hopefully this won't be costly...

[starfire039]

well they were meant to be letting me know by the end of today, the garage closes at 6. I can't take the wait any longer!

[starfire039]

update: garage called AA warrenty, who said piston slap is not covered under warrenty, despite them covering the pistons and liners. sorry, but not good enough, there is a fault with the pistons and liners, and i will have to call them myself tomomrow morning and sort things out. garage confirmed my service history is all good so no need to worry there.

i can see this getting long, boring and tiring...

[rbull51]

At least who ever diagnosed it got it right, i went to 2 so called mg-rover specialists first (one being an x-part garage)one who didnt have a clue what the rattling was,and the other one said it was normal and he didnt know of any inherrant problems with the k-series lol... i then took it to my trusted local garage and he told me straight off, exactly what was said earlier on in this thread..piston slap (pistons & liners)

[stamford]

So when will they cover it? When the piston skirt has snapped off and buggered the engine I suppose! What a bunch of imbeciles! Piston slap is due to the piston and liners being out of normal build tolerances and the bottom of the piston is slapping against the liner or bore.

[starfire039]

just spoke to them myself, they are giving me mixed facts.

They apparently told my garage that they can cover it, but will need the engine to be stripped down for diagnosis, even though the garage are 100% sure that this is the problem and have offered for an engineer to come out to confirm this.

I called them and after arguing with one person, I called up again, he said htat piston slap wasn't covered even though the previous person did. I asked to speak to a manager, who I was put through to, but the line was busy, and he said he will call me back in 24 hours. I said not good enough, if he's on a call he can call me when he's done. Called up a 3rd time and the person said he will get the boss to call me. I will wait until 5:15 (they close at 5:30) and call again and get put through to the boss.

I'm also mentioning to him that this "ordeal" is being broadcast over multiple forums, and is probably spanning a good 1000 people. So if you are Mr Craig Cartlidge, hello, and please get this resolved before it has to go any further

[peterzs]

Maybe you could get his email and we could all ask him for an update.

[afcbadam]

or Mr Craig Cartlidge, steve will see you in court very soon...... and going on experience the chances of you winning, and getting out of what you legally agreed to are around slim to none.

[starfire039]

i want a vvc engine now!