loafy Posted February 21, 2009 Report Share Posted February 21, 2009 Its not very often i would do this cause its not very often you get a decent business who goes that extra mile to help someone out.Meet PacmanOne very reliable little car :-)My good lady's car's mot ran out recently and I was sent to a good garage thru a friend for the Mot on her Ibiza. We turned up and everything was going fine until the emissons test and it failed, not just by a little bit but by a big bit. :-(The garage doing the mot was fully booked and couldnt look at the car for a few days and being this was her only mode of transport to get to work it was like oh man what do we do now?? The car had a MOT until the Monday but after that nothing! So what do we do??Well after a few posts on a forum in regards to fix the problem with either the lambda prode or the cat it was off to Euro Carparts to get the parts I thought i needed, but low and behold good old euro car parts had nothing in stock! Just typical eh?Onwards to Autoparts in Hamilton who had the front lambda prode in stock, and it was a good £40 cheaper than eurocarparts! Result or was it? What if the front probe was fine and the rear was the problem or what if it was the cat!!! Jesus a stressful Sat morning to start with!!But there was light at the end of the tunnel. When i was asking for a good safe trust worthy mechanic a few people mentioned Marc at "..The Garage.." was he open a Saturday afternoon? Well one way to find out, a quick nip over to his garage in Motherwell and low and behold he was.Now i was a punter off the street, someone he never met before or knew but as sound as i walked in i was made to feel like a friend. Talk about friendly communication, he asked to see the mot sheet for the failures and ran thru what it could be, then he was like uch its only 1pm fire the car round the back and i will get the laptop out and we can see what the fault is! Result.Most people know Marc for his TOTB skylines, Scoob's and Evo's just think all the dubbers in the world would be cringing letting a Jap Specialist loose on a vag car! But i had every faith in the man, because when you went round in the garage there was a few vw and audi's in getting repaired!!! The old phrase never judge a book by its cover sprung to mind at this point.Marc pop'ed the laptop open and plugged it in and away he went doing his stuff, 10mins later he was like its the front probe, and luckily it was the one i had picked up from Autoparts earlier on. Tool box opened and away he went, old probe out and new probe eh still in box, Autoparts gave us the wrong one :-( but that didnt stop Marc, he tried a few tricks, cleaned it and plugged it back in. Jumped in the car and took it to be retested again, but sadly another fail!But a man on a mission is a man not to be messed with, left him for a hour or so with the car doing other bits whilst his team made me feel right at home, tea coffee? biscuits YES PLEASE!!!The banter for the next hour was great truely felt like it was a mates garage at the house on a sunny Saturday afternoon, now it wasnt just me but a chap with a 450hp skyline who was in for the banter aswell. These jap' fans aint that bad!! Pity dont get the old detailing markley but hey! They are all about the power lol!!!Did I just say that out loud?? LOLAnyways round 3pm Marc came in and said look he needs the car back in MOnday and he will order the correct parts allowing the car to be fixed proper.So off I toddled back home after a stressful but good day!!Monday morning came and woke up to Snow, Snow and more Snow!!!But that didnt stop the Pacman getting to Motherwell for the next bit of fun!!Car was dropped off just after 8.30am and I had to be in Glasgow for 10am for a meeting, not knowing the area and were the train or local bus to Glasgow was, Marc got one of his team to drop me off at the station!! Result esp in the Snow! lolThe day went along nicely and at 1pm my sectary told me when i came out of the meeting that Marc had called. The car was fixed the problems solved and MOT passed!! Having a bit longer with the car he quickly sourced the problem, a electrical fault with one of the wires from the probe, 10mins later it was fixed and problem solved, it flew the emisson test! Now i was thinking Jesus its gonna be expensive, a diagnostic test on saturday, another MOT fee and then few hours on sat and few hours on mon labour charge, but how shocked was I to find how well priced Marc was!!! And again the fact they dropped me off and picked me up that evening too!!I know Marc has a amazing repetation for his knowledge in Jap cars but to be fair his knowledge in the vag range out stands me!!! So much so I would say seriously stop using who your using and get your backside down to his place!!! He has the Audi at present doing the next wee trick ;-) and the fact when i suggested it to him he never bat a eyelid like yeah i can do that not a problem!! And again price, everyone else was quoting silly money to do it, but Marc put a reasonable price on the table and to be honest I know i can trust him!!Big Thumbs Up From Me!!!Anyone fancy'ing a MK3 with a skyline lump??? ;-)-----------------------------------------------------------------------http://www.the-garage.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeyesh Posted February 21, 2009 Report Share Posted February 21, 2009 Nice, glad you got it sorted.Bit of a mission!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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