Not the type of expense you want endure coming up to christmas.
The garage told me that when they checked the ECU it was showing a fuel system fault. So they proceeded to take the tank of and when they drained it they told me that there was large pieces of metal found, from the fuel pump in the engine bay. They said that if the pump was gradually failing then there would tend to be more filings in the tank..
They then removed the pump from inside the engine bay, at that point i wanted them to remove the injectors as well so that i could take both the pump and injectors to get tested.
But they insisted that the injectors would be fine and and they "should " be ok. I took pump to diesel service outlet, once the guy turned the pump by hand he said it was knackered. So I the shelled out £440 plus vat for a new pump.
I left the part with the garage and ended up chasing them for about 4 weeks before they started to rebuild the car. Any way turned out the car would not start. So they then removed the injectors and I took them to get tested and the 4 were f****d.
I was then told that the injectors would cost me £175 plus VAT each, at this point I had to say no way. Went back to the garage ready to flip, and they told me "just one of them things"
I searched around for injectors and eventully got 4 for £200 at a salvage yard, the guy told me he wasn't sure if they were good enough and told me try them out if there no good get them back to him in a week and he would give a refund. Took them to the garage on a Friday and the boss told me no problem, get them in at the weekend for me, i called back on the Tuesday, and surprise it wasn't done it ended up taking another 6 or 7 weeks before they put them in after constantly calling them.
This time the car did start but was off on a cylindar or at least that's what the told me. At this stage I had enough and got the car towed to my own house. Were I removed the injectors myself only to find that one of them was bent slightly. So i took the injectors to get tested and 2 off them were not working. One of which was the bent one. Now because it has taken so long the salvage yard will not refund on the two damaged ones.
So I have now located 2 more injectors that are recon's and tested for £155. But one off my initial questions on the forumn was, Is there likley to be any more damaged components? So would I now be right in thinking that there is another fuel pump at the tank, is it possible that it could be damaged.
Sorry for the rant but it has turned out to be a money pit. And if the **** had taken the injectors out at the very start I would have known that parts were going to cost over £1200, and I would have scraped the car then.
The joys of motoring
Regards APD
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