Engine workshops ltd have taken my mates disco 4 in for work and now have disappeared ,do any of you guys know or heard of the firm .cheers Mark.
11th Apr 2018 3:21 pm
Dillon
Member Since: 05 Jan 2018
Location: Brighton
Posts: 103
Never heard of them but I'm at the other end of the country! Companies House has more than one address for for them, the google reviews make interesting reading!!!
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I pass thru Dumbarton most weeks but never heard of them.
Didn't even know there was a Marina in dumbarton
11th Apr 2018 4:58 pm
KenR
Member Since: 17 Jan 2010
Location: Argyll Scotland
Posts: 327
Are you sure it was in Dumbarton? Engine Engineering in Paisley recondition engines but in 2016 they were visited by the police - I think someone complained that his BMW came back from them with a different engine and when the police raided the houses of the owners they found, along with many other things, a cache of firearms! As someone else on here said, if it is them take care!!
Avoid this company at all costs. I sent an Audi TT engine for a complete rebuild. I was quoted £900.00 which would cover the transport costs and all repair works needed and turn around would be no more than two weeks.
Lots of phone calls and legal letters sent to the Engine Workshop, four months later, my engine is returned, still broken with a sheared bolt in the engine block. Engine is totally ruined and wouldn’t even turn over. Now have trading standards, and solicitors involved to recover the costs through court. My car is only fit for the scrap now.
This company is fraudulent, promising everything and delivering nothing. Please avoid them, total scam artists.
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Dreadful company. Took five months to do a three week job which I paid for up front. They offered compensation of £50 per day for late delivery but are now refusing to pay. Within a week of collection the car needed warranty work doing. They authorised the work to be done by another garage but as yet they have not settled the bill. They will promise you the world but will fail to deliver and then stop communicating. Legal action is now pending. Please don't use this garage.
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Do not use this company!
6 months to get car back and wasn’t fixed!
£1950 to fix engine and put back together only to have the car sent back a few times and last time from October to end of January. Picked car up from paisley (engine workshop in Dumbarton) the oil pressure still wasn’t fixed. Taken it to a specialist garage (now have a bill to pay them) and they cannot get to bottom of the oil pressure. After changing everything that could have been i have been advised it could be the way the engine has been put back together. Refunded £1000 (originally told full refund not half reason they paid for a hire car for short period of time). Don’t offer something as a way to help if you can’t fulfil The original job been paid for. Regret going to Engine Workshop Ltd in the beginning. Now I have legal action. I could be thousands to get to the bottom of what they have done! Shocked, disgusted and infuriated by not only their mistakes but continuous lies and company issues.
I should think your friend should instruct solicitors without delay.
I feel for him.
NJSSAm I Gammon or Woke ? - I neither know nor care.
2016 Discovery 4 Landmark
2011 Mercedes Benz SL350 (R230)
1973 MG B GT V8 - 3.9L John Eales engine, 5 speed R380 gearbox, since 1975.
1959 MGA roadster - 1.9L Peter Burgess Engine - 5 speed gearbox
Past LRs - Multiple FFRs, Discos & a Series I - some petrol, some diesel,
none Electric or H2 fuel cell - yet.
There are 10 types of people in this world: Those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
11th Apr 2018 8:07 pm
robpenrose
Member Since: 12 Jan 2016
Location: Surrey / SW London
Posts: 2136
Yes the same company and all the same money to repair the damage , they also asked my mate for a extra 800 for a new head . Hopefully his motor could be in the Glasgow workshop. Thanks again guys .
If the company has "disappeared" with his car your friend should seriously think of taking legal advice, without delay.
He will probably be advised to start proceedings immediately, and alert the police and DVLA that the car has been stolen.
Many years ago I lost a Morgan V8 under similar circumstances. The insurance refused to pay out, as they car & its keys were with the garage with my consent, and thus when they sold the car it was "conversion by a bailee" not theft, and my remedy was to sue the garage, which was insolvent.
NJSSAm I Gammon or Woke ? - I neither know nor care.
2016 Discovery 4 Landmark
2011 Mercedes Benz SL350 (R230)
1973 MG B GT V8 - 3.9L John Eales engine, 5 speed R380 gearbox, since 1975.
1959 MGA roadster - 1.9L Peter Burgess Engine - 5 speed gearbox
Past LRs - Multiple FFRs, Discos & a Series I - some petrol, some diesel,
none Electric or H2 fuel cell - yet.
There are 10 types of people in this world: Those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
12th Apr 2018 8:19 am
Pelyma
Member Since: 06 Jan 2005
Location: Patching, Sussex
Posts: 15496
How does that work Nigel? Surely they never had title to the car so how could the purchaser obtain good title (I think that's the phrase) so surely you could take it back from the person who purchased the car and leave them to sue the company?DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
DS3 TDV6 HSE- Silver with Alpaca (new one) Gone
D4 HSE Lux - Montalcino Red Gone
Porsche Cayenne V8 Diesel S
Frankly it was c. 30 years ago & horrendously complex.
The police weren't interested, the insurance company refused to pay out, and I was unable to trace the car, and thus reclaim it or sue whoever had it.
To make things more difficult I was in the States at the time, comunications were more difficult than now, and I was "hard-up" !
NJSSAm I Gammon or Woke ? - I neither know nor care.
2016 Discovery 4 Landmark
2011 Mercedes Benz SL350 (R230)
1973 MG B GT V8 - 3.9L John Eales engine, 5 speed R380 gearbox, since 1975.
1959 MGA roadster - 1.9L Peter Burgess Engine - 5 speed gearbox
Past LRs - Multiple FFRs, Discos & a Series I - some petrol, some diesel,
none Electric or H2 fuel cell - yet.
There are 10 types of people in this world: Those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
Over 100 vehicles involved ,my mate goes to get his d4 back today with a lrecovery truck . No engine and other parts missing and axa insurance will not pay out so we will see how it goes.
8th May 2018 5:20 am
Norrie
Member Since: 17 Mar 2020
Location: Glasgow
Posts: 4
Owner’s address
You can find the owner at his other business
Angelo ianello
Mitchell’s sales and lettings
460 Ballater street
Gorbals
Glasgow
G5 0qw
Hopefully this could help you if your still looking for it.
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