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Hmmm... Not quite sure what happened here but the new sills arrived and are about 3 inch short. Anyway, Nothing that cant be sorted... 🤔

A thoughtful night and good chat with my mechanic and the decision was made... New sills ordered and the work to begin....

The state of this poor care made me physically feel sick. 🤢

At the garage and on the ramp for a better inspection. Not pleasant to say the least... A visit to the garage later that day revealed that it was much much worse that ever expected. That led to the big decision. Do we scrap or do we save?

Removed sills last weekend to check the state. Unfortunately, they were rather worse than expected. In fact, Significantly worse the more we looked. Booked in at the garage a few days later...

Little update... from what I keep reading up about it does sound like the torque converter so I have sourced another and have ordered ZF gearbox filter and oil too. will post back

To add: S-type 3.0 V6 Sport auto 2003 ...and I does seem to clunk into first gear when slowing down

Simply put i have a rev counter which goes up and down 50-100rpm while driving at a constant speed around 60mph. I've read a few things now about torque converters and gearbox updates. Weirdly though the car was all good last week and this started on Monday morning. At the weekend I found a vacuum leak whilst at a mates garage and we replaced the damaged hose and all was good on the drive home. On Sunday I changed the clock spring and had the battery off for a number of hours that day. Do you think the hose replacement and battery being disconnected are linked? Or is it likely that the Gearbox does have an issue.

Recently bought a 2002 2.5 V6 S-type 85k very cheap as previous owner said they had been told headgasket going or gone. No smoke from exhaust, no sludge under oil cap or dipstick and no loss of power, but did warm up quickly. As the price was extremely cheap and I have space and some spare time I went along knowing that i'll never loose my money if I had to strip the car for parts. Once the car arrived home on the trailer I used a sniff tester to check for exhaust gases in the coolant. Low and behold, the colour didn't change! Removed thermostat and tested in pan of water, and this did seem sticky. Ordered a new thermostat along with header tank & cap and 2 hoses that had seen better days. swapped all over filled up and bleed. run on the drive for 50mins upto temp ticking over lovely with very hot air from interior blower and coolant level sat level the whole time. Took to work next day and checked level on my lunch. It needed topping up! Topped up same 13mile journey home. checked later that evening and level was still at max! Ran it again on the driveway for around 10/15mins and when i check the next day the level had dropped again. This weekend we pressure tested the coolant system and checked coolant for exhaust gases again and all good. Removed new thermostat incase that was actually a dud, but car got hot again on test drive. Running out of options. Thinking either Waterpump, Radiator or heater valve. Can anyone think of or know of any other common issues it may be?