Ricky: a fleet Peugeot with a sticky valve

Ricky, The Test Station · Filmed 6 November 2025 · 0:24

Ricky works at The Test Station, an MOT, service and repair garage with two branches in the Wallington and Carshalton area. We filmed him in the workshop on 6 November 2025, talking to David from TEC 2000 UK. The clip is one continuous take of his answer.

He talks about a Peugeot fleet vehicle that came in with a sticky valve and running issues. The garage did an engine flush, an oil and filter change and an oil booster. Ricky says the car has been driving perfectly ever since. The owner of the fleet had suspected it might need an engine rebuild.

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Transcript

Ricky: We had a Peugeot not that long ago that had a sticky valve and had running issues. And we ran a engine flush, a oil and filter change, and an oil booster, and the vehicle was driving perfectly now and has been ever since we did it, and that was a fleet vehicle that was suspecting he was gonna have to have potentially an engine rebuild.

David (TEC 2000 UK): Ooh.

Ricky: And that's now good as gold.