On 10/10/2019 11:53, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 10/10/2019 10:44, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Wed, 09 Oct 2019 22:11:56 +0100, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
Andrew wrote:
On 08/10/2019 17:29, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 08/10/2019 15:56, Andrew wrote:
On 08/10/2019 11:17, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
To be fair, I suspect they hadn't done a freelander before and
unless you KNOW that the front coupling is fragile and you have to
tie up the prop shaft before removing the centre bearings and VC
then its an easy mistake to make.
So take it to a LandRover dealer and pay the appropriate labour rate
!.
Er no. Just before I went into hoipsital for my cancer operatin I
made that mistake. They wanted to charge me £1500 for an MOT. I told
them to stop work and give me the car back.Â* I had to threaten them
with the police. Eventually I paid for a bit of work to the handbrake
and took it for a second MOT. It passed.
I then involved an official MOT man who failed it on a couple of
minor things. He had words with the workshop manager.
I then learnt that the same workshop manager who had tried to stiff
me years ago for £3000 quid for a new XJS rear diff when it only
needed a new oil seal, was involved.
Back Street grease-monkey outfits are hit and miss when you have a
non-straight forward vehicle, unless you are certain that they are
specialists in that make of car.
This is not a back street grease moneky outfit. Its a decent firm
that doesÂ* alot of work for commercial vehicles. I use them because
they have the headroom to get under my camper on a 4 poster.
Many years ago there used to be a Mercedes dealership in a town called
Blackpool - oop north.
I know for a fact that they just sandblasted the spark plugs, filtered
the engine oil and charged the customer for new.
You'll have a job to filter dirty diesel engine oil. How many people in
Blackpool can afford a decent merc. Are these clapped out taxi's ?.
Do diesel engines have spark plugs?
They used to have glow plugs 
Stll do.
And can be horribly expensive to replace when they go wrong.