Bugger Bugger Buggering clutch

**Clickweezippo** · 2nd June 2017, 08:30 PM

Ok, thanks for the advice, I rang the garage earlier today and I'm taking it down to them tomorrow so they can take a look at it.

If I have no joy with them then you fellas have given me plenty of things to check, which I shall do.

The first thing I'll check will be the free play on the master cylinder rod as I messed around a little with this trying to get the 140mm setting pedal to floor.

Now it's been mentioned though I checked the fluid level yesterday and thought to myself that it had gone quite dark in colour for saying it's only a few days old, which could point towards the flexi hose at the slave end breaking down internally.

I'm pretty sure it's more to do with this side of things than the actual clutch as it's intermittent and since I've changed the master and slave it seems to be better but not perfect, of course.

Thanks for the help and I'll let you know how I get on.

Paul

**Clickweezippo** · 3rd June 2017, 12:50 PM

Howdy folks, just a quick up date

I do indeed stand by the rep of this mechanic, he stands by his work and the work his lads do.

I took it down to him this morning and he took the Defender for a quick run, came back and said "Yep, the clutch is slipping, we'll get it in and replace it under warranty. We'll go though everything and check the system out. We will get it right". He also said they install only Valeo clutches 'cos they're heavier duty and Defender 130 one's at that 'cos they're a bit heavier duty again.

So, just to completely cover all bases he's going to replace the flexi hose next to the slave, check out the master and slave cylinders and will sort it all out.

Thank you everyone for the advice and the like, it's actually nice to get a result for a change.

Paul

**Tins** · 3rd June 2017, 01:01 PM

Originally Posted by Clickweezippo

Howdy folks, just a quick up date

I do indeed stand by the rep of this mechanic, he stands by his work and the work his lads do.

I took it down to him this morning and he took the Defender for a quick run, came back and said "Yep, the clutch is slipping, we'll get it in and replace it under warranty. We'll go though everything and check the system out. We will get it right". He also said they install only Valeo clutches 'cos they're heavier duty and Defender 130 one's at that 'cos they're a bit heavier duty again.

So, just to completely cover all bases he's going to replace the flexi hose next to the slave, check out the master and slave cylinders and will sort it all out.

Thank you everyone for the advice and the like, it's actually nice to get a result for a change.

Paul

Great result. Now, maybe you can get some sleep with dreams of what you and your Landy can be doing.....

**Clickweezippo** · 3rd June 2017, 01:17 PM

Originally Posted by johntins

Great result. Now, maybe you can get some sleep with dreams of what you and your Landy can be doing.....

Indeed my friend,

I'm planning a road trip to do with my 13 year old son, you know camping rough, taking our time and seeing the sights.

Leaving the wife and daughter at home to do womany things, like cooking and cleaning. ( Read that as shopping and spending money). Good job they've got a sense of humour.

Talking of which always nice to meet another Terry Prachett reader.

**Tins** · 3rd June 2017, 01:29 PM

Originally Posted by Clickweezippo

Indeed my friend,

Talking of which always nice to meet another Terry Prachett reader.

ook!

Life would be boring without a little DiscWorld every now and then. Tragic to think that there will be no more.

**Tins** · 3rd June 2017, 01:31 PM

Originally Posted by johntins

ook!

Life would be boring without a little DiscWorld every now and then. Tragic to think that there will be no more.

Oh, I found some lovely copies of his books, and my 11 year old grand son loves them. Sadly, out of all my 7 grand and step grand kids, so far he's the only one.

**DazzaTD5** · 3rd June 2017, 02:00 PM

I was going to suggest that if its Rovertech, then why would you not take it straight back, Kevin and his team are a great bunch and from what I have seen I cant fault their work nor their attitude towards rectifying any issues that might come up with a job.

As Kevin has said many times.... You can spend a lifetime building up a good rep and you can loose it in about 10 mins.

Regards
Daz

**Clickweezippo** · 3rd June 2017, 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by DazzaTD5

I was going to suggest that if its Rovertech, then why would you not take it straight back, Kevin and his team are a great bunch and from what I have seen I cant fault their work nor their attitude towards rectifying any issues that might come up with a job.

As Kevin has said many times.... You can spend a lifetime building up a good rep and you can loose it in about 10 mins.

Regards
Daz

Daz,

You are right on target with who the workshop is, as you say Kevin is a top man and I should of taken it back sooner, but I usually do all the work on all my Landies myself but due to time constraints I had to trust this job to some one else. I suppose at the back of my mind I didn't want them thinking I was calling their work into question. I didn't want to get into a s#%t fight over it, so if it was a simple fix I'd just do it myself.

As it happens Kevin was brilliant over this issue and is going to fix it for me and because of this will get some more work from me in the future. This is the first time I've used Rovertech so I wasn't sure what sort of reaction I would get.

It is a refreshing change to find some one who isn't just all about pay me, pay me, but still has good old customer service that seems to be lacking so much within the retail industry nowadays.

Paul.

**Clickweezippo** · 3rd June 2017, 03:29 PM

Originally Posted by johntins

ook!

Life would be boring without a little DiscWorld every now and then. Tragic to think that there will be no more.

He had a brilliant turn of phrase didn't he,

Nobby Nobbs disqualified from the Human Race for pushing. Absolute brilliance!

**Clickweezippo** · 29th June 2017, 10:25 PM

Just a quick update

Rovertech took the Defender in, had for a while, got a phone call from Kevin explaining everything they'd done on the clutch and that it was ready to pick up.

He replaced the clutch at his own expense, checked everything related to the clutch, replaced the flexi pipe and did a couple of jobs I asked him to do whilst it was there, even found the small coolant leak I've been looking for for the last couple of months ( I didn't even tell him about this but he found it anyway, turns out there's a small drip from the heater coil, bonus).

As far as I'm concerned, if you're looking for a Land Rover workshop in Perth, this is the one to go to, I don't know if he's a bit pricey ( I don't usually use any Mech's, my mates and I usually do the work on our Landy's between us) but even if he is, my opinion is you get what you pay for. You pay peanut's, you get monkeys ballsing your car up.

I can not praise the costumer service and professionalism of the lads and Kevin enough.

Keep up the good work.

Paul

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