December 17, 2012
by petermw
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Testimonial: Ron Hawkins 13/12/12

Daniel,

My first thoughts are to THANK you and your engineers at PMW Ltd., for the professional manner and work that you completed on my car, details as below.

This car was purchase almost 6 months ago and like many with purchasing an old / but new car to me I took it to my local BMW garage and had the oil and filter changed straight away (to get the necessary stamp in the service book) and for them to check the car over and report any faults (already knowing that I had a slight fault with judder when travelling at about 68 to 72 mph), you can imagine my mixed feelings when I received the car back with a nice new stamp in the service book, but also being told they could find nothing wrong.

I started to check the web and joined various BMW forums, only lurking and reading (as I believe that you learn more by reading and listening than by talking) but did not post, from then on it was a chase to find the problem, the first thing I done was to blank the swirl flaps, then changed the front discs, brake pads and wishbone rubbers, new front tyres and full balancing, then back to the local garage for full electronic wheels alignment.

Still the problem of judder was evident, I felt I had done all the I could, so next find a specialist.

That is where PMW Ltd. came to the fore, as there advise on a forum always seems to make sense and was of a nature that ordinary people can understand.

The car was in there garage for less than 1 hour and they diagnosed the problem. (Torque Convertor), this was 2 weeks ago.

I took the car to them yesterday and dropped it off at 08.00 hours for them to renew the torque convertor and other works as detailed below.

2003 BMW 320d Tourer. (E46)

Work completed by PMW Ltd.

New fuel pump

New fuel relay

Glow plugs replaced

Renew vacuum pipes

Replace torque convertor

Renew ATF fluid.

Remap

I picked the car up at about 17.30 hours and went for a test drive (their mechanic Steve was driving) and felt straight away that it was a lot smoother, back to PMW Ltd., and pay for the completed works.

As I have a 80 mile drive home, you can imagine my elation when the car I was driving was nothing like the car I took to PMW Ltd. but like a NEW car, smooth through the gears, in fact had I not listen to the tone of the engine or watched the rev counter I would not have known the gears were changing, it was honestly that smooth.

This testimonial is for open publication by PMW Ltd. and hereby give my permission to them to forward my personal mobile phone number should anyone who wishes to hear my praises of PMW Ltd.

Wishing all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Ron Hawkins

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Peter Mould