******* Dealers

"It's day 12 in the big brother house........and Tim has his car back ..."

I went up to Bedlington to collect the car last night, got there about 5:45, they close at 6, and guess what?  Yep, no car!!!!!  But it was on it's way from the workshop, all ok!

At 6, it arrived, with nice big, new, Black Diamond discs on the front.  The man from the workshop confirmed that everything was in full working order!

The car was dirty, especially the wheels, but then I guess that's a by-product of new discs/pads, and the fact it only arrived back from the workshop at that time, so no time to give it a clean.  I was going to go and get it cleaned today, but I think i'll give it a couple of days more brake dust and do it at the weekend.

I drove the car home all ok.

I have driven into work this morning.  All ok.  The brakes seem to be bedding in as they were biting better this morning than they were last night.

No judder.  And so far, no strange noises.

So, fingers crossed.  Finally all ok.

It took some, but at least it is sorted now, at no cost to me. 

So, I am evicting myself from the big brother house.

Given everything else that seems to have gone on in the forum, I do hope somebody organises a run soon, I have new brakes that need corners to play with!!!! 

"It's day 11 in the big brother house.........and Tim is about to go and get his car!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The discs are on.  The car has been road tested.  And all is OK.  However, they can't get it to me, so I am going up there to pick it up.

I'll give an update, and verdict on the new discs later.

".....I wonder if they've washed the car for me.....?"

We're waiting to hear the outcome....

It's 1 a.m. and I've just had a drunken thought.Why didn't Bedlington just fit OEM discs instead of all this poop about having to fit upgraded stuff that was BMW but then wasn't BMW upgraded dics.You would've had your car back by now.Had black diamonds on the rear of my 306GTi6 and they only lasted 12 months/about 9k miles.


Edited by micky_h

I can remember an R5 jaunt in a mag years ago,lots of tuners going up to Scotland,their R5 broke down and was the only car to do so.

Was the bloke wearing glassed? Believe it or not they both do the mechanical stuff.Just he was wanting to port my the head on my Honda.Took them a week to find out the blew my car up so I thought better of it.Plus Springfeild wouldn't supply them the parts I needed,had to go get them myself.

Sorry for pinching your thread E46ACS

Yup

Pull tricks like sticking in screws to block off fuel return pipes then tell you they've increased the fuelling pressure.
Cocked up my Unichip installation on my Honda Vti.Wanted it fitted because they told me that the unit could lower the change over point of the cam.Not only did they not do this they incorrectly installed it,altered settings which they shouldn't have (which blew 2 ignition amps and coils.Second time I took it to R&P who sorted the car and fitted a Unichip to the 306GTi,for free, which I had bought.They recovered their cost from DASTEK.)Plus the Honda came out slower than it went in.Apparently they reverted it back to standard power but altered part throttle settings which made it 'feel' perkier but blew the amps and coils.Mine wasn't the first car that R&P have had to sort either that had been to PACS
Rant Over

R&P have chipped 5 of my cars and I've never had 1 go wrong in any way shape or form.They know how to use their rollers and you get a before and after plot of the BHP,unlike the Cowboys who did the Honda (an ex butcher and window salesman from what I've heard).AA,Trading Standards amongst others have been in.

If you want your car chipped,The Bear,R&P do Superchips and the Unichip piggyback ECU.The only other place I've heard highly recommened for that is in York.Alwyn Kershaw if memory serves.

There probably others more local that the other lads and lasses on here will recommend

Got to admit I've never had any problems with them.Did a good job sorting my Honda out after some other garage had broken it.They have a couple of newish mechanics in now too so you might find things a bit different.

BTW I noticed you nearish Durham so if anyone recommends Turbo PACS please shoot them.

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R and P Woods in Heaton 2810748 (I'm a allowed to post phone numbers?) I won't let anyone else touch my car.

"Day 8 in the big brother house.....and Tim has still not got his car back!"

The discs will not be arriving until Monday.  So that's another weekend without the car.  Not too big an issue this weekend, so not the end of the world.

Thanks for the various bits of advice above.  I have spoken to the garage and they will be investigating the source of the noise, although with no discs/wheels on the car, a little difficult to road test!

Apart from it always being me doing the phoning, the guys at Beddlington have been pretty good.  They are trying to get it sorted, and obviuosly, if it just had standard discs, it would have done & dusted weeks ago.

However, when I do get the car back, I would like to get it checked over, and establish exactly what is on there, brakes/suspnsion/etc. So that I know for future reference.

Does anyone know of a decent mechanic/garage/BMW specialist who would know what they are dealing with, and would give honest, impartial advice?  Ideally in the Newcastle/Durham area.

"Day 7 in the big brother house......and Tim still has not got his car back"

Discs have still not turned up.  The story now...... is that they are NOT BMW upgraded discs, but an aftermarket upgrade. So, they have ordered discs from Revolution in Gateshead.  I have spoken to them myself, and a set of Black Diamond discs were ordered last Friday (the 13th!). Black Diamond have finished making them (??) today, and they will not be with Revolution until Monday!