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October 3, 2012 at 3:55 am #466407
Hey all,
So what jobs do you dislike to do when it comes to repair a said customers vehicle?
The main one i am not a fan of doing is Alignments. For me, they can be very frustrating particularly living in the rust belt where 80% of the time, your reaching for the torch… Ugh.
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December 16, 2012 at 2:20 pm #485026
I would have to say for now it would be the U140f for Toyota and Lexus. I know its not a hard build. Maybe its that I just haven’t seen many of them.
Everything else I do from brakes to engine work and trans rebuilds I like. I even like suspension work
December 16, 2012 at 6:23 pm #485049[quote=”Heath Knox” post=42066]I would have to say for now it would be the U140f for Toyota and Lexus. I know its not a hard build. Maybe its that I just haven’t seen many of them.
Everything else I do from brakes to engine work and trans rebuilds I like. I even like suspension work[/quote]
Ok what is a u140f I’m guessing its a yoter trans.
December 17, 2012 at 12:33 am #485079yes it is, sorry
January 15, 2013 at 5:52 am #491855I have to say that that I hate working on anything rusty.. I also dislike brake lines
January 20, 2013 at 6:31 am #493130Heater Cores, I absolutely hate pulling dashes.
January 20, 2013 at 9:40 pm #493232Some of the heater cores are a pain..The silverado and jeep cherokee… ugggggg only thing good about em is you stay fairly clean as you are removing the dash… but still a pain
January 20, 2013 at 9:57 pm #493236[quote=”JoshMc” post=33489]The worst for me is the one I see most of the time. The job that someone else started but had no clue what they were getting into. I get a call from someone saying ” Hey Josh, how much would you charge me to change a clutch?” I give them a quote and in a few hours the vehicle gets towed in with parts all through the trunk and a 5 gallon bucket full of bolts and pieces. Then it’s my job to imagine how to put everything back together and it never fails that there is more to the story than I was told. I have learned over the years to never give an exact price when I quote a job. I always leave room for adding in for the unexpected.[/quote]
I must admit…never thought of the dreaded.. pre started job… oh yea.. they make life interesting… all the unessasry removed parts that you knew nothing about till… well ya know…and another thing.. some cutomers lie about what happin to the car….. why they gotta do that?????
January 21, 2013 at 3:18 am #493292Oh my God I hate that. I went out on a job for a friend of a friend. He had a 90 something Buick Regal and he said he tried to change the serpentine belt. He didn’t know that you had to remove that engine mount bolt. I got the new belt on and when I started it up the tensioner was making a crap load of noise. I found out that it had been taken off (by him) and put on backwards. He completely denied touching it. But there is no way he did not.
January 26, 2013 at 4:28 am #494592Number 1 for me has to be completing jobs someone else started.
I’ve had this plenty of times in my old place and in one example there was a car in for faulty passenger front elec window and the other technician had ripped off the door cards on both sides, cut the plastic sealing, removed the window motors and then the locking mechanism on the passenger side and unwrapped all the related wiring from its insulation.
It stayed with us for 3 days until he was due a day off and it fell on me to get rid of it. The problem turned out to be a broken wire inside the rubber gaiter in the drivers door jam and it took literally 30 seconds to find (this is always the first place I look with these sort of issues). Fixing the problem was nice and simple, but I had to refit everything that was removed from both doors with a single pile of screws and fixings. haha, ahhhhhh how I hate fixing other peoples half jobs.January 26, 2013 at 6:52 am #494627Glow plugs on a 6.0L Powerstroke in a van. Biggest pain ever…..
January 29, 2013 at 12:02 pm #495465Hyundai interiors. Especially anything inside the damn door. :angry:
I really love using the gas pedal for a pillow while I look at the fuse box cross-eyed, and try to bite my elbow and my wrist at the same time to reach anything. 😛
Or worse, come from the passenger’s door. Shifter knob right up the ass.Their Techline is good though. Real “Silver Bullet” when you’re in dire straights. banana:
My favorite shit was always the door lock regulators and motors.
So far at GM, it’s changing oil on the Terrain/Traverse/Denali platform. Think it’s a 3.6L V6? Damned oil filter dumps all over the alternator, CAT, Engine Mount, cross member. Ugh.
