Milage means nothing.

[Ikanpaul]

Update on my plan to renovate the Slug,whilst working on site I am a ceramic tiler by the way, a painter told me he was retiring and wondered if I knew of anyone who would want a van, 2004 1.9d , he had owned the van for 3yrs and never had any trouble with it,this got me thinking that I could do with it to enable me to work whilst working on the slug , so I offered him a lowish price and last weekend he delivered it and I ran him home in my car,he did mention that it had been a little slow to start but did not know why.So this morning (monday) it reluctantly fired up with masses of smoke,also sounding like a oil drum being filled with stones!,so popped the bonnet for the first time, what a filthy mess,oil ,grease,grime etc ,so swapped glows for duratherms,drained oil/soup last changed 13000mls ago!,new filter also,had a general de-grease and look around , had to loosely cable tie up throttle cable which was melted onto exhaust manifold,re-fitted vacuum pipes which had fallen off ,bled water out of filter housing , I decided to turn the go key and hey-presto instant start with normal noise not bad at all. Quick drive and all is well apart from typical antifreeze smell from heater and sure enough reach down to find drip from matrix, anyway temp gauge is ok no problems so I may pop new matrix in (pop in means whole day I know) I know I should have looked at van before purchase but when a tradesman relies on their vehicle why not maintain it !. To the point my van has done double the mileage of this one but I know which one I would take from Lands end to John o groats.