Not a Rover thing, but I just had a stand up argument (paid for the full 30 minutes) with a muckanik who I've had a problem with.
He rebuilt my van engine (Peugeot Boxer Diesel) and it lasted 80 miles before slowly coming to a halt on the M18.
After six months of him looking at it on his ramp, I lost patience and went and got it. It appears the timing belt had been shredded. His opinion, now he has been threatened with legal action, is that we allowed it to overheat and it seized, thereby shredding the timing belt? I have pointed out that if the pistons/crank had seized, there would be nothing else turning to put enough pressure on the timing belt, to strip its teeth. I asked him in a slightly mocking tone if there enough inertia in the camshaft to do it, but he still insisted that this was the cause.
Am I missing something here?
He rebuilt my van engine (Peugeot Boxer Diesel) and it lasted 80 miles before slowly coming to a halt on the M18.
After six months of him looking at it on his ramp, I lost patience and went and got it. It appears the timing belt had been shredded. His opinion, now he has been threatened with legal action, is that we allowed it to overheat and it seized, thereby shredding the timing belt? I have pointed out that if the pistons/crank had seized, there would be nothing else turning to put enough pressure on the timing belt, to strip its teeth. I asked him in a slightly mocking tone if there enough inertia in the camshaft to do it, but he still insisted that this was the cause.
Am I missing something here?