Hello Mandarin Marvels (I’m tagged as such last time I looked, but am marvellous merely for how very little of the language I’ve acquired)
I’d appreciate some help with determining the gist of these. I forgot to get the service records when I bought the car, and when I tried later they said their accountant had them, but they sent me a few scans. I imagine they’ll have chucked the originals by now.
I was (and am) mostly interested in when the cam belt was changed (seller thought fairly recently but was vague on the details). 4WIW he said he’d sent me “big tickets” rather than routine servicing. He had some Mandarin, but maybe not much Mechanical Mandarin, and he may well not have known what a cam belt was in any language anyway.
I see “belt” written in English a couple of times, (presumably an annotation by the seller) but the price doesn’t seem high enough to be a cam belt change (unless its just the part?).
There are a couple of 4k plus items elsewhere (not annotated) with long Mandarin descriptions, and that’s more the kind of price I might expect, so I’d be especially interested to know what those are. I recall the seller described a problem that sounded like a blown head gasket, though, so it might be that.
Its also of some topical interest what type of oil they used, but that’s probably not on here, or especially important. I see 15/40W with an 800+ price tag, presumably not enough for synthetic from a dealer?
Thanks in advance, and apologies for the big boring pictures. I’ve sent them medium size as a compromise, but if it helps readability I can resend large.
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