ned
|
| posted on 12/9/05 at 09:39 AM |
|
|
delivery/collection of new parts - nightmare!
i need a new catalytic converter as my everyday car failed its mot on emissions.
German Swedish and French seem to have the best price, so I thought I'd ask them about delivery if I'm not in.
They don't recommend delivery to an address where no one is in as their couriers aren't very reliable about having items collected from
their depot (my preference) as they sometimes get returned direct to sender or go missing for a while!
I work in central london, so can't get to a branch in the week and can't really get an exhaust delivered to a work address and get it home
on a train with a 2 mile walk at the other end.
I can't pay over the phone and get someone else to collect as they can't do that.
I can't give someone else the money either as it needs to go on a credit card this month 
I don't know anyone nearby who would be in that i could get it delivered too.
I had the mot on saturday and have 2 weeks free retest, but was hoping to get the bits in the week and go early at 7.30am next saturday to the mot
place as I'm meant to be out the next two weekends and the mot place is only open saturday mornings.
Is it just me or does anyone else find themself in a similar predicament for getting hold of bits?
Oh and I have no holiday left until the end of the month (runs with the academic year) so can't have a day off to go and do it.
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
|
|
|
|
|
Stuart Ainslie
|
| posted on 12/9/05 at 11:08 AM |
|
|
Have you tried Eurocarparts?
Have known to be cheaper than GSF and do deliver....
|
|
|
rayward
|
| posted on 12/9/05 at 11:14 AM |
|
|
you could take cash out on your credit card and get someone else to get it for you, i know they charge, but its an easy way out.
Ray
|
|
|
Peteff
|
| posted on 12/9/05 at 12:05 PM |
|
|
Get down to the exhaust centre on Saturday and stop being tight  . My wife drives for a parts supplier so I get a discount and there are 2 within
walking distance of my front door. I can see the first one from the window. Sorry to rub it in Ned.
[Edited on 12/9/05 by Peteff]
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
|
|
|
ned
|
| posted on 12/9/05 at 01:34 PM |
|
|
can't get cash out on the credit card as it'd take them a few days to get a pin number out to me.
I can't go first thing saturday to buy the cat as they don't open til 8.30, by the time i get home and fit the thing and get to the mot
place it'll be mid-late morning, they'll have a queue for mot by then, unlikley I'll get seen and i'm meant to be somewhere
else anyway
beware, I've got yellow skin
|
|
|
James
|
| posted on 12/9/05 at 03:18 PM |
|
|
You tried Partco? 1/2 way between station and your place?
Camberley Auto Factors is open late. Or atleast, the Camberley branch is. Find out when the Merrow branch is open until. You might be able to get
there after work.
else,
Bunk the day off.
Cheers,
James
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
- Muhammad Ali
|
|
|
dave1888
|
| posted on 12/9/05 at 04:26 PM |
|
|
Just buy a new car problem solved
|
|
|
stevebubs
|
| posted on 12/9/05 at 05:48 PM |
|
|
quote:
Originally posted by ned
i need a new catalytic converter as my everyday car failed its mot on emissions.
German Swedish and French seem to have the best price, so I thought I'd ask them about delivery if I'm not in.
They don't recommend delivery to an address where no one is in as their couriers aren't very reliable about having items collected from
their depot (my preference) as they sometimes get returned direct to sender or go missing for a while!
I work in central london, so can't get to a branch in the week and can't really get an exhaust delivered to a work address and get it home
on a train with a 2 mile walk at the other end.
I can't pay over the phone and get someone else to collect as they can't do that.
I can't give someone else the money either as it needs to go on a credit card this month
I don't know anyone nearby who would be in that i could get it delivered too.
I had the mot on saturday and have 2 weeks free retest, but was hoping to get the bits in the week and go early at 7.30am next saturday to the mot
place as I'm meant to be out the next two weekends and the mot place is only open saturday mornings.
Is it just me or does anyone else find themself in a similar predicament for getting hold of bits?
Oh and I have no holiday left until the end of the month (runs with the academic year) so can't have a day off to go and do it.
Ned.
If you pay in advance, I can pick it up from the Reading branch for you most days and you can collect it any evening.
Alternatively, I'm most likely going to the Sylva meet in Liphook this Thurs so can take it down there....
|
|
|
stevebubs
|
| posted on 12/9/05 at 05:49 PM |
|
|
Doh! just read that you can't get anyone else to collect. You could get it posted to my address if you need to - the other half is in pretty
much all the time (U2U / mail me for details)
Stephen
PS Reading Branches of Eurocarparts and PartCo are also really close to the office, and Reading branch of Camberley Autofactors is round the corner
from my house 
[Edited on 12/9/05 by stevebubs]
|
|
|
sebastiaan
|
 posted on 12/9/05 at 06:15 PM |
|
|
Did it fail miserably?????
Ned,
If your car failed, but not by a lot, you could try heating the catalyst up by removing one of the spark plug wires, and running the engine at a nice
3000RPM for a while. This sometimes "cleans" the catalytic material enough to pass the MOT. Mind you, if its a goner all together, you
won't be able to "fix" (ahem...) it.
O, and make sure your car doesn't catch fire also.
Could you post the values you got as well as the limits?
|
|
|
ned
|
| posted on 12/9/05 at 08:19 PM |
|
|
failed by quite a bit. i think its the original cat and has done a fair few miles. also there was a crack in the manifold that i welded up that had
caused the engine light to come on, prob an air leak messing up the lambda reading, so quite likely the engine would have been fueling quite rich to
compensate, this knackers cats i'm told.
stephen, you have u2u!!
Ned.
[Edited on 12/9/05 by ned]
beware, I've got yellow skin
|
|
|
stevebubs
|
| posted on 12/9/05 at 08:25 PM |
|
|
and replied!
|
|
|
Simon
|
| posted on 13/9/05 at 11:29 PM |
|
|
quote:
Originally posted by ned
Oh and I have no holiday left until the end of the month (runs with the academic year) so can't have a day off to go and do it.
Ned.
Sicky
ATB
Simon
|
|
|
ned
|
| posted on 14/9/05 at 08:45 PM |
|
|
Big thanks to stevebubs, been round to his tonight to collect the cat not only was i greeted with the offer of a lovely cuppa, but I also got a
ride in a zetec fury, nice 
thanks again steve.
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
|
|
|
