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Originally Posted by morrismen

Took the V40 for a MOT. It needed a simple job doing to replace a split gator and two front ball joints.

Garage called back later on to say during the test drive, the drive shaft had got mangled up and they will have to source another - and this part needs to come from Sweden they said! It was their fault so they are going to pay for it they said.

So some monkey-wrench couldn't re-locate a drive shaft properly by the sound it and its broken on the shaft ending, but they're saying the gearbox coupling is still ok...

So question is, will this have damaged the drive shaft or gearbox mechanism irreparably? What else could be "mangled" as they've stated?

And, how will I be able to tell anyway?

Yours faithfully in despair.

Hard to understand how they could have mangled the driveshaft let alone anything else. That’s a good news story in my mind though as it sounds like they are giving you an OEM shaft which is NOT cheap. Very profitable MOt!