Afternoon

I had a flat tyre not long ago and there was a no franchise tyre fitting
place not far away and managed to get the car there. He jack it up on what
he called the subframe but aparantly from just having it serviced at VW they
said under it is my fuel lines. He has caused it to cave in a little but not
break it.

This is on my MK4 golf 2003. The bit he's caved in is a long recangular box
type shape.

The cars in good condition and going for its MOT next week and was wondering
what I should do about this.

It was the VW people that brought it to my attention to say it wasn't them,
and its where the guy jacked up on, there was a weird noise when which I
thought was just the sound of the car going up.

So just wondering if anyone knows if this is a MOT fail and what sort of
money it will cost to repair.

Thanks

"Petesmad" <pete (AT) here (DOT) com> wrote

That would be impossible to tell without seeing the damage. In all
probability it will not cause an MoT fail, BUT........

Mrcheerful

"Petesmad" <pete (AT) here (DOT) com> wrote

Get them to pay for a repair of it. A decent repair!

"graydoe" <graydoe (AT) privacy (DOT) net> wrote

Afternoon
Exactly, and if they get stroppy remember quite a few Motor Insurance
Policies and Home Insurance policies have Legal "Cover" so It won't cost you
a penny

On Wed, 09 May 2007 13:41:47 +0100, Tommy <Tomy (AT) emall (DOT) co.uk> wrote:


They probably don't have a convenient time machine so that you can prove
it was them though.

"graydoe" <graydoe (AT) privacy (DOT) net> wrote

The won't pay a penny. I contacted them when VW told me and they more or
less said tough.

Petesmad <pete (AT) here (DOT) com> wrote:

Is it a TDI?

If so, that sounds like the 'diesel cooler' (it cools the excess diesel
returned from the engine bay before it gets dumped back in the tank).

Unless it's leaking, it shouldn't cause you any problems.

I ripped mine off going through a waterlogged road ;-)
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On 9 May, 18:33, s... (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk (SteveH) wrote:
Hi, yeah steves right sounds like the diesel cooler but if its bent
and not broke then it should pass an MOT no problem as it does not
constitute as a mechanical failure hope this helps Clive ..