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Sorry to say, but any french car will be the last car brand I would ever own :P. I wouldn’t hold on to one even if I won one.
I mean when they are brand new they aren’t exactly bad, but from what I can tell they have a bad bad tendency to pick up electrical gremlins much faster then any other brand really.
Sorry to say, but any french car will be the last car brand I would ever own :P. I wouldn’t hold on to one even if I won one.
I mean when they are brand new they aren’t exactly bad, but from what I can tell they have a bad bad tendency to pick up electrical gremlins much faster then any other brand really.
Finding a mechanic you trust is key. I don’t have a car at the moment, but when I get one again I will be certain to listen to word of mouth suggestions as to where others are having their cars fixed.
I have a company car and I have learned which car dealers/garages I will not go to, to either get a car or get a car fixed due to shitty or snotty service when I needed to have something done on the company car.
Finding a mechanic you trust is key. I don’t have a car at the moment, but when I get one again I will be certain to listen to word of mouth suggestions as to where others are having their cars fixed.
I have a company car and I have learned which car dealers/garages I will not go to, to either get a car or get a car fixed due to shitty or snotty service when I needed to have something done on the company car.
I’m not a mechanic and doesn’t have my own shop, but in your specific case I would have told the customer that he asked for a brake-job and that was what he had gotten. And that I had in no way, shape or form been near his front sway-bar and thus would be without fault for its failure. And afterwards tell him that I would agree to work on it and give him a fair price if he brought the parts, or a fair offer on work and parts.
If it was me?, then I would have most likely given the front of the car a once over, while I was down there anyway and notify the customer of any other existing problems or potentially issues in the future. And then either offer to fix it/them right then and there, provide the customer with a quote for their repair, or lastly if the customer outright refused that I fixed the other things, simply work on what the customer had wanted and then notify him once again on pickup that xx issues exists on the vehicle, and since he had refused that I fix them I am not liable for any damages/failure those systems might suffer after he leaves the shop.
That way at least the customer drives away with the knowledge of any preexisting issues, and potential issues to watch out for in the future, and without it costing him more then the original quote. HOWEVER, if the car was unsafe or dangerous to drive off my lot, I would strongly urge the customer to get it fixed before they picked it up, and if they don’t want that?, then sadly I would have to call the cops on them when they left with a potentially fatal/dangerous vehicle that is unsafe for public roads.
I’m not a mechanic and doesn’t have my own shop, but in your specific case I would have told the customer that he asked for a brake-job and that was what he had gotten. And that I had in no way, shape or form been near his front sway-bar and thus would be without fault for its failure. And afterwards tell him that I would agree to work on it and give him a fair price if he brought the parts, or a fair offer on work and parts.
If it was me?, then I would have most likely given the front of the car a once over, while I was down there anyway and notify the customer of any other existing problems or potentially issues in the future. And then either offer to fix it/them right then and there, provide the customer with a quote for their repair, or lastly if the customer outright refused that I fixed the other things, simply work on what the customer had wanted and then notify him once again on pickup that xx issues exists on the vehicle, and since he had refused that I fix them I am not liable for any damages/failure those systems might suffer after he leaves the shop.
That way at least the customer drives away with the knowledge of any preexisting issues, and potential issues to watch out for in the future, and without it costing him more then the original quote. HOWEVER, if the car was unsafe or dangerous to drive off my lot, I would strongly urge the customer to get it fixed before they picked it up, and if they don’t want that?, then sadly I would have to call the cops on them when they left with a potentially fatal/dangerous vehicle that is unsafe for public roads.
I actually find it rather interesting and amusing (in a good way) to be met by a female mechanic those few times that I bump into them. I would tip my hat to you if I had a hat, but I don’t :P.
But I honestly think that most women going through mechanics school will eventually make a lot better mechanic then your average male. Simply through the fact that you as a female face a lot of hardship and challenges going through mechanics school and then actually finding an internship etc. Which basically means that those women that eventually go through with it and comes out on the other end literally lives and breathes cars and wants to work on them if you catch my drift 🙂
Not that some male mechanics doesn’t live and breathe cars, but I would just think that kind of obstacles tends to lead to well better mechanics in the long run.
