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I bought the launch x431 pro, not cheap - £600 ish but does all cars we own. Maserati 4200 + GS, Vw golf, Audi A6. I regret not buying it sooner to be honest. Anyway for the abs fault, you can just use a multimeter in thee diode setting and see which has the different resistance- so long as only...

Suspiciously cheap to me, be interested to go and actually see it.

Going off piste slightly, but what work was needed at the quoted £8k?

It also depends on the age car you’re considering. Servicing is one thing - relatively cheap. It’s the rebuilding / restoration that’s the big cost. All the usual old car issues, rotten subframes, worn suspension, rust brake pipes, leaky heater cores, F1 system issues, variators worn, ac...

Not bad, think you can guess where

I’m probably in the minority but prefer printed media as spend to much time looking at screens. Picked up a practicle classics and motor mechanics to go back to work with yesterday. Also I keep the old ones as I’ll have forgotten the articles after a year or so might pick and re-read one at...

Good news, what did you need to replace in the end?

Seems quite fair. Think most 20yr old sports cars could be classed as needy with maintenance / repairs not necessarily unreliability.

:cool: There’s something about classic tractors!

Few updates on the 4200: EBC blue pads fitted on the front, supposed to be better for track use, we will see. F1 fluid leaks, found the return pipe rubbers leaking and non-standard clips fitted in I assume previous effort to fix New hoses and correct clips - no more leaks, also re-...

Removed the brake pad guides from the calipers that came off my GS. Mixture of heat, chisel and T27 with a lot of patience. Glad I wasn’t trying to do that on the car :)

My 2005 GS is Euro 3 with the older style exhaust (No cats in the headers, both pairs of the cats in the sections after) at least cheaper road tax :cool:

Gave the GS a clean and run to check new calipers - they still work

Happy days, not cheap! Please share some photos :)

Over 4 years after my first post I’ve finally got round to fitting the overhauled calipers - (well one so far!) different shade of red but won’t be too noticeable…

Changed a ball joint boot and cleaned up / set handbrake ready for MOT. Forgot what a pain changing the boot can be.

Plus those Kilometer filters. I’d be very suspicious of low miles,

Very sad news. Would be one or more of the con rods bent. My wife managed to hydraulic our old 5 series engine, insurance covered replacement engine amazingly. Out of interest what was the insurance pay out? Enough to get another 4200?

Some will be the knock sensors, there’s 4 of those under the plenum

Should the broken wires go to the crank sensor? It’s located in the vacant hole in the below pic