Following on from a few others that have noticed that this forum is turning to shite due to the level of hostility and/or boredom, I am a firm believer in reporting in positive results from work done on my Z if it can benefit others.

 

Mine failed it MOT last week so booked it in to Zedworld for today. I turned up, Jeff worked his usual magic and saved me over a £100 in parts.

 

The bit that I want to let you guys know about is the fact that I had a loose N/S rear wheel bearing. Jeff gave it a good turning and hey presto, no play. However, here is the best bit - 75% OF MY BRAKE JUDDER HAS GONE. I've not noticed anyone mention this as a remedy for this problem in the past. That's not to say that no one has posted that piece of advice, it could just be that I was not paying attention.

 

Therefore, I am going to arrange some time to make sure that the other 3 corners are tightened up. The MOT guy didn't notice any play on the other corners but if it helps, then I don't see the harm in trying. In fact, Jeff was suprised how loose the bearing was, but unfortunately, I did not have time for him to check the other sides.

 

Anyway, ended the visit with a ConZult check and some more free adjustments which brought TPS back in to check and now the car seems to tick over better. (Very impressed with the conZult by the way).

 

So there, maybe something else for all you people with brake judder to try if you have run out of ideas.

 

Was very suprized that the a loose REAR bearing would cause that much judder at the wheel! Food for thought I guess!

I've got this q bad sometimes - thanks for the info :) It certainly sounds cheaper than replacing part after part!

 

Cheers

 

Pete

Must be a new trend in "Tamworthless Land" to actually tighten wheels up,I'd defo check the other three.

Thanks for the advice Vinz but there's no need to. Jeff torqued them all up.

Originally posted by vinz

Must be a new trend in "Tamworthless Land" to actually tighten wheels up,I'd defo check the other three.

 

Some of you guys are so bitter.......and without good reason....

 

Something happens to someone else and they make it their own problem and pretend it happened to them, Get a hobbie or do something more interesting.........i.e. fiddle with your Z.....

 

I do........saves from getting involved in any court action for name calling!

 

Matty.

Originally posted by Matty

Some of you guys are so bitter.......and without good reason....

 

Something happens to someone else and they make it their own problem and pretend it happened to them, Get a hobbie or do something more interesting.........i.e. fiddle with your Z.....

 

I do........saves from getting involved in any court action for name calling!

 

Matty.

 

Vinz has his reasons though and it would really need drilling into him to change his mind ;)

Originally posted by ChrisC

Vinz has his reasons though and it would really need drilling into him to change his mind ;)

 

Chris, I know the whole thing.................

 

.........keep my ear to the ground............

 

I make my own mind up after hearing both sides of the story and unless I know both I don't say nothing as there are always two sides to each story.

 

But then that's just my own opinion.

 

Matty.

Originally posted by Jeff TT

 

I agree ;)

 

Alright Jeff :)

Right oh guys thanks for the positive comments and I think the time has come to put the Vinz "thing" straight.

 

I have resisted for a very long time to comment on the " Vince" thing and have seen some insulting and spiteful posts from this guy and have still not commented but here again Vince feels he has a grievance so do not blame me for this, Vince mate you have bought this on so don't blame me.

 

 

Last year I was introduced to Vince by a third party who mentioned he was looking to change the ecu in his zed.

 

I spoke to V. and he seemed a nice enough guy but explained that due to his disability (hand) he rather would prefer me to travel to him. Although I explained that I operate from a workshop and did not have the facility to work mobile V. was very charming and somehow talked me into agreeing to his request.

 

FIRST BIG MISTAKE!!

 

From here I know had to travel to Nottingham and remove his ECU (45 minutes drive) then return to Tamworth (45 minutes drive) dismantle the ecu and then travel (25 minutes drive) to the ecu specialist for the unit to be socketed and tested. Then the following day return to Nottiningham (45 minutes drive) and fit the ecu and a single boost jet to test levels and adjust.

 

Now the fitting of a single boost jet is more common than most will know and can help even out turbo lag. This is a tried method (Veilside Japan used to do it) and is only a lead up to complete set up. Now based on the conversation with V. he was NOT looking for out and out BHP but to improve slightly on the drivability with a bit extra power, so this seemed at the time the way to go.

 

Testing was done as always but with the exception that V. insisted that he drove the car! you can feel a car and how it drives from the drivers seat and also monitor the test ( temporary ) boost gauge fitted. But from the passenger side this is very different, also V. was to be honest a bit weak in the give it some department and although he was requested to drive to test the boost etc he was only happy to say that it was loads better and return to his home. Whilst on the road the temporary turbo gauge pipe had become compressed under the bonnet lip and was not reading correctly and although I would have preferred to of had another run V. said the traffic would be too bad and any how the car was running ok.

