So taking advantage of the ambient temperature outside momentarily rising above freezing I treated the TDV8 to a nice new fuel filter courtesy of Steve and the boys at Advanced Factors (quick service and half the cost from LR )

Its a super job (provided you enjoy having Shell V-max running down your hands and up your sleeves).

But what did p*** me off was finding that the transmission specialist who last had my plastic transmission under shield off had obviously lost two of the M6 bolts holding it on. So they had replaced one by taking out one of the fuel filter heat shield retaining bolts and using that and used a self tapping screw that was too big for the other and jammed it partly in to the captive bolt on the under shield. W S!

When one coughs up £900 for a valve body overhaul I think one is entitled to better than that sort of shoddy sh*te.

Suppose they don't expect anyone to discover their bodge-ups do they? 2008 MY Java Black TDV8 HSE

It really annoys me when paying for work and they have a Monkey putting bodges in place.
Costs nothing to just get a couple of right sized bolts or just don't Lose them in the first place! Grrrrr! Bodsys Brake Bible
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