Iridium Engineering - Southampton
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 11:25 pm
I had a great experience with Iridium Engineering in Southampton last week. This was my first time visit.
I thought I felt an engine vibration as I revved the engine out to 8k. It was very wet, but I had a straight dual carriage way ahead of me, so thought it could use a blow out!
After I felt the slight vibration, which only seemed to happed the once as i revved it past 5k, I had a look around the engine bay, but couldn't see anything obvious. I was initially concerned that it might be engine mounts, but they looked ok to me.
I rung up Sean at Iridium and described the problem. He said bring it in and he would have a look.
I took it in a 5pm just before they closed so he could have a quick check. He did far more than a quick check. After an initial check with the bonnet open, he decided to have a look under the car. In order to do this, he had to move 2 cars out of the way to get mine onto the ramp. During all of this, it never came across than anything was too much trouble. After it was on the ramp, he checked everything under the car, and even took the rear under tray off to check the diff area. After this, just to be sure he had checked everything, he then connected the car up to his diagnostic equipment and checked for fault codes and checked all the sensors were reading correctly with live mapping, everything was running correctly. Its cool to see the computer rev the engine gently up and watch all the numbers change in the diagnostic readout. The only thing he could find wrong with the car was the AC belt was starting to perish, and it was sluggish to start. The sluggish to start he linked to it being close to Ins 2, and said it needed new plugs. He gave the car a clean bill of health.
After 40 mins of checking the car, I left and travelled homeward. Once the car was upto temp, I gave it some beans and I couldn't feel any vibration. I can only assume it must have been really struggling with traction! I haven't had a problem of any vibration since and I have been trying/testing for it.
From what I have seen so far, I cannot recommend Iridium enough. After looking on the internet, its full of glowing reviews from the likes of M3Cutters, BabyBMW etc etc and I will now be heading here for any works required.
I thought I felt an engine vibration as I revved the engine out to 8k. It was very wet, but I had a straight dual carriage way ahead of me, so thought it could use a blow out!
After I felt the slight vibration, which only seemed to happed the once as i revved it past 5k, I had a look around the engine bay, but couldn't see anything obvious. I was initially concerned that it might be engine mounts, but they looked ok to me.
I rung up Sean at Iridium and described the problem. He said bring it in and he would have a look.
I took it in a 5pm just before they closed so he could have a quick check. He did far more than a quick check. After an initial check with the bonnet open, he decided to have a look under the car. In order to do this, he had to move 2 cars out of the way to get mine onto the ramp. During all of this, it never came across than anything was too much trouble. After it was on the ramp, he checked everything under the car, and even took the rear under tray off to check the diff area. After this, just to be sure he had checked everything, he then connected the car up to his diagnostic equipment and checked for fault codes and checked all the sensors were reading correctly with live mapping, everything was running correctly. Its cool to see the computer rev the engine gently up and watch all the numbers change in the diagnostic readout. The only thing he could find wrong with the car was the AC belt was starting to perish, and it was sluggish to start. The sluggish to start he linked to it being close to Ins 2, and said it needed new plugs. He gave the car a clean bill of health.
After 40 mins of checking the car, I left and travelled homeward. Once the car was upto temp, I gave it some beans and I couldn't feel any vibration. I can only assume it must have been really struggling with traction! I haven't had a problem of any vibration since and I have been trying/testing for it.
From what I have seen so far, I cannot recommend Iridium enough. After looking on the internet, its full of glowing reviews from the likes of M3Cutters, BabyBMW etc etc and I will now be heading here for any works required.
