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[S2central.net]

WOW - that was a serious blockage... how it ran at all is a mystery. Patience is a virtue alright.

[europeanme]

as they say....what a result!!!...let's hope this sort of thing is contageous...and find out the probs with mine....

chuffed for you...

[s2_bo]

FFS! i hate it when garages do stuff like that. I hope you kick some serious *** there tomorrow mate, dont let them get away with that! Spin them some legal story involving solicitors etc and they should show you some cash to compensate..

Good luck and well done for sorting it!

[gavs20v]

pretend they monkey spies and hang em....isnt that what they do up there?

[newsh]

Nice one Jas, so glad you got it sorted.

[Jas11n]

Cheers lads. It was a journey all right.
I woke up the other morning thinking I'd fixed it. Then realised I'd been dreaming about the daft thing

I'm looking forward to going to this garage tomorrow. Going to love watching them squirm like the worms they are.

pretend they monkey spies and hang em....isnt that what they do up there?

Nah, they just elect them to the position of mayor

[Fat Audi 80]

Brilliant news you have finally found the cause of your serious woes Jas.

Such a shame that a garage can't even do a simple job right.

What do you reckon they did, whack the gas analayser on it and check the lambda values for five minutes??? (If you are lucky)

Give them hell and threaten to bill them for all your time and effort after they neglected to do their part properly.

Sounds like you have a smile back on your face now too.

Cheers,

Steve.

[Nuvo]

Glad you got it fixed in the end Jase. The contents of the cheapo cats look like the embers of a camp fire, it's amazing you were able to drive it at all.

The lack of service you received from that garage is f*cking shameful, I hope you get a full refund. Good luck.

[Jas11n]

Brilliant news you have finally found the cause of your serious woes Jas.

Such a shame that a garage can't even do a simple job right.

What do you reckon they did, whack the gas analayser on it and check the lambda values for five minutes??? (If you are lucky)

Give them hell and threaten to bill them for all your time and effort after they neglected to do their part properly.

Sounds like you have a smile back on your face now too.

Cheers,

Steve.

Oh yes Steve, I'm happy alright.
Ok, I've spent some serious cash on sensors and the like, for no reason really.
But the ones I've removed will go into the loft spares collection should I need them at some point.
And at least I know the car is running well, all the hoses are fine, no leaks anywhere, the wastegate is fine and also the turbo is in good heal.
I can now drive to the lakes on Monday coming with my bro for our annual camping trip, without being left behind. Gotta love some of those roads on the way there and would have been no fun at all in an asthmatic S2.
After I pop my MTM chips back in tomorrow, I reckon I might just have the edge on my bro's car, now she is in effect de-catted.
The exhaust has a bit more growl too.

As to what these tosspots actually did? I reckon nothing at all. I took my dog with me and disappeared for an hour and half. Come back and paid them what they asked after they said they were fine. They did say they'd removed them. Lying scroats

Glad you got it fixed in the end Jase. The contents of the cheapo cats look like the embers of a camp fire, it's amazing you were able to drive it at all.

The lack of service you received from that garage is f*cking shameful, I hope you get a full refund. Good luck.

Cheers Rob

The analogy of camp fire embers is really close to the truth mate.
They reminded me in feel and weight, of the "clinkers" (as my gran used to call them) in a dead coal fire.

The cats are under warranty and I'll also be pursuing a refund for this too.

[Al Wyn]

Ive been following your thread Jas really glad its sorted... bar the refund for the alleged cat check and you expenses obviously and the compesation for not going to trading standards and the local rag let us know how you get on today down at the so called garage

[alg]

Excellent news. If you can find ADU & ? do they fit then go for it as they go on forever with the metal mesh rather than 'pottery' internals

[Jas11n]

Again, thanks for the comments guys. Appreciate it.
Hopefully this thread gives some useful info in the future

RS2 cats are a direct bolt on Alastair

[Jas11n]

Hehe. Just come back from the tosspot garage.



Had a right old war of words with him. I assumed he was the owner of the place, but he wasn't. After arguing for 10 minutes where he tried to tell me the cats must have broken down in two days and quote "my siemens injection management" was probably at fault for this , the woman in the office area must have heard the commotion and rang the real owner, who just turned out to be her son.

He turned up 10 minutes later and tried to reassure me that going to trading standards, VOSA (MOT garage too) and my local papers wasn't needed.
I didn't "demand" any more than I paid them, just asking for my money back, although telling them I'd never recommend them to any other Audi owner EVER, and I would have walked away with this.

He offered me my £46 back + another hours labour minus it's VAT after seeing the photos I took on my mobile (which you see above).
I accepted that (£86) and told the owner to bring this other into line before someone really does make a complaint a legal issue.

As I walked back to the car, I heard him shout at the loser, "Get in that F*CKING OFFICE NOW!!!!

Result I think........or should I have held out for more?

[Greg_S]

Bet you feel a bit better now you have been and sorted the garage out too

[gavs20v]

I think thats a fair result mate. He the mech fooked up, now he's getting rogered. You got your money back plus a beer on top (obviously doesnt compnesate for the cost of all the bits you bought to try) but at least theyre done now. You made your point and hopefully the owner will take it on board and the mech will think before trying it on next time
Gav