Dave2302

BIG LOL ..................... I was actually thinking once we know some more could set up Team Viewer on a Delphi Diagnostic Laptop !! I do that shit with an Aussie mate and a Yank mate on Mercedes SDS on occasions

I honestly don't think so at all. I earn good money for doing a good job / selling good cars. I don't need to do this, I do it because it keeps me occupied and I've always loved Cars, still do, running the business supports my Mercedes obsession

Yeah, give us the details, we might be able to diagnose it over the internet Oh, btw forget the Dealers, you'll get fleeced at parts darts

/\ /\ /\ I don't get that ........................... Of course no business is a Charity, and I charge very well for doing a good job, with no exceptions Hopefully this will explain ........... The only 2 things I did to help him was ............. 1) I agreed to fit a good used Auto Trans which he bought and had shipped to me. Normally, on a punters Car I wouldn't fit any used part, or parts supplied by punter !! It was strictly on the understanding that if it was no good I still got paid, (which I knew I would), and as I knew he would, he paid when he collected it yesterday afternoon !! 2) I freed up his Calipers took half hour, which are now atm working fine. they still have 2mm + on 3 of the Pads, the other pad being the new one bodged in by the local knob jockey Garage !! I didn't tell him / charge him because I know he would want to pay the half hour, and also I don't want my name involved with doing that sort of temporary repair. Upon collection I simply told him that I noticed his front brakes including calipers need doing ASAP He has 2 times 50 mile journeys into the woods to do to work, (so 200 miles total), where he kips in the Van all week, cuts wood all day. He has 2 working weeks left this month, so clearly the Brakes will be OK in this mileage / time frame He gets paid at month end and has booked it in with me for 2 new Calipers, Discs and Pads. These guys up here are not like the pot less English council estate wankers who drive around like looneys in old Vauxhalls run on a shoestring and want everyone to do everything cheap and then knock them !! This couple have a very close relative dying of cancer and with dementia, so he stays home 2 weeks and his wife stays home the other 2 weeks. They are living on half income for the foreseeable. They are not "cake holed" they are simply proud people on hard times. I could have done the job for nothing if I'd wanted to, my only expense was a couple of Jubilee Clips and a half litre of Trans Fluid, plus a little time on the lift fitting it, but he wouldn't have wanted me too, I have known him over 10 years now. He came to me because he knows fine well no one locally would be able to fit an Auto Trans without fucking it up. He will now become a regular customer and recommend others, like all my customers. Those that choose to go to some of the local goat herders because they are cheap will continue going and getting their Cars bodged, and tbh they aren't the sort of Customers I want I am always booked up 2 weeks in advance, and seriously considering building a much larger Workshop so I can have more jobs on the go at any one time

I was wondering that, only thing I can think is 4 Inept Twats and 2 visits to a shit main stealer, I'd have EBaye'd it long long time ago, well actually I wouldn't, I'd have fixed it !! There's a challenge TG, transporter it up here, and if I can't fix it I'll pay the transporter back !! I've never been beaten yet, a couple have needed 2 goes before they got sent back fixed, and one actually was here 3 months, (in between other jobs), and needed 3 goes to get it 100%, but in fairness to me it did have 3 faulty parts all giving the same "Offset Airflow Drift" Code

/\ /\ /\ Yes !! Thinking about it, I don't actually know of one of my Customers that isn't self employed, or retired, most with wealth, which accounts for almost no oooohs and harrrrs when they get an Invoice

Flying, sold 3 big £££££££ so far and workshop so busy I actually did customer car work on Sunday to catch up, first time in years

LOL, this is me I don't do fuck all for nowt, it wasn't a charity job, he got charged proper rate to fit his Auto Box, and he fully understood he'd still be paying if the Auto box turned out to be a wanker, no warranty from me etc etc other than whatever he got from the seller My locals are still sensible people unlike many in England OK, so I didn't charge him to free off the Brakes, but I had made a lot more than a half hour out of the Trans Install, and I didn't want to put my name on having anything to do with the Brakes I never even mentioned the Lower Arms, just told him I noticed he needs to get his front brakes sorted, and in my opinion he will need 2 Calipers Discs and Pads. He's bringing it back for them next month after pay day If my Customers ask me to take for MOT I charge 'em 2 hrs, half hour there, 1 hr for test and 1/2 hr back, most take 'em themselves, I just book it for them after I've done all the work, if I haven't done the work I book or take fuck all for Test

They are all used for different tasks, which would take a week to explain in depth Briefly the Green 1/2 drive very rarely used, it's an animal, and will undo most that the others won't, the 3/4 beast will take Hub nuts off if Green one fails. The 3/8 drive battery one is a real beastie too, and good if going out somewhere to do a little job There is a bloody great Orange Snap On Box, like the top of one of the ones in the pic, which is now in my Workshop Van and contains enough tools to fix most stuff, used to take that when Rallying, which of course is what the Blue Point ones were used for, thats why 2 air drills as well, my old Vito was fully equipped when I was rallying

That was from the days when a Volvo was actually reasonably good if you liked that sort of thing In them days I was a Jaguar Man, when they were proper Cars, (that needed fixing monthly)

Crap Engine

/\ /\ /\ This If I still lived in Kent I'd be banged up for attempted Murder by now

