mileage! how is yours coping?

[cняis]

New tappets make the engine sound like new (comparitively anyway!)

i was amazed when mine were done, no more noisy cold starts.

How much did it cost to sort the tappets? quite tempted...

£69 for tappets (or "cam followers" if you like!)
3 hours labour
This included fitting a new cam belt top cover (quick to do), change oil and filter and clean ISV.
Tappets alone would have been 2 hours labour i think.

[E405]

New tappets make the engine sound like new (comparitively anyway!)

i was amazed when mine were done, no more noisy cold starts.

How much did it cost to sort the tappets? quite tempted...

£69 for tappets (or "cam followers" if you like!)
3 hours labour
This included fitting a new cam belt top cover (quick to do), change oil and filter and clean ISV.
Tappets alone would have been 2 hours labour i think.

Cheers Crevice...I'd better start getting the overtime in!...

[Organisys]

140k something on the daily had it coupla years now. been through new clutch, gearbox, two water pumps, battery, lump solid, pulls well. Don't jinkx it !

[tom26]

interesting stuff! so far that makes the average around 162,000 ish?

[golf_clutz]

125 K on original engine, though it looks like the gearbox has been replaced before I got the car (one of those yellow markers they use at scrappies on it) but runs brilliant. Weber carb has given it a new lease of life, and I reckon the tappets have bene done too as quiet as a mouse! My last Mk2 driver only made it to 103 K and that was noisy as hell!. All in all I reckon its just about run in now, starting to loosen up nicely!