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Originally Posted by Perfectlap
you say the bare minimum of oil changes were done? How many?
Another factor is how often was the car driven. a 12 year old car that saw about 4,500 miles might be good if the mileage came in somewhat frequent and year round trips. Not so great if they came from mostly summer time driving without having the oil changed after the driving season.
Did your PPI include a leak down test? That will tell you more (engine wise) than a visual inspection of just the IMS bearing, which really needs to taken apart to see what's doing (by someone who knows what to look for).
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Hi, from the service history it looks like the car has only had 4 oil changes in it's life. The previous owner used 20K kilometres as his oil change limit, not the number of years. That's why it was a 4 year gap between the most recent oil changes. If the theories about leaving 'old' oil in the engine are correct then I might be in trouble :-)
On the PPI they did a compression test, not a leak down test as far as I know.
The compression test has 4 cylinders down 4% and 2 cylinders down 6% which isn't too bad I think.
Cheers.