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deMort said:That would appear to be the inner rack arms .. not the outer track rod ends , its not uncommon to have a small amount of play in these ..
I found it strange for many years that some cars have the play and other similar cars dont .. we finally put it down to speed bumps as the cars from speed bump areas were always the ones effected by this .
Ive never seen an excessively worn rack arm joint though .. ive changed plenty and you can do it with a 36 mm spanner .. special tool .. erm ..
I can only asume who ever did the job has never done one before or even worked on many Caymans , boxsters or 997 as it happens on all of them , my assumption here is it was the apprentise .. yup im that suprised atm ... they have ordered a crows foot spanner basically .
The cost though
Im gobsmacked as is everyone at work .. perhaps best if i just say an Indy is cheaper (not going to say what we would charge ) and you dont need a full geo .. you just need a front end adjustment .
For the fault code for the airbag which they couldnt fix ..
A car on a trickle charger .. it wont have a low voltage .. thats the point of a trickle charger .. even so ..
The car with the ignition on ( key in the lock ) does a self check of the airbag system .. this is when it may find faults .. also once moving it will continually make sure the system is fine , anything it sees no matter how quick it will flag a code , the light and shut down that part of the system .
The car has no idea of any faults on the system untill the key is in the ignition lock .. hence i often change airbag parts with no keys in the ignition and i never get a light on which i would do if the key was in .
You have an intermitant fault which may only happen for a millisecond but the car will see it and trigger the light .. this as you know can only be turned off by clearing the fault code .
For them to say its low battery voltage ... hmm .. ask them to explain that .. i for one would love to be sitting then when they tryed
The shame is you will still have an airbag fault , im guessing it will come back in a week or 2 .. if it helps i showed this to one of my collegues today .. more about the cost they charged you but when he read it he said .. that sounds like the clock spring to me .
Downside .. i cant see the car , its under warrenty anyways so all i can do is say what i think is wrong .. my guess is clock spring as is my collegues guess .
Youll just have to monitor it for now .. sigh .
deMort said:Feel free to email if you want to as i realise not everyone wants to post details on the forum or if needed ill happily pm you my number and we can chat on the phone .
[email protected]
To be honest .. ive just made a thread in the general section about VHC ,s and im sorry to say .. this was my insperation for it .
As you say .. 200 miles from an MOT and no mention of play in the rack arms .. not so good
If you do have the video link from the VHC i would love to see it .. email above .
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