Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Gulp.....HOW MUCH???

[WeeJohnyB]

At least you've got it fixed now.

My alternator went at the weekend and drained the battery by the time I nursed it home. The dashboard looked like Blackpool illuminations with warning lights flashing all over the place. Had to get the AA out to give it enough charge to allow me to drive to the garage today. Only just made it, poor thing. Also noticed an oil leak, can't see where it's coming from.

WeeJohnyB

[antonye]

I had a similar situation with the X5 not so long ago. When I was changing the brake pads (£18 for a front set off ebay! bargain!) I noticed that one of the CV gaiters was split. Actually, you couldn't miss it as there was grease everywhere!

So I set about getting the parts and managed to bag the replacement kit off ebay for a measly £6 inc postage. It was a new gaiter, clips and even a bag of grease to fill it with.

Then I sat down to read the instructions on how to change the gaiter... the site reckoned 4 hours to do it and it involved all sorts of fiddly things like removing a drive shaft, splitting a ball joint, removing odd sized nuts that I would need to buy new sockets for...

In the end I took it to the local BMW specialist and got them to change it when it was having an oil service. Considering he'd quoted me £75 to fit the new gaiter, I was quite pleased when the bill for that and the service came in at £205.

Sometimes it's just not worth doing it yourself!

[gordonparker]

"I've been wondering how the hell a coil spring got broken"

It's our wonderful roads Jools, I had to have the n/s front replaced a while ago

[marko]

Flog it Jools and get yourself a Moggie traverler , you could buy one for less than £1600 and fix it yourself . Adjust the points on a saturday picnic on a sunday.No worries about speeding fines, 50 mph life in the slow lane.
It won't depreicate. I can see you now , window down smoking a pipe, socks inside your sandles and a beard. oh you already have one magic

[Jools]

Originally Posted by marko

Flog it Jools and get yourself a Moggie traverler , you could buy one for less than £1600 and fix it yourself . Adjust the points on a saturday picnic on a sunday.No worries about speeding fines, 50 mph life in the slow lane.
It won't depreicate. I can see you now , window down smoking a pipe, socks inside your sandles and a beard. oh you already have one magic

Ya bastid

[marko]