C&S WOODS No1 Zed mechanics

 

Just to say a BIG thanks to Phil at C&S Woods for once again putting the smile one my face .Up until last night I forgot all about that funny feeling you get inside. When you cruise down the road and every one stops and points at your machine. When I got home I was grinning like the Cheshire Cat.

 

Phil has had a nice job of rectifying the mess left over by these clowns below.

 

“CAS” Ellesmere Port “Baddies” :mac1:

As most of you guys know. I have had my snot machine for getting on 2 1/2 years now. It spent 8 months in the paint shop, and recently 9 ½ months in “CAS” Ellesmere Port. With out going into too much detail “legality reasons” :x: , CAS have totally screwed up my engine. I picked it up last Wednesday to find it would not accelerate past 35-40mph. Popping n banging with clouds of smoke. After every excuses in the book and more.

I finally had enough of my baby being mistreated and abused. I think the final straw was when I went to see Steve at CAS, Only to find to my horror that Steve was on a breakdown and a 15 Year old school kid was butchering my nice new Smithy fuel lines. He cut them up into little pieces and fitted them in different places. This along with my 4 ½ grand paintjob being scratched and badly chipped on both the door (looks like its been opened against a brick wall) and the wing were tools have been left there whilst the bonnet was closed. (guess what CAS say it was not them). I will right a full report about this once it has gone to court, I guarantee you will be horrified….. :eek:

 

“C&S Woods” Bolton “Goodies” :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow:

After over 9 months of crap from the CAS clowns, I collected the car on Wednesday last week. ( CAS said it was all done) I managed somehow to get her to C&S Woods near Bolton, late that night (it took 2 hours to do 30 miles) .Phil there head Z technician started work on it Thursday morning. To my surprise, he called me at about 2.00pm that day to say that he had found loads of problems, but had rectified most of them. The engine sounded sweet and was not misfiring as much. I could not believe it, I only dropped it off the night before. I went to see Phil that day, also to listen to my babies heart beating. Indeed she sound sweet as a nut. There were still many problems left there by “CAS”. Phil systematically worked through them one by one. From Thursday up until Tuesday this week. As I said before some of the problems he cleverly discovered were kindly left for me by “CAS”.

Phil discovered that I had a leak in one of the I/Cs. To my amazement he even changed it with my Strostek bumper in place. Iam telling you these guys are by far the most experienced and professional Z mechanics in the country. I collected the car last night with only a couple of compound faults still left on it. After all Phils hard work, there still appears to be a bad air leak from the plenum gasket As this can be very time consuming, We decided to leave it as it is and actually drive the car for the first time in a long long time. She drives strong but with a limited amount of boost (due to leak) . Once the engine is run in, I will return it to Phil for some further tuning and inspection. I should really take it back to "CAS" but after what I have recently learnt :eek: . I would not trust them to paint an anvil. :mac1:

 

“PLUG”

A lot of you guys have already used C&S Woods, but for the minority who have not. I recommend them above anyone else. So what there near Manchester, but I promise you its worth the travelling. These guys prefer a quick turnaround, the way it should be. None of this huge waiting list and lame excuses we get from some of the other big contenders. If you require your Z to be repaired with the up most professionalism and speedy turn-around. There is no other choice.

 

Contact Phil on 01942 892 568 let him know you now me, as I could try and sort you a discount. ;)

Dont have to go that far. The guy I use is top notch and a small outfit, and he dont give me back anything that is running like a dog.

Its good when you actually find a machanic you can trust. Worth its weight in gold. Nice one :)

was good to have a chat and look at a nice z while you were there i do like z's in green and with ures in flip as well its even nicer

Cheers Buddy

 

Yours is still the Daddy though :bow:

Have used Phil at C&S Wood for a few years now and cant fault him for knowledge, friendliness and isnt too expensive either - I dont go anywhere else.

Dave after all the recent shite its good to hear you have some well deserved good news mate

 

Ryan

"Have used Phil at C&S Wood for a few years now and cant fault him for knowledge, friendliness and isnt too expensive either - I dont go anywhere else"

 

I second that, in fact he has mine in there now.

Just "still" waiting for my oil feed lines...

 

Turbo Dynamics fault not Smithys...but that doesn't stop me presting Smithy does it mate?

LOL

Oh and BazzaJG's got his Z in there too....in fact the garage must be designed to fit in Z's, coz he always manages to get more z's in than any other car.....stange that!

 

Phil is the man! In fact he owned and modded a Z himself...until (I guess coz it was his ) he was offered silly money to part with it...he then bought a 911. Nowt wrong in that...had one myself...but then sold that for a Range Rover!

But other than that hes sound...he will even tell you how you cn fix summat yourself if you feel you are capable. How many Garages do that?

You might want to re-read and possibly correct this ...

 

 

... and now I see that you have

Go on????????

LOL I thought that too - it changes from CAS to C&S half way through and you're slaggin them off m8 :)

Vote Phil!

 

Another testimonial here...

 

I have owned and thoroughly broken two Zs and three engines now - and every time Phil's fixes have been absolutely spot on. He's carried out a HG change, an engine swap, and several more usual things faultlessly. As he said himself "you keep breaking them as long you like, I'll keep fixing them." :D

 

Aside from sheer mechanical genius and depth of knowledge, he (and the whole bunch there) is friendly and always ready with advice. As someone else has said he's quite willing to tell you how to do things yourself even though he's doing himself out of a job thereby. How good is that?

 

There's also the attention to detail... for instance I bought a cone filter from him and when I looked under the panel, I realised he'd made and fitted a MAF adapter for it without mentioning it or charging me anything extra.

 

And the car always comes back shiny as a sixpence too.

 

Dave, BRING IT TO BILLING - I know it's not run in, but cruising there and back at 60 with the targas off will do that nicely. :D

Andy was just a typo, its easy to get the names mixed up. Well, when you can only type with 2 fingers. ;)

 

Sorted now...

Would luv too more than anything matey. Iam not happy with its general condition atm. Iam over a year behind in the project, and there are many many more things I want to do to it. WW Kit, Respray, Bigger ICE, Major engine dressing, Interior. Untill iam happy with it I dont want to take it to any shows. Would just be all for nothing.

 

If I new someone who had spent 2 years doing one up, I would expect it to be pure bling. See me point dear zack

Same here, can fully recommend Phil, top bloke, knows his stuff.

 

DaveC just leave your bonnet down! at Billing.

 

 

Barry.

C&S Woods near Bolton? Its got a Wigan phone code, its in Astley which is a part of Wigan and is probably 10 miles outside of Manchester. Last time I looked it was no where near Bolton ;)

C&S Woods near Bolton? Its got a Wigan phone code, its in Astley which is a part of Wigan and is probably 10 miles outside of Manchester. Last time I looked it was no where near Bolton ;)

 

Au contraire, it's 7 and a bit from the Reebok by low-loader. That's near!

 

Only 20 mins drive from my house, and most of that is driving at 20mph through Tyldesley!

OK well its north of me.

 

C&S Woods up north somewhere, not far from Zacks house ;)

yep phill is deffinetly shit hot,

 

am going to take my zed there next week to sort out my white smoke, he is very quick at doing his work and highly recomended.

yep phill is deffinetly shit hot,

 

am going to take my zed there next week to sort out my white smoke, he is very quick at doing his work and highly recomended.

 

 

Back of the queue matey. :tongue: Mines going in tomorrow and Chris@getgreddy is going in for his manual conversion on 16th.