Just like a true surgeon/D2 Doctor. Whilst most of us tread carefully when doing repairs/maintenance for fear of causing more damage, the real surgeon knows the limits to which they can treat their patients, which, to the untrained eye, seem brutal.

It's like watching one of those old 'Your Life In Their Hands' programmes where you cover your eyes when they show you the patient being 'worked on'.

I think the logo is "do not bend" rather than "no Mick Jagger's Allowed" :D

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well my 3.7 [ sport ] is exactly the same age and mileage; how do you know it has had a tranny rebuild ? [ mine had a replacement ex audi at 100k so ~I have the paperwork]; and why is there a second oil cooler ?

ps ...maybe ~I should look under the driver side carpet

Because it's been painted, and its not leaking anywhere :)

The second cooler is there because the 5HP19 is on the limit of it's capacity with the V8 in front of it. The Allroad 2.7TT (265hp) has the same setup.

There's a couple on ebay if you want to hoover them up :)

They seem to be readily available in the USA also but surely a decent aftermarket like MANN would be just as good.

Yeah there are a few still in stock at various places, but now NLA from TPS. There are a few choices of aftermarket filters which I shall investigate before these are gone. The annoying thing is that the aftermarket ones are more expensive than genuine!

No update on General Vod tonight I'm afraid cos I'm too tired. I only got in at 10pm, but he's ready for MoT at 8am tomorrow +++

I see it passed with no advisories! Well done MJ

Of course ;)

He drives really nicely too, in a floaty american barge type of fashion, which copes admirably well with the terrible roads round here, but isn't so great at changing direction!

Two things still to fix - the speedo is intermittent, and the fuel gauge has a mind of its own. For the former I suspect a bad connection either at the sender or in the ECU box, and the latter I'll just change the level senders and see what happens.

Well done to the General and his Owner!!
Another 3.7 V8 lives another year +++