Trying for the impossible

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Hi all, nice to be back.

I let my membership lapse a few rego checks (MOT equivalent) ago thinking there was no way the old girl would pass. Only 2 windows still work, back door stuck closed again, dash is falling apart and it's leaking diesel again, to name a few problems. Worst is the front right offside wheel as per the attached pic, it passes it's annual registration check with the wheel like that and no one seems to know what's wrong with it.

Needless to say I wouldn't mind solving that issue and now that I've got it into my head to make this truck last as long as the engine holds, I'm also concerned about the difficulty in obtaining spare parts. My Terrano is a 1999 2.7 TDI with barely 280,000 Kilometers on the clock and over the 100,000 Ks that I am responsible for, it's required more front end work than all the other cars I have ever owned put together. Which makes me wonder if it's really worth the trouble of hanging on to it.

So that's about it in a nutshell.

Roy