Hello.... I hope you can help me please.
I drove my car to a local garage with a suspected drive shaft problem.
The owner of the garage suspected it was a driveshaft / other joint problem and replaced a couple of components hoping to rectify the problem.
He has now rung up and advised that it was not a driveshaft problem, but is a gearbox problem and has said it will cost approx £2k to repair the new found problem.
I advised i could not afford this.
He removed the new driveshaft parts (put on to try and diagnose the unknown problem) and replaced them with the old parts as there was no problem in this area.
So the car i drove to the garage has been looked at, had a few parts replaced to try an diagnose the problem, after diagnosis these parts were replaced back to the original parts.... BUT the car is not in a driveable condition, ie it does not drive as the gearbox has failed.
The way i look at it is... i drove the car to a mechanic in good faith to repair the problem, he has not fixed the problem and now my car does not drive, when it did previously.
Can any one help as he will not give me my car back until i have paid him £200 apparant charge for his time for replacing parts that he has re-replaced with the old parts because he found a greater problem.
I drove my car to a local garage with a suspected drive shaft problem.
The owner of the garage suspected it was a driveshaft / other joint problem and replaced a couple of components hoping to rectify the problem.
He has now rung up and advised that it was not a driveshaft problem, but is a gearbox problem and has said it will cost approx £2k to repair the new found problem.
I advised i could not afford this.
He removed the new driveshaft parts (put on to try and diagnose the unknown problem) and replaced them with the old parts as there was no problem in this area.
So the car i drove to the garage has been looked at, had a few parts replaced to try an diagnose the problem, after diagnosis these parts were replaced back to the original parts.... BUT the car is not in a driveable condition, ie it does not drive as the gearbox has failed.
The way i look at it is... i drove the car to a mechanic in good faith to repair the problem, he has not fixed the problem and now my car does not drive, when it did previously.
Can any one help as he will not give me my car back until i have paid him £200 apparant charge for his time for replacing parts that he has re-replaced with the old parts because he found a greater problem.