Thread: Rip off of the week

Originally Posted by Grey Kiwi

Years ago a young guy came into the garage with a sugar bag full of gears, shafts, bearings, loose needle rollers, and the (now empty) gearbox casing from a Mk2 Zephyr.
Could I please check it over, put in any new bits needed, and assemble it?
Well yes, no problem. All I had to do was suss out what bit came from where, what bits where missing from his strip down (to save money), and get the new parts needed.
It really would have been quicker if he had just dropped the gearbox in to me straight from the car.
At least I wouldn't have lost any bits, or smacked the crap out of every shaft while dismantling the thing.
As per Dirty Harry..."A man's got to know his limitations".

I feel for you on this l!

When a lot younger and dumber I had a Mk2 Zody over a pit that had 2” of water in the bottom of it, thought the rear of the gearbox was just a cover of some sort so undid the four bolts holding it to the actual gearbox and pulled this ‘cover off only to hear the splash of components landing in the water!
I’d never put a gearbox together until then but did successfully get it reassembled - by 3am!

Originally Posted by Grey Kiwi

Years ago a young guy came into the garage with a sugar bag full of gears, shafts, bearings, loose needle rollers, and the (now empty) gearbox casing from a Mk2 Zephyr.
Could I please check it over, put in any new bits needed, and assemble it?
Well yes, no problem. All I had to do was suss out what bit came from where, what bits where missing from his strip down (to save money), and get the new parts needed.
It really would have been quicker if he had just dropped the gearbox in to me straight from the car.
At least I wouldn't have lost any bits, or smacked the crap out of every shaft while dismantling the thing.
As per Dirty Harry..."A man's got to know his limitations".

Fuk those are the worst. We even get guys with their project they have completely stripped wanting us to put it back together for them......until we give them a rough price. Cunts of jobs those ones and takes up workshop space for too long. Im sure some of them do it just to get under cover storage for their pile of shit project

Yeah, man's jigsaw puzzles are fun as a private thing but no way are they a good idea for money making!

We have done a couple for customers where money was no object but those are few and far between

Originally Posted by gonetropo

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I thought the last symbol meant fresh dog shit in tyres

Originally Posted by gonetropo

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can i haver it on a tshirt please -would save me wasting breath on a lot of modern knowalls!!

my mechanicall skills run to very basic level so my son handles my truck .eldest son was a whizz with remotes etcetc so he handled that .mr mechanical /welder/spraypinter has a very extensive network of contascts whom i trust implictly .my late father was an a grade petrol/diesel mechanic in charge of a whole truck fleet bewfore alas a CVA took him at age 47yrs.
Iam very suspicious or tireless self promoters or those promising the superduper service in any sphere "if it looks too good to be ture it probably is"same applies in the firearms fraternity .

Car departed our possession this morning and the good wife has some Christmas $$$.

Originally Posted by scotty

yea we usually get the campervan and bus owners rolling in 2 weeks befor xmas "my camper has failed its warrant heres a list 5 times longer than the ten commandments i need it fixed before the 20th" fucken annoying they have all year to sort this shit out but wait till the last minute then wonder why they get turned away......and we are the only ones in town that will do that shit told the boss he has to bump the hourly rate up cos no-one else wants to do it.....(we dont either but we all have a price)people with old shitters on the road are gonna be fucked when all us old fucks decide to chuck it in not many of the new ones coming thru the system can think outside the ssquare

We get that a lot. Thought id just get a cof before we head off. But but i need it fixed now. Some times I need to check our name of our shop as sometimes I think we must be called piece of shit motors or something. We are the only ones in the area that will work on campers as well. Some of the impaitent old cunts will ring every half an hour wanting updates. Those ones get charged phone time as well....

Originally Posted by blip

Some of the impaitent old cunts will ring every half an hour wanting updates. ...

i hear that....."every 5 minutes i spend listening to your life story is 5 minutes im not working on your vehicle.... you do realise im not the one who hasnt maintained it regularly"

and they always turn up at morning smoko or lunchtime .....

and then you get the ones that want to come into your workshop ignoring all the "do not enter" "multiple hazard area" "all enquiries to the office" signs.....its a good thing im hard of hearing , also handy to have really noisey tools you can pick up and start using

Took my ‘89 Corolla to a place in town, he turned me away “because your car is too old” and it would take too long to check it over.


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Originally Posted by MSL

Took my ‘89 Corolla to a place in town, he turned me away “because your car is too old” and it would take too long to check it over.


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Well that's just plain tragic, I'm guessing no diagnosis port to get an error code.

Originally Posted by trapperjohn

Well that's just plain tragic, I'm guessing no diagnosis port to get an error code.

I meant to say, this was for a warrant, nothing wrong with the car.


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Originally Posted by MSL

I meant to say, this was for a warrant, nothing wrong with the car.


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Dam..... The locals seem to like my older stuff....cos they all need two wofs a year doubling what they can get out of me.....(of 6 vehicles I own 4 are pre 2000 and as such are still on 6 month wof..)

Originally Posted by MSL

I meant to say, this was for a warrant, nothing wrong with the car.


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