legal position refusing to complete a job

[shoehorn]

Monkeylegend said:

if he had taken the (short) time to establish this as the cause and report back to the owner.

As I said above he jumped straight on it as he knew they were pushed for time,he found the burnt pump and immediately informed the owner that it would require investigating and would not be a case of pop in the pump and fire it up,she refused.

I have seem Ken tonight,from what he found in an hour this morning signalled the end of the road for this discovery,most of the electrics,windows,heater/a.c.,wipers and lights etc. are all working without ignition on and mainly un-fused.
The switching supply for both the fuel pump and glow plugs is dead at the ecu,so there lies the initial fault and why it has been by passed.
The fuel pump is indeed fed from the battery via the un-fused mains cable we found but constant live.
The neg supply was being switched by the relay powered from the battery also but continually on while the ignition is on,so the pump was always going while the ignition was on regardless of engine status.
The back of the clocks have melted where some of the warning lights,strangely not showing at the front have been on for a long time and cooked their surroundings.

The glow plugs were using 2 40 amp relays switched by some sort of hobbyist timer self assembly kit wrapped in tape,which he showed me tonight and also powered directly from the battery un-fused.
There are huge swathes of fuse box wiring cut out and by passed because it has had an electrical fire in the past with a lot of loom stuck/melted together with some replacement circuits being fused in line while others have nothing right back to the battery.

The suspension has had nothing but some wiring bridged from one side of the car to the other to what he believes somehow fool it into half working,finally the mud flap that was missing,we presumed ripped off because of its dropped rear corner,is now the rear lower nearside front inner wheel arch all rivetted and undersealed,nice.
He stopped there and rang the son,who has asked him to just chuck it all in the boot,find a scrap man and send him the bill.

[scarble]

For those of you spouting "diesel isn't flammable" bcks, the flash point of diesel can be as low as 50C at atmospheric pressure and there's plenty of space for vaporisation in a fuel tank, it's possible for the temperature to get up that high, especially with a faulty pump and with a faulty fuel pump there's potential for a spark.

[bobfett]

I wonder if it's been run dry at some point.

Edit: Should have read the OP's last update. Bloody hell...

Edited by bobfett on Monday 29th September 10:55