Cobber

Some of you seem to have difficulty getting pictures to show properly in your posts,
I've found that the best and most reliable way is to ignore the image link icon button, it's above the text box

and use the attachment button, its below the text box.

Then press the Add files buttton

And then either press the Insert all button if you want all the attachment to display at once or press blue insert button below it to only display that individual choice of picture.
Once a picture is included you will see a green in message button DON'T press this

Finally you press the blue Submit button at the bottom.

Some states here in Oz have an annual mandatory inspection and some don't, there is bugger all difference in accident rates between those that do and those that don't, and those accidents caused by mechanical failure are relatively rare by far the biggest cause can be summed up as driver stupidity albeit inattention, farting about with mobile phones, good old fashioned lack of skills, not driving to the conditions, tailgating, drink/drug driving and the old favourite being a total dick behind the wheel.

An old mate who should've known better (he's a bloody mechanic) had a BMW 2002Tii, he wore the brake pads so far down they managed to effectively work like a lathe with a parting tool, the discs snapped off their hubs! It must've been making a hideous noise for some considerable time to part the discs from the hubs on both sides. The grating noise would've been bad enough, butit must've been virtually undriveable when the 1st disc failed, to continue driving it until the other failed beggers belife.
Mind you he is a marine engine mechanic, and boats don't have brakes....but still!

Clearly you need to do better..... rather than ricocheting off the bin it should've lobbed straight into it, where it belonged!
Must try harder next time.

That bolt is totally, absolutely, irrecoverably and monstrously fornicated beyond all redemption!

Get some of theive the offending oil on your finger and give it a good sniff, if its gear oil it should smell worse than a pole cat's arse!
Its up to you if you need to get a pole cat's arse onto your finger for comparison purposes!
I for one am happy to imagine that they don't smell good.
You should be able to smell gear oil, even if you're like me and have had your sense of smell largely destroyed by an industrial accident (chlorine gas spill)

The golden rule is ALWAYS suspect the new part!

A failing fuel pump can cause problems on and off until it dies once and for all, it happened to me the damned thing would only play up when I wasn't able to do anything about it but when I had tools etc availble it would work perfectly, I wasn't able to properly diagnose the problem until it finally shit itself.
In fact my fuel pump has shit itself again, this time due to a bad dose of dirty fuel.
has the car being sitting for long? Modern fuel doesn't keep well since they took the good clean wholesome lead out of it!
It gets a nasty pong about it and wont burn properly, even when you flick a match into it wont go off with a woof! it wont even evaporate like fresh fuel does.

It most certainly will be something very simple.
The problem may be an intermittent fault, which behaves itself when you test it, but not when you go to start it.
In that case it's probably a shitty wiring connection, that make connection when you disturb it, but breaks down when sitting normally. A crap HT lead can do this.
Has it had a PScan diagnosis?

I understand if you've had enough but Instead of banging it out to the scrappy, do as Not a number has suggested and offer it for sale as is.
Put a price on it and who knows one of the members here might take it on.