172
Hi all.
Not going to go into too much detail, just the basic history and want opinions from members.
Timing went, recovered to a garage to inspect and carry out the work needed to repair.
Asked for boroscope early on to see the damage level and quote for labour to replace head and also labour to swap for a new engine incase of severe damage.
No boroscope done, no quote for engine swap, just quote of 12 hours labour to remove and refit head.
Took the recommendation from them to go down the head route.
No inspection done until after I have sourced a 2nd hand head and spent a fortune on getting it refreshed.
They waited until i had every part needed for the rebuild before starting.
The day they started, they sent me a picture of the damage to the pistons and block... (only because i asked for pics of the rebuild for my documentation, and have been particular with my questions for a number of things after taking advice from this and other RS groups about certain questions...like genuine timing tools and Group N timing potential) Garage say they would smooth the damage and put the head back on but upto me. If it were one of their cars they would do this.
The following day I recieved the picture of the cam, which played on my mind when trying to sleep because i thought you would spot the cam first before taking the head off...making me unsettled so asked them to stop the work.
also feel this could have been found quiickly before the long wait for sorting head out and would have gone new engine route.
Also they hadn't sent me an upto date quote at this time which i asked for 2 days before...and only told me today. I sent the email asking to stop last friday morning.
I realise this is still quite a bit of detail but need to mention the timeline of photos and how the engine was inspected.
So i am asking the community what their thoughts are to the order in which the pictures came? How the inspection shoukd have been handled from their perspective? And am I overthinking it all to be a strange that smoothing out would be fine, as apparently the piston rings wont get that high, the pistins have depressions in them anyway and if it was one of their cars they would have just cracked on smoothing and put the head back on?
I dont want to waste an £800 head on a block i dont feel comfortable with. Plus I was told, like another RS owner they have dealt with before, that I spend too much time listening to "keyboard warriors" on forums rather than trusting the knowledge of the garage.
(By the way, this community is amazing and I actually trust this community over the garages knowledge because there are owners who have had problems and found solutiins and also Renault Specialists hidden within here too, and im finding it so hard to find a decent garage to look after my car)
Please help! Thanks Drew
Not going to go into too much detail, just the basic history and want opinions from members.
Timing went, recovered to a garage to inspect and carry out the work needed to repair.
Asked for boroscope early on to see the damage level and quote for labour to replace head and also labour to swap for a new engine incase of severe damage.
No boroscope done, no quote for engine swap, just quote of 12 hours labour to remove and refit head.
Took the recommendation from them to go down the head route.
No inspection done until after I have sourced a 2nd hand head and spent a fortune on getting it refreshed.
They waited until i had every part needed for the rebuild before starting.
The day they started, they sent me a picture of the damage to the pistons and block... (only because i asked for pics of the rebuild for my documentation, and have been particular with my questions for a number of things after taking advice from this and other RS groups about certain questions...like genuine timing tools and Group N timing potential) Garage say they would smooth the damage and put the head back on but upto me. If it were one of their cars they would do this.
The following day I recieved the picture of the cam, which played on my mind when trying to sleep because i thought you would spot the cam first before taking the head off...making me unsettled so asked them to stop the work.
also feel this could have been found quiickly before the long wait for sorting head out and would have gone new engine route.
Also they hadn't sent me an upto date quote at this time which i asked for 2 days before...and only told me today. I sent the email asking to stop last friday morning.
I realise this is still quite a bit of detail but need to mention the timeline of photos and how the engine was inspected.
So i am asking the community what their thoughts are to the order in which the pictures came? How the inspection shoukd have been handled from their perspective? And am I overthinking it all to be a strange that smoothing out would be fine, as apparently the piston rings wont get that high, the pistins have depressions in them anyway and if it was one of their cars they would have just cracked on smoothing and put the head back on?
I dont want to waste an £800 head on a block i dont feel comfortable with. Plus I was told, like another RS owner they have dealt with before, that I spend too much time listening to "keyboard warriors" on forums rather than trusting the knowledge of the garage.
(By the way, this community is amazing and I actually trust this community over the garages knowledge because there are owners who have had problems and found solutiins and also Renault Specialists hidden within here too, and im finding it so hard to find a decent garage to look after my car)
Please help! Thanks Drew
