Hi, found you in the VX performance magazine so I thought I would introduce myself and my MV6. Roxy as she is called is an Oct 97 3.0 in silver and there's not another one around where I live as far as I can tell. I think she might be an early one as well, and perhaps a future classic vauxhall if I can keep her going. Most I've seen seem to be either ex Police white ones or are on ebay being dismantled for parts.
On the subject of work, I paid £1800 in dec 06 for full brake replacements, new tyres, water pump, cambelt, service and suspension bushes. This month it's been a new back exhaust box and a leaking 3 way valve which was losing water at the back of the engine. I also apparently have an oil leak on the offside V of the block which will eventually fill up the spark plugs etc. Garage have quoted £350 or so (gulp!).
She still needs a new element for the drivers heated seat, and the the electronic fan symbol on the climate control has disappeared, there's now only an orange square under the 'auto' button. The tin worm has crept in to the rear offside door but apart from all that she is a great car.
One thing in particular which someone might know about is the replacement ECU's which are on ebay. Do they up the power to 230BHP just by plugging it in which sounds easy, or is there more to it than that? Is it safe? Lastly, if anyone knows the history of MV6's and might be able to confirm if mine is an early one and therefore worth maintaining then I would really like to know.
That's it for now, I'd attach a picture, but clicking on 'add a picture' in the tags list just seems to do nothing. Maybe a computer expert might put me right.
Thanks for reading,
Will G. (Billy the bass 'cause I play bass).
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