Seizures

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <199609301930.PAA10453@coimbra.ans.net> "Sheffield Corey" writes:

> I believe the potential for damage exists in removing the plug, not 
> installing it.

A few years back, I had one of the first Ford Granadas to be fitted with the 
(then) new 2.0EFi engine.  I took it in for its first 5,000 mile service (to 
Currie Motors in Hounslow - let the guilty be named).  I went back to collect 
it in the evening, to find a rental car waiting for me.  Currie's had snapped 
off a plug when trying to remove it, and the (alloy) head had to come off for 
drilling out and helicoiling.  The saga that followed was barely credible, and 
lasted two weeks.  I finally got a phone call from them early one morning, 
promising the car at 5:00pm.  I went in, to see two medium-sized Ford vans 
packing up in their yard.  One had a 2.0EFi engine in the back, in some 
disarray.  The other contained four young and alert-looking mechanics in "Ford 
of Europe" overalls.

As I drove away, the receptionist at Currie Motors advised me that "a lot of 
work has been done.  It might be best to treat it like a new car and run it in 
again."  

--
 Phil Payne
 phil@sievers.com
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club