ADVICE PLEASE (AGAIN)

Mk4_Scotland · Post by **Mk4_Scotland** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 1:31 am

went to get my car diag - turns out the idle parameters are all wrong - fair enough - easy fixed but - the chuggin my cars been makin under 3500rev is caused by worn bushes in my distibutor cap twrly roundy bit!
so i need new distibutor cap and the rest Â£111+vat! any 1 got n e ideas!
think this is whats caused it?

Mk4_Scotland · Post by **Mk4_Scotland** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 12:03 pm

fair enough!
i gave in 61 quid + vat from euro car parts!
fixed it perfectly!
bloody grease monkeys!
still need to get the timing right on the dizzy now!

dubpolo · Post by **dubpolo** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 6:51 pm

the distibutor cap, coz mine only cost Â£5.25. am i thinking of the right part????

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 10:23 pm

WTF?!

Are you absolutely sure that's what they said? The rotor arm in the dizzy wore out so it cost you over a ton to replace? (and they still didn't fix the timing properly?)..... it wasn't a more complicated internal component?

I have crap-all confidence and little knowledge when it comes to fixing engines - but managed to fix a similarly caused problem twice after a quick flick thru the haynes. Once with going to halfords and swapping parts that were worth less than a tenner (pull old ones off - no tools required - and push new ones on the same way round, with it all "keyed" i.e. very difficult to put it on wrong), the next with just pulling the cap off and cleaning the built up carbon off the contacts in the cap and on the rotor.

Double check with them what they said (and what they meant) to be sure you're not being taken for a ride here. Even if it's 90% labour charges, that must be including an aaaaawful lot of paid tea breaks.

Hope that doesn't sound harsh, but if thats what you've been charged for it..... damn, man, that hurts.

KEA · Post by **KEA** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 6:21 pm

u'd be surprised. a rough estimate of labour charges is around 40 to 60 quid these days and more with a legit dealership no back street garage. so they probably booked the time on ur car for about 0.6 which is bout 45 mins. then the part on top of that. it'll all add up probably if not tho. rude

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 7:16 pm

Christ, i did my dizzy as part of trying to sort all my ignition out, it cost me about thirteen pound all in and took maybe 90 seconds to replace the old for the new!

Mk4_Scotland · Post by **Mk4_Scotland** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 11:54 am

it def was the dizzy itsself not just the cap the rotor arm could shake about everywhere which was causing serious problems - had to replace the whole thing - the metal bit that houses the arm metal bit itself and the cap too! not too bad, runs perfect now! sorry for taking so long to reply!