Club G40 Forum
Technical => Superchargers / G-Lader => Topic started by: quiksilver_jake on June 01, 2009, 08:57:09 am
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Mine has only done about 1000 miles since german company Mch Motorsport did a rebuild and im really happy with it but i have not idea what spec as it was a couple of years ago, and was thinking of have more porting done but companys keep telling me they olny do it with a full rebuild but i dont know who to try , last time i tried a new company psd i got basically bummed...
Cheers Jake
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well myself i have never dealt with jabba sport, but heard mixed reviews so i cannot comment on them
when i used PSD i always found them helpful and always done what i asked for but aint around anymore
g-werks used to work in the same building as PSD as a sister company iirc but mainly consentrate on G60's but darren is great and very good at what he does
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that makes me even more warery if they used to be part of psd
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why not ask on dubforce. Its where a lot of the g60 boys are
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they have never been anything to do with PSD other than being in the same complex of units as PSD used to be. Steve & Darren are (or at least were, not sure if they still talk or not) friends. It's not fair to base any opinion of G-Werks on anything that happened at PSD as they are two completely different companies ran by different people and with different people doing all the work.
I've not heard a bad word about G-Werks really, that's who my money would go to.
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I have, they done mikes lader, and Darren put some washer on the wrong way round, starved a bearing of oil and it collapsed.... 1k later, after a new bearing (fitted by mike) It blew the oil seals.
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my bad, i used to think they helped each other out as hey were both working on my car a few years ago
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i had my charger serviced by g-werks not to long ago and they did a great job,
you will probably hear bad reviews of any company over a period of time,
have to say iv heard more bad things about jabba than g-werks tho!
with g-werks u get 6 month warranty if the chrger is sent to them and
12 month warranty if they remove it frome the car and re-install it themselves.
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Funny that, Darren wouldnt honour mine and charged me when the oil seals blew in 200 miles. I had a lader done, sold it to someone and they blew the oil seals again while running it in. 3 laders. ::)
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general rule of thumb. Laders are like women ;) they can be noisy but generally work well, be quiet then erupt at any minute or just be nice all the time. There often is no rhyme or reason to it!
Quite often seals go on rebuild... hence running them in
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my bad, i used to think they helped each other out as hey were both working on my car a few years ago
yes they did help each other out and were friends (and possibly still are) but it's not fair to assume that because PSD went tits up that g-werks will be anything like them.
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i agree
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I would think that companies are reluctant to offer you a ported only charger for the reasons that you have to pull them apart and porting creates lots of swarf that finds itself everywhere. You need to fully strip them and clinically cleam them before re-assembling them.
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Always had good things to say about Darren- know lots of people that have good service from him too.
Aside from Phil's problems I've not actually heard of him doing a bad rebuild as such, to be fair I've not heard many stories of bad Jabbasport rebuilds either.
G-Werks will give a good service and will honour warrantys providing you follow thier instructions, give Darren/Rob a ring I'm sure they'd happily talk you through it.
PSD and G-Werks have always been seperate entities, it was only in their younger business years they shared a unit.
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Go to Jabba, never had a problem yet.
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I have, they done mikes lader, and Darren put some washer on the wrong way round, starved a bearing of oil and it collapsed.... 1k later, after a new bearing (fitted by mike) It blew the oil seals.
What washer was this? No washers in the chargers that can be put in incorrectly!
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you can put the circlip on the main bearing in wrong and block the oil way.
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I've been having this conversation with myself since I bought my G (previous one done by PSD with no problems).
I think Jabba may have dropped their prices (for Stage 5) and now come in well under G-Werks (£495 vs £560 plus £90 fitting at G-Werks). Price isn't everything but it's quite a difference. I'm sure Jabba must charge something on top to fit?
I STILL can't decide but soon my charger may go so I need to sort something out.
grrrr!!
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Jabba have had mine three times now with no complaints. Having said that, running a toothed belt opens up the chance of blowing seals. Their prices are competative though and if they fit your charger they extend the warranty period to six months which is worth while.
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its just Jabbas customer services on the phone that lacks alot.
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All depends who picks up the phone on the other end really, some half whit or a friendly and helpful person.
Living in Northamptonshire Jabba is much closer so have always gone there, out of the 3 G40's my friends and i have and a fair amount of work undertaken at Jabba we have yet to have a complaint.
However some time ago i remember a point made by Pete regarding Charger work, unless you take it apart and check it over how will you know if they have "done you over" or not.
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yeah - with any company, unless they give you a bag of bits back and you know what you are looking for in the bag, then who knows!?!?!
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its just Jabbas customer services on the phone that lacks alot.
Hi all the companies have this issue, Jabba when they first started out everyone wanted to talk to Mike and then brian started to field all the calls so mike could actually do the work rather then being on the phone all day. happened the same with PSD and I guess G-werks as well, everyone always wnats to chat to the main man.
I have used both services and they are good. but like they says any service you get done, is there any proof its been done, can be said for most car services.
and if half the stuff you check, you might as well have done the service yourself.