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BORAMAN Learner Dubber

3 posts · joined Jan 2009 ·

#692519
Hello,

I didn't even know this site existed...WOW..!
I'm gonna really let it rip here so please forgive my ramblings....

I've got a 2003 BORA which I absolutely adore. V5 2.3L.
Unfortunately, I've been extremely dissappointed with a number of mechanics out there who claim to be VW specialists but who in actual fact are full of it..!!

Not mentioning any names, but I recently stopped servicing my car with a major Sydney VW dealer because of the incessant returns to the dealer to address faults that were never addressed at the start. In the meanwhile, the $$$ meter's constantly kicking over. I did this even though it also voided the extended warranty I purchased when I bought the car.

Subesquent to this, I've approached some so called specialists and have not been moved by my discussions with them, to leaving my vehicle with them for servicing.

Could someone please recommend an honest, hard-working and above all... passionate, VW mechanic that really does know his/her way around the later model VW's such as my BORA, close to the Merrylands NSW locale.
(No premadonas, please).

Thanks for your ear and apologies once again for my whinge.

greedy53 Bishop of Volkswagenism

3,062 posts · joined Mar 2006 ·

#692525
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BORAMAN Learner Dubber

3 posts · joined Jan 2009 ·

#692565
It needs it's 98,000 km service.
I've also been told the front and rear rotors are "glazed" and so will probably need changing...???
I'm hearing a noise coming from the rear wheels upon reversing and braking (probably the pads).
There's something funky happening with the suspension every time I turn right up into a slightly inclined driveway. Sound kinda squeaky.
The car's had it's lower control arm bearing replaced (or so I was told by the previous monkeys), yet this sound has now returned once again...!!

Incidentally, is it true that you can't actually tune these things, like you used to able with a good old timing gun etc...?

warb gimme some butter im on a roll.....

1,983 posts · joined May 2003 ·

#692584
I have a 01 bora and is serviced by the best... ill send you a pm..

Sandy Officially Full-On Dubber

254 posts · joined Apr 2005 ·

#692597
BORAMAN wrote:I've also been told the front and rear rotors are "glazed" and so will probably need changing...???

: Rotors can be machined unless under or close to minimum thickness.

I'm hearing a noise coming from the rear wheels upon reversing and braking (probably the pads).

: Probably 'pad walk' which is the pads moving in the callipers when applied in opposite direction to previous. In toyotas it's normal, I'd say so for vw's as well.

There's something funky happening with the suspension every time I turn right up into a slightly inclined driveway. Sound kinda squeaky.

:Terrible description! Noises like this can take a long time to track down, hence big $$$, especially if the owner is not clear on what it's doing. Would be best to take the mechanic for a drive so you can show him the noise and he knows how to reproduce it. If you can't reproduce it for him, don't expect him to be able to. Something funky?? What does that mean??? Only on a slightly inclined driveway? Hope he's got one in his workshop.


Incidentally, is it true that you can't actually tune these things, like you used to able with a good old timing gun etc...?

:Yes that's true. Hope this helps.

BORAMAN Learner Dubber

3 posts · joined Jan 2009 ·

#692602
Possibly forgot to mention that rotors may alreay be too thin as it is. Hence the need to change them.

Did you mean that pad walk is normal when the pads are spent?

"something funky" is the vernacular used by us younger folk (younger than 70).

Naturally I took the mechanics for many a test drive and even though these sounds were reproduced many times over- the solution still appearsto to have evaded them. Incidentally, by the way I was charged, I would've expected them to have an "inclined driveway" in their workshop.

I fear my earlier description may have given the impression that I know nothing about how engines work. Sure I'm no "Official Full-On Dubber" but I think I have a rough idea of how an engine works.

Thanks for trying to help, all the same.

SuperOwen Fahrvergnugen

868 posts · joined Jan 2009 ·

#692638
rotors do wear quickly on new cars, nothing unusual there. From memory VW's around that age did have an issue with the coating on the swaybar wearing away where it sits in the rubber bushes, might be worth pulling the swaybar out and checking it.