glad you enjoyed your afternoon Stuart...I have to say that my experience with a well known Porsche specialist was far more costly. The list of mistakes, bad workmanship and I believe dodgy practice over the couple of years that I used them adds up to a lot....first experience was a 'pedal to the floor' clutch pedal....they picked the car up and told me the clutch had failed....today knowing much more about the car I would be looking at a fluid leak more than a failed clutch. I'll give them the benefit of doubt on this but when I got the car back they had broken a sensor for which they charged me full price but worse still they advised that the rear main seal was leaking....this after putting the car back together? who the hell operates like that? There are of course all the other failings, destroying my turbo by not drilling open the plastic elbow for the water to get through and cool the turbo when fitting a new water pump. At the same time, the car had gone in for new belts, rollers, all new front seals as it had an oil leak....car was delivered back to me at Pinewood studios as I was flat out on a film. Go to car at end of day to find not only an oil leak but also a coolant leak and steering fluid leak, they had clearly forced the items to one side to get at the engine. This cost me a new radiator and a repair on the steering pump hose. The damage was first checked by my son on his ramp at work over the weekend...I phoned the specialist from my son's garage as I knew they were open Saturday's and got the manager to pop down, the two premise's are within a mile of each other. He agreed to take the car back in on Monday to fix, my son popped in unannounced to see who was working on the car and how things were going. They had a young lad doing the work, this after all the problems was a joke and showed how much they really cared, my son asked the guy who was working on the car what he'd done so far and then checked the related bolts, some of which he could undo by hand?...that was the final straw and the car hasn't been near a so called specialist since. I might add that this specialist was often found in the pages of Post Post, one of the reasons why I went to them in the first place being a member at the time. The car was very new to me back then, I doubt any Porsche specialist or Porsche tech today knows more about the car than I do now, what i don't know I just let my son sort out....
Pete
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