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| Thread ID: 110627 | 2010-06-25 04:58:00 | Mechanic has damaged my car engine. | bellbird (6169) | PC World Chat |
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| 1113479 | 2010-06-27 23:19:00 | Interesting thread that has lost all interest since bellbird can't be bothered to let us know what is supposedly wrong with the engine, or what the offending mechanic is alleged to have done. Curious approach, it's a bit like taking your car to the garage and saying it's making a funny noise, please fix it, then complaining when they fix everything they can find but don't find out that it only makes the noise at warp speed in reverse when you have three bags of cement in the boot and there's a P in the month. Cheers Billy 8-{) :confused: |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1113480 | 2010-06-28 01:53:00 | I have never heard of anybody putting a bag on their roof,let alone three,that is just silly! | Cicero (40) | ||
| 1113481 | 2010-06-28 06:17:00 | Sorry for slow posting, been going over options suggested here. 10 year old car, very low kms, running perfectly, slight leaking of oil seals. Persuaded into a costly full service that would usually be done at around 100,000kms. (All the belts etc). Car has not been right since - it has a noise/rattle? in the motor and doesn't run smoothly. Mechanic has rechecked it twice (or has he?) and each time pronounced it ok, but it's not. I think my option is to find a really good mechanic and have it pulled apart to find the cause of the problems and then see if I can get the original workshop to reimburse me for the labour costs. I suspect the timing is out but I have very limited mechanical knowledge. Problem is that I don't have the money to have it checked right now and the noise is a real concern. | bellbird (6169) | ||
| 1113482 | 2010-06-28 06:24:00 | what brand/model car? can you provide a bit better description of what the noise/rattle is like?? |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 1113483 | 2010-06-28 06:40:00 | It's a 1500cc Toyota Levin. It's hard to describe the noise - I can hear it when motor is idling, and when accelerating and decelerating moderately and it is there underlying the normal engine sounds when travelling a higher speed. Most noticable is when driving around the floors of a parking building for some reason. The noise comes from the area of the motor where the work was done. | bellbird (6169) | ||
| 1113484 | 2010-06-28 06:44:00 | So he replaced the cam belt? Likely the valve timing's been screwed, from your description :( | seltsam (13470) | ||
| 1113485 | 2010-06-28 07:30:00 | sounds like you need a mechanic to pull it apart and see whats been done. it could be something as simple as wrong oil in gearbox etc or as bad as incorrect cam timing. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 1113486 | 2010-06-28 13:19:00 | Is the noise like this? (video is crap but audio is accurate). www.youtube.com If that's it, your cam-belt is way too tightly adjusted, it does not need to be as tight as, say, an alternator belt, it only requires sufficient tension to stop vibration/flapping of the belt (the spring or hydraulic unit pulling/pushing on the belt tensioner roller will set the tension correctly, doesn't need to be forced), take it back and get them to reset it (by convention, you should give them the first opportunity to fix it to your satisfaction). Though if they don't know enough to set the tension correctly, perhaps the cam timing is out too.:horrified Alternatively, take it to a MTA certified workshop, and get them to sort it, shouldn't take long (a simple matter to set correctly), hopefully the belt's not so tight that it's damaged itself or anything else. Tell the first garage you're going to do this, and tell the MTA workshop why, also (they could do you a report outlining what they found (before proceeding to fix it)), involve the MTA too (they are keen to weed out "cowboys"). |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1113487 | 2010-06-29 00:30:00 | If the timing was out even a tooth it would have zero power (not that a 5a-fe has much to start with) - plus being non interferance, it wouldn't make a nosie as such, just run extreamly rough. Possibly loose engine mount, vac leak, over tightened belt, ticking injectors(normal) who knows... |
Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1113488 | 2010-06-29 10:37:00 | Thanks to everyone for your input. I'll definitely be going to an MTA workshop soon as I can afford it and will check out the youtube clip in a few days when I'm back on broadband speed. (I'm always going over my 5GB cap). | bellbird (6169) | ||
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