Thread: Urgent HELP Needed

Disco m, Mate your a calm bloke by now I'd have ripped the mechanic a new rectum! if fair trading tell him to give you a hire car TAKE IT! thrash it and return it with about 1L off fuel left in the tank!
Sorry but a person who should be a "specialist" shafting you and repeating the same mistakes needs a swift kick. With the amount of your time he has wasted it's a pity you could not push fair trading for some money to be put back in your pocket!

well well well, his had it for the last 2 weeks than today they rang to tell me its at lambton coz they couldent get it back to my house so i had to catch a bus there to pick it up, it went into gear but still sits on 3000revs at 110 is this to high for a tdi or is it just me, rang him and he said well ive done everything to the bloody thing new pump new convertor i spent a bloody fortune on it told him well its not right he said his going to get some specs on it im so ****ed should it be revving at that right now im more revved up than redline i think im revving at about 12000

sounds too high to me by something in the order of 5-600 RPM (assuming its actually doing 3Krpm.

sounds to me like its not getting 4th gear and Im now reading the RAVE to work out why,

If you have one just print out the road test procedure and following that should prove to him whats wrong with the box. It sounds to me like its not making 4th.

from the RAVE 3rd gear should be locked out at speeds above 138kph so go find a drag strip of sufficient length put it in 3rd and let it rip. when you stop accelerating select D and ease of the throttle just a little and it should change up once you are doing 140+ reselect 3rd and let it decellerate once it drops below 128Kph with no throttle input (ie at idle) it should downshift into 3rd.

Im working on cutting you out the relevent sections for the auto box...

going out on a fairly long limb here, but whats the cable adjustment for the selector like? D on the shifter is selecting D in the box right??

yea its going into 4th and locking up

Originally Posted by subasurf

I'm not surprised. You practically bent over and lubed up for him. I'd only ever give a mechanic a second chance at doing something...and no more. The guy is a **** and you, for some reason, just let him take advantage of you and you didn't stand up for yourself.
Be firm with him, tell him you're going to make complaints and help try and stop him from ripping off the next poor sod who doesn't stick up for themselves.

This thread caused plenty of head shaking on this side of the interwebs.

iT'S OK MITCH THERE ARE NUMEROUS SHONKY ***** IN ***** IN PERTH WILLING TO DO A ****HOUSE JOB AND LIGHTEN YOUR WALLET!!!

Originally Posted by lardy

iT'S OK MITCH THERE ARE NUMEROUS SHONKY ***** IN ***** IN PERTH WILLING TO DO A ****HOUSE JOB AND LIGHTEN YOUR WALLET!!!

yea im sure there are i know of one over here to lol
thing is he has a good reputation for land rover boxes which is why i went there

ok so this guy told me that someone from all 4x4 and that ben told him no that is right so i called all 4x4 one guy said no way, it should not rev at that than ben told me he thinks its to high and his going to take his fro a drive on the weekend so he is swingin me bs
than i asked where my updated waranty is he said in my glovebox and i also asked for him to pu in writing that it should rev at that went there to pick it up and they were closed but out the front was the waranty paper that was supposed to be in my glovebox and nothing on the revs

im jack of this and i have been trying to get through with fair trading but they just put through to the fella dealing with it and it goes to his message bank ive left messages and tried several times on 2 numbers with no luck rang again yesty and told them this and they said all they can do is leave him a message im so over this ready to just sell the bloddy thing