Tempted to jump back in the pool

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Hi There,

Long time no real posting.....I have a FL 2000 D2 with a dead engine and ~240k on the clock it's a little ratty, but it had LPG. I put about 100k on the clock and it was great. The timing went out on the variable timing, valves hit pistons making it half a V8 and it's been collecting dust since.

I got a PF from here for a fair price and got about 2-3k out of it before the gearbox was pronounced dead and not worth repairing. Sold it for parts. Alas the FL and PF are actually quite different when it comes to swapping parts (engines/gearboxes/ecus)

I've had a few other cars since then and one of them was a cheap jeep grand cherokee off a friend. It's 4x4 so good for bad weather and it can be fun, but no S8. It's failed it's MOT and i'm looking at 600+ to get it going again. On flicking through ebay I came across this

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1614021584...84.m1423.l2649

It's almost identical to my FL S8. Actually have same engine/gearbox/lpg system and a lot of other bits. I may have gone and drove it last night!

Drives well and is nice and tight. Engine pulls well, but they do. I got a thump once and i was pushing quite hard and varying speeds and demand. Don't see any gearbox evidence in the part history. Mileage looks genuine and while i wouldn't LPG a car with that mileage, someone has already so a tad higher than i'd like, but not by that much.

It's basically going to be a grand gamble.....I'm very tempted....Am I mad ???

Oh and it has a flashing immobiliser yet the key works and it doesn't stall....Also despite sat-nav I didn't see bose on the speakers, also a genuine multi function s8 wheel!!!


Lee