website worth a read!

[Barry Cade]

Great wee basic website with a lot of stuff relevant to us shiters and garage owners/mechanics. Dunno if anyone has posted before, but stumbled across it..

 

@twosmoke300

http://www.remmington.info/future.htm

[Rusty_Rocket]

A bit out of date now!  No mention of EVs, either.  A lot of it is true though.  Luckily, I only work on the (very) old stuff and only do diagnostics on our own fleet vehicles.  I don't envy you guys working on new tin nowadays.

[Barry Cade]

On 7/12/2022 at 8:05 PM, Rusty_Rocket said:

A bit out of date now!  No mention of EVs, either.  A lot of it is true though.  Luckily, I only work on the (very) old stuff and only do diagnostics on our own fleet vehicles.  I don't envy you guys working on new tin nowadays.

Very relevant to shiters though! some real gems in there... Read some of the "common faults!"

 

I quote.. "Note:  GM cars account for nearly half of the diagnostic work in our workshop!  You have been warned "

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Later 2010> VAG engines 2.0 CR engines fitted to Superb II and Transporters.  Are known now to "right themselves off" when the Aux belt tensioner fails causing the Aux belt to shred and wrap around the bottom pulley.  The problem with the repair process is.  This type of engine has a pair of fragile cams which bend and the deflection cannot be seen "by eye".  If you do not change the cams, you may get loss of power and misfires when you start up the re-built engine.  Aligning the new cams in the fragile alloy cam carrier built into the head is not for the faint hearted either.  Get it wrong and the carrier will break when you start the engine up.  Then you will need a new cylinder head.  This is not a DIY job.  The pile of parts needed to do the job will cost about £1800 without labour (14/04/2014).  FIA now sell pattern cams, which will reduce the cost (30/11/2015).  We have repaired four Superb II and six Transporter engines that have failed in our workshop to date which have failed for this fault.  So the advice is:  if you need a Aux belt tensioner, go to the dealers and buy the correct one, which has a part number for the correct engine code (differing tensions).  Don't buy a generic pattern part!"