Has anyone ever had a remap hear?
What they like?
What they like?
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They use northampton motorsport or have done alot, who are good guys.
I personally wouldnt have an engine build by them mind. |
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Ja. If I had paid for the builder to do machining on the pistons so they work with the valve/cam profile and then it blew up on the rollers (before even getting it back) due to piston to valve clashing I wouldn't be paying for them to rebuild it.
Personally I'd be expecting more from the company who had done the work. |
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Ahhh didnt realise this is what happened.
Im sure toad must have recieved a huge discount?? |
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Huge discount ??
if id had the pistons machinind to avoid the valves and they hit on the rollers i couldnt justfy charging for the engine if i had been suplied the parts by the customer then tough shit they pay, but if i suply the parts then as a company i have to take responsbility for them thats why i no longer supply secondhand parts, cos if they go wrong it costs me if the customer supplies and it goes wrong its down to them |
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if they carried out work to prevent such a thing then they should take on the resonsability for it failing in the way they were supposed to prevent
perhaps i should be more shroud and id make more money lol |
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also on the note of wonky beams, anything can make a beam wonky, just the beam being used and wearing out can make a beam wonky its not always down to the lowering which people always think, the beam on my vts is slightly wonkey but i know for sure its was done right (this wasnt done by pug1off) but i know my beam is on its way out |
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Car ended up 15mm higher on the passenger side, than the drivers side.
I asked when I booked which method of lowering they used Was told the correct torsion bars out method. When I realised something wasn't right, I rang to find out what the solution would be. I was told by Matt (It was he who did the work) that he had lowered using the notches method. "As it takes to much time and hassle to lower the other way". Also he said "as saxo is built for the European market, which is mainly LHD. The one side sits higher to balance out the weight of the driver, but on a RHD car will be the passenger side". He said I could bring it back to be done the torsion bar method, but I would have to pay a further £200. To which I declined...... as went elsewhere |
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i still dont understand how a car can be wonky when using the notches method, if it was out it would be out by more than 15mm
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Yea i was going to say we mainly do it the notches way (forum hate i know) which sort of makes it hard to have it un-even,
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Yea i was going to say we mainly do it the notches way (forum hate i know) which sort of makes it hard to have it un-even, wish i had worked there when your car was there still havnt seen it in the flesh!
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I have to say I'm surprised that a company like pug1off lowers by notches. I guess it's good for business though when the customer comes back with a fecked beam
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Problem turned out to be one of the ARB end plates was machined incorrectly
So by lowering the notches way, it was never going to be level New end plates & lowered the correct way = all sorted TBH it was the lies originally, and then all the bull shit Matt came out with afterwards which has put me off ever using them for anything again. I should be at FCS and trax this year, if your going to either. |
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They have always been done that way, im sure if matt had found a problem with it he wouldnt do it that way.
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so by twisting the torsion bars to preload them is ok, its like pre-compressing a spring, its already under load before theres any weight on it. That along with several other factors combined make it a bad idea really
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im not really in a postition to comment on it as its not my company and nor my place to speak about customer care or methods that we use.
Pointing out wrong doings with another company is pretty easy and quite un-professional. I could publicly right about other companies we have had work from, including affiliate's from this and other forum's but i dont or havnt worked at them place's so i dont no there method's or level of detail and job quality or how they do thing's. |
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could someone explain to me how you lower a rear beam by 'notches' 'clicks' or whatever you wont to call it??. I have lowered 50+ cars over the years and never understand how its done.
You remove the torsion bar from the trailing arm, set the desired height and slide the bar back in. How could it be any easier than that? |
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im not really in a postition to comment on it as its not my company and nor my place to speak about customer care or methods that we use.
Pointing out wrong doings with another company is pretty easy and quite un-professional. I could publicly right about other companies we have had work from, including affiliate's from this and other forum's but i dont or havnt worked at them place's so i dont no there method's or level of detail and job quality or how they do thing's. |
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Its interesting to hear willsy commenting on other people being asked for extra money to put things right.
This was what I was mostly aiming my point about regarding the engine discussion. If i put my car into a companies hands and the work I feel is not up to scratch, being asked for more money to fix wrongs I do not feel is acceptable. You can be the most skilled engineer/mechanic in the world but if you make a mistake or whatever and dont deal with the resulting issue correctly it does put people off. |
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You can be the most skilled engineer/mechanic in the world but if you make a mistake or whatever and dont deal with the resulting issue correctly it does put people off.
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You say that as if id still use something they say is brilliant....
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this thread is starting to annoy me just because pug1off has touched a car in the past doesnt mean everything that goes wrong with it is down to them, who knows what DIY mechanic has been touching it after them, especially if the car has been passed through different owners, i think its so easy to sit on an internet forum and bitch about a company when they cant defend themselves, i could sit here and say loads of lies about them, know one would know im lying and 99% people would go tell that story to someone else etc etc and then the companies name is tarnished
As tom said he could sit there and bitch about other companies and affiliate's on this very forum where hes seen work from them but he doesnt go shouting about it over the forum and he would never do that |
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And how many customers are problem free???
Before i get done for it , i have never purchased anything from them It just seems a little unfair all the slang against them |
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And how many customers are problem free???
Before i get done for it , i have never purchased anything from them It just seems a little unfair all the slang against them |