Have a zed in the workshop at the moment that had some unusual faults concidering where it had come from.
The owner had a water loss diagnosed by his local garage as a head gasket failure
A price to repair (£1,800) ish was quoted and work went ahead.
However after 2 months the garage still had not completed and when the owner complained they admitted defeat having repaired the gaskets etc they were unable to get the car started despite their best technicians efforts.
At this point they agreed to transport the zed to us and not charge the customer any money provided they did not have to see the car again ( fair enough)
The faults found were as follow
1 Cam belt wrongly fitted ( only one cam timed correctly)
2 No water
3 No power steering fluid ( empty)
4 Water pipes on the plenum base NOT refitted
5 Connectors for the variable cam solenoid and det sensor mixed up
6 No bolt fitted in the crank pulley
7 Almost all the vacuum pipes mixed up
8 Cable loom reinstalled awkwardly and stretched across the balancer bar
9 Alternator bolt sheard off but head glued back on to look intact
etc, etc the list goes on.
After correcting all the above and making a few adjustments on the ConZult the car started on the button.
I took out 10 minutes to ring the garage to let them know it was now running and what they thought about the faults in particular the cam belt timing been incorrect.
The service manager was quite rude about the customers car and called it a shed ( not true) he insisted they had done the repair as quoted and the non starting was due to the car been messed with previously? and the fact they had spent 50 hours on it and not charged a penny made it ok.
I suppose the owner has now at least got his head gasket repair done cheaply , well for the price of a new belt service + a few other bits but what is a bit of a surprise given the level of mistakes made on the rebuild is that the other garage is in fact a Nissan main dealer! .......... oops few red faces there me thinks.
Have a zed in the workshop at the moment that had some unusual faults concidering where it had come from.
The owner had a water loss diagnosed by his local garage as a head gasket failure
A price to repair (£1,800) ish was quoted and work went ahead.
However after 2 months the garage still had not completed and when the owner complained they admitted defeat having repaired the gaskets etc they were unable to get the car started despite their best technicians efforts.
At this point they agreed to transport the zed to us and not charge the customer any money provided they did not have to see the car again ( fair enough)
The faults found were as follow
1 Cam belt wrongly fitted ( only one cam timed correctly)
2 No water
3 No power steering fluid ( empty)
4 Water pipes on the plenum base NOT refitted
5 Connectors for the variable cam solenoid and det sensor mixed up
6 No bolt fitted in the crank pulley
7 Almost all the vacuum pipes mixed up
8 Cable loom reinstalled awkwardly and stretched across the balancer bar
9 Alternator bolt sheard off but head glued back on to look intact
etc, etc the list goes on.
After correcting all the above and making a few adjustments on the ConZult the car started on the button.
I took out 10 minutes to ring the garage to let them know it was now running and what they thought about the faults in particular the cam belt timing been incorrect.
The service manager was quite rude about the customers car and called it a shed ( not true) he insisted they had done the repair as quoted and the non starting was due to the car been messed with previously? and the fact they had spent 50 hours on it and not charged a penny made it ok.
I suppose the owner has now at least got his head gasket repair done cheaply , well for the price of a new belt service + a few other bits but what is a bit of a surprise given the level of mistakes made on the rebuild is that the other garage is in fact a Nissan main dealer! .......... oops few red faces there me thinks.