2.5 soldiering on

OK so I've been away for a while due to having parted with my old girl 2.5 AYM engined tiptronic as I've passed it on to a family member. 

Since then, given that the new owner has not got much mechanical knowledge I ended up changing the brake servo for him (8 hr job!), servicing the auto box at 150k (oil and filter change) and I even changed the timing belt, water pump, tensioners, idler pulley, and all the other belts. This summer the car was driven to Corfu in Greece and went there and back without missing a beat. It did have a door mirror knocked in Albania due to a careless Albanian driver, so I used the opportunity to refresh the car with chrome replacement mirror housings which I think look quite good on her. Now at 167k miles, she's still good. Only fault is the front passenger door has not unlocked for a few weeks now. I think the lock mechanism has finally had it. It's still on all the original wheel bearings, it does have Bilstein B6 shocks all round, front lower arms are original, top ones have been changed a couple of times just like top mounts and cv boots but CV joints are also original. Recently I've changed the PAS fluid also which has lightened the steering a bit and front discs were re-cut while fitted to the hub to correct for runout error as brakes turned quite bad in terms of vibration. Still no rust anywhere, these are good solid cars. Air con was regassed and suspension realigned at skoda main dealer this spring too. Still no rattles and car drives super smoothly, I've recently had a pleasure to drive her on a few trips and she's still a seriously good car for motorway cruising. She's doing 900 miles a week currently so will be at 180k miles by end of January next year... Hopefully she'll continue being reliable. Thumbs up old girl

Edited 22 October, 20178 yr by oh_superb