problem with the car is now sorted....a new engine and she's running sweet as a nut.
The problem with the garage is ongoing and gets worse. on the way to the mechanic to swap engines it overheated & blew the head gasket.
when it was removed we found two of the "new" stretch bolts had different heads (star drive and hex ), the star drive ones were used where the gasket blew. One was loose and when the head was removed the bolt & thread were covered in blue "plastic" which we are presuming was thread lock.
Garage are still denying any of this was their doing.
I took the head to a good local engineer who specialise in head refurbs and they spotted that the same bolt hole was all chewed up in the allot sort of where the head of the bolt meets the cyl head.
went back to the garage, showed him this new damage and he all but accused me of taking a drill to it & damaging it myself.
Am now fed up of trying to be reasonable so it's off to the small claims court.
And yes I took photo's etc. so I've got proof.
