View Full Version : Phil Nichols Flintshire Performance Engines
sef_cally-t
17-10-15, 11:49 AM
Hi all on this forum.. I am having difficulty communicating with Phil and its obvious he is ignoring all my messages which i send him.
He had my car last june to rebuild the engine and i got it back in january this year. The work he has done is not what we agreed and he is not willing to put things right either. Full of excuses all the time. He told me he would fit an XE cam for the inlet he has not done and he also lost the fitting kit for the fuel pump which i had delivered to his unit and did not fit it either. He still has my standard KKK he keeps saying he will post it but not received anything yet. The receipt for the work done is in the post and never got it either. He told me would get me pictures of the build as he was doing it and never got any, just a picture if engine back in the car, who knows what the internal bit are.
How he can trade as Flintshire Performance Engines i dont know!!
Is anybody else having difficulty with Phil at the moment?
totalnova
17-10-15, 02:24 PM
All to familiar story I'm afraid, there was post only few months ago virtually word for word the same as yours.
Why are people putting up with this carry on?
Go see him and either get cash back or parts
totalnova
17-10-15, 03:18 PM
This is the thread,
http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthread.php?209827-Phil-Nichols-Flintshire-Performance-Engines&highlight=phil+nichols
The guy is a total joker.his unit is a shithole aswell
He messed a good mate of mine around for almost two years.Full of excuses.
Your not the first, and ill safely say you wont be the last either...
This is the thread,
http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthread.php?209827-Phil-Nichols-Flintshire-Performance-Engines&highlight=phil+nichols
That was my engine!!
I won't even go into the list of problems that we've found with the engine he was "building" me, I pulled the plug on him and got all the parts from him.
The 5th bearing cap is from a completely different engine, the brand new Pistons aren't brand new, the brand new con steel con rods all have different weights, the crank that was supposedly polished had rust spots on it, the brand new bearing shells were scratched and damaged..... Need I go on.
We've had to scrap the block and use another and I don't trust the Pistons so I'm replacing those aswell.
Having anything to do with that c*nt is one of the biggests regrets of my life. He's a complete and utter tosser, who takes people's money and lives off apparent reputation from engines he supposedly built years ago.
I tried desperately to warn people not to trust or use him but I was repeatedly belittled and told "he's busy" and "give him a break he's not ripping anyone off" or "he built my engine 3 years ago and was absolutely brilliant".
I'm sorry for what's happened to you mate. All I can say is, go and get as much of your stuff as you can off him and sort it yourself.
Trading standards, HMRC for undeclared income, police for theft, he needs reporting.
This guy is a joke and needs to be stopped from ripping off people, guys put their faith and trust in them and he just pockets the money and they get nothing.
He gets someone else to do all the machining anyway so all the muppet does is bolt em together.
If he needs reporting, then Sodding do it!!!
If he needs reporting, then Sodding do it!!!
First thing Monday morning
Fucking knew there was something dodgy about this guy years ago, he was on every vauxhall site advertising himself and talking about what he'd done but never had proof, the part that convinced me he was full of shit was when i had to correct him a few times on various sites.
24sevenslacker
18-10-15, 04:23 PM
Im still waiting for my head back and my "brand new" second hand cams to be replaced
Scottcooper85
18-10-15, 04:23 PM
My heads been okay although I only put 200 miles on it. But I was promised paperwork to back it up which hasn't ever arrived and he removed the coolant stub and said he'd ordered one from Vauxhall and he'd post it. I went to Vauxhall to order my own as it would be faster to find they stopped making them a year previous.
Well atleast now if someone searches his name these threads will pop up and people will think twice before sending him their hard earned cash.
Scott, he doesn't do any of the head work himself, I'm led to believe it's all done by Steveboyslim. I know my head was ported, polished and skimmed by Steve, very well I might add, one of the only things the guys at Modus praised!! So he's just a shipping agent for heads!!
