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A few weeks ago the t/m warning light came on at the end of a long journey. Following day it was fine until 15 minutes into the journey. Next day, the same but after about 10 minutes. When it happened I only had 2/4/6 gears, no reverse.
I moved house a couple of years ago and have had my local garage servicing the car since then. I offered them the chance to have a look at the gearbox, but they declined. I'm now about 4 hours from Litchfields, so looked around for a specialist a bit closer, gave Jurgen at JM imports a call and booked it in with him for the following weekend.
The 2 hour journey was interesting with less and less gears the closer I got to him. The last 30 miles involved restarting the car if I had to stop for any reason, and when it restarted I only had 2nd gear.
The front oil cooler has also been leaking for some time, so Jurgen's list was fix gearbox and oil cooler, and a 42k (small) service.
New front pads and disks were needed, a 2nd hand oil cooler was fitted, the gearbox fixed (strip and clean VB and FCM, refresh ETS, VB rebuild, new solenoid) for a relatively reasonable £3183.20
Driving home, gearbox feels like new, no chirping any more.
So.......
Total Maintenance costs: £37452.44
Total Tyre costs: £8823
So, having done 178,349 miles in 10 years 4 months, an average of 17,259 miles/year:*
Total service, maintenance and tyre costs: £46275
Original Cost: £52,345. Current part-ex value: £14,930. Total Depreciation: £37,415
Total annual costs including maintenance, repairs, tyres and depreciation: £8099, or 46.9p per mile