lorinclark88
New member
Hi everyone, I am fairly useless when it comes to cars but have tried my best since joining this forum to improve!
Basically last week, I went shopping in Essex and thought while there I'll take my car into a Kwik Fit to have my air con sorted out. The "mechanic" told me I had such a major leak that they couldnt even vacuum the system and test with the uv dye (dont know if this is all true, just took their word for it)
I went shopping for a few hours and asked if they could try and find the leak visually. After an hour and a half I got a call saying they took the front part of the car off to look at the condensor and said it needed replacing and would be about £400+ To which I replied "leave it and I'll have no aircon"
I later arrived back at the Kwik fit store and collected my car, rather upset that I couldnt get the aircon fixed. They didnt charge me anything though so I was relieved but unsure as to wether they had even taken off the front of the car like they said they had.
On the way home back from Essex to London I was driving about 50mph on the A12 when "bing" asr failure, alternator fault, loose connection comes up on the dashboard and all lights up and engine cuts out.
I turn engine off and it starts up fine, then 1/2 mile down the road it happens again and at this point I get worried. I wait over 3 hours to be collected by RAC and get taken home. they dump my car back and they say "thats it, take it to a garage and see whats wrong"
I had to go to work the next day so I spent hours on here trying to find cures for the fault and put it into practice.
First, I checked the voltage of the battery and all readings were fine, secondly I checked, removed and cleaned thoroughly the engine earth screw following the guide. I then went through and cleaned conn terminals on battery and even D4 connector.
However a week later and the fault keeps re occurring 2/3 times a day
Is it possible that Kwik Fit could have messed something up, maybe another earth screw when taking off the front to inspect the condensor.
Please any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Basically last week, I went shopping in Essex and thought while there I'll take my car into a Kwik Fit to have my air con sorted out. The "mechanic" told me I had such a major leak that they couldnt even vacuum the system and test with the uv dye (dont know if this is all true, just took their word for it)
I went shopping for a few hours and asked if they could try and find the leak visually. After an hour and a half I got a call saying they took the front part of the car off to look at the condensor and said it needed replacing and would be about £400+ To which I replied "leave it and I'll have no aircon"
I later arrived back at the Kwik fit store and collected my car, rather upset that I couldnt get the aircon fixed. They didnt charge me anything though so I was relieved but unsure as to wether they had even taken off the front of the car like they said they had.
On the way home back from Essex to London I was driving about 50mph on the A12 when "bing" asr failure, alternator fault, loose connection comes up on the dashboard and all lights up and engine cuts out.
I turn engine off and it starts up fine, then 1/2 mile down the road it happens again and at this point I get worried. I wait over 3 hours to be collected by RAC and get taken home. they dump my car back and they say "thats it, take it to a garage and see whats wrong"
I had to go to work the next day so I spent hours on here trying to find cures for the fault and put it into practice.
First, I checked the voltage of the battery and all readings were fine, secondly I checked, removed and cleaned thoroughly the engine earth screw following the guide. I then went through and cleaned conn terminals on battery and even D4 connector.
However a week later and the fault keeps re occurring 2/3 times a day
Is it possible that Kwik Fit could have messed something up, maybe another earth screw when taking off the front to inspect the condensor.
Please any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks