Everything is fixed ......... Well almost!!
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 10:48 pm
So after various posts over the last few weeks car went into garage yesterday.....
Steering wheel vibration under braking - front pads and discs replaced, all sorted
Rear screen wash not working - cleaned out with low pressure airline, sorted
Battery - bosch silver s5 830a 100 019 replaced under manufacturers warranty
Starter replaced, ring gear visually inspected and confirmed to be ok and not problematic as previously thought
But picked up car from garage and drove home. Went back out later and started it and git a hell of a knocking sound from underneath - sounded like starter was kicking around on cranking. Opted not to go out and drove the car to garage first thing this morning. Turned out their parts supplier supplied wrong starter and they didn't notice. It wasn't mounted correctly and as a result cranking it has cracked the nose cone. It appears that in addition to the two mounting bolts there are two dowels on the gearbox that locate into two recesses on the starter. The problem starter only had one recess but of course there is still the second pin to locate and it was striking the starter and pushing it out of position
The nearest starter in stock was in London (about 75 miles away) so had to leave the car there to be done on Monday .........
Steering wheel vibration under braking - front pads and discs replaced, all sorted
Rear screen wash not working - cleaned out with low pressure airline, sorted
Battery - bosch silver s5 830a 100 019 replaced under manufacturers warranty
Starter replaced, ring gear visually inspected and confirmed to be ok and not problematic as previously thought
But picked up car from garage and drove home. Went back out later and started it and git a hell of a knocking sound from underneath - sounded like starter was kicking around on cranking. Opted not to go out and drove the car to garage first thing this morning. Turned out their parts supplier supplied wrong starter and they didn't notice. It wasn't mounted correctly and as a result cranking it has cracked the nose cone. It appears that in addition to the two mounting bolts there are two dowels on the gearbox that locate into two recesses on the starter. The problem starter only had one recess but of course there is still the second pin to locate and it was striking the starter and pushing it out of position
The nearest starter in stock was in London (about 75 miles away) so had to leave the car there to be done on Monday .........
