Returned to the fold

[torqemada]

All's well that ends well as they say. Only a week and a bit after my car going bang, it's been fixed, washed and returned.

Boy, am I a less grumpy person today than I've been for the last week . Its been noticeable that the lack of use of a ton of metal, glass, plastic, leather and rubber has had such an effect on me. Now that its back, sounding just like it did before, I'm a happier person

Just wanted to share my happiness with the world !!

[jeremyc]

Good to hear!

What was the final prognosis as to the problem?

[torqemada]

Either the garage (both the local one that did the work, and Blackpool who looked at the head) can't or won't tell me exactly, except to say that a piston and a few valves had an unplanned meeting. There were no immediately identifiable reasons for this, the pistons did have a few heat spots on them, so perhaps the mixture was running too lean, but that not a good enough reason in itself; perhaps the engine felt left out of the aural explosion, what with the de-catted-sports-exhaust-bang-crackle-crack-cacophony going on at the back, maybe it just wanted to get noticed?

[dannylt]

Have they changed anything so it won't happen again?

[MikeyT]

torqemada said:except to say that a piston and a few valves had an unplanned meeting.

I always thought that if this happened it was hello to a big bill and goodbye to the block on it's return to the seaside. Sounds like you had a narrow escape!

[torqemada]

MikeyT said:

torqemada
I always thought that if this happened it was hello to a big bill and goodbye to the block on it's return to the seaside. Sounds like you had a narrow escape!

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The car is under warranty, so no big bills, The garage tell me that the guy who worked on it locally is one of only a couple of people that the factory will let loose on the AJP, as he's ex race technician. However I would be more assured if someone could say "it's definately this..... because of this...... that caused the problem", but as no-one seems to to know, then I'll have to be happy with the fact that it was repaired as quickly as it was, for free and that at least I didn't have to poodle around in a Citroen saxo during the repair time.