Garage has had my car over six months
Discussion
JohnnyUK said:
I paid the crooked, criminal, and unskilled 
to get it back.
It started smoking on the way home and my neighbour kindly offered to "take a look"....and ended up rebuilding the engine top to bottom & the clutch....
If you don't mind me asking, how did it all go down in the end? Did you pay for everthing he billed for? A negotiated amount? Did you see him when you picked it up? Was there anymore discussion with the guy? to get it back. It started smoking on the way home and my neighbour kindly offered to "take a look"....and ended up rebuilding the engine top to bottom & the clutch....
JohnnyUK said:
I paid the crooked, criminal, and unskilled to get it back.
It started smoking on the way home and my neighbour kindly offered to "take a look"....and ended up rebuilding the engine top to bottom & the clutch....
You seemed a lot more mellow about it a couple of months ago, is that because you hadn't discovered how badly it had been done? to get it back. It started smoking on the way home and my neighbour kindly offered to "take a look"....and ended up rebuilding the engine top to bottom & the clutch....
The report is interesting, it's suprise how much there is to go wrong on such an old engine, but a suppose much of the fundamentals of engines haven't actually changed so much, a lot of the changes are outside. I can see how you could probably get sucked in to thinking rebuilding a 60 year old engine would be far simpler than it really is.
I don't understand the bits that are gunky/full of carbon. If you know relatively little about rebuilding an engine looking at all the bits that are black and making them silver seems fairly obvious.
Red9zero said:
I suspect the OP is rather more mellow about the whole experience after the incredibly generous help received from his neighbour. Just shows that for every nasty piece of work around, there are still genuinely nice people out there.
Yeah, if you'd had the patience to read the whole thread, I had my moments of anger, denial, depression etc.How it went down:
I actually stopped chasing the clown, at which point he realised he wouldn't be getting any money....so he sent me the final bill - it was slightly less than my "worse case" estimate, so I just paid it.
I took the neighbour with me to pick up the car and we drove back.
I deliberately didn't get into a debate with the idiot for all the reasons I stated months ago - too old for fisti-cuffs and all that.
But I'm more angry now, as it is clear that not only was there unnecessary delay and x-rated messages, he also bodged the f
king job!I've just driven down there again, and they are still in there doing stuff, so some other poor punter is being ripped off right now.
JohnnyUK said:
Yeah, if you'd had the patience to read the whole thread, I had my moments of anger, denial, depression etc.
How it went down:
I actually stopped chasing the clown, at which point he realised he wouldn't be getting any money....so he sent me the final bill - it was slightly less than my "worse case" estimate, so I just paid it.
I took the neighbour with me to pick up the car and we drove back.
I deliberately didn't get into a debate with the idiot for all the reasons I stated months ago - too old for fisti-cuffs and all that.
But I'm more angry now, as it is clear that not only was there unnecessary delay and x-rated messages, he also bodged the fking job!
I've just driven down there again, and they are still in there doing stuff, so some other poor punter is being ripped off right now.
So he hasn't moved to Canada like he said he was doing then?How it went down:
I actually stopped chasing the clown, at which point he realised he wouldn't be getting any money....so he sent me the final bill - it was slightly less than my "worse case" estimate, so I just paid it.
I took the neighbour with me to pick up the car and we drove back.
I deliberately didn't get into a debate with the idiot for all the reasons I stated months ago - too old for fisti-cuffs and all that.
But I'm more angry now, as it is clear that not only was there unnecessary delay and x-rated messages, he also bodged the f
king job!I've just driven down there again, and they are still in there doing stuff, so some other poor punter is being ripped off right now.
TheBALDpuma said:
JohnnyUK said:
Yeah, if you'd had the patience to read the whole thread, I had my moments of anger, denial, depression etc.
How it went down:
I actually stopped chasing the clown, at which point he realised he wouldn't be getting any money....so he sent me the final bill - it was slightly less than my "worse case" estimate, so I just paid it.
I took the neighbour with me to pick up the car and we drove back.
I deliberately didn't get into a debate with the idiot for all the reasons I stated months ago - too old for fisti-cuffs and all that.
But I'm more angry now, as it is clear that not only was there unnecessary delay and x-rated messages, he also bodged the fking job!
I've just driven down there again, and they are still in there doing stuff, so some other poor punter is being ripped off right now.
So he hasn't moved to Canada like he said he was doing then?How it went down:
I actually stopped chasing the clown, at which point he realised he wouldn't be getting any money....so he sent me the final bill - it was slightly less than my "worse case" estimate, so I just paid it.
I took the neighbour with me to pick up the car and we drove back.
I deliberately didn't get into a debate with the idiot for all the reasons I stated months ago - too old for fisti-cuffs and all that.
But I'm more angry now, as it is clear that not only was there unnecessary delay and x-rated messages, he also bodged the f
king job!I've just driven down there again, and they are still in there doing stuff, so some other poor punter is being ripped off right now.
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