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atleast ive not paid for it yet
, oh im sorry Midnight was there a few too many words for you?
and may even be getting a Williams to use whilst its being fixed, happy days
got a f**king bright yellow 1.6 megane old shape haha, gonna look cool as hell :|
Been and dropped it off at the garage, the mechanic looked it over, just a quick check and says hopefully have it back one day this week, but he says hopefully if it hasn't done any damage, it'll just be a case of fitting the pulley again and re timing it, so finger crossed, the garage is a well known BMW specialist around our area so the guy should know what he's doing been doing it 30+ year, and I didn't get the Williams
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welll pissed off mate :banghead:, been waiting for 8 week for the car to have this new engine put in, because the original engine had the timing messed up and it dropped a valve, now this 'new' engine was obviously a dud, so he's taking it back tomorrow and sending it back to the garage who supplied the engine, ive not paid for it because i got it off of a friend of a friend who gave it me till i get my tax rebate, bloody good job really :/
anyone selling a 172??
just don't believe the hype that a renault sport specialist is somehow more equipped than someone working on all marques of cars when it comes to non routine maintenance. if they're professional, they'll follow the workshop manuals and use the correct technical data. not much to go wrong there!
99% of mechanics know that timing tools are required, i have a tool box drawer full of labelled timing tools for vw engines, audi engines, merc engines, bmw engines so on so forth and all are genuine equipment. most other mechanics i know also have these tools, this is your bread and butter for your average tool cabinet. the only difference comes with those cowboys who think they can wing it with cheap copies of the timing tools and recon they've seen it all before, those are the ones who mess the timing up.
i always wondered where this obsession with 'specialists' comes from, but i'm certainly not out to try and change folks minds. if you want to pay over the market price for the same service that you could get for much cheaper then go ahead, at the end of the day it's all about trusting a workshop or mechanic to do the job correctly. if that's a specialist for you then that's fine
there aren't many better cars out there trust me! i hope you get yourself a nice 172 soon dude, there are still plenty of mint examples out there for you to choose from
for the car in the first place , to have the " new " engine fitted . It doesn't take 8 weeks to source another engine and have it fitted . He then gets the car and " bang " , that's the 2nd engine gone . I wonder who it was that didn't do the job correctly in the first place causing the 1st engine to fail ? Maybe the person who caused the 2nd engine to fail ? 
