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Whats your location?: The Garden of Ireland, Co. Wicklow
Region: Eastern
What Minis have you?: 59 Austin seven deluxe, 63 mk1 Riley elf, 65 Austin mini, 69 Morris mini minor, 73 Austin 850, 70 1275 cooper s, 82 Mini van, 84 mini 25.
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We would be interested to hear if the issue gets resolved.
Tony Cooney
IMOC Committee
Hi everyone, Im just wondering if you leave your mini in to get work done on it and when you go to take the car out of the place where the work was ment to be done on the car to find parts missing off the car? eg. Distribitor unit with cap points etc, Plug leads, Coil. What do you do?
There was only one other person in the yard that had a mini that was geting work done on his mini and was looking for a distribitor and suddenly these parts go missing and all of a sudden he has his mini runing with a new distribitor. what do i do? how do i get these parts back?
if your car was un-modded there's a good chance that the distributor should be identifiable from the engine/model specs. coil & leads much less so.
the problem is though that the "other" mini could argue the case for having (potentially) a different, non-standard distributor. I'd take it up with garage/workshop. did you drive it in? clearly it would have needed those parts to get there!
Whats your location?: The Garden of Ireland, Co. Wicklow
Region: Eastern
What Minis have you?: 59 Austin seven deluxe, 63 mk1 Riley elf, 65 Austin mini, 69 Morris mini minor, 73 Austin 850, 70 1275 cooper s, 82 Mini van, 84 mini 25.
No the mini was trailered there because there is ramps on the road and the mini is too bloody low to go over them. I no where the parts are but i can go stright in to the lads yard and ask him to pull the bonnet on his mini so i can take my parts back. so what can i do?
If your car was in somewhere being worked on they have a responsibility for making sure that nothing is stolen off it while they are working on it.
Tell the garage the stuff was on the car when you left it in and you want it replaced or you will notify the guards.
You have obviously spoken to the other Mini owner about it if he said "it's not his problem". Next time you see him tell him you have reported the theft to the guards. You can't really accuse him without proof
yes, if you spoke to the garage owner and he is avoiding his responsibilities i'd go to the guards. - that's called Theft. your conflict lies with the garage owner, not the other mini, *if* your car was on his property. if it was on the public road, then the other mini owner could be involved. either way, contact the guards.
D.M.G.T wrote:have you paid the person that the the work? + could you ghive any names here so the rest of us can still well clear.name and shame
please don't name anyone or any business in a forum accusing them of theft, based on conjecture and supposition. way things are, people are innocent until *proven* otherwise and everyone is entitled to their good name unless a *court* decides otherwise. - no sense in putting the website/club at risk over this, infuriating as it is.
Whats your location?: The Garden of Ireland, Co. Wicklow
Region: Eastern
What Minis have you?: 59 Austin seven deluxe, 63 mk1 Riley elf, 65 Austin mini, 69 Morris mini minor, 73 Austin 850, 70 1275 cooper s, 82 Mini van, 84 mini 25.
The owner of the garage siadits not his problem that some one took the parts of the mini. Im live in a small village and there are only two other people that has minis and we alll no if some one wanted to have a lend of something we would lend them to that person if we knew them. The lad that own's the other mini couldnt get the timing right on the car he tryed everything, he got a lend of carbs of me and siad had i got a lend of a distribitor because he thinks that is the problem and i siad i dont have any spare one's. he spoke to 1 of the other lads in the village about geting one but when Willie rang him on a friday evening he siad he had got one that day. I collected the mini on saturday morning and my distribitor was stolen and leads and coil. Some one has tryed to take the carb of but opened the nuts but vouldnt get it off the car, but i still have the carb.
There was no one else that knew that my minis were in that yard only me and the other mini owner.
So by right i have to let the gaurds sort it out??
hey lad you should go to the guards about it,and if you find out for sure that he has your parts name and shame him and the garage..
if it was me and i found out who the parson was that stole parts of my mini i would break both there hands,that way it would be a while before they could do it again...
Think its good advice what people have said above. If you were paying for work to be done then its completly the garages problem regardless of who is responsible you need to bring the guards in and maybe keep the administrators of this club in the loop if the person responsible is a member of this club so they can make sure it doesnt happen to anyone else. Either way I'd close this thread until you have some form of resolution.
eg. Distribitor unit with cap points etc, Plug leads, Coil. What do you do? 
