Sell or keep??

[djbobbins]

So... my 93 reg 3.2v6 Trooper passed its MOT first time at the start of June... but has developed a clattering noise from under the RHS cambelt cover which I am told is likely to be the hydraulic tensioner.

 

I reckon it is worth five or six hundred quid with the 10 and a half months MOT, but have been quoted 350 to get the cambelts and pulleys done - and that a new tensioner is another 200 on top.

 

It is as reliable as reliable can be, starts literally on the turn of the key even after standing for six weeks, but only stands there as a backup and does maybe a thousand miles a year. Its a toy as much as anything else.

 

So, do I:

 

(a) sell it spares or repairs

(b) get it fixed and keep it

© drive it until the cambelt snaps and then get it towed to a scrappy.

(d) weigh it in now

 

Other??

[Pat Ferrett]

Pay up and look big

[djbobbins]

What with work being busy, my friend selling the woodland I used to get to play in and not driving it far for fear of the cam belt giving up in a big way, I worked out I'd only done a few hundred miles since the mot in June.

 

With another couple of hundred sheets due for insurance in jan I've waved the old tub a sad goodbye today. Feeling blue.

 

On the upside, scrap prices must have gone up a bit since the summer; I got £250 for weighing it in.

[Dan Earp]

Lol nice result, u can get sum new shiny things now

[djbobbins]

Think I will be saving the money to buy in some logs! And might look around for another 4x4 in the summer, but something that won't make me wince at the thought of filling stations every time I turn the key!