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Samurai Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York Total Likes: 1900 likes
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | | This Is Why My Car Never Leaves My Sight < on 10/9/2012 10:27 PM > | Reply with Quote
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| bandi Lippy Mechanic Bastard
Location: Trent Hills, ON Gender: Male Total Likes: 734 likes
A liminal mind is all I've ever known.
| | | | Re: This Is Why My Car Never Leaves My Sight < Reply # 8 on 10/10/2012 3:26 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I should add, one of the reasons I became a technician was when I was 16 or 17, my '85 Daytona broke its timing belt at idle. Towed it to a shop I had trusted before, he did the belt, cash transaction, end of story. The car smelled like cigarettes after. A few days later, I noticed the car felt progressively sloppier when I was shifting gears. Popped the hood and found 2 engine mount bolts missing so the mount was literally just resting on the frame rail, and this extra movement had subsequently yanked a few vacuum hoses away from where they should be. No biggie, drove it home gently, found a couple bolts... called the mechanic to let him know he left my engine loose. "Oh, I didn't do the work on it." and he hung up. Nice. The real kicker was when I was cleaning my car a couple days later and removed the ashtray to clean around it and it had butts in it- in a car that had NEVER been smoked in. That's when I really lost it on this fucker.
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| Ricky_from_TV
Location: Peterborough, Ontario Gender: Male Total Likes: 156 likes
I'm going to try and refuckulate it
| | | Re: This Is Why My Car Never Leaves My Sight < Reply # 11 on 10/10/2012 12:15 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by bandi I should add, one of the reasons I became a technician was when I was 16 or 17, my '85 Daytona broke its timing belt at idle. Towed it to a shop I had trusted before, he did the belt, cash transaction, end of story. The car smelled like cigarettes after. A few days later, I noticed the car felt progressively sloppier when I was shifting gears. Popped the hood and found 2 engine mount bolts missing so the mount was literally just resting on the frame rail, and this extra movement had subsequently yanked a few vacuum hoses away from where they should be. No biggie, drove it home gently, found a couple bolts... called the mechanic to let him know he left my engine loose. "Oh, I didn't do the work on it." and he hung up. Nice. The real kicker was when I was cleaning my car a couple days later and removed the ashtray to clean around it and it had butts in it- in a car that had NEVER been smoked in. That's when I really lost it on this fucker.
| That Sucks, Good thing the engine did't fall out of it.
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| shadowedsmile
Location: Northwestern Ontario Gender: Female Total Likes: 157 likes
mines always on the mind
| | | Re: This Is Why My Car Never Leaves My Sight < Reply # 12 on 10/10/2012 2:38 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | There's a lot of reasons I'm really happy I met bandi - this being one of them. I'm so glad I don't need to take my car to someone I don't have 100% faith in anymore. The VW dealership used to be good back home, but when they moved and a large chunk of their service crew left, they started to really suck. The last time someone else serviced my vehicle was in December 2009, and I got my Jetta back with an engine light code (they were just supposed to check my alternator etc to see why I'm getting the generator light at random). I had to go back up north that weekend with a car that couldn't accelerate properly. It wasn't a lot of fun driving in northern Ontario on dark, snowy roads with a car that barely gets past 60 and then barely past 80. I was in school all week so the next weekend I drove home again to take it back to VW. They call me and I come in and they tell me it's code whatever...could be the turbo, could be something in the vacuum lines, but they don't really know. Okay. That's not useful but whatever. Went home, popped the hood, removed the engine cover and there is a hose laying beside the vac reservoir. Put it back together, figure there's no way they'd miss something that obvious. Never got that error again, and the car has worked properly again ever since. It's not a horror story by any means - but something that obvious should not have been missed by a mechanic saying it could be an error in the vac lines...shouldn't you have checked the obvious ones? Luckily they didn't charge me for the diagnostic and I met bandi a few months later
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| Samurai Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York Total Likes: 1900 likes
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | | Re: This Is Why My Car Never Leaves My Sight < Reply # 14 on 10/10/2012 8:11 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | i lost the clutch in my 91 Cavalier RS after getting stuck in a mammoth snowdrift. Started to slip in 5th gea. The shop my brother worked at couldn't get to it for a week so I took it to another local shop. They had it done in a day and I picked the car up. As soon as I started i knew something was badly wrong with it. The clutch before pushed easy and wasn't that hard. With the new clutch in it, it took a war-throw with your foot. On top of that, it was really grabby and the transmission had a new whine I didn't care for. Once I got the car rolling, shifting it was hard. I address my concerns to the guy that worked on the car/owned the shop. He tells me that my transmission was probably going anyway... funny, didn't seem to be anything wrong with it before. So predictably, the clutch AND transmission fail. It locked up in second gear. I had to get in the back seat and kick the shifter into neutral, then roll it down the hill to the shop my brother worked at. It sat for a couple of days and then they got to it, my brother taking the transaxle out. What he found was both funny and enough to boil the blood. The clutch disc was in backwards. Keep in mind, all you folks that have never changed a clutch, that when you pull the kit out of the box, there is a decal on the clutch disc that says "FLYWHEEL SIDE" and "TRANSMISSION SIDE" for easy installation. Uh huh. Later that day, one of the guys that was friends with my brother and knew the shop where the clutch had been done was laughing going, "yeah, walt drove the transmission bolts in with an impact" huh huh huh. So, by putting the clutch in backwards, not only did the clutch fail, but it took the transmission with it. So I bought clutch #2 from NAPA and transaxle #2 from Jerry Brown's Used Auto Parts in Castleton Corners VT. The transmission was out of an 89 but a quick swap of the speedo drive put is in business. Put those in. A month later, the front input bearing on the gearset (right behind the input shaft inside the transaxle) seizes, shattering the transmission case and spraying two or so quarts of GM Sychromesh all over the clutch ruining it. The salvage yard warrantied the transmission (which I thought was pretty damn cool), but the clutch and labor (which I thought sucked). So, Clutch #3 and transmission #3. And away we went. Those lasted until 2000 when I killed the clutch... i was moving at over 110mph heading into a corner on Tennessee Route 30. I downshifted a gear too many, the transmission shifted on the worn out engine mounts and in the process all the little fingers on the pressure plate sheared. Clutch #4 was the very last one. what does suck is my brother now works where I do... i no longer have access to a full GM shop.
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