 

SECOND BIG MISTAKE!

 

Never should I have taken the customers word for it as unknown to me the boost jet which I had purchased with a packet of other jets had a section of drill tip in it! ??? now the effect of this would be to partially if not totally block the jet and could lead to excess boost pressure on that turbo and possible damage if over boosted regularly (unlikely by this customer!) now by now almost two days have been spent on travel and installation and about 10 minutes testing (customers choice) with my travel time and fuel cost the job was a bad one and no doubt, however it is often the case that helping some one out does bring benefits and to be honest V. friendly manner and personality won me over and I decided to go with the flow.

 

 

THIRD BIG MISTAKE!

 

In the film Fatal attraction where Michael Douglas was stalked and hounded by a women he had a dealings with is so similar to the events that followed. V. as nice as he seemed seem to strangely consider that each and almost every night from there on in that an hour + long conversation was normal?....sometimes ringing at 10:30 pm or later!!! now as time progressed I got increasingly uncomfortable by the constant calling and to be honest was causing problems with the missus as he would call at such odd times. Then after some weeks with no mention of problems with his car he requested more work on his car.

 

FORTH BIG MISTAKE

 

 

V. wanted his headlights converting (baco foil) and wanted the same service of me traveling to his to remove his lights back to the workshop do the work and return to refit all at the same price as normal!! I was to be honest a bit vague at first and did try to not do the job but V. offered to add a workshop style jack and axle stands. Mistakenly convinced the deal was now a reasonable one I travelled up to Nottingham once again to find he had not any money for the lights at that time and wanted to do the swap on the lights for the bits? we did not take the lights but and I regret we did in fact receive the jack and stands based on doing the deal later.

 

FIFTH BIG MISTAKE

 

Little did I realise the implications of receiving the jack and axle stands, from there on in I received a torrent of calls and some my wife took and was less than happy with his attitude, this actually culminated in V. been very nasty to my wife at which point enough was enough and in a telephone conversation with him I pointed out I was not his personal mechanic and had I know how he operated would never of done any work for him, he very sarcastically replied that I had f??cked up on his engine (the boost jet thing) and someone else (? off this forum) had corrected (hooray!) the guy had at this time come very close to been a full time stalker and even when he saw me at a show (Thornsbury park) he made me very uncomfortable by insisting on been with me the whole time (very creepy) and I am sad to say I had to loose him in some of the trade stalls to get rid of him.

 

FIRST GOOD MOVE!

 

By returning the jack (which was faulty anyhow?) and the axle stands I distanced my self from V. and the hassle that came with it. Now obviously V. has then gone on to spout his version of events albeit I am sure very differently to forum members and the like and even has continued to make sarcastic comments on this forum and until now I have not said anything, but Vince this is your fault you pushed it and now the whole story is out.

 

Vince mate I sincerely hope this has NOT offended you and have not meant it in any way for that purpose, take it easy and enjoy life were all on the same side ...arn`t we.

 

Jeff TT

 

 

Ps Apologises for the long past.

 

 

ChrisC Mmm..very clever use of words, now eat them.

see previous

SEE "THE STALKER RETURNS" THREAD

Oh yes good point on the fifty quid I quite forgot that one, to refresh the audience part of the returning arrangement of the FAULTY jack and axle stands was the payment of fifty pounds for other bits ( can`t remenber what? ), whilst making these arrangments a customer of Lukes was involved in collecting these parts on route to Nottingham without any of my knowledge, this guy was expected by V. to load his zed up with a trolley jack and a pair of axle stands ( on his back seat ) lucky he was on his way to have new leather fitted! now he was not too pleased about this and when I passed him the cash he pushed it into his pocket and that was the last I saw of it how it was received by yourself is probably a result of taking the p?ss out of this guy to be your free delivery driver (typical) oddly if you look through old threads you will see that others here that you MUST of spoken to said it was a cheque! now you say cash!!

 

Do not in any way consider this a war of words I do not possess the sufficient vocabulary to take on such an awsome adversary such as yourself...I mean how could I? for one I have`nt a key to cuckoo land like yourself. Dont give a cows pat then? why you crying so loudly then? as I said before you started it! I knew you would`nt like it,........... and me sinking ???? what do you think you know to say that??? I ain`t the one full to his tits in credit card bills who couldnt pay for work to be done on his car?

