I'd go and speak to the original workshop and explain the issues first and see what they offer. That way your not risking anything at this stage.
I need some advice guys...
A few months ago my timing belt and waterpump where changed by a workshop where a mate works and his girlfriend's dad owns the place... when I got it back it had a slight miss at idle... Didn't think much of it at first... 3 weeks ago the car got much worse and started to miss on 2 cyl rendering it virtually undrivable....
I tried doing sparks, coil pack and checking the injectors with no results... Took it to another mechanic who now tells me the air flow meter is stuffed and the timing is out by one tooth!!
My problem is, do I get a report from the new mechanic and go ask for reimbirsement from my friends boss and put our friendship at risk or do I leave myself out of pocket for someone else's mistake?
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I'd go and speak to the original workshop and explain the issues first and see what they offer. That way your not risking anything at this stage.
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Take it back mate Friend or not you paid to get the job done right first time. Any above board work shop should atleast look at it
I.was thinking about this, I'm not going to storm in and demand anything but I will be letting them know what's going on...Originally Posted by Nurb608
Have you already paid the other workshop to fix up the timing and replace the AFM?
If it were me, I'd be taking it back to the original place and asking them to just take a look at the timing for starters and then take it from there.
The new place has had it for 3 days trying to work out what was wrong...
I've opened an account with them and will be paying it off...
All workshops should be giving 1 year warranty on labour.
Shouldn't of gone to the other workshop as you will not be able to recover any of those costs.
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Yup... Realising that I should have just taken it back to them but we had no idea the timing was out till yesterday so we where just going through the elimination process...
I'll just let them know what happened, if they offer anything, bonus, if not, then no biggie...
I'm just happy to have it back after nearly a month....
The timing belts are a PITA but not really that hard... If they checked it properly, you can quite easily tell if it's a tooth out, the marks don't line up perfectly - as they should...
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Look dont get me wrong BUT If I was your mate i would expect you to bring it back if you had a problem. now you are coming back after a month and telling me you have been to someone and they said the timing is out 1 tooth and the air flow meter os rs.
What do you think my answer would be?????? mark it down to experience, hope your mate doesn't find out and you can stay friends.
And if you get your car returned and it is not purring like a kitten drive it straight back and at least show it to the workshop manager and get it written down that you are not happy and something has to be done to rectify the problem
When your OPEL serves you LEMONS get the tools out and make it into LEMONADE yum
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