Turbocabbie

What good Painters/Bodyshops and Rolling Roads do you know in the Heathrow Area... ( Not Interested in Power Engineering )

se mk3 cabbie

the only rolling road around heathrow apart from pe is redline tuning in iver i think, for good painter/panel beater ring imran at house of cars on 07958411115 ( tell him you got the number from paul)

Eagle

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good rolling road is just off them M25 / M3 junction ...

surrey rolling road
https://passionford.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=234006
all directions etc on there

Paulo P

That new rolling road is supposed to be up and running next month and that'll be in Uxbridge near Power engineering.

ballin

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next to aint it?

Paulo P

apparently It should be interesting

Turbocabbie

wow next door.. that will be interesting do you know what dyno they are going to run.

S1sam

A mate of mine has been to Surry rolling road a few times in his 205 GTi, they're pretty good aparrently.

Paulo P

Dyno Dynamics so I'm told and run by Chris Todd

Tarren

Have to agree top guys

Turbocabbie

Liking the sound of the Dyno so far however I have no idea who Chris Todd is

Versus_Creations

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Unseenmenace i would of expected you to know that amonst the rows of wisdon you have in your corridoors.

Turbocabbie

Just learnt Chris Todd used to work for Power Engineering

Wonder why he no longer works for them, im seriously curious now regarding this...

DanRSturbo

With the exception of Ian @ power's, he's the only bloke I trust with my car. Top bloke, and if it's true he'll be next door, I can re-sume my six monthly check up like @ the dentist

Turbocabbie

im not aware of Chris and as such have no opinion regarding his ability however I am exceptionally curious about why he and power engineering parted company.

Can't honestly say I have a high opinion of PE though

Diamonds.

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Out of curiosity why you not wanting to use Power's?

Iian and Chris are both spot on and the only 2 peeps i would trust with a car. no bullshit with them 2

DanRSturbo

Chris left for his own reasons, which was posted here and on the FFOC board.

Either way, the guy has a 1.9 System 2 lump, with nos, and a supercharger, in a mk1 fiesta, which he's converted to rwd, and the lump is in the boot, which run's 11 second 1/4 miles

Personally, I trust the bloke 100% with my car, and he's tuned it a fair few times

Turbocabbie

I've edited this post a number of times attempting to express an opinion without appearing critical of Power which I am unfortunately unable to do as such can only say the following regarding this.
Many years ago when they were still doing the Sprintex supercharged Sierra's I was a customer and to cut along story short received a quality of customer service and workmanship that was not acceptable to me as such I am no longer a customer

I can't really say any more without being specific which achieves nothing and only provokes conflict of opinions from people.
If anyone can speak highly of them, I am so pleased that you did not obtain an experience such as mine which may go to prove things sometimes change.

DanRSturbo

Granted, a lot of people have had bad experiances there, but, you'll get that with every tuner, people have good and bad experiances Just gotta go with what you know fella

dojj

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on the flip side, i have never had any problems with the service i recived from PE
thats not to say it doesn't exist, just that i haven't been on the reciving end of it

there are a few tuners specificly i have had where they have been more intrested in my money than helping out, but out of the 3, one was different the next time i returned

swings and roundabouts but i'll throw mervins name into the mix too, he's always sorted my motors out way back, don't know where he's gone as i ain't seen him for ages either

isn't there another one at middex performance centre? are they still about? in eastcote?

Turbocabbie

I actually live very close to PE and hear the general comments, and to be honest a lot of the real bad comments and experiences appear to come from way back such as mine... Unfortunately mud sticks to a certain extent.
Many people these days appear to be pleased with the level of service obtained and if the company has indeed changed and improved than that can only be a good thing.
A company is only as good as the staff and I would not wish for my experiences to tarnish people who did not work there at this time as they did not have the ability to do anything.
PE however had policys and management at that time which behaved in a manner that would never obtain loyalty from me.

Im happy that people have a different opinion to myself as we all work hard for the money to spend on our cars

Paulo P

Did he remove the turbo charger? I know it was supercharged and turbo charged at one point while the engine was in the front

I remember him from his old Anglia days Mind you I couldn't drive back then

DanRSturbo

AFAIk it's still got the turbo on it

Paulo P

Mental I haven't seen any photos of it with the engine in the back though