@Brucemagoose511  I had no idea that you or the car were in Scotland?

 

Where are you and who has been looking at the car?

& What age is it and how many miles has it done?

 

EDIT,

Got it, a 2010.   Central Belt,   Just looked back to the early posts.   Green with black Roof.

Got the Reg no as well from back then.  

Edited 2 February, 20215 yr by e-Roottoot

1 hour ago, Brucemagoose511 said:

Then it is either a post on Gumtree for any one looking for VRS parts or getting it taken away to the scrappies.  I'll wait and see how the car is performing in a few days before making that decision.  

 

 

What year an mileage? I may be interested in taking it off your hands if you go that route.

 

 

As mentioned above a proper compression test should determine whether a borescope is required, Was it burning oil before it broke on you? That would be the first sign that is the piston rings failing or possibility of scoring on the cylinders. As Thomas mentioned the wiring to the coils and ignition connectors must be checked as the wiring is notorious on these for disintegrating, For the warning lights to disappear would indicate that its and intermittent electrical fault of some sort.

 

I'd quickly run the engine and put pressure on each on the connections to the coils and the coils themselves to see if there's any difference in how the engine behaves and get and get that wiring checked asap.

Edited 2 February, 20215 yr by Mickmartin

2 hours ago, Mickmartin said:

 

What year an mileage? I may be interested in taking it off your hands if you go that route.

 

 

As mentioned above a proper compression test should determine whether a borescope is required, Was it burning oil before it broke on you? That would be the first sign that is the piston rings failing or possibility of scoring on the cylinders. As Thomas mentioned the wiring to the coils and ignition connectors must be checked as the wiring is notorious on these for disintegrating, For the warning lights to disappear would indicate that its and intermittent electrical fault of some sort.

 

I'd quickly run the engine and put pressure on each on the connections to the coils and the coils themselves to see if there's any difference in how the engine behaves and get and get that wiring checked asap.

I would also be interested in buying the car if you don’t want it anymore 

On 02/02/2021 at 17:17, Mickmartin said:

 

What year an mileage? I may be interested in taking it off your hands if you go that route.

 

 

As mentioned above a proper compression test should determine whether a borescope is required, Was it burning oil before it broke on you? That would be the first sign that is the piston rings failing or possibility of scoring on the cylinders. As Thomas mentioned the wiring to the coils and ignition connectors must be checked as the wiring is notorious on these for disintegrating, For the warning lights to disappear would indicate that its and intermittent electrical fault of some sort.

 

I'd quickly run the engine and put pressure on each on the connections to the coils and the coils themselves to see if there's any difference in how the engine behaves and get and get that wiring checked asap.

 

Its a 60 plate, 68,000 miles. Surprised by the valuation (for a functioning car obviously) of £3,400 on Webuyanycar (way above the estimated private sale value on Parkers) so I might stick some more money into experimental repairs / investigation. Probably going to have one last conversation with my independent garage to get his thoughts on some of the points raised here (spark plugs, borescope, wiring, coil packs) before I do anything else. 

 

Oil consumption has actually been reduced in recent months (it has been fairly thirsty in that regard historically, but nothing crazy). Usually I have to top up every 600 miles, but its 1,000+ miles since the last topup. 

Yeah, WeChipAnyCar may say that but once you're on the hook what they actually pay will be significantly less, they'll chip you for every scratch, mark, missing service, anything to reduce the price to the absolute minimum.

It's a service designed to buy cars at the end of a PCP so they're looking to buy it for the balloon payment and maybe stick a monkey in your skyrocket.

15 minutes ago, sepulchrave said:

Yeah, WeChipAnyCar may say that but once you're on the hook what they actually pay will be significantly less, they'll chip you for every scratch, mark, missing service, anything to reduce the price to the absolute minimum.

It's a service designed to buy cars at the end of a PCP so they're looking to buy it for the balloon payment and maybe stick a monkey in your skyrocket.

 

Well I get a valuation of a over £3.7k on Regit and £2.6k on Evan's Halshaws, so I think it is Parkers that is the outlier (which I've also found when looking at cars to buy) by suggesting £1.9. Glass's used to be very accurate but they don't do free valuations anymore.  

28 minutes ago, Brucemagoose511 said:

 

Well I get a valuation of a over £3.7k on Regit and £2.6k on Evan's Halshaws, so I think it is Parkers that is the outlier (which I've also found when looking at cars to buy) by suggesting £1.9. Glass's used to be very accurate but they don't do free valuations anymore.  

 

You're misunderstanding me, I don't have an opinion about the value of your car, simply trying to give you an insight into the MO of these online operators, they never pay what they say they will, they're just trying to get a foot in the door with that quote.