Dodgy bastards and a Peugeot 306 GTi6 part 2
June 19th 2008 05:28
The saga of the GTi6 continues:
After receiving the red-light camera fine my mate confronted the mechanic who didn’t deny he was driving but refused to pay the fine.
This wasn’t so good but what happened next was worse.
While cruising down the highway my mate started to hear a bottom-end knock which got worse as he drove. Being close to the mechanics workshop he dropped it off and asked the mechanic, who still owed him money from the fine, to have a look at it.
The mechanic went to work and later called back to say that a crankshaft shell bearing had caught on the crankshaft and spun, but said he would repair it. As it turns out the mechanics idea of ‘repairing it’ was to sand the crankshaft and shell bearing smooth and put it all back together. Needless to say that we all thought that was dodgy.
This fix didn’t hold and 2 days later the poor Pug suffer major engine failure. My mate then trailered the car over to a trusted family friend who has been a mechanic for 30 plus years and has hotted-up everything from GTHO Falcons to VW Kombis. His diagnosis was ‘FDMS’, or to the lay person, ‘Fucking Dodgy Mechanic Syndrome’.
The Pug engine is a solid piece of engineering but if you are going to put big cams in and try and get speed out of a 10 year-old, 120,000km engine with an unknown history you want someone who will take the time to do it properly.
The mechanic as it turns out was more than just a bit dodgy as the family mechanic found bits and pieces that were missing from the Pug and a second trip back to the mechanic to tell him of the blown-up engine revealed the missing parts in his workshop which the mechanic said would stay there until he 'finished' the car as they were still waiting on some front shocks.
Needless to say my mate told the mechanic in no uncertain terms that the Pug would not ever be put into his untrustworthy hands, even for an oil change, and he had better hand over the pilfered parts promptly.
The Pug is now up on blocks awaiting a full engine rebuild and my mate is pursuing legal action against the dodgy mechanic.
My Dad always says to me, “Do it once, do it right”. He’s right y'know.
After receiving the red-light camera fine my mate confronted the mechanic who didn’t deny he was driving but refused to pay the fine.
This wasn’t so good but what happened next was worse.
While cruising down the highway my mate started to hear a bottom-end knock which got worse as he drove. Being close to the mechanics workshop he dropped it off and asked the mechanic, who still owed him money from the fine, to have a look at it.
The mechanic went to work and later called back to say that a crankshaft shell bearing had caught on the crankshaft and spun, but said he would repair it. As it turns out the mechanics idea of ‘repairing it’ was to sand the crankshaft and shell bearing smooth and put it all back together. Needless to say that we all thought that was dodgy.
This fix didn’t hold and 2 days later the poor Pug suffer major engine failure. My mate then trailered the car over to a trusted family friend who has been a mechanic for 30 plus years and has hotted-up everything from GTHO Falcons to VW Kombis. His diagnosis was ‘FDMS’, or to the lay person, ‘Fucking Dodgy Mechanic Syndrome’.
The Pug engine is a solid piece of engineering but if you are going to put big cams in and try and get speed out of a 10 year-old, 120,000km engine with an unknown history you want someone who will take the time to do it properly.
The mechanic as it turns out was more than just a bit dodgy as the family mechanic found bits and pieces that were missing from the Pug and a second trip back to the mechanic to tell him of the blown-up engine revealed the missing parts in his workshop which the mechanic said would stay there until he 'finished' the car as they were still waiting on some front shocks.
Needless to say my mate told the mechanic in no uncertain terms that the Pug would not ever be put into his untrustworthy hands, even for an oil change, and he had better hand over the pilfered parts promptly.
The Pug is now up on blocks awaiting a full engine rebuild and my mate is pursuing legal action against the dodgy mechanic.
My Dad always says to me, “Do it once, do it right”. He’s right y'know.
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