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Should I sell my broken car to my mechanic?

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  • vaio
    vaio Posts: 12,287 Forumite
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    Much as it pains me to agree with Vax and whilst a car does have lots of cylinders and will start & move with a fault on one of them I do struggle with the idea that it will do a 300 mile round trip with a holed piston.
  • Notmyrealname
    Notmyrealname Posts: 4,003 Forumite
    vaio wrote: »
    Much as it pains me to agree with Vax and whilst a car does have lots of cylinders and will start & move with a fault on one of them I do struggle with the idea that it will do a 300 mile round trip with a holed piston.

    It'll quite easily do a 300 mile round trip with a holed piston. It'll wallop through fuel, accelerate slowly, chew through oil and be a not too pleasant journey but it'll do it.
  • colino
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    300 miles with the sump slowly filling up with unburnt fuel? Don't think so.
  • missile
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    edited 20 June 2012 at 5:32PM
    vaio wrote: »
    Much as it pains me to agree with Vax and whilst a car does have lots of cylinders and will start & move with a fault on one of them I do struggle with the idea that it will do a 300 mile round trip with a holed piston.
    +1 ......... :o

    £250 seems a fair offer.
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