text: help i recently took my motorcycle to a repitible motor bike repair shop to have it repaired as it would not r un at all the owner of the shop took on the repair and at this point i told him that i would leave it in his hands on the understanding that i only had a buget of 200 pounds to alow for the repair and if it was any more i would have to think again as to wether or not to have what ever was wrong with it done to which he agreed after about a week and not hearing from him i phoned him to see how it was going and he told me thay had not been able to find the fualt and surggested that he would take it to the suzuki main dealer and get them to diagnose the fault by putting on there diagnostic macchine but said that this would take a while as thay were busy and i agered to this over a month passed and fed up with waiting i phoned the repair shop again and asked if it was back from the main dealer and if he had repaired it  to which he said that the main dealer had repaired it and the bill was 560pounds and if i dident pay the bill he would not be able to get it back and nor would i help pleas that is not acceptable, the main dealer must get the permission of whoever is paying the bill before any work commences (excluding diagnostics which shouldnt cost over £50) as they must inform you of what is wrong and the cost involved.  who has the bike at the moment, the main dealer or the repair shop? it should still be at the main dealers in which case you should phone or drop by the dealers and explain that permission was never given by you for the work to be carried out, they can not charge you for this.  if the bike remains at the small repair shop then they have already paid the main dealer in order for them to take possesion of the bike - in this case get them to explain why permission was given by them to carry out the repair when you specified that work should not exceed £200.  if you need to you may have to contact the police to regain custody of the bike. good luck.