Broken spark plug :(

Pete19s · 5 Oct 2010 at 15:45

If I was to own a performance Vauxhall would many people recommend,

Thorney Motor Sport LTD
T/A Thorney Motorsport
Unit 16 Dunsby Road
Redmoor Interchange
Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
United Kingdom
MK6 4AD
T. +44 (0) 1908 238 798
F. +44 (0) 1908 238 799

What should I do if they did? After reading this thread and numerous other threads on here and other popular motoring forums I would be slightly worried to take my much beloved vehicle to such an establishment as,

Thorney Motor Sport LTD
T/A Thorney Motorsport
Unit 16 Dunsby Road
Redmoor Interchange
Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
United Kingdom
MK6 4AD
T. +44 (0) 1908 238 798
F. +44 (0) 1908 238 799

Mainly because they seem to be a bunch of incompetent monkeys with the technical ability similar to that of my grandmother.

Princey · 5 Oct 2010 at 15:47

People seem to be missing the point.... it wasn't

Thorney Motor Sport LTD
T/A Thorney Motorsport
Unit 16 Dunsby Road
Redmoor Interchange
Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
United Kingdom
MK6 4AD
T. +44 (0) 1908 238 798
F. +44 (0) 1908 238 799

...that is to blame here. It's.....

Marhslls Vauxhall
Peterborough
Tyrrell Park
Peterborough
PE1 5PT
0844 3349217

DM · 5 Oct 2010 at 15:53

So what have Marshalls got to say for themself then or have i missed a bit?

Princey · 5 Oct 2010 at 15:59

They're a Vauxhall Performance center ran by Thorney so I've been dealing with John Thorne directly who's arranging for the car to be inspected at a more local Performance center.

DM · 5 Oct 2010 at 16:03

Princey said:
They're a Vauxhall Performance center ran by Thorney so I've been dealing with John Thorne directly who's arranging for the car to be inspected at a more local Performance center.

Inspected then what though? Its his faulty spark plug that has done whatever damage whats to inspect, he should be telling you the truck is on the way to pick it up and fix it.

Princey · 5 Oct 2010 at 16:05

It'll be fixed by them, that I'm sure. It's their fault either way. They either didn't check the tightness of the plugs (instead blamed the manifold) at the performance center and/or the stage 2 map wasn't removed. They really can't argue with that, I had a well respected forum member with me at the time as he was taking the milltek for his car. For what it's worth, it took Marshalls 10 hours to swap my milltek to the buyers car and his standard exhaust to mine!

DM · 5 Oct 2010 at 16:09

Ah good well im glad you are getting it resolved with no cost then.

Matt82 · 5 Oct 2010 at 16:15

10 hours. i take it the milltek was particuarly badly made then?

Firestar_3x · 5 Oct 2010 at 16:37

Perhaps they incorrectly fitted the sparkplugs in the second Astra, hence the 10 hours

Matt82 · 5 Oct 2010 at 16:53

or perhaps they correctly fitted the sparkplugs on the second astra which you know takes CONSIDERABLE TIME, started working on a random third astra (imagine touching that many astras in a day??) accidently got the sparkplug in the lambda boss and when they realised they should have been working on princeys car, they just didnt have enough hours left in the day to do those plugs up properly... just did em hand tight and crossed their fingers

they didnt cross their fingers enough

stulid · 5 Oct 2010 at 17:14

Princey said:
People seem to be missing the point.... it wasn't

Thorney Motor Sport LTD
T/A Thorney Motorsport
Unit 16 Dunsby Road
Redmoor Interchange
Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
United Kingdom
MK6 4AD
T. +44 (0) 1908 238 798
F. +44 (0) 1908 238 799

...that is to blame here. It's.....

Marhslls Vauxhall
Peterborough
Tyrrell Park
Peterborough
PE1 5PT
0844 3349217

so your saying the incompetent monkeys at,

Thorney Motor Sport LTD
T/A Thorney Motorsport
Unit 16 Dunsby Road
Redmoor Interchange
Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
United Kingdom
MK6 4AD
T. +44 (0) 1908 238 798
F. +44 (0) 1908 238 799

may or may not be responsible for your car failing?

TaKeN · 5 Oct 2010 at 21:41

This does indeed seem like a rather **** combination of **** ups by Thorney Motorsport..

Sone · 8 Oct 2010 at 16:22

thorney coughing up then? Any idea what the damage is

Princey · 8 Oct 2010 at 16:24

It's going to be booked into a performance center, they'll have to cough up because the stage 2 map is still on when I asked for it to be taken off, which caused the engine to run much hotter.

peterattheboro · 8 Oct 2010 at 18:36

Princey said:
It's going to be booked into a performance center, they'll have to cough up because the stage 2 map is still on when I asked for it to be taken off, which caused the engine to run much hotter.

With any luck they'll make a pigs ear of the job and write the car off for you

Fr0dders · 8 Oct 2010 at 18:37

Princey said:
It's going to be booked into a performance center, they'll have to cough up because the stage 2 map is still on when I asked for it to be taken off, which caused the engine to run much hotter.

have you got any confirmation of this yet or just suspicions ?

Princey · 8 Oct 2010 at 18:45

I have conformation from Tim Abbots who is the service manager at Thorney.

EDIT: Sorry misread, I had a friend with a tech2 and bluefin pop over and he confirmed that I am running the stage 2 Aggressive map.

MrMoonX · 8 Oct 2010 at 21:24

id rather trust a bunch of chimps and a haynes manual to performance tune my vauxhall than :

Thorney Motor Sport LTD
T/A Thorney Motorsport
Unit 16 Dunsby Road
Redmoor Interchange
Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
United Kingdom
MK6 4AD
T. +44 (0) 1908 238 798
F. +44 (0) 1908 238 799

Poppy · 8 Oct 2010 at 22:16

Princey said:
I have conformation from Tim Abbots who is the service manager at Thorney.

EDIT: Sorry misread, I had a friend with a tech2 and bluefin pop over and he confirmed that I am running the stage 2 Aggressive map.

Is it worth taking it to a neutral garage and getting a printout of this info...you know just incase when you take it to TMS they don't ahem...accidentally put back on the standard map version and claim it was there all along? Call me a pessimist if you will! :cool:

DB_SamX · 8 Oct 2010 at 23:35

Poppy said:
Is it worth taking it to a neutral garage and getting a printout of this info...you know just incase when you take it to TMS they don't ahem...accidentally put back on the standard map version and claim it was there all along? Call me a pessimist if you will!

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