Saturn filters drain on the control arm and C/V axle…
Ultimate retardation moment: Seeing a Vortec with a 90 degree filter relocation thingy that causes the filter to drain right on the front driveshaft yolk. If you leave it factory stock, no mess, no fuss, no worry. But the relocate kit pisses oil all over the D/S yolk and no amount of cardboard or plastic that you can stick in there will completely fix the problem, PLUS by the time you squarsh it in there, it woulda been faster to just clean the big mess, rather than engineer your own cardboard and then clean the little mess.
GM is really fucked with their oil filters. The new Madlibu (as I call it) is as bad or worse than the Traverse/Terrain/Rendezvous/Mini-Denali.
January 29, 2013 at 1:41 pm #4954901) Drum brakes – scientists have mapped a large portion of the human genome yet manufacturers still use tech from the 1900’s to stop vehicles…. Its 2013, STOP USING DRUM BRAKES ffs!
2) German cars – In the interest of making them advanced/smooth/whatever they have systematically screwed the average tech into the position of spending outrageous sums of money on specialized tools they will use 1-3 times. I personally have close to $750 worth of random “holders/lockouts/sockets/etc” for working on VW/Audi crap that live in their pristine packaging never again to see the light of day.
3) Heater Cores – huge PITA and time killer for something that could literally be a 1.0hr job if the designers/engineers had half a brain when they designed the system, I mean c’mon, how hard would it be to design in an access panel to remove the H/C without having to remove 65% of the interior?
January 29, 2013 at 10:27 pm #495527[quote=”Chevypower” post=47378]Hyundai interiors. Especially anything inside the damn door. :angry:
I really love using the gas pedal for a pillow while I look at the fuse box cross-eyed, and try to bite my elbow and my wrist at the same time to reach anything. 😛
Or worse, come from the passenger’s door. Shifter knob right up the ass.Their Techline is good though. Real “Silver Bullet” when you’re in dire straights. banana:
My favorite shit was always the door lock regulators and motors.
So far at GM, it’s changing oil on the Terrain/Traverse/Denali platform. Think it’s a 3.6L V6? Damned oil filter dumps all over the alternator, CAT, Engine Mount, cross member. Ugh.
Saturn filters drain on the control arm and C/V axle…
Ultimate retardation moment: Seeing a Vortec with a 90 degree filter relocation thingy that causes the filter to drain right on the front driveshaft yolk. If you leave it factory stock, no mess, no fuss, no worry. But the relocate kit pisses oil all over the D/S yolk and no amount of cardboard or plastic that you can stick in there will completely fix the problem, PLUS by the time you squarsh it in there, it woulda been faster to just clean the big mess, rather than engineer your own cardboard and then clean the little mess.
GM is really fucked with their oil filters. The new Madlibu (as I call it) is as bad or worse than the Traverse/Terrain/Rendezvous/Mini-Denali.[/quote] anything hyundai is a bitch 3.5 stana fe timing belts holy crap man. the traverses,enclaves are the worst thing ever made.they eat timing chains all of them i swear. the oil change pays 3-10’s and takes almost an hour after u burned the f**** out of your hands. the 5.3 2006 and above isnt too bad i just hate that on a lift that if you dont use that stupid cardboard my box gets an oil shower for that first 5 seconds.the old 4.3 blazer is another example of brillant enginering. the trailblazers ugh is all i have to say.havent worked on the 2013 malibus got fired from my job at bill streask in 2011 so all i remember is the cruze and like one volt….hated that shop.
January 29, 2013 at 11:24 pm #495537One repair I had to perform for a friend was the thermostat on a 2006 Chrysler 300 with the 3.5 motor. I had never done on before. Just the ridiculous steps to perform this repair was frustrating. You got to jack up the drivers side remove the tire, remove the plastic wheel wall, lower the a/c disconnect the power steering pump. All this to replace a 12 dollar thermostat. So keep that in mind when you quote this job to friends or family.
January 30, 2013 at 12:09 am #495541[quote=”fordranger” post=47397]the old 4.3 blazer is another example of brillant enginering. the trailblazers ugh is all i have to say.[/quote]
I’m with you there! Pulling the steering shaft to replace spark plugs was annoying but the motor mount setup in those damn things will drive you insane. One trick I learned was to take the grinder and notch out the bottom edge of the lower hole so you can start the lower bolt a few threads in then slip the mount in between the engine and frame bracket
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