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[Lazydocker]

True, but he can demand his money back if they can't put it right Trading standards if needs be As soon as you touch it they get a free escape pass

[JamesV6CDX]

If it's been mis-timed would it be driving OK? They also changed the front suspension and bushes. I reckon that doesn't have anything to do with engine light. My car is not SORN and I park it on the road and I'll do the pedal trick tomorrow morning and post it in here.

You mis understand..

I was implying that the car I am working on tomorrow is SORN and therefore not on the road.... and therfore if you were stuck, I may be able to re arrange my commitment to help you, at the discretion of the chap in question...

Oh sorry mate, my bad. But I reckon you are Gloucestershire, aren't you? I'm in Bedford (MK42). LD's point very valid and I'm going to have a chat with the garage guy tomorrow and lest see what he says.

No worries mate... but when you speak to them, actually make sure they have the correct locking and setting kit for this engine.

Don't let them fob you off that they have a generic cam lock set.. it's not enough for this engine, a specific kit is needed... you could even probe a few questions to see if they know how to use it..

Good luck, you know where we are 

[martin42]

I'm in Bedford today,can chuck my car tools in the car and have a look to see if anything isn't connected up properly,drop me a pm if you want me to have a look 

[Kevin Wood]

Much as the offers of help are noble, in the OP's boots, I would let the garage sort out their own problem at this stage. We could be taking about a weekend's work and significant expense taking the heads off and replacing bent valves. If I were the OP I wouldn't be giving the garage an opportunity to shirk this.

If there's concern, the car can always be given a once-over once the garage have sorted out the mistake they have made.

[albitz]

Cant be a bad idea for a local member to have a quick look,just to check wire isnt trapped under camcover or multi rams have been plugged in.

[noel]

Cant be a bad idea for a local member to have a quick look,just to check wire isnt trapped under camcover or multi rams have been plugged in.

At least if a problem is spotted it can be pointed out to op,and then he can advise garage as to a possible cause,without anyone else actually repairing possible error

[SalahJ]

Thanks a lot everybody for being so helpful. I also dropped a PM to Martin. Now I'm going out to get the error codes.

[SalahJ]

Error codes -

10 1 1 10 = 11
10 1 10 = 1
10 3 10 = 3

That's what I found from the car.

[martin42]

Miss fire on 3 and 5 ,showing fault for maf,took it for a run and seems fine,but whilst sitting on idle you can feel the missfire 

[SalahJ]

Thanks a lot to Martin for his time. I'm gonna take it back to garage hopefully on Tuesday.

[Elite Pete]

The garage will probably not want to know. They will probably say it was fine when it left them

[jonathanh]

just check to see if the MAF has been plugged in properly.  if that's not plugged in then air metering will not be right and cause be helping to cause a misfire

was the garage VX or indep?

[martin42]

already checked maf was connected properly and it was 

[Lazydocker]

The garage will probably not want to know. They will probably say it was fine when it left them

Especially if the OP lets on that someone else has looked at it now

I hope I'm wrong but the cynic in me thinks they have just been handed a "Get out of jail free" card by someone else looking at it

[martin42]

never took anything apart.just looked to make sure all vac hoses were connected and made sure connector was pushed firmly in place on the maf,and took it for a test drive,checked fault codes,nothing was else WAS TOUCHED only looked at