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Went to look at and bought a temporary car pending fixing the S Class properly.

Working MK1 facelift Bini Cooper with almost 6 months MoT.

Needs a few bits addressing, but actually drives quite well for what it is.

 Is owing a Benz,, the new Omega something needs fixing weekly.

Nah, that's a Jaaaag.  In the year I've had it TB has had to dismantle his engine twice.

Mainly due to not being able to get the other cam cover quickly enough when I did the first side. And oppsed if I was fitting a pattern part to such an arsehole to get to component.  And its only a cam cover, so you'd think it was a s trivial as a Omega

I'd wager I've spent less time working on mine in the last year then you have .

In reality, the Big Black Pussy has been pretty good on that front, though has been on a low loader twice due to stupid little issues.  One was down to a silly design, the other gave me plenty of warning before I took it on holiday in the form of bearing noise, but I was busy every weekend helping my holiday buddy fix the suspension on his ash tree, so he could take that away with us, and "would sort the noise on mine when I got back".  Sadly, he still took his Peugeot instead, and my noise meant it was about 250 miles short of making it home!


I do despair at some of the silly decisions on the Pussy, particularly around the plastic welded components that have internal pressure (turbo boost or coolant pressure) that are guaranteed to fail, and the mongrel who decided to use far longer than necessary bolts to hold the injector rail in place needs stringing up bu their knackers, but overall its hard to fault the reliability* of it.  Obviously, its a Jaguar so has a reliability stigma to it, but no better or worse than any other car really.


*Reliability needs to be compared to other luxury, complicated exec cars, as there is more to go wrong.  That said, ignoring wheels and tyres, the only non service items I've had to do are:
Both cam covers
Throttle body
Coolant outlet
Alternator
Battery (at about 9yrs old, so guess should be classed as service)
Some infotainment bits - mostly due to my own fault
ATF change (I guess should be classed as service, even though its the usual sealed-for-life)


Not too bad in 7? 8? years of ownership....

....,
is now cheaper to buy from Halfords  ....

I didn't think that Halfords was cheaper than anyone! 

My go-to motor factors used to be owned by a mate but has now been ultimately been taken over by GSF 

I suspect if you ware willing to dump down £100k (I think all FFRRs are over 100k now?), and paying all the luxury car tax and so on, teh insurance is insignificant?

Additionally, is £2k to insure a new, £100k car that outrageous?  And being clickbait, I bet that is worse case scenario.

Started riding bikes at around 14 / 15 so around 1974. Passed my test in the late 90,s. 
Swmbo discovered I was an actual hooligan, so had to go legit. The world was changing anyway, and that kind of thing just wasnt on anymore, and rightly so.
Passed car test Feb. 1978.

Back to motor factors. I avoid ECP now because the prices seem to have gone through the roof in the last couple of years.
Their own brand stuff such as Pagid, is now cheaper to buy from Halfords than ECP.
My nearest branch of ECP also closed down last year, so other options are closer now.

....
 and off since I passed my test (*cough* 23yrs ago this November) and  .....

still a novice then 

I passed my car test 2nd Aug 1979 & my bike test Nov 1980 

That's Day of the Triffids where they go blind

Ah yes! 

Sods law innit....my dads away down on the south coast so also missed them.

They were seen in Lancing.

They usually stay put in the hose fittings.

There's some play in the clips, but you'll soon know when the pump builds pressure...

Personally I would cut the fitting off and use some ISO 7480 marine fuel hose and two stainless jubilee clips each side.

The early Chrysler engine is utter junk and drinks fuel so much, when a friend replaced his with a v8 Cayenne, he noticed no change in fuel bills.

Best avoided, the later French engine is better

I'll bear that in mind if I buy another, but this one seems to be around 40mpg on my commute... Which is about 21mpg better than the S Class. Although I did know that when I bought it, so that's not a slur on the Merc.