612 Service: General Thanks (City)
Discussion
Firstly thanks to the members who recomended Paul Coster of Prestige Autocare.
Fixed a whole bunch of niggles, including the over worked power steering pump which the Nottinghamshire Main Dealer on two occasion reported as normal. It was making a racket since I bought it and they all told me it was normal. Now it is much quieter.
Also the calipers and disks have magically fixed themselves in the 9 months since I was told I had to replace them all, but that is a diffrent story.
Anyway, what the post is about is to recomend his services especially for City drivers.
Fixed a whole bunch of niggles, including the over worked power steering pump which the Nottinghamshire Main Dealer on two occasion reported as normal. It was making a racket since I bought it and they all told me it was normal. Now it is much quieter.
Also the calipers and disks have magically fixed themselves in the 9 months since I was told I had to replace them all, but that is a diffrent story.
Anyway, what the post is about is to recomend his services especially for City drivers.
Just picked up my 360 from Paul. You can eat off the engine bay its that clean! 
Big job, changed crank shaft bearing, clutch release bearing and all the gubbins in there to Hill engineering bits.
Service, new plugs and other small bits and pieces. The car drives superbly now, everything feels tight and spot on despite the 152,000 kilometers on the clock.
Massive thumbsup to Paul Coster at Prestigeautocare
Big job, changed crank shaft bearing, clutch release bearing and all the gubbins in there to Hill engineering bits.
Service, new plugs and other small bits and pieces. The car drives superbly now, everything feels tight and spot on despite the 152,000 kilometers on the clock.
Massive thumbsup to Paul Coster at Prestigeautocare
Bebs said:
Just picked up my 360 from Paul. You can eat off the engine bay its that clean!
Big job, changed crank shaft bearing, clutch release bearing and all the gubbins in there to Hill engineering bits.
Service, new plugs and other small bits and pieces. The car drives superbly now, everything feels tight and spot on despite the 152,000 kilometers on the clock.
Massive thumbsup to Paul Coster at Prestigeautocare
Excellent, does that mean he'll have time to work on my car now?Big job, changed crank shaft bearing, clutch release bearing and all the gubbins in there to Hill engineering bits.
Service, new plugs and other small bits and pieces. The car drives superbly now, everything feels tight and spot on despite the 152,000 kilometers on the clock.
Massive thumbsup to Paul Coster at Prestigeautocare
I hear early model 360's like yours have superior gear linkage to later models.....rather glad we had the chance to compare
(and a massive thanks to Paul for his total honesty in finding a simple fix to a fault which could have cost thousands - this isn't the first time he's done this, gives you so much confidence)
Harsh said:
Excellent, does that mean he'll have time to work on my car now?
I hear early model 360's like yours have superior gear linkage to later models.....rather glad we had the chance to compare
(and a massive thanks to Paul for his total honesty in finding a simple fix to a fault which could have cost thousands - this isn't the first time he's done this, gives you so much confidence)
I'm sure he'll get to yours in due course Harsh I hear early model 360's like yours have superior gear linkage to later models.....rather glad we had the chance to compare
(and a massive thanks to Paul for his total honesty in finding a simple fix to a fault which could have cost thousands - this isn't the first time he's done this, gives you so much confidence)
I did book mine in before x-mas but unfortunately had no idea the crank shaft bearing had gone = undertray full of oil.
Yes apparently the early 360s had metal gear linkages which was changed to plastic on later cars with very little scope for adjustments.
Also, you should change the plastic linkage underneath the gear lever to a Hills alu item. My gearchange is certainly vastly improved i.e. very slick every time Paul has made small adjustement at an anual service. Also, redline oil seems to please the box.
When I collected the car yesterday the clutch was light yet firm and the gearchanges: snick snick snick
The workmanship is great and the anual servicing list properly attended to, BUT, its the little things, adjustments, greasing, cleaning and attention to detail that makes all the difference. Plus as you say, he always seems to find a way round an issue that potentially would have cost ££££.
Bebs said:
Harsh said:
Excellent, does that mean he'll have time to work on my car now?
I hear early model 360's like yours have superior gear linkage to later models.....rather glad we had the chance to compare
(and a massive thanks to Paul for his total honesty in finding a simple fix to a fault which could have cost thousands - this isn't the first time he's done this, gives you so much confidence)
I'm sure he'll get to yours in due course Harsh I hear early model 360's like yours have superior gear linkage to later models.....rather glad we had the chance to compare
(and a massive thanks to Paul for his total honesty in finding a simple fix to a fault which could have cost thousands - this isn't the first time he's done this, gives you so much confidence)
I did book mine in before x-mas but unfortunately had no idea the crank shaft bearing had gone = undertray full of oil.
Yes apparently the early 360s had metal gear linkages which was changed to plastic on later cars with very little scope for adjustments.
Also, you should change the plastic linkage underneath the gear lever to a Hills alu item. My gearchange is certainly vastly improved i.e. very slick every time Paul has made small adjustement at an anual service. Also, redline oil seems to please the box.
When I collected the car yesterday the clutch was light yet firm and the gearchanges: snick snick snick
The workmanship is great and the anual servicing list properly attended to, BUT, its the little things, adjustments, greasing, cleaning and attention to detail that makes all the difference. Plus as you say, he always seems to find a way round an issue that potentially would have cost ££££.
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