W203 C270 CDi Power loss

[DazT]

I have just had my car in to a specialist garage for an MOT. A front suspension coil spring & a new steering rack had to be fitted to pass the MOT. When I collected my car, it was driving really flat & had no power. It has never had this fault prior to this & does not recover after turning off the ignition like some posts on here. I believe that the garage has created this fault during this work & I'm in dispute with them. Am I justified in saying this or just unlucky. Any thoughts ? The car has covered 75k miles by the way.

 

[Xtractorfan]

I have just had my car in to a specialist garage for an MOT. A front suspension coil spring & a new steering rack had to be fitted to pass the MOT. When I collected my car, it was driving really flat & had no power. It has never had this fault prior to this & does not recover after turning off the ignition like some posts on here. I believe that the garage has created this fault during this work & I'm in dispute with them. Am I justified in saying this or just unlucky. Any thoughts ? The car has covered 75k miles by the way.

Have a word with them, someone working on the car may have inadvertently caused the fault, I'm sure they will a look over their work to check everything is ok.... It is always disconcerting when a customer complains about an unrelated fault on a car

 

[television]

Welcome DazT this does sound possibly like a MAF going down

 

[DazT]

Thanks for thr comments. It just seems too coincidental, that fault should occur for first time straight after this work. They were very dismissive & tried to say fault must have been there before, which it wasn't. They did send me a print out that they took from their diagnostics. I'm not sure what I was supposed to do with it, any idea what this fault would show up as on a diagnotsic report ?

 

[Xtractorfan]

I have even know cases where MAFs have been changed on cars, tho it would be foolish to suggest such things unless one had evidence..

 

[television]

I have even know cases where MAFs have been changed on cars, tho it would be foolish to suggest such things unless one had evidence..

We had an identical fault two weeks back, that was the MAF, you have got me thinking now