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CRA23
24-04-2003, 05:25 PM
heres the story to back up the topic :)

i recently took my v6 astina to gold coast mazda for the 100 000km service the timing belt service, its all ways been taken to them for the services. I drop it in, in the mornin, they said theyd call if there was anything wrong, i get a call at 5pm there closing time to say they put the timing belt back in to the car and it will not be ready till about 5pm the next day and they cant do it now cos he doesnt want to pay his men overtime. so i wait and have to catch the bus*shudders* to uni. so i pick it up and drive home and the car was acting weird, over revving, idling at about 2K costanly, rangeing, excessive fuel consumption, missing at low revs. i had to wait a week to take it back cos i had to get to work and uni. i only got 250km out a full tank! so i take it back in and it takes them the whole day to figure out whats wrong......the ppl that did the service forgot to plug the engine temp sensor back in to the computer, so the comp thought the engine was perminantly cold so it pumped in as much fuel as possable to heat it up.
and they didnt even say sorry the doodgy bastards!!

ABC
24-04-2003, 05:37 PM
Bummer dude! :( That's really crap when you trust your pride and joy to someone and they don't treat it with the same respect that you do.

Still, at least they didn't do anything to harm the car in any great way.

Toyboy
24-04-2003, 07:19 PM
Thats so F**KED man :evil: ,i still to this day havent taken my car to a MAZDA dealership for a service :roll:
With it going through that much fuel there was a chance that it might of been washing down the bores with excess fuel which is bad :x
I would of demanded a full tank of fuel off them,or a partial refund,thats **** shouldnt be tolerated :x
Bet it was the apprentices that were working on it to,Typical :shock:
I just hope it hasnt done any kind of permanent damage dude !

Cheers :wink: