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Two Days!
- Thread starter Dash
- Start date
I wouldnt mind but I have just read the "A" service shedule and basically they only change the oil, everything else is inspect.
But then again it took me almost a day to get the dipstick back in ( Hmmmm ? maybe that rattle is my dipstick stuck in the altenator )
They should have made the V6 like a Triumph Herald flip top
Renault Laguna Coupe
LOL, never mind a track day hes probably got a full-on race lined up! Better keep an eye on the sports channels while its awayQuote: Originally posted by GirlRacer on 11 February 2003
Dash
They probably need it for two days so that the mechanic can get a track day in at the same time on his day off!!
Shiny red R32
Dash
This is probably why they need your V6 for two days - they will take half of one day changing the colour and kitting it out like this!
http://www.molitor-racing.de/Stiefel20Clio-gelb-s
http://www.davej.easynet.co.uk/james172/v6site/hosting/Stiefel20Clio-gelb-s.jpg
They can leave that lot on if they want LOL
Shiny red R32
Here is another picture
http://www.molitor-racing.de/Stiefel20Clio-gelb-s
http://www.nology.com/images/cliolr.gif
Renault Laguna Coupe
He copied it into his own webspace and pasted it using his own link. Right click the image then properties. Its a good ruse for those sites that dont allow external references to images.
2days!!!! Did you ask why??????? MAKE SURE YOU KNOW THE MILEAGE!!!! Could they somehow unplug the mileage thingy then drive it to say.......................................the Nurburgring and then plug it pack in when they get back????? Car ragged, but mileage still the same!!!!
crikey!!!
i ordered in a new ECU and loom, re plumed the fuel lines and serviced a V6 in 3 days!!!!
The V6 is dead simple to work ok simply cause thereis no bottom to it!! lol
they wont do much apart from rev it alot....when we had all 14 V6s in for a week all day long was V6s revving!
oh, and they did go on hard drives, but the owner concented as he was a gentleman racing driver and understood it needed to get HHHHOT for the problem to arise.....should of seen the que for the test!
My last oil & filter change cost £87.00
I had an oil change on the 172 and it cost £83.00 so thats not too much of a difference.
There is one mechanic who I know is a very good rally driver ( took me out in a 6R4 years ago ) Even if my car comes back with just 1 mile on the clock, it may well have been put to the test albeit by a decent driver.
Quote: Originally posted by GirlRacer on 11 February 2003
Mine is going for its first service on Saturday - 3,300 miles or thereabouts so far. Lucky for me I only have to pay £8 for an oil filter + cost of oil. The service, plus brake checks etc will be very thoroughly carried out too - its not what you know but who you know!!
GR Just out of interest, why are you servicing it at only 3300miles?
When I was in Edinburgh in the summer I took the car to Renault Edinburgh and left it with them for an MOT for the day. At the end of the day and about £400 lighter, I went home in it and noticed that the seat was in a markedly different position (higher, further forward) and theyd put 7 miles on it!! I was going to compalin, but it was too late in the day by the time I noticed and the next day I was off to Southend-on-Sea for the big Cliosport meet - so I forgot.
Service done now. Cost £164.73 inc VAT
GR... The bill is here if you want to compere oil filter part numbers
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Fred - it was MOT stuff and general bits and bobs. I thought my car was pukka, but it needed new track rod ends, ball joits and (strangley) a headlamp re-align.
I was up in Edinburgh over the summer months and couldnt find any other garage that was convenient. Needless to say, I wont be going there again - but it hardly matters as Im back in Bristol/cardiff at the mo!
I got into a race against a "borrowed" customers car a while back. It was no ordinary car: a Bentley continental turbo R - well turbo charged bentley. Huge thing! I saw them drive past me as i was waited at a junction and thought "they look pretty young!" so followed them. They were driving quite erratically, and kept flooring it. I followed them onto the A3 and they booted it, these are serious boats - considering all the money and the torque its got it didnt really pull away(admittedly i was thrashing the guts out of mine!) but im sure over high speeds itd fly away. They weigh around 2 tonnes dont they? Anyway, we both parked up and had a chat. I was like, "nice car", and he said hed "borrowed" it - i thought it may have been stolen at first, but they parked outside a police station and the guy said it was from work and he was testing it. It belonged to some old rich dude and his chauffeur probably wouldnt care etc etc. Some people are cheeky huh. Although when i worked for a subaru garage, the temptation for a Derby Road toast was very high and took many a scoob to "dry them off". Didnt drive them any more violently than the owners would have done. Bit naughty tho....
One guy at my work (valletter) took a Gti-6 for a blast and drove about 20 miles away!! when changing gear he somehow managed to select reverse and had to get it towed home as it mashed up the 6-speed gearbox - not cheap im sure! A friend of mine burned out a clutch on a boaty 306. They even let him drive an oldish ferrari that was at the body shop! that was the day after i left......arrrrg!