But at the same junction I don’t blame you for not bothering with that kind of issues and simply deciding to truck on with what you really want to do :). I for one wish you the best of luck with your change of job and your endavours.
I actually find it rather interesting and amusing (in a good way) to be met by a female mechanic those few times that I bump into them. I would tip my hat to you if I had a hat, but I don’t :P.
But I honestly think that most women going through mechanics school will eventually make a lot better mechanic then your average male. Simply through the fact that you as a female face a lot of hardship and challenges going through mechanics school and then actually finding an internship etc. Which basically means that those women that eventually go through with it and comes out on the other end literally lives and breathes cars and wants to work on them if you catch my drift 🙂
Not that some male mechanics doesn’t live and breathe cars, but I would just think that kind of obstacles tends to lead to well better mechanics in the long run.
But at the same junction I don’t blame you for not bothering with that kind of issues and simply deciding to truck on with what you really want to do :). I for one wish you the best of luck with your change of job and your endavours.
Looks good and good job on the budget paint job.
And I would not have any issues using rattlecans to paint a car. I fixed a few dings and scratches on my old car that way, ie filling out the dents with filler, sanding it down, clean, primer, wet sand, final coat, clean, and then top coat. It looked more or less showroom fresh on that part 🙂
And I know of several people who has painted entire vehicles with rattlecans and gotten decent and satisfying results out of it 🙂
Looks good and good job on the budget paint job.
And I would not have any issues using rattlecans to paint a car. I fixed a few dings and scratches on my old car that way, ie filling out the dents with filler, sanding it down, clean, primer, wet sand, final coat, clean, and then top coat. It looked more or less showroom fresh on that part 🙂
And I know of several people who has painted entire vehicles with rattlecans and gotten decent and satisfying results out of it 🙂
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From some other guys I heard that welding will evaporate a zinc from the element and makes it more prone to corrosion. What is you opinion guys? Is it a good approach to fill it with some epoxy mass ? [/quote]That is correct, in order to get a perfect weld the guy doing the work would have to grind down to bare metal and thus at the same time grind through the galvanisation. If left uncovered and untreated then yes you would get rust at that point. But covered with primer, paint and then top coat it wouldn’t really matter a great deal since you would have the paint on the top to protect.
If the guy fixing it was really zealous he could spray on a coating of zinc plating to the welded spot, which is otherwise known as cold-galvanising. Would it make it a difference, sure. But not a great deal of difference in reality.
[quote=”mosfet” post=67100]
From some other guys I heard that welding will evaporate a zinc from the element and makes it more prone to corrosion. What is you opinion guys? Is it a good approach to fill it with some epoxy mass ? [/quote]That is correct, in order to get a perfect weld the guy doing the work would have to grind down to bare metal and thus at the same time grind through the galvanisation. If left uncovered and untreated then yes you would get rust at that point. But covered with primer, paint and then top coat it wouldn’t really matter a great deal since you would have the paint on the top to protect.
If the guy fixing it was really zealous he could spray on a coating of zinc plating to the welded spot, which is otherwise known as cold-galvanising. Would it make it a difference, sure. But not a great deal of difference in reality.
I’m 32 and so far I have only owned 2 cars, but driven countless others
1: 1996 Nissan Almera 1.6 SR
2: 1993 Mitsubishi Lancer 1600 GLX (CB50 model, “same” model as the first Evo ;))Still looking forward to when I can afford and actually need a car again.
I’m 32 and so far I have only owned 2 cars, but driven countless others
1: 1996 Nissan Almera 1.6 SR
2: 1993 Mitsubishi Lancer 1600 GLX (CB50 model, “same” model as the first Evo ;))Still looking forward to when I can afford and actually need a car again.
69 Ford Mustang, preferably a Boss 302, GT350 or GT500
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