I took my motor to a local garage (Warrior)after my manifold went. It was thought it was just the cats and the local jap tuning fellas stripped it down the problem was finally found when the manifolds where off and the car was in bits. I was working out of town and in a catch 22 situation; I agreed to let them rebuild the car.
As the engine was out I opted for a kko4 upgrade etc. I offered to buy off the shelf parts but was assured they would fabricate the parts much cheaper, I was working away and couldn’t keep an eye on them but trusted what they said. So off they went and rebuilt the car, using bespoke manifolds downpipes intake etc etc. I was happy with the work but didn't really understand the implications of what they were doing. I asked them to talk to MRC and other Audi fellas to check what they were doing was right etc and looked for reassurance throughout that they knew what they were doing, all seem well.
Time was ticking on and I lost my patience after seven months, I told them if the car wasn't running it would be taken away on a low loader and taken to MRC. Wow they got it finished I paid up near on 10k and i drove it down to MRC to be checked, a host of problems were found and the car went back to get sorted so it could be mapped, this happened 4 times.
MRC didn't have a slot to check and map the car so I ended up going to AutoPS in Oxford (old AMD boys). They decided the turbo's had to come out to sort the issue MRC found 4 visits to Warrior earlier. I said go ahead, it wasn’t going back to Warrior, as the engine came out more alarm bells went off and the situation looked bad, the intake and exhaust were deemed “not fit for the car” including the manifolds etc. I gave warrior the option of going there with me to check out what was said, they didn’t take it on two occasions.
I had an independent inspector (court approved) look at the car and told Warrior I was going to do so. I talked to the inspector today and everything AutoPS state is true. I’m going to look to recover the labour and the replacement manifolds/downpipes exhaust etc. I’ve wasted near on a year of fun and countless wads of cash with a crappy company.
What a bummer going to have to fight to get my cash back but on the bright side my car is in professional hands and being fitted with ASP from head to tail. The MAP is being written by Geoff Everitt. I’ve done everything right legally and stand a good chance of getting my money back. I was gutted I couldn’t get the car to MRC ( I was aim to have it mapped for GTi-internation shame there isn’t a smiley pulling a joey decon) but have full faith in AutoPS they have been excellent and spot on.
I'll write up a report of the car when it's finished next week and when the case has gone throught make the notes availble on the site as a lesson to all.
I don't know if i can be bothered chasing Audi for the inital manifold problem now
Shoulda coulda woulda……the last words of a fool
oh the lesson, get the RAC to take you to MRC/AutoPS/Anyone but Warrior and pay well and pay once
.Kies4
