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Jabba · 03-08-2007, 01:25 PM

If you mean the Diablo, that wont be happening any time soon as its currently broken, not that I have the time these days to do much supercar driving anyway.

Stoopie · 03-08-2007, 01:28 PM

Ah that's too bad! What's wrong with it? And yes I was talking about the Diablo

Yellow and white are the best colours for that car btw, IMO

Jabba · 03-08-2007, 01:37 PM

Cats disentergrated and partly got sucked back into the engine, two new cats required (£6950) (engine management doesnt like it if this one is de-cated) togeather with possible engine rebuild £22,500 also the clutch was on borrowed time and that will be another £4,500...on a ten year old car...so prob will part ex it when I am interested and have more time to get another car.. and hope no one reads this thread in the mean time LOL.

And of course I have other hobbies now to drain all my spare cash, hd home cinema, JW, some other big projects (coming here soon

)

Stoopie · 03-08-2007, 01:47 PM

Damn that's a lot of £'s and some serieus engine trouble.. Give it a good thinking then I'd say Jabba! And more projects? *curious* Time will tell I guess

Ghostbat · 03-08-2007, 01:47 PM

^
Damn it's true what they say. Supercars ARE expensive to run.

Jabba · 03-08-2007, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by Ghostbat

^
Damn it's true what they say. Supercars ARE expensive to run.

They seem to be fine and then get to a certain age and turn into a money pit fast, last thing I paid out for was a starter motor that was £2,000 plus the transport each way each time which is another £450. Before that we had the well documented cooling system crisis, I don't think I got much change out of £3,000 to have that fixed and I wouldn't be surprised if there was some engine damage due to that actually (it partly overheated)

Main thing that doesn't help IMO is just not having the time to drive them and drive them hard, and the way they are sticking up speeding cameras in the UK, thats gonna be almost impossible soon I guess.

TopGearNL · 03-08-2007, 02:12 PM

^^ Shit Jabba, didn't know there was a problem with your Diablo..

Damn thats gonna cost a fortune to get that thing as new :shock:

Erez · 03-08-2007, 02:16 PM

^ once in a while a little JW euro meet @NG\AB could be a nice plave to have a go

Originally Posted by Jabba

And of course I have other hobbies now to drain all my spare cash, hd home cinema, JW, some other big projects (coming here soon

)

looking forward.. 8)

sameerrao · 03-08-2007, 02:16 PM

Thanks for the update. Sucks though you had so many $$$$$ issues.

Hopefully your experience with the 355 has been better.

Erez · 03-08-2007, 02:20 PM

^ other then the wheel thing, i think so right jabba?

novass · 03-08-2007, 02:51 PM

I didn't know you had Diablo issues dude, thats shitty. How are parts for that car? Are they still readily available?

Jabba · 03-08-2007, 03:03 PM

Originally Posted by novass

I didn't know you had Diablo issues dude, thats shitty. How are parts for that car? Are they still readily available?

Only directly from Lambo in Italy or through the one main dealer in the UK who gets them from Lambo in Italy, either way they can charge you what they like and know full well you will have to pay it as there is no alternative.

TopGearNL · 03-08-2007, 03:21 PM

^^ Is it the same dealer as the Ferrari one?

Jabba · 03-08-2007, 03:52 PM

Nope, there are at least 30 main Ferrari dealers to just one main Lambo one (with two branches).

jon_s · 03-08-2007, 03:58 PM

Damn, so much for my idea of stealing the Diablo for the NS trip....I would just be sat in your garage going nowhere! lol