After a long saga with my BX Estate I now have it back.
The story goes a little something like this:
Last July I took the Auto box out of the car and had it reconditioned by a reputable company.
Put it back in the car and filled it as per their instructions and not 5 mins up the road lost drive completely.
They paid to have it towed to them and they did something and gave it back a few days later. It was not very satisfactory. Hard shifts and no reverse when it was hot.
I got fed up and left it for a while, driving it and pushing it when I had to reverse!
Took it back this June and had them work on it. I got the car back last Friday!
They had it for 2 months and when I picked it up it drove like never before. Beautiful.
When I got it home i turned it off and heard a crunch sound. Started the car and another crunch while the starter cranked.
On Saturday I thought that I would investigate.
I put the car up on ramps and took off the flywheel cover.
I nearly threw up all over myself lying under the car.
They had broken all three corners off the drive plate and sheared the heads off the bolts!
For those of you who are unaware of what the drive plate is, it's the triangular thing on this picture.
Here are the photos of the broken plate still in the car.
You can see the edges of the triangular plate that are broken. May take a second to familiarise yourself.
They tried to arc weld it (which was Sh!te)
NOT HAPPY EH?
