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[Richard A]

Used PTFE tape to seal the 3mm gap under the head of the sump plug, travelled 30 miles still as dry as a bone.
Issunaz, sent you a email, yes very interested in the secondhand sump pan, please make contact.
Many thanks for all your comments.
best regards
richard

[JamesV6CDX]

Used PTFE tape to seal the 3mm gap under the head of the sump plug, travelled 30 miles still as dry as a bone.
Issunaz, sent you a email, yes very interested in the secondhand sump pan, please make contact.
Many thanks for all your comments.
best regards
richard

Please do not trust PTFE tape to keep your oil in, if the bolt is sticking out by 3mm !!  

Just imagine if you lost the contents of the sump on a motorway or something...

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

Used PTFE tape to seal the 3mm gap under the head of the sump plug, travelled 30 miles still as dry as a bone.
Issunaz, sent you a email, yes very interested in the secondhand sump pan, please make contact.
Many thanks for all your comments.
best regards
richard

Please do not trust PTFE tape to keep your oil in, if the bolt is sticking out by 3mm !!  

Just imagine if you lost the contents of the sump on a motorway or something...

 Or on a roundabout... I hope he'd inform the rest of us so we could have a drifiting contest...

[Richard A]

Update - 'Vauxhall stealers' strike again, sump pan £105.00 + Vat, sump pan gasket £34.00 + Vat, may get trade discount of 10% (no TC discount). Did someone suggest £30/£40    .
issunaz supplied a secondhand sump, many thanks, it will be fitted without the involvement of 'The Stealership' this weekend.    
regards
richard

[Andy B]

Update - 'Vauxhall stealers' strike again, sump pan £105.00 + Vat, sump pan gasket £34.00 + Vat, may get trade discount of 10% (no TC discount). Did someone suggest £30/£40    .
issunaz supplied a secondhand sump, many thanks, it will be fitted without the involvement of 'The Stealership' this weekend.    
regards
richard

It is £30/40   :-? I've bought two of 'em. I can only think that the dealer has quoted you for the one piece sump. Yours should be like mine, made up of the main ally sump that you'd need to take a week off work to change, and a lower steel pan. £5 for a second hand part is even better though.

Just for interests sake I'll ask at the dealers fro part nos & price though.

[Kevin Wood]

Please do not trust PTFE tape to keep your oil in, if the bolt is sticking out by 3mm !!  

Just imagine if you lost the contents of the sump on a motorway or something...

Exactly the scenario that happened to one of my dad's old Volvos 2 weeks after passing it on to a dealer, on the fast lane of the M3. Luckily the guy realised what was going on quickly enough and shut down his newly acquired dry sumped V6 before it lunched itself.

Traces of PTFE tape but no threads found in sump. Car had FSH from a main dealer at vast expense!

Kevin

[Andy B]

Update - 'Vauxhall stealers' strike again, sump pan £105.00 + Vat, sump pan gasket £34.00 + Vat, may get trade discount of 10% (no TC discount). Did someone suggest £30/£40    .
issunaz supplied a secondhand sump, many thanks, it will be fitted without the involvement of 'The Stealership' this weekend.    
regards
richard

Part number 9158421 £46.24 full retail price including vat

[Richard A]

Hello Andy, yes it was the wrong part no, I have now been given 90572705 (pan,oil,lower) at £39.35 + VAT, ie your £46.24, they say the other one and yours have been superseded. The gasket was still a lot of money, will use 'black sealant'.
many thanks
richard