wslr wrote:

Find a good independent who you can trust and work with them to get things sorted out. Problem with the dealerships is that you can only shout at the person on the service desk as that's as far as you can normally get.

Shrekman - The techs were probably trying to get their efficiency bonus that day and left out anything deemed unimportant, like a bellhousing bolt or two...

with mine they left off exhaust fixing bolts, and left all 4 rear prop bolts loose and cross threaded !!!  spent 20 years fixing them ... the dealers just wont listen !!!!

ickle wrote:

I suppose you've checked turbo heatsheilds / sheilds underneath aren't rattling? If its had its gearbox out, something may be loose.

Keith

This was happening long before the box came out ... have had the wings off and checked every fixing on the engine and fittings, ran some tests withe wings/bonnet off and the injectors rattled like hell .....  spent 20 years fixing them ... the dealers just wont listen !!!!

ickle wrote:

My first interaction with a dealer in a spa town about 10 miles north of Worcester was "OK we may have damaged some interior trim doing the warranty work, but its fixed now and no we won't replace the marked panels' (SWMBO's Freelander 1.8 softback), and at the Bards birthplace on the Avon I was told by the dealer principal "I don't care what the salesman may or may not of said, you bought the car, its now yours and if it won't do the expected MPG, tough" (SWMBO's second Freelander, a td4 auto)

Both dealers are pirates, but are angels when compared to the independant rogues who trade near Barrowby .................................

Keith