a1exander said:
JustNN said:
If i was in this boat i would pay the man.
If i quote some body and complete half the job do i not deserve half the money. Not everything in life goes smooth and the way you want it.
Gizmo invested money(in time, parts, labour and storage) so he deserves what he put in. He didnt take anyone for a ride by charging for work not done.
Put yourself in his shoes for a second and think.
Parts were paid for and half the bill was settled,as stated by Zayd and not refuted by Warren.
Part of the unpaid bill was for the work done on the gearbox which was not selecting prior to the car going in and was not selecting after the car was worked on.
I miss the point you are trying to make?
Peter, you are contradicting yourself here. You agreed with me that the issue was clutch/flywheel related via telephone at the time and on post #215 where you said and I quote: "Clutch takes very low and I was forced to switch the car off to engage gear and start. Once first has been selected the box will shift however pedal takes very low."
You even commended me on a job well done on the gearbox. We and everyone else who knows how clutches work will know that selecting gears on a clutch that is dragging (not fully disengaging) is not going to work properly as the gearbox input shaft is still rotating under power from the engine. I could have put 10 different ZF 5spd boxes in there and every single one would have done the exact same thing.
On the clutch/flywheel issue we determined that the clutch and pressure plate used was indeed the correct Sachs unit as it had the part numbers stamped into the steel. When I removed it to determine the flywheel being used I had noted that it was strangely a LUK unit who print their part number in black ink letters onto the side of the flywheel but someone had used thinners to remove the ink printed part numbers off of it so we couldn't determine what flywheel it actually was, who would do such a thing if not to cover up their tracks for installing the incorrect flywheel? If you consider the state in which the car was in with all the half-ass cheap fixes would you not think that the PO/mechanic would have opted to install the vastly cheaper 330i flywheel that is readily available at every spares shop around SA instead of the correct and hugely expensive 3.0lt M3 flywheel?
Remember when I said to you that it looks absolutely identical to the 330i flywheel? Well a quick google search shows that the 3.0lt M3 one looks way different to a 330i one...
Peter, you are a sensible man and know for a fact that I am correct here as I have done many gearbox/clutch/flywheel combinations over the years to know what is what and what works and what doesn't, you even phone me for advice on the subject from time to time...I cannot understand why you are siding with Zayd's poor actions in paying up, its like you are defending his/your own action/decision in the matter of not paying up. This leads me to think that you told Zayd not to pay me in full, like you told him to text me looking for body parts of his crashed M3, I could be way off the mark here but it sure doesn't feel like it when
you who knows better takes the side of the person in the wrong...
