I picked up my car from them and after a few days noticed an intermittent metallic tapping sound under acceleration, but couldn't work out where it was coming from - somewhere around under the front engine area. This persisted intermittently for a few days, but didn't seem to affect the car's performance. I had to take a trip up North that weekend, the tapping got worse and more persistent. The strange thing was it seemed to get better or worse depending on my speed, so I drove at whatever speed was affecting it least.
I was going to get it checked properly when I got back to London. On the way back down the M1 it got worse and the car started shaking. I pulled into a service station and looked the car over but couldn't see anything wrong. It was Sunday, getting dark and I just wanted to get home. I got back on the motorway and it had calmed down. I was in the middle lane doing 60-70mph when the front of the car started shaking violently and then suddenly the passenger side just collapsed. It sounded like that side of the car was scraping along the road.
No doubt the garage did a mistake.
But to be honest you did the second mistake. And the third one. And the fourth .....
Why didn' you stop immediatly when you heard the ''intermittend tapping'' ??
When you had your car in the garage and a few days later you have a strange
noise it should be obvious there's something wrong. So I can't understand why
you did the long trip on the motorway. Instead of going back to your garage
you ignored this problem ''for a few days''. Then on the motorway it was knocking
again. You ignored it. The back home still knocking and getting worse. You ignored
it. So what do you expect?
