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Old 1st February 2020, 14:29   #1
Workhorse
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Default New owner with 75 Connoisseur

Hello all, just thought I'd introduce myself and the latest purchase, I'm sure I'll be looking for plenty of technical advice in due course!
I was looking for a bit of a workhorse and tow vehicle that was also a nice place to sit and have ended up with this 2004 Connoisseur:

IMG_20200126_134028 by Ru W, on Flickr
IMG_20200126_133957 by Ru W, on Flickr

It's a manual diesel and has covered just over 100,000 miles. It has full service history, but I have no other documents on what work has actually been done on it. It's never failed an MOT so I assume has been well looked after.

So far I'm very pleased with it, but there's a few things which are going to need looking at:
-Boot appears to be leaking
-Parking sensors are quite intermittent and often just beep at me non-stop
-Heated seats don't seem to be doing much
-Clutch feels a bit on the heavy side, but is all working fine, and the bite point is where I'd expect it.
-I only have one key for it, so I'd like a spare if not excessively expensive.
-There's also a very slight whine coming from somewhere - might just be the turbo and possibly just me being paranoid.
-It also has 16 inch wheels on it which I think are smaller than what it left the factory with, particularly as the speedo is over reading by quite a bit.

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