With regards to the money thing. It's all too easy to take a swipe at people who don't have the mechanical know how that others do and are able to do the work themselves.

I am firmly in that category and would have no chance of doing the work some people on here can.

So what do people like me do when it all goes tits up with the car? Are we supposed to just say "oh well, nothing I can do about this, I'll just scrap it"? Or do we get professionals to do the work we can't. It's all horses for courses I'm afraid. And by doing this we need to spend money that some others don't need to do.

Trust me when I say it, I wish I knew how to rebuild / mod engines, but I don't. It's that black and white I'm afraid.