tubby-ben
Registered User
basically had my car 17 months, 15.5 of this with no breakdowns. a3 1.8t agu....
6 weeks ago took car to local mechanic as had a knocking noise, had 2 lower wish bones replaced as were really dangerous around the rubbber mounts.
a week later the bolt fell out of the arb link and caused numorous noises etc aswell as dodgy handling, got it sorted for it to fall out again.
this time my father in law looked at it and the thread was knackered so cut a new thread and new bolt in place (had a real mouthfull to mechanic and no longer talk).
so everything was running smooth until last week, car was getting stiffer to get into gear especially if opening up the throttle and trying to quick gear change, and now ive got a constant missfire from start up all the way through the revs and also the car stinks of something burnt and have also a slight and i mean slight puff of blue smoke. was driving to work 40 mph, then engine hesitated, coughed and then a loud backfire then it was missfiring. so not driven car since. just really feel like its jinxed since the mechanic looked at it. i just dont know what to do with it now, starting to get depressed with it which aint good..
6 weeks ago took car to local mechanic as had a knocking noise, had 2 lower wish bones replaced as were really dangerous around the rubbber mounts.
a week later the bolt fell out of the arb link and caused numorous noises etc aswell as dodgy handling, got it sorted for it to fall out again.
this time my father in law looked at it and the thread was knackered so cut a new thread and new bolt in place (had a real mouthfull to mechanic and no longer talk).
so everything was running smooth until last week, car was getting stiffer to get into gear especially if opening up the throttle and trying to quick gear change, and now ive got a constant missfire from start up all the way through the revs and also the car stinks of something burnt and have also a slight and i mean slight puff of blue smoke. was driving to work 40 mph, then engine hesitated, coughed and then a loud backfire then it was missfiring. so not driven car since. just really feel like its jinxed since the mechanic looked at it. i just dont know what to do with it now, starting to get depressed with it which aint good..