes, it is strange, especially For a car with this mileage, I think. They've never seen a car here with this much more, but you'll see the five lug nut covers on that same one for all the other wheels and you'll see cars with 10,000 miles on them and those are missing, so again, someone really took care of it. this, so we're going to remove all four wheels so we can check the brakes and suspension a little more thoroughly.

I have seen MOT testers recommend bodywork corrosion from the shop. I wouldn't say there was really too much wrong. with that we'll put it in the price and the bumpers are just starting to come off so the coil springs this one on this side don't have any cracks there's not even enough paint for that spring I'd like to say it had been replaced yeah it I did. I question the condition of the rear disc so when we look at them they are actually really good and there is still a lot of meat on the pad. I bought a beauty income.

This is a corner that we have analyzed so far. that the cars are perfect my track record recently has been amazing 65

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board why did you two suddenly start appearing in all the videos? because I want to work less. The minimum thickness on this particular brake disc is 23 millimeters, that is, 22.9 one. Something I've also noticed, although the pads have a lot of life left in them, they've actually started to rust out the back end in play, so these sand pads on the front will be the first thing we put on the strap. the wear sensor is here and it is not connected, it has been taped to the loom there and attached, unfortunately they have done this by cutting the wiring plug so that way the sensor cannot be put back in its place , that's something we need to correct, fortunately the upper arms are in very good condition as we said the Bush is starting to crack slightly, other than this end of the suspension looks very good Alex, yes Adam, it's supposed to which should not be on my companion, we have also noticed that this rear desk is in considerably worse condition than what was on the other side, so there are a pair of rear springs and a pair of rear discs and a set of package butt that looks like you bought another one. winner mate of nothing why is it Adam here we are below jr.

First impressions are a lot of plastic, but the metal there is actually not that bad, not that bad at all. Mine is all clean and fresh. The metal appears to have a slight ding on the back. You wouldn't say it's a big red truck. crash into him. I wouldn't say you've been run over by Royal Mail or Reno. I'm just going home. This left side of the car is definitely worse than the right side of the car, but that's relatively normal in this country because the left side of the cars, the side of the car that goes over the ditch, so all the salt is thrown into the left side more than the right side.

Anything that is rubber, as we find in all the others, the brake pipes, everything is still. In good condition, the subframe hasn't fared as well, unfortunately, they didn't put the same level of protection on the subframe, the bolt-on parts that they put on the main monocoque body, but it's not rotted, again it's corrosion all over the surface. where protection is found. it's come on the original exhaust original exhaust you can see the dent here zero six zero three one thing I'm quite surprised to see this exhaust clamp right here it's a hose gasket that normally corrodes and you'll end up with exhaust knock yeah it's covered it's rusty but not corroded, same with the fuel tank strap, here you can see if you compare that fuel tank strap that's there, yeah, I wouldn't be too surprised to find out that was a new 2cv boot, it's not split , it is still in good condition but you would get an MOT notice or possibly fail because the clips don't actually do their job, they just want to draw your attention to this drop link bushing that is basically sticking out of the drop link, not anymore It's there, there's nothing underneath. here that you wouldn't expect to see in a car with, I would say,

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the mileage, but a quarter of the mileage.

I saw a car with a hundred and thousand miles, maybe we should reregister it at a hundred thousand and then sell it for a Cool, hey, there's some oil under here again, as expected, if you look at the passenger side of the engine , yes, clean and dry, drivers side of engine, even starting pit was covered in oil 17 years ago, 500,000 miles on it, no connection. If that makes sense, this part of the trim is actually the tube that supplies boost from this side of the car to this side of the car, so if it rusts, you'll get a boost leak, so look under the car, what is there to do?

Replaced power drop links, power rear springs, we are still on disc and pads, we had a great time while we are here to check the belt, which is actually in very good condition, I mean it is certainly called, definitely It has been very good and how. well cared for, I can tell you now because the service history book is full to bursting with annual entries at 22,500 miles 40 5060 384 105 and so on, then at the 300k mark the service is done every six months and extends on additional pages and in the back of the service book that reminds me jr.

It's Jewish service now so yeah apart from the drop link it says "next to pull today" so we'll drop it and take a look at the motor now that's helpful for you the first thing you'll notice is that the air condenser conditioning has add a hallel at some point, as I would say in the trade, it is the fubar companion. I think they call him beyond all recognition, yes, it's Mullard. I'd be surprised if he holds gas, so that's the engine cover off, its real down. the bottom comes from the EGR we just removed the timing belt cover which is a genuine timing belt and at five hundred and forty thousand miles it is definitely not the original so this car has been serviced by the dealer .

