Thread: Rip off of the week

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....

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.

No some are really easy to do tho

Its the season had one just now. Camper failed cof siezed handbrake cable. None in the country and the rip of cunts want too much to get one in urgently from overseas can we get one in. No sorry mate get it in yourself and save yourself some money btw hope its the right one when it turns up...

Yep they have to do a wof check unless its obviously dangerous or in a state its not able to be checked properly ie covered in mud and crap

Originally Posted by blip

Yep they have to do a wof check unless its obviously dangerous or in a state its not able to be checked properly ie covered in mud and crap

They may want to look at WHY they sid no too.....Our local said no to a WOF on our car but only because it is due after the christmas break and they are full of other people panicing to get WOFs done and they cannot squeeze us in...(Fair enough on that count, I should have been more organisied....) The old adage that" Disorganisation on your part does not make an emergency on my part......" comes to mind.

If they simply decided that they couldn't be arsed with the older car then in truth they wouldnot be a company I would trust with newer one either.....

@Scotty Coming across many cracked b pillars yet?

Don't get me started on transits and other euro campers,....

Everything from chassis heave to seats not bolted thru heavy enuff panels leading to fatigue cracks , dodgy rust repairs to rotten floors.right now I'm doing a rubbish truck that got backed into by another one . Extensive frontal rush rush..... Ah well 34 hours left in the year

Got a transit here you think you can get fukn brake hoses for it pita

are they cables or hydro lines?? Think there's a place in Whangarei that makes them

Brake hoses have to get them made. Ford doesnt even do them

Originally Posted by blip

Brake hoses have to get them made. Ford doesnt even do them

I will check with father in law. Think he had something done not long ago