Dodgy garage?

anoda_username

A friend of mine went with an Audi A3 to a garage with a minor issue: cap cover underneath the engine needed tightening.

After collecting the car he drove 2 mins up the road and the alternator light went on in the dash. When driving to work the next day the electronics and power steering in the car went and fan belt broke.

Does this sound like too much of a coincidence?

BigEejit

Yikes.

You are unlikely to get many people agreeing with you here.

anoda_username

I've removed the approximate location of the garage, is it possible that it is a coincidence?

colm_mcm

anoda_username wrote: »

A friend of mine went with an Audi A3 to a garage with a minor issue: cap cover underneath the engine needed tightening.

After collecting the car he drove 2 mins up the road and the alternator light went on in the dash. When driving to work the next day the electronics and power steering in the car went and fan belt broke.

Does this sound like too much of a coincidence?

Well if the fan belt broke the power steering and electronics wouldn't work due to the alternator and PAS pump not turning.

What cap cover are you talking about?

nogoodnamesleft

anoda_username wrote: »

A friend of mine went with an Audi A3 to a garage with a minor issue: cap cover underneath the engine needed tightening.

After collecting the car he drove 2 mins up the road and the alternator light went on in the dash. When driving to work the next day the electronics and power steering in the car went and fan belt broke.

Does this sound like too much of a coincidence?

What is a "cap cover underneath the engine"? are you referring to the sump plug?

anoda_username

He doesn't know what cap, he just noticed something dragging on the ground and left it into nearest place to tighten it. Tbh, I know nothing about cars but I was thinking maybe it was possible that they hit off some electrics? Or do you think it was possible that the problem just happen to occur anyway regardless? The light came on after 2 mins of picking it up but he was on way the way home from work at that stage

AltAccount

Was it something electrical dragging?

You'd need far more info before being able to give an opinion.

Kenny Logins

Is the protective skid pan under the engine? I know they can come loose on Golfs, and I see loads of them dragging around.

keithclancy

Don't know if this is the same on the Audis, but this happened on my Octavia, the plastic cover came off at the back and pushed up into the alternator belt.

By the time I got to the garage it looked like a set of torn womens knickers.

anoda_username

keithclancy wrote: »

Don't know if this is the same on the Audis, but this happened on my Octavia, the plastic cover came off at the back and pushed up into the alternator belt.

By the time I got to the garage it looked like a set of torn womens knickers.

Yeah that's what it seemed like, a plastic cover. They tightened it for a tenner

frank gooding

Sounds like a coincidence

Shtuff happens.

DaveJac

more than likely unrelated problem, not having a go but we get this all the time in work people come in for a small problem a quick fix a few days later something happens we are at fault no matter what it is, would love to be able to go through every car with a fine tooth comb that comes into to the garage just to get a bulb fitted but just not possible