After my separation I needed a car... and bought an EA Falcon with 170k ks on the clock...
Hindsight says "Yeah right!"
First to go were the shocks. New ones all round. Then I replaced the diff. Then the auto transmission had to be replaced, but the engine was blowing smoke. I fixed that for a while by running it on GP50
, but it had a bad problem of not starting when it was hot. Like drive 30mins to Bathurst turn the car off to go into a shop and then have to wait 3 hours for it to cool down before I could drive home!
My mechanic replaced carburettor, and ignition unit and tried all sorts of things, but eventually I put a new motor in it and the problem persisted!
In desperation I took it to an autoelectrician and left it with them to drive around in for over a week before the fault would surface for them - it turned out to be the fuel pump.
I got rid of it soon after. Maybe it was a good car by then
but I'd had enough.
Al.