autobahner said:
Asked about sh and guy admitted the car had a new engine at 20,000 miles as well!
Do you consider that detrimental or beneficial?
Mine had a replacement (under warranty) at 23,000 miles, and it's been driven in the same manner since, and it's 2nd engine has probably done more miles than anyone else's original engine (i.e. 130,000 miles).
Maybe that's due to my over-servicing, or just pure luck :wink:
Almost everything else has been replaced on my car over the 8 years I've owned it, so are those replacements also detrimental/beneficial?
The only difference with my car over some you'll find on eBay, is that all my history (including accident repairs) is easy enough to find via either my posts on here, or on my Pistonheads garage page, and all my replacement parts (apart from upgrades) have been either genuine (diff, engine, bearings, panels, wheels, etc.) or OEM for consumables (LUK clutch & flywheel, ATE disks, etc.).
'Market' value of mine means it would never be worth selling

but was valued at £9300 by the insurer for the basic car, plus £4-5k for the mods, so is why it was repaired rather than written off after my accident. However, had they known the diff had been damaged at the same time and had initially factored that into their calculations, then I'm in no doubt that it would have been written off. After the amount of time it's taken to get everything fixed, I'm almost sorry they didn't write it off :thumbsdown: