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30th September 2010, 10:46 AM
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Make that two
'8s sitting lifeless on the drive, it's true. Although Ben as far as I'm concerned has fixed the car as it's driving okay now and pulling like a train, he found some damage when working on the engine, caused by the dimwits that put the S8 engine in. Advice is not to drive it and may be able to take something of the other engine to make one good one.
I say something a lot as don't understand the technicality of it much. Ben will give us some more of the techy details. For the time being I need to find a car to drive around in. Cheap to insure,run and realiable would be nice. Don't really care what it is as long as it has MOT and preferably under £300. Big thanks to Ben who spent his day working and trying to set up a new unit then came home and started working on my car in the freezing cold and tried to refuse to take a penny for all his hard work! Sorry to the person on this forum who was very keen in taking the car on from me and had arranged to view it!
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30th September 2010, 03:35 PM
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Is it really driving OK mate...? It bloody shouldn't be!
 What's happened is that whoever fitted the gas system secured the injection nozzles into the holes they drilled in the inlet manifold with their teeth, with small nuts bolted from the INSIDE and didn't loc-tite them - 2x nuts had come adrift and damaged inlet valves. I just feel sorry for ya matey, such rediculous bad luck! If she really is driving ok then worth doing a compression test and seeing if she'll continue but it ran pretty bad and was chuffing into the inlet manifold when u left me buddy
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30th September 2010, 03:45 PM
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I really feel for you Amar. Total bollox of a job to use nuts on the inside of an inlet manifold. Would the head off one engine fix the other?
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30th September 2010, 04:31 PM
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really sorry to hear your havin problems again amar. all i can say is if i get all six numbers on the lottery this weekend then i will give you my s8 with a full tank of v-power
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30th September 2010, 08:31 PM
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Strewth! That's a tough one, another really tough one. Sorry for your Amar
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6th October 2010, 08:07 AM
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The original S8 donor of the AQH engine had a prins LPG system fitted originally, and this was removed (professionally, by yet a different garage before a8parts got it) and must have had the original LPG injector holes plugged up (which is normal and quite ok) successfully as we drove the car on Petrol briefly before dismantling it. The engine then got shipped to bozo and co who obvously removed the sealing plugs, but i'm guessing the prins injectors must have been fatter, or a different thread to the BRC that was on the original blue A8. So we're saying at this point they then made the monumentally stupid move to loosely bolt the injectors in from the inside instead of relying on threads ? I'm no expert on engines, but surely they could have put the prins plugs back in place, then just drilled new holes and rethreaded for the BRC properly What a set of muppets.... 
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6th October 2010, 09:46 AM
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Just when I thought my luck couldn't get any worse, I was awoken by a call from Ben today to tell me the S8 was stolen from his unit at 4am last night, feel numb.
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6th October 2010, 10:08 AM
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Fortunately, its a bloody rare colour, so selling it on is going to be an easy spot, and I'm sure everyone on here will have eyes peeled....
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11th October 2010, 09:09 AM
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The insurance is atricky one here - I'm workign hard to come to some sort of conclusion.
There are set limits as to how long a car is allowed to sit dormant on site before you have to insure it separately and we've well passed that as she was dead on site for 4 months and as it was only outside as I couldn't push her on me own. I'm trying very hard with Allianz as we speak (which is hard as I don't work at AVP anymore) but AM really trying to get some sort of resolve here. I just can't belive it - the car's been sat waiting for collection for 4 months with no issue and it I had booked a recovery truck myself to move it while we were at ADI! Gutted doesn't come close! Rest assured Amar that if there's any way I can get the car covered for loss with them I will! I have put out feelers around the area as apparently 6 cars went missing in 8 hours from the area so SOMEONE must know - I have asked some very, erm, shall we say persuasive people to help find both the car and the pond life that took her!
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