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Old 13th October 2016, 05:17 PM
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RIP 27/02/2021 :-(
 
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Ok, here's some of the photos.

Just to add: The box had an unknown history when I bought the car @ 80K miles (although it did look like it had been changed/painted recently at the time), so I had always planned/expected to have it rebuilt at some point. It worked perfectly (or so I thought) in the 6 years since and there were never any fault codes. I had the fluid and filter changed recently because it had been feeling a bit sluggish. After the fluid change it started making whining noises on acceleration and occasionally thumping between gears (still no fault codes). After re-checking levels and confirming the correct fluid and filter had been used, I decided it was time to either scrap the car or get the box rebuilt. Having already spent thousands on the car recently, spending even more to get the box fixed seemed the only logical (but perhaps not sane) choice. So I hit the road at 5am a few days later and headed for Glasgow.

In the first lot of photographs, Mackies had a problem with their camera unfortunately, so the photos are partially obscured. They bought a new camera soon after though so the rebuild photos are much better.

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