Yes, I guarantee the fact that the writing is still there throughout, it is not really faded. I'd say it was probably within the last twenty thousand miles. It's nice to see how clean the air filter is from here, it's pretty dirty so I imagine its last service was probably an interim service. and the next one would have an air filter, so it will probably need to be changed at some point. I have the top of the invisible turbo here where it goes back to its cat. The cat is still there, which is also surprising. The turbo looks very healthy.

In fact, going back to great looking at the top of the bow and the pulleys, that tensioner is probably a result of the slight squeak we have. If you look at it down you'll see that it's offset, the tension is failing, so tension on the dipstick replaced at some point nice and cheap yes, and not really the dipstick tube is still in one piece looking for signs of water in the oil, we'll just check the lid twice and make sure we don't have any mayonnaise in there that you're looking for. Well, you may notice that there are no visible fuel injectors on the top of the engine.

There are no visible fuel lines on top of the engine. Everything is done inside the head. Maybe I just shot it. Thanks anyway, let's get back to the car and Adam. It gets to work removing the exhaust gas recirculation or EGR valve. Look, he looks clean as a whistle, it's worse than boiling, so we give him a clean can, we just pour gasoline on him and set him on fire, so one thing. I noticed right away that this seal has been stuck there for so long that it's not even proud of the EGR mating face, so in an ideal world if we had a seal on hand we would replace it, that leaves all the gases come up here and when the vacuum operates on this actuator, it lifts this shaft up right around where it seals, it's not really mixing, but you also have a lot of buildup on the shaft right here and a clear section, so obviously it has been moving otherwise the build up would be all the way in the shaft when you turn off the motor you apply vacuum here and pull that that stops the air coming into the motor to make sure it shuts off immediately stop it and invade it with the revised EGR valve, it's time to clean it. ready for another 500,000 miles of loyal service, so the last piece of the puzzle is that Adam has hooked up jr. in your box of tricks, yes, and we have some failures, the good news is that the motor passed, so the first front module is the brake module, the central air conditioning flat motor, non-voltage recirculating flat motor, flat motor no voltage, high pressure sensor signal too low, so damaged.

The air conditioning condenser has let out all the gas, so it needs to be replaced before the system can run on gas. How much is one of those approximately? They weigh over 100 pounds and then you have about 50 pounds of gas. at the front passenger airbag collision sensor, open circuit from the front passenger airbag collision sensor, fault in an electrical circuit, given the condition of the air conditioning condenser, I would say it has been in a front bypass at some point because everything has been pushed to the rear, which is probably What's happened is that the crash sensors haven't been replaced, so what we're going to do now is there's nothing there that looks ridiculously drastic. apart from those of the air bags.

We will go ahead and do a global cleanup, now you will see that when it happens. to the airbag it will come back faulty again that airbag light that needs fixing remove the light put some tape over it something like that top-2 we know we need to find the crash sensor if it gets completely cleared and then reactivates the system without the fault being rectified, short to ground, yes, back off, you have done a full inspection. General thoughts. I wouldn't mind giving £500 for this sold car. Wouldn't it be mine? It wouldn't hurt to leave, raise the price and then come.

Come back with a good price and then we'll see how much it would really cost Junior to get two really good specs again. Problem, I'll do it. This is the best aftermarket out there, so we went with Brembo for the brakes. For example, now I'm going to guess how much I think all these repairs cost. I guess it's thirteen hundred and sixty pounds, which would be six times the value of jr. you're not far off including the plates you'd cost around fifteen hundred and twenty quid both front crash sensors weighed a whopping £123 twenty five each there's a lot to write home about there really is a lot of life left in the old one but I'll give them that yeah and when you want to convert it to an invoice, let me know.

Yeah, we might not do that, let us know what you want to see with Jr. Jack keeps saying truck, taxi, we're not going to talk too much, sorry Jack, it could be another high mileage hero series, we don't know, it depends you because obviously we serve you if you like what you see in it. channel, make sure to subscribe there and to see more episodes, the link is there, it usually takes a little time to find the place, they are great anyway, see you next time, bye, I'm really coming this way.