29-10-2017, 05:35 PM
No probs tommie if you've any questions dont hesitate and ill try and answer the best i can.
I left off mid september with the updates and by that point I had two ticking cv's (guess they didnt appreciate the extra power after 20 years and 150k) Now what I shoud've done is order two new shaftec joints and refurbed the outer ends of my original peugeot shafts, but as time was short i got online and ordered two "new" shafts from JandRcvjoints.
Now before I have my mini rant I want you to know I dont usually slag anyone or a company off online but I received such a poor product and even worse customer service I feel compelled to worn folk about these guys so here it is.
Their shafts are so p**s poor that they failed before the car had got to the end of my driveway, I rang them on multiple occasions and even had frav (owns my local MOT station and a good friend of the family) and the best response we got after been kind, cautious and understanding was
" We as a multi million pound company dont take threats laying down, and what qualifications do YOU even posses to even think YOU have the knowledge and the skill to fit something as crutial as a driveshaft"
None of the people involved ever made any threats of anything but felt compelled after that email I recieved, we even went as far as to send the shafts to northern road to be inspected and recieved a report on them, when i collected them the engineer who looked at them said something along the lines of "Lad youve been had, these are as much use as a chocolate tea pot"
Annoyed wasnt the word but its a public forum so i cant use the other one
Anywho Rant over, lesson learned and so far my williness to share this with friends/colleges/etc has saved a few people quite a headache and i hope it carrys on doing so.
While all this was blowing out of proportion my Mum decided to buy two shaftec joints behind my back ( thank god, as i wasnt thinking straight at the time) so i refurbed the outer joints and refitted my original shafts
Ignore the box, i just used them to store my old shafts when i fitted the "new" ones
To cheer myself up after this whateveryouwanttocallit I painted the pad carriers of the spare calipers ready to fit to my car once i aquire some mintex pads
This brings me nearly up to date, two weeks ago I made a run to my local scrappy as i got word of a xsara in and i had first dibs
It yieled
4x 15" steels with 6mm tyres (albeit cheap ones, Three A i believe)
1x xsara beam with 0 additional camber
and then a chap brought an Fto in so i grabbed these before anyone else could
This leaves me with a problem, which seats to use as ive got the mr2 ones still?
On a last thought, what do you all think to painting the steels white? theyll only be winter wheels/spares so i dont have to run the SMR's thought all the rubbish weather
I left off mid september with the updates and by that point I had two ticking cv's (guess they didnt appreciate the extra power after 20 years and 150k) Now what I shoud've done is order two new shaftec joints and refurbed the outer ends of my original peugeot shafts, but as time was short i got online and ordered two "new" shafts from JandRcvjoints.
Now before I have my mini rant I want you to know I dont usually slag anyone or a company off online but I received such a poor product and even worse customer service I feel compelled to worn folk about these guys so here it is.
Their shafts are so p**s poor that they failed before the car had got to the end of my driveway, I rang them on multiple occasions and even had frav (owns my local MOT station and a good friend of the family) and the best response we got after been kind, cautious and understanding was
" We as a multi million pound company dont take threats laying down, and what qualifications do YOU even posses to even think YOU have the knowledge and the skill to fit something as crutial as a driveshaft"
None of the people involved ever made any threats of anything but felt compelled after that email I recieved, we even went as far as to send the shafts to northern road to be inspected and recieved a report on them, when i collected them the engineer who looked at them said something along the lines of "Lad youve been had, these are as much use as a chocolate tea pot"
Annoyed wasnt the word but its a public forum so i cant use the other one
Anywho Rant over, lesson learned and so far my williness to share this with friends/colleges/etc has saved a few people quite a headache and i hope it carrys on doing so.
While all this was blowing out of proportion my Mum decided to buy two shaftec joints behind my back ( thank god, as i wasnt thinking straight at the time) so i refurbed the outer joints and refitted my original shafts
Ignore the box, i just used them to store my old shafts when i fitted the "new" ones
To cheer myself up after this whateveryouwanttocallit I painted the pad carriers of the spare calipers ready to fit to my car once i aquire some mintex pads
This brings me nearly up to date, two weeks ago I made a run to my local scrappy as i got word of a xsara in and i had first dibs
It yieled
4x 15" steels with 6mm tyres (albeit cheap ones, Three A i believe)
1x xsara beam with 0 additional camber
and then a chap brought an Fto in so i grabbed these before anyone else could
This leaves me with a problem, which seats to use as ive got the mr2 ones still?
On a last thought, what do you all think to painting the steels white? theyll only be winter wheels/spares so i dont have to run the SMR's thought all the rubbish weather