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Originally Posted by davebtelford
I would have had them drop the car outside an "accredited" garage near home & drop me off at home. Timing chain is a fairly big job - very big if it's wrecked the engine - and a clapped out car doesn't make an attractive garden ornament.
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My brother got them to drop it off outside the garage he usually used, it was early evening on the Sunday night, he called in on the way to work first thing Monday to tell them what was wrong only to find his car had been vandalised.
The owner of the garage said someone had obviously broken into the car to hot wire it, when they couldn't get it started they smashed all the windows, slashed his tyres and didn't leave a panel unscratched.
The guy said he would never leave a car on his forecourt overnight, so perhaps it's cheaper to pay for a tow on the Monday than insist it's dropped off that night?