front drive shaft oil seals....

Had the P38 in for MOT, failed on O/S/F CV boot and a rear brake line corroded. fine i thought, got a quote for the garage to do the work, all in including the MOT £100....
I'm busy doing stuff at home so i opted for them to do the work.....MASSIVE MISTAKE...

got the car back the following day, everything seemed fine, i have a company car so the rangie only gets to go out now and then. After a few days i noticed a strong smell of gearbox oil where the rangie is on the drive... had a quick look and there is a pool of oil all around the wheel and drive....by this time the car had only done around 10 miles since the MOT, took it back to the garage (1/2 mile round the corner in the village i live in)

showed them the problem and was greeted with..."we didn't touch that"....

to cut a long story short... i took the car to (where i should of gone in the first place) to a landy specialist in the next village... they have looked at it and said the other garage had no idea what they were doing when trying to replace the CV boot.... they had loosened the drive shaft alignment bolts which should not be done unless you have right main dealer alignment tool.....i fact they had loosened the lock nut, moved the alignment bolt and never re tightened the lock nut.....!!! now because the drive shaft was and probably still out of line the O/S oil seal is leaking like a leaking thing....

so now i'm stuck with a car with leaking oil seals as the landy specialist unfortunately don't have the alignment tool to do the job and also they have said whoever did the MOT missed lots of other defects in the front axle which would of failed an MOT if they had done it.......gutted.....

so...repair the front axle of all the defects found if i can get the alignment tool..., find a good second hand unit complete, or.... i dunno.....

at the moment I've not done anything and am waiting to go back to the original garage as the owner is on holiday....:boxing:

hindsight is a wonderful thing....

Get a written report on the problem from the landy specialist then hit the garage that fecked it up, if they cannot rectify what they did, inform them that you will get a dealer to rectify it at their cost.

No need to remove steering ball joints to change CV boot. But as for their "We did not touch that". How did they change the boot without removing the drive shaft? You can knacker a new seal putting the drive shaft back in if you are not careful.

As far as I can see and know you dont need to touch the alignment of the hub carrier you pop the hub out and slide the whole driveshaft out change the boot and re assemble.

As the others have said get a written report and ask them to rectify it or go to trading standards.

Im suprised they got the ball joint alignment bolts and collet to undo the ones ive done ive always found them seized!!!!!

I've already got a short report on what was found...and i will be buggered if i let them near this or any other car of mine again....

As for the CV boot, because they couldn't or should i say didn't know how to get the drive shaft out...(I've done this myself at home on the drive being guided by the very excellent guides on this site......!) they "glued" the split in the boot together which obviously last a nano second....

I've not really got the money to take to the main stealer's and try and get the money back from cowboy garage.... and even the landy specialists are saying it gonna be better off getting a good second hand front axle.....

for the record.... the people that have buggered this up are "charlies service station" in Terrington St Clements, Norfolk...not that anyone will cross their paths....hopefully...

and the landy boys are CDR services in Tilney St Lawrence, Kings Lynn,Norfolk
who have been really good....

i could try and do this myself but the problem i have at the moment is that i don't know where to hire/loan/beg/borrow/steal the hub alignment tool from....?

So they charged you to feck the axle up and glue the boot did they tell you they glued it or replaced it I would go trading standards!!!! I would suggest you ask kings lynn main dealer they may lend you the tool for a deposit thats if they have one as most get lost or broken and not replaced as the cars are not seen at the dealer nowadays