Cheers lads. Yeah was probably me on the m50 alright. I use the car daily to get from Leopardstown to Citywest. Handy 25 minute 5th gear commute against traffic. The car has been real good to me over the years. I changed the ignition fault sensor recently after the rev counter became intermittent and erratic. Solved that by reading posts on here and sure enough it's been perfect since I put the new one in. No other issues over the years. I'll keep it at this stage. Wouldn't be worth selling on now, plus it's nice as they are getting rare enough these days.
just need to wax it a bit more often. It came up lovely after the wax. 2 young kids has put a dent in my waxing time, although I'm training the older one up to help out. Ha!