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anderssj |
Apr 12 2016, 05:50 PM
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Dog is my copilot... Group: Members Posts: 1,664 Joined: 28-January 03 From: VA Member No.: 207 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
Finally picked up the 914 yesterday after almost a month at a highly recommended local indie shop (the reason it took a month is another story). I made it about 10 miles towards home before the steering felt funny and there was a clunking from the left front . . . (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)
Yeah, you guessed it: (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) LF lugs weren't tightened/torqued. I guess that I WAS lucky on one level . . . I hadn't decided to take the freeway home. After jacking up the car and tightening the lug bolts (and checking the others), I drove back to the shop for a "safety briefing" with the owner. Not much said besides "sorry." When I'm doing multi-step work on the car where I might forget something, I tend to leave sticky notes one the dash or steering wheel ("pump brakes," "torque lugs," etc.). But when a car is in the shop, how do we know they haven't forgotten something and everything is really OK . . . that the valves are properly adjusted, push rod tube keeper wires in place . . . or if a wheel is about to fall off? And I know that sometimes people make mistakes, that $hit happens, that the exception doesn't prove the rule, etc., etc., but still . . . I guess it comes down to a matter of trust--kind of like buying/eating mushrooms (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) We try to exercise our judgment in picking the best mechanic, shop, doctor, contractor, product, etc., then we pay our $ and take our chances, right? Sorry for the rant, but this experience has left me kind of pessimistic. |
Geezer914 |
Apr 13 2016, 11:29 AM
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Geezer914 Group: Members Posts: 1,447 Joined: 18-March 09 From: Salem, NJ Member No.: 10,179 Region Association: North East States |
This is why I do all my own work. If you don't know how, find someone who does so you can watch and learn. Plenty of how too videos on you tube. I was watching a you tube video on a lube & oil change place in Canada scamming customers. A customer would go in to get an oil change for $19.95. They would upsell to $29.95 for better oil. Then they would check the fluids and tell the customer they needed a brake fluid flush and coolant flush. The funny part is they would return in 10 minutes with a bill for $281.00 and tell the customer his car was ready! You are lucky to do a half assed oil change in 10 minutes, let alone a brake fluid and coolant flush. What proof do you have that they used the $29.95 oil instead of the recycled drain oil? Did they change the filter or clean off the old one? If you must go to a garage, always ask for the old parts. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sheeplove.gif)
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