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Your "insult" is null and void considering your lemon of an attempt at Stagea ownership. With everything you fkd up on your old Stagea, having a go at me over the colour of my old Stagea is a pretty average effort, even by your standards :)

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Your "insult" is null and void considering your lemon of an attempt at Stagea ownership. With everything you fkd up on your old Stagea, having a go at me over the colour of my old Stagea is a pretty average effort, even by your standards :)

Wow do you need some tampons for that vagina? Lol

Nice way to take a joke hahahahahahahaha

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Going back through this thread makes me laugh.

Anyway to getting to the point of why i'm posting.

I received a M35 today at my house...I'm going to name drop(rosella) so that if you wish to PM him and ask him who he used you can.

To say that I have never been more disappointed at the workmanship on a car before is going to be a big call.....this shop went full Re t a r d!

Firstly I'd like to say that rosella has done nothing wrong but to trust the workshop and "qualified" mechanic's he gave his car to.

So To start off(and this only get worse)
1/ Missing bolt on the back of intake bracket
2/ Loose top suction pipe hose clamp
3/ Suction pipe top bolt finger tight
4/ Suction pipe bottom pipe over tensioned....new stud needed as it was all but snapped
5/ Heat shields overlapping heat shield bolts....I might also add that they were rounded as well.
6/ Cross threaded Actuator bolts into the turbo...re tap needed.
7/ O2 Sensor way over tightened(well at least something was tight)
8/ After loosening the 2 bottom dump pipe bolts the whole dump pipe was flapping in the wind. Further to this there was a nut and bolt at the top that should not have been used at temp....the reason that a bolt was used was because they had drilled the thread through on the turbo rather than retapping it.
9/ Water pipe from the top not bolted on
10/ Oil line bolt not bolted on
11/ Turbo to exhaust manifold studs bolted up with ceased bolts from the turbo to dump side.....all were loose/finger tight with the exception of 1 bolt.
12/ Old line Banjo bolt missing one washer.....so it was pissing out oil everywhere. They tried to fix this by dumping a shit load of gasket goo over it.....this was there full re t a r d moment.....and everyone knows you never go full re t a r d!!!

anyway rant finished.......now to get the turbo back in tomorrow if I can!

Edited by Jetwreck

Wow.

Not a good job. At least we know its in good hands now. Disappointed From a place I thought better of too. However many have been stung by the first time M35 turbo job.

Edit.

I miss Sidius. This thread delivered.

I was very disappointed when I heard how this played out; I expect much better from professionals. Even after spending time speaking with the mechanic in question while the work was happening; it has ended badly.

There is nothing worse than paying good money, and trusting specialists with your pride & joy; only to have them abuse that trust & conduct themselves in such a deplorable manner.

There is no question that the individual who worked on this car did a disgraceful job, and should be absolutely ashamed of himself.

To then do even more substandard work, in an attempt to cover up the first lot; is simply unconscionable.

I actually found the missing banjo washer whilst I was helping Russel with another thing that they had left loose a couple of weeks ago.
Foolishly, I had hoped they'd used a new one; but no.

I hope once Rosella gets his car back from Craig, that he takes the photos of this mess to the owner of the business, and asks for an explanation.
He certainly deserves one.

As Alex has said; at least he can rest assured it is being done properly this time, and that the whole sordid business doesn't leave a sour taste in his mouth.

I and others have managed to do this exact job on our own cars, with no more of an advantage than these guys have; so the "but it's a hard car to work on" rubbish, doesn't wash with me even a little bit.

Also; Sidius was great.

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