Mannyo - 2004 D3 3.7 Work in progress

[mannyo]

Time for a quick update as I have now owned the D3 for 18 months.

I bought the car at the start of December 2013 with 129K miles on it, she now has 142K miles showing.

Apart from the minor issue with the air suspension at the start of my ownership the car has been trouble free. Sure she has some strange quirks, but they are not causing any issues with the actual running of the car.

Recently retrofitted AMI which has at last removed the reliance for constantly burning CDs and placing them in the changer.

What's next for the D3, well she is off to France for 2 weeks at the end of June and then will need to be MOT'd in July.

Issues remaining.

Still broken are the manifold flaps, one day I may get around to getting that sorted.

The slight whine from the back of the car remains, has not got any worse or better even after having the wheel bearing replaced on that side. I know its not the tyres either, since the noise was present before replacing all four.

The air recirculation flap motor under the bonnet still needs replacing, its stuck in the open position so you always get fresh air regardless of the recirculation setting.