Cam belt

colino

arcon5, if your still playing with windy guns from Lidl, I'm not in the least surprised your struggling, Mondeos aren't remotely in the plan b category. Then again, bouncing on scaffold bars is something for the college car park thirty odd years ago.

utopia_11

colino wrote: »

arcon5, if your still playing with windy guns from Lidl, I'm not in the least surprised your struggling, Mondeos aren't remotely in the plan b category. Then again, bouncing on scaffold bars is something for the college car park thirty odd years ago.

Are you saying even main dealer garages or specialist garages do not use scaffolding poles?

EdGasket

droopsnoot wrote: »

If it's stuck in tight enough that the bolt head broke off rather than undiong, I suspect that this is unlikely to work. Unless they did something silly like trying to tighten it by mistake.

Have you ever done this sort of job? Once the bolt head is off (broken), all torque is released and often the remaining bolt will turn easily.

Nodding_Donkey

I've had to use a piece of pipe on a breaker bar to undo wheelnuts before. The customer wasn't best pleased when I told him he needed:

A new alloy wheel (possibly 4 if the other wheels were the same)
and
New wheel studs


New brake pads ended up costing him close to £1500

He was out of pocket and we probably lost a future customer. The alternative was to let him carry on driving a car where the wheels were likely to fall off.

droopsnoot

EdGasket wrote: »

Have you ever done this sort of job? Once the bolt head is off (broken), all torque is released and often the remaining bolt will turn easily.

Yes, though not this exact thing. My point was, if the bolt resisted being turned by a spanner (and presumably breaker bar) sufficiently that head broke off rather than the bolt coming undone, that must imply that the bolt is pretty tightly held, either through corrosion or perhaps having been cross-threaded in the first place, and not just the thread pulling against the crank as intended. I would agree that if the garage had rounded the head and then cut it off, then generally the bolt would easily turn. But in order for them to have sheared the bolt head from the shank must surely imply that the far end is being held in quite firmly?

You might be right, the customer might be lucky. However if it's a reasonable garage you might think they'd have a look at whether the remains of the bolt will extract cleanly and easily before deciding they had to make "that" phone call to the customer.


ETA: I'm not saying "I am right and you are wrong" here, it's impossible to know based on what information is here.

mrmot

A similar thing happens when you remove the alloy consoles on a Polo/Fabia/Ibiza, no matter how much care you take the long securing bolts frequently snap or pull the threads out of the console when removing them.

A £10 bush could easily become a £110 console, no negligence these things happen with cars.

enfield_freddy

"bolts snapped and fell in engine or somet"




got me now?

ukmike

Is the crank bolt left or right hand thread?Have they tightened it instead of undoing it?

arcon5

colino wrote: »

arcon5, if your still playing with windy guns from Lidl, I'm not in the least surprised your struggling, Mondeos aren't remotely in the plan b category. Then again, bouncing on scaffold bars is something for the college car park thirty odd years ago.

You clearly don't or have never worked in a garage so hardly qualified to comment. Some bolts even a snap on would struggle with!

Mankysteve

enfield_freddy wrote: »

"bolts snapped and fell in engine or somet"




got me now?

It would have just fallen into the sump easyish to sort out.

To sue the garage you would have to prove to garage was negligent. Bolts l do some times rust up and sheer off. In small claims court the burden of proof us lower than that of criminal court.

No one can be really sure If the garth as been negligent without looking at the car.

si as others have said arrange for someone else to have a look