Surprised someone ain't been to see him and laid him out
turbojolt
18-10-15, 05:10 PM
Surprised someone ain't been to see him and laid him out
abh charges will cost more then he is more then likely charging
abh charges will cost more then he is more then likely charging
This made me giggle!!!
phunkynova
18-10-15, 05:23 PM
It sounds like he's take good part's from one customer and selling to another customer (maybe) a old trick.
Well atleast now if someone searches his name these threads will pop up and people will think twice before sending him their hard earned cash.
Scott, he doesn't do any of the head work himself, I'm led to believe it's all done by Steveboyslim. I know my head was ported, polished and skimmed by Steve, very well I might add, one of the only things the guys at Modus praised!! So he's just a shipping agent for heads!!
Steve I believe gets the heads port bored which I do not believe phil does himself, as far as the porting goes Phil does do it himself, Steve uses Neil Roper for the porting on his own heads.
I have used Phil and in fairness the cylinder head I had was ok, its a shame to hear about people being let down by him, it seems to be getting all to common now with people getting seen off, mostly in Gm circles as there are some right clowns out there.
Steve I believe gets the heads port bored which I do not believe phil does himself, as far as the porting goes Phil does do it himself, Steve uses Neil Roper for the porting on his own heads.
I have used Phil and in fairness the cylinder head I had was ok, its a shame to hear about people being let down by him, it seems to be getting all to common now with people getting seen off, mostly in Gm circles as there are some right clowns out there.
Then I stand corrected. It's a shame we even have this thread. It's life I guess!! Some rip off and others get ripped off!!!!
Scottcooper85
18-10-15, 09:16 PM
Yeah I think he did all my head, he definitely assembled it as I watched him do it.
I think to be honest in future is just use someone closer to home then if I do have issues I can go back :)
Park engineering in malton are good scott as are alex carrs in hull.
Or people learn to put an engine together yourself it's not exactly hard, and aslong as you buy the bits you want, take it to any machine shop and they can do the metalwork
8valve-craig
19-10-15, 01:56 PM
Or people learn to put an engine together yourself it's not exactly hard, and aslong as you buy the bits you want, take it to any machine shop and they can do the metalwork
Lets not forget some of the engines on here are pretty expensive. Having someone on board who knows what they are doing beats learning on the job in most cases.
Lets not forget some of the engines on here are pretty expensive. Having someone on board who knows what they are doing beats learning on the job in most cases.
Dead on Craig.
Mr Plug, I've built a few engines for myself and a few other people, with some good results, at the time I "got involved" with nicols, my wife and I were going through several cycles of IVF and I was absolutely flat out with work, so I elected to use someone who I believed was capable to carry out the build for me based on what he told me and what I read, believe me I researched him prior to this.
You're right, building engines is relatively simple, however, when the tolerances get tight and parts alone add up to £4-500 it's always nice to have someone who's apparently done it before with apparent success!!
I've now invested my money for the build with some real engineers who actually know how to build real power engines and not just tell stories about them!!!!
Lets not forget some of the engines on here are pretty expensive. Having someone on board who knows what they are doing beats learning on the job in most cases.
Competition engines fair enough that's understandable, but a general engine rebuild, wether it be a small block, or a let do it yourself,
i I rebuilt my let other than the machining work. That's the 1st engine I'd ever done and it's done me fine,
got it all the bits I wanted to fit forged internals, oil squirters, oversized valves and took that along to the machine shop and got them to bore, machine to fit, then got it all back and bullt it up myself,
i wouldn't say my engine was cheap, rods and Pistons where over a grand
Not everybody has access to tools or the self confidence to do it.some people simply dont have time as there is life outside cars.
8valve-craig
19-10-15, 02:51 PM
Dead on Craig.
You're right, building engines is relatively simple, however, when the tolerances get tight and parts alone add up to £4-500 it's always nice to have someone who's apparently done it before with apparent success!!
I think you may have missed a zero off there House.
He hasn't missed any zeros, he's just slinging used OE tat together and making a fuss about it. lol
That reminds me, you have my crank, give it back immediately.
