Thread: Rip off of the week

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

Originally Posted by gonetropo

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I thought the last symbol meant fresh dog shit in tyres

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".

Those old gearboxes were so easy to do, the problem as you say is the damage the person that stripped it caused and the damaged and missing parts.
Recently had two tubs of parts dropped off and asked to rebuild it with the parts provided, it was stripped by a specialist and the specialist refused to put it back together.
When I cleaned all the parts up I found several major parts missing and some others damaged.
I had to source some new parts that were needed and not supplied.
Love doing jigsaws.

Also recently had the phone ring while both hands were busy holding something up and putting a bolt or two in to stop it falling on me.
I returned the call when my hands were free, 4 minutes after the call, person says you didn't answer the phone quick enough, so I went elsewhere.
My immediate thought, Thank you I don't want you as a customer, so I just replied "thank you, have a great day".

I could give you quite a few examples of "entitled" customers who think you are just waiting for them to phone or walk in so you can do their job right there and then and pay them for the privilege

Originally Posted by 19Badger

I could give you quite a few examples of "entitled" customers who think you are just waiting for them to phone or walk in so you can do their job right there and then and pay them for the privilege

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

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....

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 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

Originally Posted by scotty

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

Do we work at the same place or something. Then they have to go over every single repair its ever had and how his mate said to fix it. Fuk me its a fukn late model transhit not a 1930 fukn bedford....

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 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.

I'm from the days of twin carb Mini Coopers, MG's (the real ones...not the Chinese ones), big old Wolseley 6/99 and 6/110, etc.
No sweat to clean and tune twin carbs.
But try and find some one these days to do that work, or to get a good old quadrajet running right. As @trapperjohn said...'no diagnosis port....'.
So the modern parts swappers (they aren't 'mechanics' any more) don't know what to do.
Mind you, I'd not like to work on a modern car. Too many computers, electrical gear, and stuff under the bonnet now. Try and fix that out on the road at night when it stops working.
Favourite car to work on for me was the Ford model A, and the sidevalve V8's. Those old buggers just went and went.
We lived in the best of times but didn't know it back then.

i have to love the home handyman who works on modern car electrics. had a young fella turn up with the engine management unit he had tried to re-chip himself. circuit print torn off the pcb etc. didnt use static protection let alone flux to remove it. told him no way am i touching it.
he was almost teary when he told me the replacement was $3k.

or the all time classic. guy brings me the powered mixer from his band (has audio mixer and amps in one unit). complains of hug humming noises and distorted audio.
spend bloody forever on it and wasnt the easiest thing to work on . asked him if he had taken it anywhere else or had a go himself and he replied no.
8 hours later i find an insulating washer is missing from behind a power transistor. this meant someone had undone the m3 screw, removed washer and then reassembled it.
10 cent part later and i tried to charge him a days labour. finally he admitted an electrician had "taken a look".
if he had told me in the first place the job would have been a whole lot cheaper.

My father was a great one for taking things apart to see how they worked, they usually didn't afterwards. As a kid I wanted to use the jigsaw but it was a box of parts, I took it to the local tool shop and said that I took it apart to clean it and couldn't re-assemble they were good enough to reassemble it for me and told me to not clean dads tool anymore.
My mum was mad at me for lying but my old couldn't stop laughing.

Originally Posted by blip

What engine is in the corrola

Are you looking for a particular engine?

No some are really easy to do tho