parts

Some one might be able to tell me,fitted a new wishbone arm on a pug
405 (no not mine done mine ages ago) went to fit a new ball joint and
when doing up the nut it went tight and the shaft of the ball joint
still moved round a little,(did not notice this on my car when i done
mine) is this normal?arm part number tc811,and ball joint number
tc281,it all fitted o,k and has stopped the banging noise from the
bottom but he just said should that ball do that i said i dont know but
i know a group that might..

 

Well Well Camberley autos have sold the poor person the wrong ball
joint , so poor old me got to fit the other one tuesday evening for
him,so why is it that these place cant be asred to sell you the right
one in the first place,he gave them the chassic no of the car what else
do they need,but never mind i get it done for him with any luck..

 

Don't know about Pug but in the days when I did all my own repairs I found
with Ford and BMC (later to become British Leyland), and Vauxhall come to
think of it, that the part did not always match up to what the chassis
number indicated. The story in every case was that the assembly line ran
out of a part during a run and a temporary alternative was used until stock
of the correct unit turned up. It seems that aberrations of this sort are
(or certainly were) quite common and don't tend to get recorded, hence the
item not corresponding to the chassis number. It was particularly common
with brakes and electricals but happened with mechanical parts as well.

 

And guess what they sold him the wrong wish bone aswell.so he has to
remove it and also the ball joint ,return the ball joint for the right
one. and also return the wish bone for the right one, if it has not
been fitted to the car they will replace it.(i think they are full of
s,,,)so i think that it is all wrong, how can you tell if its the
wrong one when untill you have fitted it .it was all done by chassis
number so it should of been the right one in the first place.

 

If it was all done by chassis number they ought to absorb the cost. But it
would probably not happen. They could argue that the wrong assembly was
fitted post production, possibly after an accident or something.

 

They gave us the wrong parts .now we have found out that the part that
they gave us was in a wrong bag,as the bag was taped up and not heat
sealed.all fitted now and ready for a run,have to recheck after a few
miles.

 

I assume then that, as it appears to be Camberley's fault, they have not
charged for the originally supplied parts that were fitted?

 

During the strike-torn seventies, they fitted anything they could get at the
same time as the rest of the car, just to keep the lines moving, on the rare
occasions that they were moving.

Steve

 

We got a refund on the parts. but still had the parts to fit.(so the
parts where free)good old camberleys