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Originally Posted by haymitch
I'm going to try some more basic stuff myself. Was thinking of giving the idle air control valve and throttle body a clean next. I think as time passes decent service at garages is going to become harder to comeby.
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You're welcome for the help past, present and future.
Getting to know your car better by doing a few tasks yourself can only be a good thing.
Going back a couple of years, i asked a garage to change the diff oil in mine, even supplied the oil and some Wynns HPLS to add to it.
I was told later they didn't change the oil as there was already oil in it!
Go figure as our USA cousins say!
Took me 2 years to get round to doing it, in between some wear has occurred and it's noisy and vibrates a lot. Going to be changing the whole axle at some point in the future!
I also have loads of "tales of woe" of damaged alloys by tyre centres using windy guns to refit wheel nuts. Now if only one wheel/tyre needs attention, i take it in separately (puncture repairs really), if it needs new tyres, valves, balancing etc, i do it myself. It often has to wait for various reasons but at least i won't be running the risk of yet more sets of wheels to be scrapped.
The alloys are only the tip of the iceberg, finding a good reliable garage that not only does what you ask but does it correctly is like finding a needle in a haystack.