Knocking and banging and general bad vibes.

[Jas11n]

I was asking last week within the propshaft refurb thread about possible vibrations and noises on my car.
Thought I'd best not messs that thread up as the end diagnosis wasn't the prop.
If you experiance really bad vibrations and noises at low revs/idle, on the overrun, under load in a high gear and rounding corners, then please make sure sure your engine mounts are fine.
Mine are, but the engine mount support that bolts to the block on the offside has no freakin bolts in it None there at all, all dropped out and lying on some unknown road.
Engine on the offside is now sitting nicely on the damn subframe.
Easy enough fix, but then they should have been tightened properly first time round.
I'm mad as a hatter (and not mad as in "crazy", but mad as in I'm going to "kill someone")

Jas

[rotoryboy]

Looks like the place that put your car back together have propper shafted you, again.

[pastures16]

name and same then

[Jamo]

Looks like the place that put your car back together have propper shafted you, again.

Was that my not so favourite place again?

[Jas11n]

Was that my not so favourite place again?

Yep

[Jas11n]

Well, £71.32 to be added to the growing "fix" the rebuild bill.
Two bolts missing and the third snapped off in the block. Luckily for me, the guys were able to wind it back out as drilling it out wasn't an option due to space being "very" tight in there. Three new bolts and tightened up properly this time.
They also found no nut on the main upright stud of the engine mount, guys said the thread was a bit tight when they put one on so it prolly had been left of because of that
"AND" also found three wishbone bolts loose and both subframe mount covers only had bolt in each..

Jas
(I've now bitten my tongue clean off )

[Fat Audi 80]

Does this have anything to do with book publishing

Sorry Jas, forgot to add, sorry to hear about your woes. At least these things are fixable and it is only money after all, and you can't take it with you....

Cheers,

Steve

[merlin's S4]

Looks like the place that put your car back together have propper shafted you, again.

You're not the only one!!!

[Jas11n]

Does this have anything to do with book publishing

lost me there Steve

Sorry Jas, forgot to add, sorry to hear about your woes. At least these things are fixable and it is only money after all, and you can't take it with you....

Cheers,

Steve

The thing that's biting, is that this could have been avoided. £71 isn't huge in the grand scheme of things, but it bites like mad when you have already paid once..
Thanks for the kind words Steve

[Jas11n]

You're not the only one!!!

You're joining a rapidly growing list
Specialists my ****

[Jamo]

I'm saying nowt :mischeif:

Anybody fancy a digichip?

[Jas11n]

I'm saying nowt :mischeif:

Anybody fancy a digichip?

Feskin dodgychip more like..

[rotoryboy]

You're joining a rapidly growing list
Specialists my ****

Yep They need to pull their finger out before they do themselves a lot of damage. They won't be touching my car again that's for sure

[s2driveruk]

who are we taking about here? Sounds like abloody nightmare and pretty bloody unsafe to have ever left the garage in the first place.

Shoddy - glad you have got it dorted. personally I'be invoicing the original place with the cost to be re-imbursed on the premis of not trusting them to touch the car again with any confidence.

[Jamo]

Can't say really mate, but it's not hard to work out.