pedroofn19
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HILLCREST GARAGE I just bought a 1.6 Stilo that had just been serviced and MOTd by Hillcrest garage in St Leonards east sussex. The car was sold to me by a friend of the garage owner.
The brakes were terrible, when I tested them at the college workshop they were less than 40% braking efficiency, by law they should at least 50%.
When I stopped the car, and started it later the instrument cluster didnt work at all, nothing no speedo, no fuel or temp gauge, no rev counter etc etc.
Front light bulbs dead in one light. Split CV gaitor.
The car has a major oil leak and it could be burning oil, if it is I doubt it would have passed the emmisions test. I will check the emmissions when I go back to college next week. And the flexi pipe on the exhaust isnt even there, it has a straight bit of pipe welded in place.
Im at college doing motor mechanics year 3, Im 45 years old and I have had enough cars to know that this garage had done a very bad job on this car, even illegal I would have thought.
So just a heads up really do not use this garage unless you really want to be ripped off.
Yes I will be reporting them to trading standards.
The brakes were terrible, when I tested them at the college workshop they were less than 40% braking efficiency, by law they should at least 50%.
When I stopped the car, and started it later the instrument cluster didnt work at all, nothing no speedo, no fuel or temp gauge, no rev counter etc etc.
Front light bulbs dead in one light. Split CV gaitor.
The car has a major oil leak and it could be burning oil, if it is I doubt it would have passed the emmisions test. I will check the emmissions when I go back to college next week. And the flexi pipe on the exhaust isnt even there, it has a straight bit of pipe welded in place.
Im at college doing motor mechanics year 3, Im 45 years old and I have had enough cars to know that this garage had done a very bad job on this car, even illegal I would have thought.
So just a heads up really do not use this garage unless you really want to be ripped off.
Yes I will be reporting them to trading standards.
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