Lets suppose you have a 3 cylinder vehicle - I am not talking about a Holden.
Its running fine, then out of the blue it revs up by itself.
You take it to a specialist and they inspect it & change the throttle cables and charge you $320.
The first time you use the vehicle it does the same thing again!
You take it back and this time they say that they will have to machine the bushes for the butterflies in the carbies.
This they do at a cost of $530.
You get the vehicle back and after a short running period the engine seizes - middle piston seized.
They say that it could cost $500 - $800 or maybe more depending what they find.
Eventually they said that they would have to remove the engine to give it a thorough inspection - You agree, and they replace a number of components and are given a bill of $2,600 which you pay.
After running the vehicle for a short while you notice that the engine revving problem is still there! You take it back and this time the specialist replaces a screw and an 'o'ring on the carbies and charges you $40 - This finally seems to fix the engine revving problem.
After the rebuild that they had done you were advised to bring it back for a service after 'so many' hours.
Unfortunately the vehicle doesn't quite make it to 'so many' hours and the middle piston seizes again - this time putting a con-rod through the casing.
The specialist is under the impression that because the con-rod went through the block you cannot blame them for the engine failing again, even though the middle piston almost went into meltdown!
They now say that they will repair what they repaired on the initial rebuild etc, but we must pay another $1,300 for a replacement crankshaft.
Anybody think the specialist has a leg to stand on?:bang:
Its running fine, then out of the blue it revs up by itself.
You take it to a specialist and they inspect it & change the throttle cables and charge you $320.
The first time you use the vehicle it does the same thing again!
You take it back and this time they say that they will have to machine the bushes for the butterflies in the carbies.
This they do at a cost of $530.
You get the vehicle back and after a short running period the engine seizes - middle piston seized.
They say that it could cost $500 - $800 or maybe more depending what they find.
Eventually they said that they would have to remove the engine to give it a thorough inspection - You agree, and they replace a number of components and are given a bill of $2,600 which you pay.
After running the vehicle for a short while you notice that the engine revving problem is still there! You take it back and this time the specialist replaces a screw and an 'o'ring on the carbies and charges you $40 - This finally seems to fix the engine revving problem.
After the rebuild that they had done you were advised to bring it back for a service after 'so many' hours.
Unfortunately the vehicle doesn't quite make it to 'so many' hours and the middle piston seizes again - this time putting a con-rod through the casing.
The specialist is under the impression that because the con-rod went through the block you cannot blame them for the engine failing again, even though the middle piston almost went into meltdown!
They now say that they will repair what they repaired on the initial rebuild etc, but we must pay another $1,300 for a replacement crankshaft.
Anybody think the specialist has a leg to stand on?:bang: