Bargain!!!
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Semi-Airplane reference. Love it.
well whatever engine you had in your clio, its not the same engine.. this is a crapper one and thus parts are cheaper.
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I know! I know!
....The string on the air freshener hanging from the rear view mirror's snapped hasn't it?
Oh please keep going, the football will finish soon and i'll need some entertainment...
We use three factors mostly, along with dealers where genuine parts are needed...several thousand pounds a month are spent at the factors, the usual bill for the main one we use being between 3 and 5k. And if i want something, a nice man in a van brings it too me...
Well, gotta get my ass into gear as the old dears mot runs out on her Fiesta soon...seems a cambelt kit will be about £22, an oil filter about £2/3, a fuel filter roughly the same and the air filter can get blown out. Plugs, we'll see what nick they're in...even if all 8 valves are bent i should be somewhere near...
Don't get me started on snapped cambelts
One of the drivers at work was having problems with his his misses car, non start, and wanted to get it throughly serviced. Now, He's the very dangerous type of person who thinks he knows about cars (and unfortunately I sort of believed him). so he told me not to worry about diagnosing anything, he already knew EXACTLY what was wrong with it and he would provide all of the parts. Fair enough.
I spent about 3 hours all in doing you're usual service stuff plus coilpacks, battery, MAP sensor and engine drive/fanbelt. To be quite honest with you I didn't pay much attention to the engine drive belt until right at the end of the job when I came to fit it, when I noticed it was snapped. Not really a great sign when looking at a non start car.
Fit the new belt and I go to start it up and I get that odd 'free spinning' noise when it is turning over. After a bit of convincing the guy lets me call the girl who managed to confirm everything - 'Oh, we've already taken it to a garage and they said that the drive belt had snapped which caused the timing belt to snap'. I haven't come across it myself, but it makes perfect sense.
The bloke simply guessed what parts to replace and in the process has royally wasted my time.
Gave me the sob story about not being paid yet and asked if we could talk payment later at work. I might try to push and get the car as payment (maybe with a few quid their way). Not sure if I can be bothered with the hassle of fixing it because it is only an old tatty megane coupe.
Not really relevant (other than the fact that it was on a Renault) but I felt like a moan
One of the drivers at work was having problems with his his misses car, non start, and wanted to get it throughly serviced. Now, He's the very dangerous type of person who thinks he knows about cars (and unfortunately I sort of believed him). so he told me not to worry about diagnosing anything, he already knew EXACTLY what was wrong with it and he would provide all of the parts. Fair enough.
I spent about 3 hours all in doing you're usual service stuff plus coilpacks, battery, MAP sensor and engine drive/fanbelt. To be quite honest with you I didn't pay much attention to the engine drive belt until right at the end of the job when I came to fit it, when I noticed it was snapped. Not really a great sign when looking at a non start car.
Fit the new belt and I go to start it up and I get that odd 'free spinning' noise when it is turning over. After a bit of convincing the guy lets me call the girl who managed to confirm everything - 'Oh, we've already taken it to a garage and they said that the drive belt had snapped which caused the timing belt to snap'. I haven't come across it myself, but it makes perfect sense.
The bloke simply guessed what parts to replace and in the process has royally wasted my time.
Gave me the sob story about not being paid yet and asked if we could talk payment later at work. I might try to push and get the car as payment (maybe with a few quid their way). Not sure if I can be bothered with the hassle of fixing it because it is only an old tatty megane coupe.
Not really relevant (other than the fact that it was on a Renault) but I felt like a moan
Don't get me started on snapped cambelts
One of the drivers at work was having problems with his his misses car, non start, and wanted to get it throughly serviced. Now, He's the very dangerous type of person who thinks he knows about cars (and unfortunately I sort of believed him). so he told me not to worry about diagnosing anything, he already knew EXACTLY what was wrong with it and he would provide all of the parts. Fair enough.
I spent about 3 hours all in doing you're usual service stuff plus coilpacks, battery, MAP sensor and engine drive/fanbelt. To be quite honest with you I didn't pay much attention to the engine drive belt until right at the end of the job when I came to fit it, when I noticed it was snapped. Not really a great sign when looking at a non start car.
Fit the new belt and I go to start it up and I get that odd 'free spinning' noise when it is turning over. After a bit of convincing the guy lets me call the girl who managed to confirm everything - 'Oh, we've already taken it to a garage and they said that the drive belt had snapped which caused the timing belt to snap'. I haven't come across it myself, but it makes perfect sense.
The bloke simply guessed what parts to replace and in the process has royally wasted my time.
Gave me the sob story about not being paid yet and asked if we could talk payment later at work. I might try to push and get the car as payment (maybe with a few quid their way). Not sure if I can be bothered with the hassle of fixing it because it is only an old tatty megane coupe.
Not really relevant (other than the fact that it was on a Renault) but I felt like a moan
Gotta love them...we get a similar sort of people hassling, they usually turn up at our place on a saturday, don't want to pay you to fix anything but want you to tell them whats wrong with it so they can fix it themselves. It usually ends in tears as well...
get ur finger out and whip the head off then, show these non mechanically minded people how to fix a shagged engine for £100
Tomorrow is d-day...nobody to pester, gonna service the good lady wifes car as well. Just hoping the lads at the machine shop don't drink too much this weekend!!!