 

Jeff TT

Oh how you like to play to the audiance,omiting the true facts as always.The fifty pounds was to pay for the steering wheel "REMEMBER"you should do .You rang me up to arrnge to pick it up from me.Met me at my garage at 7.45am the following morning,saturday after driving all the way from Tamworth because you wanted it that day for a customer from London I beleave. You also took the jack and stands in your boot,promising me you would baco foil my lights in time for Billing the next weekend.My Wife said at the time that it would be the last I heard from you.How right she was.But no I thought you were a sound bloke.your promise was good enough for me.Got to the following Wednesday,not a word from you.So I tried phoning,or stalking as you childlessly describe it.I did phone a good few times,you never even contacted me,all I kept getting was the answering machine.Billing came and went,still you never contacted me.Billing was where I found out that you only fitted one boost jet.On advice I did the job properly my self.Never caused you a prob over it.My only message I left on your machine was to the fact that you might have a laugh as to why there was a drill bit stuck in it,hoping this would entice you to call me.Failed there did'nt I.When some one did answer the phone one evening it was your Wife,I sent my best wishes when was told you were at your Mothers as she was not at all well,asked her to inform you that I was not to happy YOU had not returned my calls,at that point she put the phone down on me.No prob's there.Then you did phone me on my mobile.Ranting and Raving you told me to get my stuff from you and you would send the £50.Luke called me as I had told him abuot this and he kindly arranged the pic up which I thought was very kind of him also rang me the next day so I could nip to his house to get the stuff.I met the Guy who brought it for me ,did not sound put out at all.Luke then told me what you had done to the money or else I would never have known about what you did to it.So are all three of us lying,or just you.As regards me not being able to pay for work on my car,I always pay ,ask GPS,SE,FG,ZED CENTRE .Nobody that does work on my car has to wait to get paid,cash ,or card what ever they ask for,on the nail......THE END!

......THE END!

 

 

I think not! I have no intention to ending this V. you have had a big laugh at my expense for too long and I did not reply.

 

Your memory is akin to a La La land tale, to correct you yet again, the night in question when you rang was very very different to your explaination, like ringing 4 or 5 times that particular night. with a seriously bad attitude.

 

My wife was alone in the house because and you know I was at hospital visting my seriously ill mother.

 

Now with some very, very brief pleasantries aside you were less than curtious to my wife who explained where I was, but NO you made more calls getting increasingly more unpleasant at which point my wife did eventually tell you that basically my priority at that time was not YOU but my mother! and YES she DID put the phone down on you becuse of your attitude.

 

This is just the tip of the abusive calls, the previous night when both my wife and myself were at the hospital you rang and spoke to my teenage daughter to who you were equally unpleasant and when she explained where we where and asked you to not call back that night you put the phone down on her! what the

F?ck did she do to you, you moron? now you may see why I eventually snapped! and told you enough was enough!!

 

 

The following months of snidey comments and whispers to other forum members by yourself have been spiteful and down right untrue! accepted we had a small misunderstanding or disagreement call it what you may but boy have YOU made something it ever was not!

 

The steering wheel arh.... yes now I do recall that was in all fairness bought for another customer who required a new one and that customer paid me..........£50 for it! .......now as far as your payment you know very well that you actually told me that you had maxed all your cards getting work done on your car and buying computor gear and that wifey was gettin arsey, so and I saw it myself to imagine for a moment she actually spoke to you is less than likely more... likely shouted! talk about been found out

Seen more love between a pair of scorpions!

 

The steering wheel, trolley jack and the axle stands were your way of getting your lights done without actually paying out cash...fine but do`nt come here saying you was Mr Bank role!! in fact to see what you have spent on your car since baffles me from what you told me? do not work? on benefit? no life?

 

 

Jeez I personally know at least 3 people with more serious disabilities who at least make the effort to work and not sponge away at the system,............. hey guys did you realise you all contributed to V. car mods!!

 

Again I remind you, YOU started this not me.

 

Oh and by the way my mum did pass away shortly after....and you called me a W????r

 

Jeff TT

Can't see what you've got to complain about Vinz :rolleyes: :mad: , why should Jeff have put up with that shit :mad: .

 

Pete

Ok...first act of moderation...I'm locking this thread.

 

Emotions are obviously still running high on this issue and verbal name calling isn't going to help either party and reflects badly on the forum.

 

 

Jeff, Vinz, I suggest that if you have anything left to say to each other that it is in private.

 

There are 3 sides to any story. Side A, Side B and the truth, which will be somewhere in between.