My car seems different since it was serviced!

[welshlibranr]

I have a KA, it was serviced recently, and all seems fine, except that I need to accelerate more to change up the gears, and it chugs when I brake a little in fourth or fifth gear if I brake a little, didn't do this before!...........any ideas?.....TIA...............

[RATTER15]

Take it back to the garage that serviced it, something is clearly adrift.

[welshlibranr]

think I will RATTER, something is wrong!....the garage owner is a friend so should be fine!.....was just a bit unsure, in case it's just me!....but I think something is different!.....

[top_driver]

aww, you only just had your car fixed, does it do anything else apart from that

[AlBags]

Did they replace coil and leads for sure? .. and spark plugs?
Because you have symptoms that could point to these. There are other possibilities, tho.

[welshlibranr]

Oh top_driver, tell me about it!..........more trouble last week, I had a front coil spring snap!..........another repair!...........£150......think I need to change it soon really, but I love my little KA!........works for me!......doesn't seem the same since the last service though, can't work out why!.............

[welshlibranr]

yes Albags. they said they did all of that!.........but still it doesn't feel the same!...........

[top_driver]

it horrible when you get one thing fixed, and trouble in such a short space of time, get them to put on the diagnostics, maybe you have a faulty sensor or something

[Buenchico]

£150 to replace a Ka front spring???!!!!

My local garage would do it for around £30 (part) + £17.50 (½ hour labour charge) + VAT = £57.

A couple of years ago the Ford main dealer I was working for replaced TWO springs on my Escort for around £80. (OK, I was getting staff rate for the parts and labour but that was actually still a higher hourly rate than my local garage would charge).

Go somewhere else!!!

[welshlibranr]

thanks toop_driver, I will take it to him, so hard when you're a female, and have no idea what's going wrong!.............so fed up with it at the moment!....