Soooo, fast forward 4 months and it starts stinking of diesel in the cab, properly eye hurting, hard to breathe stinking. And the power vanished, uphill it could manage 7-10mph if it had a runup. Not that it was that quick to begin with
AA man comes out (wife insisted as it's our only car) and diagnoses a leaking injector seal, not to worry sir, you policy covers upto £500 of repairs, i'll just tow you to our nearest approved workshop. Result thinks me.
I was slightly less sure when he pulled up outside the nearest Halfords Autocentre....
Get a call three days later, "umm, we can't do it, it needs to be taken to a diesel specialist, we don't have the tools to do this job".
AA won't move it as they only do one recovery per breakdown and they wanted £49 + £2/mile as a separate job. Go forth ....
Get it to a specialist (basically anywhere that doesn't specialise in everyday servicing, naming no names...) and they spend two days getting the injectors out, turns out seized injectors on hdi engines are a regular thing and they happen to have the tool to get them out (20 tonne hydraulic puller), replacing the injector seals (turns out they were all gone not just the one the AA/Halfords spotted) and reassembling it.
£385 later and it's back on the road. Now to see if the AA will cough up as the garage did more than they initially diagnosed. Might be able to replace the MAF the Halfords monkeys broke too (didn't notice it till i was talking to the other garage so i've got no way of proving it).
This is the first car i've owned that i haven't been able to work on myself. Maintenance & repairs have always cost the parts and a gallon of coffee. Bigger jobs that needed use of a ramp or tyre machine have cost me a computer repair or similar.
I hate these modern diesels
