Thread: URGENT! 300Tdi at side of road

Originally Posted by justinc

A fair suck of the sav is needed here, as it is a possibilty that AFTER the NEW belt was fitted and tensioned up, that the already worn injector pump began to loose its grip on reality.

I have seen a few failures at low km that CAN be attributed to disturbing the status quo of already marginal componenets, like just fitting a new belt and tensioning it(Alternators, water pumps etc), so I wouldn't be TOO hasty about blaming a workshop and its staff.

BTW, I have nothing to do with any of the mentioned places OR even know them.

I would like to just point out that it is NOT always the spanner spinners fault, so lets keep an open mind please...

JC

Yeah, I agree about the belt JC, and wasn't ready to give them a full caning yet. We were going to ring them to let them know.

However there have been numerous other items that just were unsatisfactory for a car with a full service history.

- Gearbox was full of gunk and oil was black even though it was changed 15,000kms ago
- Bolts on water pump and P Gasket completely rounded, had to be cut off.
- Diff oils in same condition as gearbox even though they were changed twice in 5000kms


Stu

Originally Posted by 81stubee

Yeah, I agree about the belt JC, and wasn't ready to give them a full caning yet. We were going to ring them to let them know.

However there have been numerous other items that just were unsatisfactory for a car with a full service history.

- Gearbox was full of gunk and oil was black even though it was changed 15,000kms ago
- Bolts on water pump and P Gasket completely rounded, had to be cut off.
- Diff oils in same condition as gearbox even though they were changed twice in 5000kms

Stu

Well THAT certainly is not a good start, I'll agree

JC

hi guys, yeh if it was just this isolated incident i certainly wouldnt be pointing a finger as its a car, things break/wear and thats part of owning one. but as stu said there are NUMEROUS things on car that are printed in service history that have clearly not been done and neglected.
so yeh i mean people are entightled to their own opinion but going by what i have found since i bought it and the records i am comfortable to say i have no confidence in the garage at all, but that's just my opinion and im sure others may disagree as they may have had a different experience...
phoned them up and spoke to them about issue, basically was told that they dont believe they did it wrong and that i should have brought the vehicle to them so they can fix it... slightly hard to do at 10:30 at night when they are 2 hours away and i had to work 6am next day.
main thing is the problem is fixed now and she is back on the road, new timing belt kit, injector pump, crankshaft seal, rocker cover off to inspect damge, re adjust tappets to spec, etc. i like to do as much work on her that i possibly can... but if i need to get something fixed that i can not do i will be taking it back to gordon.. i actually expected it to be more expensive than it was and am happy with his work.
Also i think its time to post a few pics of the disco as i have owned her for going on 6 months i guess and havnt done so yet...
and hopefully now with the things i have fixed up that were missed previously and the new timing belt etc nothing will go wrong for a while.... hopefully