I think you may have missed a zero off there House.
Spotted mate!!! My bad!!! I knew what I meant......I think!!!
He hasn't missed any zeros, he's just slinging used OE tat together and making a fuss about it. lol
That reminds me, you have my crank, give it back immediately.
OE Tat is your style pal!!! Yeah I've got your crank, I'll bring it to Snet if you turn up this time!!!
24sevenslacker
19-10-15, 10:52 PM
Competition engines fair enough that's understandable, but a general engine rebuild, wether it be a small block, or a let do it yourself,
i I rebuilt my let other than the machining work. That's the 1st engine I'd ever done and it's done me fine,
got it all the bits I wanted to fit forged internals, oil squirters, oversized valves and took that along to the machine shop and got them to bore, machine to fit, then got it all back and bullt it up myself,
i wouldn't say my engine was cheap, rods and Pistons where over a grand
heres an example/opinion from the other side.
lets say you wanted to get into flying model helicopters. Ok so where do you start. You ask a question and you want the best. I tell you that i can build you a competition class, 700 size model with the following spec...
700mm mains
115mm tail
160a esc
570kv motor
coreless servos
3 axis gyro flybarless system with full range dsmx reciever.
12s 5000mah power
14t pinion to deliver up to 2300rmp headspeed governed
now you dont have a clue what im talking about but you want it, and you believe i am the man to build it because iv just spouted a load of crap what means nothing to you but apparently does to me, i must be a proffessional.
its ok saying do it yourself but if you dont have a clue where to start what else do you do. Iv learned from my mistakes with this clown, but there is still other people out there like me who dont have a clue and this idiot ropes them in and rips them off.
meritlover
20-10-15, 05:59 AM
heres an example/opinion from the other side.
lets say you wanted to get into flying model helicopters. Ok so where do you start. You ask a question and you want the best. I tell you that i can build you a competition class, 700 size model with the following spec...
700mm mains
115mm tail
160a esc
570kv motor
coreless servos
3 axis gyro flybarless system with full range dsmx reciever.
12s 5000mah power
14t pinion to deliver up to 2300rmp headspeed governed
now you dont have a clue what im talking about but you want it, and you believe i am the man to build it because iv just spouted a load of crap what means nothing to you but apparently does to me, i must be a proffessional.
I'll have 3 please.
Lets say i want my kitchen painted. I know how to paint and iam perfectly capable of doing it myself to a very high standard. But im a busy man and consider the things i could be doing instead of lainting a greater value to me than what it costs to pay someone to do.
So i go on gumtree, pick a guy who calls himself a painter who promises to do it for half the price of everyone else. Its only painting after all and because im greedy, i get him to tile the bathroom as well.
So i come back from the weekend of doing what i was going to do. Ive been dreaming about this nice kitchen and bathroom. I open the door and find he's used the cheapes paint he could find, got paint all over my carpet, drank the beer in my fridge and left a note for me saying how he'd come back to do the bathroom again but hes taken the full payment for the whole job.
He never comes back to tile the bathroom or put right what he did.
Moral of the story?
Some people are just cunts, and never trust someone you dind on the Internet.
totalnova
20-10-15, 10:02 AM
Second moral of the story never hand over money until the job is complete.
Second moral of the story never hand over money until the job is complete.
This is the most important message!! No matter what else is said this is the thing everyone should take away from this!!
Some people are just c units. I don't subscribe to the idea that you can't trust someone you find on the Internet, I've met some really nice, genuine guys, I'm a genuine guy!! But there are some who aren't, the whole point here is to make sure no one else suffers the same fate as we have by giving nicols money.
Great points there by 24/7 and meritlover.This is what i was getting at.
ps im a **** from the internet lol but i wont ever rip anyone off.Iv met loads off here for buying selling parts and getting hammered at shows too lol
I don't do any big jobs without a relative deposit. As many time wasters from a customer point of view as there are people offering their services sadly
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