Technical Annoying problem 2001 Punto HGT

[davebobbins]

I know what you mean my old car was a alfa 147 2.0 ts and it was fast but the car was way to heavy it also drank oil and fuel just as fast as it drove. I've put a call into my local alfa\fiat garage to get some costs so I know how much I would be out of pocket if all else fails.

 

[Tony123]

Thats not to bad as you paid next to nothing for it
If the engine was sound on this one I would see no problem in it going for ages, but a car without an engine is just a shell

I know, ive replaced almost every part of my car, its had a new engine and a new gearbox so it should last me a few years now

 

[davebobbins]

Lol thats pretty good going for what you have spent, fingers crossed it should last you a good few years

 

[davebobbins]

Finally an update for you guys

The garage finally agreed to pay for the work I think it was mostly due to AndyRKett idea about telling the local papers that sorted it

So over the last 2 weeks (mostly evenings/weekends) My mechanic friend and myself (as I still dont trust the garage to do a good job) stripped and rebuilt most everything and its now running well again all be it apart from a slight water leak that we think is a crap washer on the water pump but we will sort at the weekend.

Everything looked fine untill we got the shells out and they were a mess pitted, Scared and scrached, luckly the crankshaft was fine so the shells too all the hit. after a pain staking 3 day wait for fiat to get the new shells in they sent out the wrong ones out to the local parts department so had to wait another 2 days for the correct ones, turns out they sent the crank shells not the piston shells (5 sets vs 4) thankfully it was a quick job to put it all back together.

All I am waiting on now is for the garage I purchaed my HGT from to pay the invoice from my friends garage, fingers crossed they wont try to play silly buggers again with that.

 

[Tony123]

Glad you got everything sorted..
HGT is a lovely car

 

[davebobbins]

Its almost back to 100% still has a throttle sensor problem but that was there before anything else so will get that replaced soon. We were kinda hoping a good clean would sort it but its still not giving its full grunt (well as much as I dare till its run in) but hey that's an easy to replace