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    • Hello,

      On 15/1/24 booked appointment with Big Motoring World (BMW) to view a mini on 17/1/24 at 8pm at their Enfield dealership.  

      Car was dirty and test drive was two circuits of roundabout on entry to the showroom.  Was p/x my car and rushed by sales exec and a manager into buying the mini and a 3yr warranty that night, sale all wrapped up by 10pm.  They strongly advised me taking warranty out on car that age (2017) and confirmed it was honoured at over 500 UK registered garages.

      The next day, 18/1/24 noticed amber engine warning light on dashboard , immediately phoned BMW aftercare team to ask for it to be investigated asap at nearest garage to me. After 15 mins on hold was told only their 5 service centres across the UK can deal with car issues with earliest date for inspection in March ! Said I’m not happy with that given what sales team advised or driving car. Told an amber warning light only advisory so to drive with caution and call back when light goes red.

      I’m not happy to do this, drive the car or with the after care experience (a sign of further stresses to come) so want a refund and to return the car asap.

      Please can you advise what I need to do today to get this done. 
       

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    • We have finally managed to obtain the transcript of this case.

      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
      This is generally speaking the problem with using PackLink who are domiciled in Spain and very conveniently out of reach of the British justice system.

      Frankly I don't think that is any accident.

      One of the points that the judge made was that the customers contract with the broker specifically refers to the courier – and it is clear that the courier knows that they are acting for a third party. There is no need to name the third party. They just have to be recognisably part of a class of person – such as a sender or a recipient of the parcel.

      Please note that a recent case against UPS failed on exactly the same issue with the judge held that the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 did not apply.

      We will be getting that transcript very soon. We will look at it and we will understand how the judge made such catastrophic mistakes. It was a very poor judgement.
      We will be recommending that people do include this adverse judgement in their bundle so that when they go to county court the judge will see both sides and see the arguments against this adverse judgement.
      Also, we will be to demonstrate to the judge that we are fair-minded and that we don't mind bringing everything to the attention of the judge even if it is against our own interests.
      This is good ethical practice.

      It would be very nice if the parcel delivery companies – including EVRi – practised this kind of thing as well.

       

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OK, before I take my car to the garage tomorrow to find out what's wrong with it - can any of you experienced mechanically minded caggers offer any advice.

 

The problem is my car is "shuddering" when idle. It didn't want to start this morning (first time it's ever done that in 8 years!). It's not the battery as it's turning over OK, just feels like it won't "catch". It eventually did start later this afternoon but as I say it "shudders" when idle.

 

It's a Rover 420i by the way:oops:

 

Exhaust sounds a bit throaty too......

 

Thanks

 

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Exhaust sounds a bit throaty too......

That could be your problem. If you have a split exhaust pipe or damaged silencer it will upset the fuel/air mixture. That will cause all sorts of rough-running problems.

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Thanks Rooster - I was panicking in case it was some hugely expensive engine problem....

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it will be the idle control valve

 

very easy to do

 

just get a can of carb cleaner from halfords and give it a spray

 

info on how will be on the net

 

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Hi there, it's petrol and there's a lot of "steam" from the exhaust first thing in the morning especially when it's cold....

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steam coming from an exhaust when it's cold isn't anything to nessicarily worry about. However it being a rover K-series I was wondering if we were possibly looking at the old rover head gasket issue. A possible indication of this would be excessive water coming from the exhaust. It might be worth checking the coolant and dipstick for signs of mayonesse but from the sounds of things I think the previous poster could be correct in thinking it's just a split/blowing exhaust.

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It just sounds like it's going to stall. Having just gone out and started it again - the exhaust definitely sounds rough - when I have the door open and the engine running (well, staggering lol) there's a lot of "rumble" from underneath - sort of in the middle..... (forgive the descriptions, just remember I'm female and don't have the male mechanical vocabulary:))

 

I had the cylinder head replaced 4 years ago - one of the coolant hoses was split and it got overheated. Also the first (original) cylinder head was replaced under Rover warranty as it was faulty, so this is the 3rd one!

I'm absolutely paranoid when anything seems wrong with the car as the above replacement CH cost me an arm and a leg!

 

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If rover replaced the orignal head then they would almost certainly replaced it with one post fix. Lets just hope that when it was then replaced the 2nd time hopefully it'll have been replaced again with a post fix head.

 

Back to the problem at hand... it's sounding more and more like a split/blowing exhaust. Pure speculation here but if a central exhaust mounting rubber has failed and the exhaust is now sagging it's quite possible the seal where the exhaust joins is now split/blowing. Should be a cheap fix.

 

Keep us updated and I'm interested now.

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It might be worth checking the coolant and dipstick for signs of mayonesse

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If the head gasket is faulty and allows the engine coolant to leak into the engine oil. This forms an emulsion that looks like mayonaise or salad cream which you will see on the dipstick.

 

 

 

It doesn't taste like it, so keep it off your salad.

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To clarify.....

If the head gasket is faulty and allows the engine coolant to leak into the engine oil. This forms an emulsion that looks like mayonaise or salad cream which you will see on the dipstick.

 

 

Right, I'll go and have a look....

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OK, nothing but oil on the dipstick :)

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OK, nothing but oil on the dipstick :)

In that case, it's not likely to be cylinder head.

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Thanks, I'll take it to have the exhaust checked tomorrow (if it gets me to work that is lol).

 

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Keep us posted.

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Will do :)

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Let me poke my nose in as you have always been good to me, (that's got them guessing).

 

Rough running can be caused by a few things, as mentioned the exhaust if leaking can do it as there is a certain amount of backpressure required and that is build in. This is why some boy racers who put on their big bore exhausts without getting one that is matched to their car think the noise means they are going faster, but will find the acceleration is not as good as it was.

 

Because there is no water showing on the dipstick doesn't mean there is no problem with the head gasket.

 

There are a few other things it could be, but get the exhaust done first as that obviously needs doing, and see how it is then.

 

Unless the mech can show positively another problem, (it might be isn't good enough), listen to him but don't get it done until you've come back to us.

 

Are you due a service ? Remember that can come with time as well as mileage.

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mechanics is like medicine - if someone comes to me with a heavy nose bleed and a low blood pressure I kind of figure that the nose bleed is the reason and treat that first - If we stop the nose bleed and the pressure stays low then we look elsewhere.

 

Fix the exhaust and see if that cures the problem.

 

There is nothing worse than worrying about problems that may never be :)

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Update - car started this morning with a lot of rumbling underneath. Was very sluggish driving at first (thought it was going to stall), then... it gave a sort of loud cough and bang from underneath and then decided to run ok???? exhaust still a little noisy, but nowhere near as bad as it was....

 

Garage can't look at it until tomorrow, so I'll see how it is later today

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It looks like you have damp spark plug leads. Spray WD40 on all of the plug leads and around the distributor cap area, see if that helps.

 

The leads are probably quite old and are breaking down around the insulation causing the mis firing by the look of things.

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Is it expensive to replace those leads UK?

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About £15 a set, but use WD40 first to see if that does the trick, then you will know it is the leads..

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OK thanks UK :) I'll do that in my lunch hour.....

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