Craig GTI
You have a right to be pissed off, but so do i..
I dont man peronally, but about the situation. I was massively out of pocket after the 1st head gasket change.. You have no grounds to say I didn't go to GREAT PERSONAL lengths with the work.. COLLECTING THE CAR and Bringing it all the way back up to us..
After inspection of the headgasket after the swap it was due to MASSIVE Massive over heating.. MELTING the plastic housing on the Det sensor on the side of the block, you and I could smell the cooked and bunrt oil.. this is not the engines fault.. the Temp indicator would have shown this.
The 2nd engine was Sweet as, I for sure didn't, want to repeat the episode..especially concidering the whole labour cost was on me..
I again went to great lengths to try and make this right.
Whatever happened The head gasket went again.. on a perfectly good engine..
When the car leaves my workshop, it is out of my control..
I feel bad that it happend again, maybe its all our fault.. maybe not... but I still think it is down to a fault on the car.. Weather this has been rectified since or not I dont know.. I hope its fine. If you dont want to come back to me with a problem please dont leave it until months later in a thread about 20 quid.. if it makes you feel better.. then Flame on.
CraigGTI - you should of come back to me. regretfully nevermind.
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I'm not jumping on any bandwagon and flaming you, i left it because 1. I didn't think it'd do any good to bring it up, and 2. because i i thought i was just unlucky with you as other people seemed cool with you. However, this looks incresingly less like the case. It's easy to brush it under the carpet and claim you are too busy, and dealing in massive amounts of stuff and things slip through the net but that's bollocks tbh. If so either dedicate more time to it, or if you're making a loss so much, don't bother at all, cos as in this case people get pissed off.
As for the situation with my engines, yes you did go to great lengths to help but after the 2nd time it went you went totally quiet with me and didn't reply to texts and were plain off about it, you clearly didn't want to be bothered with the problem again.
As for your surmise of the problems with my car, i'd like to know what problem you think may or may not still be present with my car?! :lol: Another engine was swapped in and it's worked fine for thousands of miles now. Clearly something made it go the first time, whatever that was, we can't be sure....
You then offered your services to fix it, during the process however you may remember the little problem with the torque wrench?! It clicked straight away after the head bolts had only been nipped up, so oit was upped a bit and the same happened, and then again. PJ was clearly unsure of the pressure the bolts were done to, but you said it would be cool. Mainly it seemed cos you were in a rush and wanted the car done...
Next thing, my gasket goes again and a comp test shows the compression to be at 2,3,3,4 bar across the cylinders - extremely low, and a huge coincidence with the head bolts not having been tight enough, it was low across the cylinders and was like the head had lifted. Too much of a co-incidence i'm afraid.
Fair enough, it was good of you to opick the car up again, and the new, sweet engine went in. However, as you know i contacted you the next day about it getting hot again, and a hose clip at the back of the engine being loose and pissing water out. Again, a mistake maybe but you went very quiet with me after this so i thought fuck it why would i go back for more.
These 2 things could almost be excusable, if not extrememly annoying if it wasn't for the state a lot of other things were left in. Stu can testify to some of this after we removed the engine you fitted. You were clearly rushing or something and there were:-
- 3 bolts left out from holding the gearbox to the engine
- the rear engine mount fixed with the bolt through a hole in the rubber insert, NOT the metal bush
and not even half tight
- the front mount would have been the same had i not questioned it to you at the time
- the alternator earth left off meaning i had to get a tow in one night later after runnin out of electricity!
- battery left loose
- airbox and inlet all loose,
- throttle cable loose and came off and slack at speed on the A1
there was more too, each on their own not a big deal necessarily, but together not good enough when i'm paying you. Offer a service if you have time to complete it i suggest.
So to conclude you can try and dismiss this because i said nothing for months, but i explained why, for that exact reason - i wasn't gonna flame someone who may have had an unlucky spell.
However, all these instances of lack of communication and these lame excuses are takin the piss ut of people, so i wanted to say my bit too thanks, which i have a right to. YES, you made an effort to pick my car up and help, but that's pretty irrelevant after the 2 problems i incurred are fairly irrefutably die to your work, and lack of time and care taken. It's nothing personal, and i don't doubt you are very capable, but if you want to do this as a business in k-kustom, take more time over EVERY job, you seemed to just wanna get mine done and out the way, at the expense of finishing it properly.
I'm not flaming for the hell of it, but i do resent your dismissive tone in your prior post - which is also similar to the dismissive and undermining nature of your responses to other peoples' issues. As i said previously, a lot of other people are very busy, but they manage to make contact at least - and this seems to have become a very frequent thing now.
If you're making such a loss from this, don't do it.
