General: Newbie to be!!!(hopefully)

[Brendan W]

IIRC some people have replaced DIM units with secondhand of different mileage. There may not have been a proper handshake done with the rest of the cars electronics and if in the future the car is connected to a main dealer computer the whole car can go dead.£££££££££££££

[m30rmf]

Quick update, have been out this morning and bought a 2003 v70 d5 se with 144k on clock, full service history and cambelt done at 90k...just brought it home and averaged 46 mpg with a bit of a play on the motorway.......

Now for the big clean, whats peoples recomendations for very dirty leather seats??????

[ash0t5]

Originally Posted by m30rmf

he also told me it has had a clock change because of the well known fault on the cluster, fair enough i say i appreciate the honesty, I ask for the mot number and reg to run through the vosa website, he says fine and gives it to me, saying he ran it through and the last mot says unrecorded mileage but he says its a 150,000 mile car in his experience.


Now for the but, i clicked on history for last 5 years and 2 years ago it had done 195k!!!!!!!!!!!!!whats peoples thoughts on this, and what is the feeling on buying a d5 that has done 200k plus, with all the new parts on it, plus what do you all reckon its worth???

many thanks in advance.

What a surprise. NOT!!!!!

[TiredGeek]

To clean your leather, and everything else for that matter, look into the Autoglym range.
You'll also want to treat the leather with a feeding cream to keep it supple when you've got the dirt off

For the paint I use Turtle wax Ice magic simply because it doesn't leave white marks on plastic trim. It does make the car shine as well but then so do all other polishes.....

Hope you enjoy the new toy