Hi

My partners Fiesat (2001) was an MOT fail. We never got the fail slip and the garage did the work (approx £500).

Since he picked it up he has noticed a banging at the front going over pot-holes - which he didn't have before ( or didn't notice) he took it back and they looked at it and said his bushes were a bit worn.

As part of the MOT repair they replaced the front roll bar links...I don't really know a lot about cars but I think these are related...

So are they related? Should they have replaced the bushes when they replaced the roll bar links? (I know the bushes can be bought very cheaply - it is the labour that would make it more expensive...we have to park on the road so even an easy fix isn't really possible...)

Or could they have damaged them in some way...

Help

the best thing you can do is get the job sheet and mot failure sheet, go to another garage and get the work checked to see whats been done. it sounds like something has been disturbed when the links were fitted. once you know whats wrong then you can go and challange the orginal garage about the work they did. it makes my blood boil when garages just expect the customer to keep poding money out on the 'it could be this' syndrome.l

the best thing you can do is get the job sheet and mot failure sheet, go to another garage and get the work checked to see whats been done. it sounds like something has been disturbed when the links were fitted. once you know whats wrong then you can go and challange the orginal garage about the work they did. it makes my blood boil when garages just expect the customer to keep poding money out on the 'it could be this' syndrome.l

Are the bushes and roll bar links related?

We live in a village and this is the local garage...all a bit tricky to create too much of a fuss...before I go back and demand the fail slip (or anything else) I would like to be sure that they could have been disturbed/should have been replaced at the same time...

The noise could have been there before and it wasn't noticed - we just had the road outside resurfaced and during the works (rough surface) it made it really obvious and my partner carries loads of clutter in his boot that does clank etc...it could have covered it up if it only banged going over pot holes - from descriptions I have read it does sound like it is the bushes...

roll bar links do not have bushes a such so it could be the anti roll bar bushes they are talking about, but if there was play in these or any other bush why wasnt this picked up on the mot, they should have given you the advisory sheet for you own records.