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pete from Hull
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Good Workmanship?-?
« on: Aug 13th, 2007, 3:01pm » |
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Well, yesterday I finally got round to replacing the cracked exhaust manifold on my car, the job was quite streight forward but a little awkward. During the strip down of the old manifold I found the following things wrong...
1. the ERG valve was not tightened up, when the 2 bolts were removed it just lifted off  .
2. One of the small hoses to the ERG pipework wasn't even connected,  the other was very loose. 
3. there was ony 3 bolts holding the heat sheild on. 
4. there was a nut missing off the manifold to cylinder head, and 2 others hadn't even been tightened up. 
5. there was no gasket between the manifold and the cat so it had been blowing.
Bearing in mind that this engine had been fitted only in last November, I would have thought these simple little problems would have been sorted, when I carry out a job, the last thing I always do is to check that everything is tightened,  if I was charging someone £580 labour which is what it cost me, for doing the job I would have had nightmares if I had turned a job out like this.  But then again it is 2007 isn't it?
Pete
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Thunderchild
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Re: Good Workmanship?-?
« Reply #1 on: Aug 13th, 2007, 3:24pm » |
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£580 and they leave it like that... ouch!!
That's one of the reasons that I do all the work on the car and bikes myself. At least I know that I'll have checked everything and if it subsequently goes wrong then I only have myself to blame.
Just to let you know, I fitted the diff and oh my word what a difference!!
Thunderchild
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pete from Hull
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Re: Good Workmanship?-?
« Reply #2 on: Aug 13th, 2007, 3:40pm » |
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Hi Geoff, are you changing your name to 'speedy' by any chance.... 
They knew that they had my car and that I lived 200 miles away, got a free dint in my n/s/r door off them too, but that could have been done by anyone as it was left for them at the side of the road... One day I will have a smart looking car.... who knows?
glad the diff did it it for you.... 
pete
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