snowathlete

Had the cam belt and water pump done as well as oil and filter change. Local garage. Now the engine sounds wrong. Superb 2L diesel, 4x4 L&K. Jan 2014. Sounds rougher, but in particular at idle, when lifting foot off the accelerator while driving along, and when accelerating away sharply from standstill (at busy roundabout etc) . It doesn’t sound obviously awful, and from outside sounds fairly normal, you need to sot in the cabin to hear what is wrong, but to my ear it is definitely not right. It is like an older diesel engine not the refined vag diesel engine it was before. Garage insist they did everything properly and can’t hear anything wrong. I’m wondering if they got the timing set up wrong? Used wrong oil (can that cause such an issue though?) or something else? Don’t think i am imagining it. Has been driving okay, noises aside.

Thanks, We're not close enough unfortunatley. Bath area.

Getting petrol today and someone reversed into our Superb. Didn't actually see the impact but I felt it as the car rocked hard when he hit us. I was sat in the passenger seat and my husband was about to put fuel in the car (at the petrol station). The damage is not dreadful I think, hard to tell because it was gloomy and the car was wet, and the car is dark brown. Certainly the rear door is dented in. Told our insurer and hope the guy is insured as he says he is. Thing is, I hate it when bodywork repairs are done badly. I know it's just a car but I drive past a car each day which has a repaired read door, a silver car, and it looks awful because the paint doesn't match properly. One of the reasons we got this specific car is because it looks so pretty, we really love the dark brown paint on our L&K and it looks really clean and we want it to stay that way. Where is the best place to go? Local bodywork place, or dealer, or what? Years ago my new at the time car was ruined by some bad bodywork that a dealer (Vauxhall) did. I just want to avoid that and get a really good job done hope it doesn't look bad. Any advice gratefully recieved.