Car manufactures fu*k ups

[Meat-Head]

the world has gone mad m8 Renault Modus headlight bulb guide or is it just the french

A few months ago had a fellow trader in - bit of a pannick - Reanault Megraine - with the arse sticking out.

Basically it was an a/c fault, he had probed, prodded and regasses, new trianry switch, and was confident in it being the ecu.

Being specalists in damaging vechiles, the effort required to remove the front bumper, verses struggling and condeming and innconet ecu, nil poi.

Had the bumper off in seconds (standard Frogench remove the visable screws - then close eyes and yank) - wire had pulled out of the trianary switch.

The hardest part of the job was fixing the 1 wire - the rest was really easy.

Total time, including insults was 1 heure.

[Liteace]

the world has gone mad m8 Renault Modus headlight bulb guide or is it just the french

It is just the frogench, over the years what have been the hardest to work on, no thought what so ever goes into general maintenance, like for for example changing the oil and filter, on most of the jap cars the oil filter is just above the drain plug on the same side of the engine, you can drain oil and change filter into a small container in one go and not make a mess, unlike the Rens, the models with air con you can get anything on the ~~~~~ing filter to get it off, when you do the oil runs down the front of the engine and sits in the ridge at the bottom of the block then drips off the whole way along onto the subframe and makes a right ~~~~ing mess

[Meat-Head]

*BRILLIANT* re-found this thread by accident, now forgot what was going to say

mercedes a140 starter motor never got to see the car ,was told 5 1/2 hrs fitting time and gearbox needs to be dropped and the cars not worth it.99d reg

No mate, just remove the inlet fannymould.

[m3vuv]

what about the old sries 1 2 and 3 jag xj6 rear handbrake pads,or rover 2000 for that matter?

[Meat-Head]

what was that?

[m3vuv]

miss type,meant to say series 1/2 or 3 jaguar xj6 handbrake pads.

[Meat-Head]

so what is bad about them?


remembered, unconfirmed rumor, freeloadeer, oilfilte r butt up rsdradiator

[m3vuv]

inboard disks and a total **** to get at!

[dik]

I vaguely remember a shitroen where to change the exhaust front pipe you needed to take the engine out so I cut the new pipe in half got both parts in then welded it back together

[m3vuv]

had one like that back in the 70s,think it was a flat 4 gs club

[autotrans]

The best thing to come out of france was the road to belgium

[quinnd]

D22 Nissan Navara, VP44 pump change. Crap job anyway but having to slide gearbox back to remove sump to remove lower timing cover to remove chain?? Stupid.

[ghostridersa]

Audi S4 V8 must be the worst ****-up as it takes 15.9 hours labour to change a exhaust manifold. I thought the people were talking crap until I did a couple myself. Complete front end off vehicle, radiator, air-con, complete engine, wiring loom, you name and you have to remove it. Autodata lists it as 15.9 hours chargable but its more like 25 hours to replace them.

[smirnoff_rules]

changing fan belt and adjuster Pully on a jag x type 20 diesel then having to remove alternator and then crank Pully to force belt back on


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[Meat-Head]

2.0 diesel then having to remove alternator and then crank Pully to force belt back on

Cool, can you expliain in more detail, how you get the belt back on.

We get the odd one for a new dynamo, bastawrd to get the belt back on.