Recently took a car to a mechanics (i'll not name and shame....yet) So I was billed £200, it's a 1.0 Seat Arosa, I was happy enough to pay it because it's a reasonable price, so the clutch gets changed promptly, happy days I get it back the same night, I drive it for a few miles and the engine managment light comes on, ok... so I just park it back up and rang him, said something wrong with it, he came out next morning fixed the problem said it was something to do with a spark plug.
so I drive it for a while and it's very juddery and jumpy I put it down to the clutch bedding in, didnt think much of it, then the noise thats always been there since the clutch went reappears its like a "ticaticaticaticatica" sort of like a quiet chainsaw, had a few people listen to it came to the conclusion that it was a thrust bearing (release bearing) the noise disappears when you press the clutch in, and reappears when you let it out.. so the guy was supposed to of changed the whole kit including the thrust bearing (release bearing)
so I rang him up and he said theres clearly a noise and something wrong, he says he changed it and the part must of failed, says it'll cost another £80-100 to fix, so after a while of back and forth "it should of been right in the first place" and "recoup any loss from the manufacture" cause after all hes already been paid £200 for it to be done and it was never done right, regardless if it was a manfacture problem WHICH I HIGHLY DOUBT.
he says yeah, it sounds like a bearing, takes it apart rings me up and says no, theres nothing wrong with it, so he'll need paying, so when I ask whys it making the noise when the clutch is out and disappears when its put in he replies "I dont know but the clutch is fine" so I ring him to say, ok no problem, i'll come down with another mechanic to look at it, he says that theres clearly a problem now and though it looks ok to him, hes gonna ring the manufacture to see if he can sort something because he still needs paying...
AM I MISSING SOMETHING? I never got a fully working clutch put into my car for that £200 its been wrong since the start, so am I being unreasonable by saying, awk its ok heres another £100 for you having to fix something you didnt do right in the first place?
so I drive it for a while and it's very juddery and jumpy I put it down to the clutch bedding in, didnt think much of it, then the noise thats always been there since the clutch went reappears its like a "ticaticaticaticatica" sort of like a quiet chainsaw, had a few people listen to it came to the conclusion that it was a thrust bearing (release bearing) the noise disappears when you press the clutch in, and reappears when you let it out.. so the guy was supposed to of changed the whole kit including the thrust bearing (release bearing)
so I rang him up and he said theres clearly a noise and something wrong, he says he changed it and the part must of failed, says it'll cost another £80-100 to fix, so after a while of back and forth "it should of been right in the first place" and "recoup any loss from the manufacture" cause after all hes already been paid £200 for it to be done and it was never done right, regardless if it was a manfacture problem WHICH I HIGHLY DOUBT.
he says yeah, it sounds like a bearing, takes it apart rings me up and says no, theres nothing wrong with it, so he'll need paying, so when I ask whys it making the noise when the clutch is out and disappears when its put in he replies "I dont know but the clutch is fine" so I ring him to say, ok no problem, i'll come down with another mechanic to look at it, he says that theres clearly a problem now and though it looks ok to him, hes gonna ring the manufacture to see if he can sort something because he still needs paying...
AM I MISSING SOMETHING? I never got a fully working clutch put into my car for that £200 its been wrong since the start, so am I being unreasonable by saying, awk its ok heres another £100 for you having to fix something you didnt do right in the first place?
