hows this for bad luck.....

[Russ_16v]

i know its not a clio but......


we had a passat recovered into work on friday, it had snapped its cambelt. well after looking at it we have found it needs all new valves, plus rockers, plus stem seals, and of course head gasket blah blah etc stc

well the parts have added upto £1200 without labour and the ironic thing is..................


he was on his way into us as he was booked in to have his cambelt changed!

now thats bad luck

 

[Whiteley]

Very unlucky! Was it overdue?

 

[Rob]

Jeeeeze, i think i'd go all Billy Connolly and try to sue god!

 

[Luke.]

ouch!

 

[Fletcher]

Sods law that.

 

[Eckascliovalver]

that is bad luck :dapprove:

 

[Mark One]

jesus. That guy should play the lottery this week. See if he gets equal bad and good luck

 

[Leeshez]

How unlucky

 

[Russ_16v]

yeah it was overdue,VW owners seem to be like that,we had a MK4 Golf in earlier in the year, guy spent 1500 quid with us, had headgasket + loads of other stuff, he refused to have the cambelt done even though it was overdue as he said he couldnt afford it, 3 days later it was back with us, as the belt snapped at 100 mph on the motorway! another £1200 later it was fixed lol

 

[Beef-Mc]

Lol that is seriously unlucky, bet he was gutted as well.

 

[ditz]

shame,,

i like doing passat belts!

 

[Russ_16v]

its a new passat,the front doesnt need to come off any more ,though it is funny just undoing the front of the older ones and simply pulling them off lol

 

[ditz]

oh boring, not done one of them

3.0v6 tdi passats a good one to do !

 

[Russ_16v]

if i were to say sod that i think you will understand chap!

 

[SandroWTBR]

that does suck pretty hard!

 

[W17GLE]

It happened to my mates williams. we had just picked up the cambelt kit from a mate to be fitted and he dropped me off at home two minutes later i get a call saying the belt had snapped

 

[sean_d]

Really bad luck that