By now (around February this year) the gearbox was making a hell of a noise and the gear change was sloppy to say the least.
Replaced the thrust bearing on the box to see if this helped but after finding the old bearing all mis-shaped and metal filings in the end of the box I thought I'd better source myself a new one so went out and bought this for £350 -
Had 100,000 on the clock, part service history, full stainless exhuast, full Mulberry leather interior and 10-disc cd changer but had been sat for a over a year without even been started, charged the battery and hey presto, it started
Took it straight to my mates garage to see what it would need for an MOT, was gonna keep this one and break mine.
However, because it had been sat for so long the whole of the inner and outer sills had rotted, around £400 of welding aswell as new brake lines, new discs and pads and some other little bits an bats so went back to my original idea of stripping this one.
Took the gearbox out of it along with the leathers and the disc changer and got em on mine