I will be picking up a r plate 2.5 V6 at the weekend, but not sure what to do with it. It was my fathers car upto a bout 18 months ago but he sold it to his buddy along the road when he got his 3.2 Elite.
It is in fantastic condition for its age and is CDX spec, and has been seviced by myself every 4,000 miles up to 18 months ago then again about a year ago.
Now the burning question is  do i break it or do the repairs that are needed.
It needs a new seat belt pre tensioner, the drivers side zorst manifold gasket is blowing or cracked and has a coolant leak which i think is the cooler plate.
On top of that it is due a cam belt kit
As it was my dads i am a bit reluctant to break but i know that it will cost a bit to repair, so what do i do.

Suggestions please.

Sadly, worth more in bits, unless you have a desire to keep it running

Does an R plate CDX have enough worthwhile parts to warrant breaking? If we assume no leather seats, BOSE or 'desirable' alloys isn't that all the big ticket stuff? Oh and no 3.0 cams.

It would be a shame to see you break that. Istr that apart from a couple of scabby doors, its in lovely condition.






I,ll give you £200 for it and then I,ll break it.

I drove it back from the south coast today and it drove like a new car, auto box shift is smooth and quite, and apart from the blowing manifold sounds lovely.

Still dont know what to do, a bit of sentiment says keep it and restore it to its glory and then my hart says use it to convert my manual box tourer to an auto with the parts, then break the rest.