Jim Galbally

Just heard the good news. everything's back together and it's sitting there purring away now

this is with it's replacement engine/box after the last engine snapped a cam at the nurburgring.

should hopefully pick it up tomorrow then straight over to bexley motorworks for a full service and setup.

can't wait to drive her again

Porkie

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carlo

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Nice one jim

DanCossie

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Well Done Jim.

CossieRich

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Excellent news Jim. So a snapped cam was to blame then?

Turbosystems

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perhaps you should get a cosworth this bm is giving you some greif

Paul Eggleton

What did you end up going for in the end? Just a std replacement?

Jim Galbally

paul, was just a standard replacment engine from someone breaking a car

rich, the cam snapped whilst in the workshop, i think the engine would have been quite easily repairable before the thing snapped... lol

CossieRich

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So what caused the engine failure out on the ring itelf then?

Jim Galbally

something not right with the top end, fuck knows

Chip

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Nice one Jim

JonnyBravo

Glad to hear its sorted Jim

foreigneRS

RsDarren

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Great news Jim!!

Paul Eggleton

Cool. glad it's running

Slevin Kelevra

dojj

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he's as happy as a puppy

RichardPON

Cool - not too expensive to swap them over then?

Dan

Nice one mate, glad things are sorted!

Jim Galbally

PON,

well....



its worked out more expensive than it should have but shit happens i s'pose

DanCossie

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whys that matey? if ya dont mind me asking

WD Pro

Bad news about the break but good news on the fix

Which cam snapped ? Mine did the inlet and BMW told me it was unheard of ?

WD

Thrush

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I'm guessing that it's probably cos it was due to cost Łx to repair, but then the cam snapped in the shop and a new lump was needed, costing more.....

DanCossie

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thanks for clearing that up thrush

Jim Galbally

no thats not it

rather than just take the least hassle option of getting it dropped off at Bexley Motorworks and having them sort it, it went down the cheaper route...

unfortunately that turned out to cost more anyway... lol

I have paid Ł1200 for an engine+gearbox complete with all anciliaries etc. which was a pretty good price IMHO

GARETH T

glad its all running again mate

i hope your ebaying all the left over stuff?

Jim Galbally

well, that didnt exactly go to plan

got there and the first thign i notice is the dirty great scuff on the sideskirts where the ratchet straps have eben rubbing on it, well done AA for fucking damaging the car plus the car's an absolute oily/dirty mess i know its' gonna be a fucking ballache to make a claim off the AA too

then the guy tells me it won't start

hang around for half hour whilst he pulls the plugs out and finally it fires up, so off i go and limp it back misfiring its tits off to Bexley motorworks. they have it now and can hopefully sort everything out and get it up and running properly again.

so, not been in the best of moods today really

Fil

bugger then, again, hope its something silly like a sensor out of line etc, and it gets sorted !

RS_Ant

Jim Galbally

judging by the state of the plugs etc. it'll need a service minimum to get it running nice. all the sensors on my old engine are good if it turns out any are a bit manky anyway.

spose thats what you get with engines that have been sat a long time.

Slevin Kelevra

im sure you will get to the bottom of it mate.

Idiots @ AA, same as most places really, have no regard whatsoever for other peoples pride and joy.

RWD_cossie_wil

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To be fair, the AA are quite good really, Jim, if you have any hassles claiming off them drop me a PM, my dad is a regional manager dealing with recovery firms etc, not in your area unfortunatly but might be able to pull some strings should you run into trouble. Take some photos with todays paper in ASAP, and make sure you inform them ASAP that the damage has occured, and they are quite reasonable about sorting stuff like this out. Was it actually the AA or a contractor that recovered the car?

Jim Galbally

i dont know who did it, it was a total fuckup by them when the dropped it there.

they did not inform the person expecting the car about it beofre they showed up, so the bloke in a unit next to him signed for it. all of this happened without the permission/knowledge of me or of my delegate

RWD_cossie_wil

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get straight onto the AA mate, as in now! They will be more than helpful

Jim Galbally

i rang the woman earlier she said she'll send me a claims form for the travel expenses earlier and to send that back along with a letter about the damage etc.