[size=12] I posted a while back regarding my wife's Hyundai Accent (
no laughing ya buggers) and a possible head gasket failure.
Well after being quoted £300 to have it fixed...that's cash in the hand private work,the guy who originally serviced it just before suspect head gasket failure today had another look at it,the following is just unbelievable but sadly very very true.
Whilst having a coffee and a smoke we stood chatting about what to do with the wife's car....sell it as a non runner,have a mishap with a open petrol cap and a discarded cigi ect when matey boy said ""Have you had it running....does it get hot and over heat"" well of course i haven't thats far to bloomin' easy so we start it up and leave it running,temp gauge gets to normal operating temp and stays there so matey boy checks rad and that's full...he then says ""There's nought wrong with head gasket boy....lets take it for a drive"".
So off we go...5 mins later thick white smoke covering both lanes and car starts spluttering,so we carry on 2 mins later car is running ok and no smoke..thinking thats odd we carry on few minutes later white smoke and spluttering back,that clears and we drive home....Its at this point he says lets get the oil drained and make sure its at correct level...so the oils dropped and he says (i kid you not) ""Theres ya problem some prat has put the wrong oil in ya engine,its bright bloomin' red,but i cant understand why the dipstick still shows over full.??"".
Its at this point i ask him what colour auto box oil is and he says ""oh no...now dont get pissed its an easy mistake..........."" It only turns out when he changed my engine oil and filter he had took the wrong blooming sump plug out,so the only engine oil that dropped was via the oil filter....so the other oil was the bloody
auto box oil....So my engine oil was basically one and a half times over full and my auto box had hardly any in it.
So engine oil drained (about 8 ltrs,4 of which spills over car park)....couple of bottles of auto box oil in and we go for a drive....engine is back to purring and slips through the gears just as it did when new and best of all NO white smoke.
So my poor wife has been deprived of driving her car due to us breaking down on route to the hospital for gemma"s IVF treatment because matey boy didn't have a clue what he was doing......me angry no.....Raging psychopath for 20 minutes before calming down maybe.
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Oh its for sale by the way.....Anyone want a slighty suspect Hyundai.
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