Hi,OK, back to cheap parts and shoddy workmanship for today's "Workshop" example Not the usual example of Vehicle I'd work on but he's a local young family fella with an old Mazda Bongo Camper Van, 4X4 Automatic, he works in the woods, stays in the Van when working doesn't have much money, normally I wouldn't touch something like this, but I know the family well, and I know why they are having hard times, he's a good guy, and helping a good guy out is no problem in my books ................Transmission died recently, only had 1st gear and Reverse and oil very black and stinky !!Because this is an old vehicle and he couldn't afford or justify paying for a Rebuilt Unit at ~ £1600, he bought a good used Transmission from a reputable Breakers for a few hundred.This took time where it stood unused in which time both the front Brakes became seized, Right Front almost locked solid, left very stiff, the Van needed a helluva a lot of throttle to drag itself into the Workshop to get it on my lift, once raised I could barely turn the wheel with both hands !!So I fitted the Auto Box, also repaired a drippy leaky Trans Oil Cooler Pipe, which I suspect caused the failure.Well I can't give it back to him like that, (brakes seized) so I'll spend 1/2 hr, wheels off and see if I can get them a little freer then advise him they need overhaul.When I get in their, I find 2 piston Calipers, the Right one has no outer rubber boots on one Piston, absolutely rotten, and the left one has no outer rubber boots on either Piston, so I buff the Pistons with a little Emery, and work them back and forth, also buff the sliders and lube them.As I'm refitting them I notice someone has fairly recently fitted just 1 (singular) Brake Pad in it, which is almost like new, and the other 3 are 2mm off the Metal !!So anyway, I chuck it all back together in disgust, as I know he doesn't have any money left to fit 2 Calipers, Discs, Pads and Caliper Carrier overhaul etc once he's paid me for the Transmission Fit !!I quizzed him when I advised him of the Brakes a few minutes ago, and he tells me they were seized last time it was MOT'd about 6 months ago and 'XXXXXX' at the local MOT garage fixed them for him Workmanship huh, 1 pad, presumably because he couldn't get the pistons all the way back !!So anyway, while I was under it I noticed it had had 2 new lower Suspension Arms, and they had funny writing on them ##### etc, bloody Chinesium CrapThere is a big bush that has a large pin go through it, that's what holds the lower arm in .......................Apologies for the poor picture quality, bad light under the lift ...................But you can still see the "Bird cr@p" welding, and one weld hasn't even penetrated the Arm, it has missed altogether and the other weld has a blow hole in it ......................

Long ago there was an Irish pikey guy in Dartford used to sell "Cut and Shuts", I was there one day when a punter was rucking, he was a big old boy, and the paddy calmly said to the bloke "look at it this way mate, ya got 2 Cars for the price of one"

LOL, that's my favourite saying when guys with a Mercedes want to cheap out

They're Baaaaaaaack ...................

What I wanna know is who put the cunt in Scunthorpe

I absolutely know you won't believe this, but it's as true as I'm sitting here with a BLT Sarnie and drinking Coffee ............. I asked for a Febi Bilstein Top Mount Bearing and Factor sent that shit over, it is standing on top of a Caliper old unit and will be returned for credit on todays 1 o'clock van /\ /\ /\ BIG LOL emoji

Hmmmmmm indeed A couple of years ago I watched a local Garage Owner using an Air Hacksaw to cut the middle section out of a 4X4 Pick Up (Navara or similar), in order to replace a rotten and leaking Engine Sump without dropping the S/Frame, then he welded the centre bit back in afterwards FFS (there isn't an emoji for that emoji) Here's some of the promised Snap On Porn, although I have to admit it's all way too dusty right now ................

As an "old boy" of the Motor Trade, I couldn't agree more with you, and I'm sure as you rightly say, many have "had it off" in the good old halcyon days with Cash deals ................... These days, as you rightly point out, this is infinitely more traceable, and as has been said elsewhere, HMRC only need a sniff of a Cash payment that may be perfectly innocent, but if it was 4 years ago you may not be able to remember it and explain it ..................... And then, you have a whole heap of shit descend on your head from a great height !! Cash for me, these days, is simply an extra task, to go to the Post Office, pay that exact amount in, and then clip the receipt to my Sales Invoice. Bank Transfer is my preferred method. Mel's old Mum is a royal pain in the arse, when I settle her Newspaper / Milk account with the local shop, and then she gives me Cash a week later, I have to be very careful to note all that on my Personal Account Statements these days ........................ "Just in case"

This, or, see if they'll give you a refund for the price difference between CAT N and what you paid They may do that as it's less aggro for them

I have another stack the same, the Green one was bought 3 years ago, and the Black one around 23 years ago, and still in good nick They are both now all but full with mostly Snap On tools ................... If I get time tomorrow I'll post up some Snap On Porn I might trade them both later this year and install the huge Snap On monster that goes all the way along the wall like a fitted kitchen (huge grin emoji)

Yeah they work with the right code, just not off the menu ..................... Anyone know the code for the Fuck Off Twunt emoji ?? (big grin emoji)

Gearbox Input Shaft Bearing failure is common, rattle like a bastard, noise stops when clutch depressed, common problem. I use LUK all the time, only ever had one problem 3 years ago, and that was a Concentric Cylinder came in the Kit, went pop 10 miles down the road I use these in MB's BMW's did HDI Pug recently all good, they are also, (as I'm sure you know), an OEM for many many Vehicle Manufacturers Having said all that never say never, there's always the odd dud with everything

Oh that definitely was Criminal, it had to be a bent MOT in order to get shot of it last year !! Probably owned by the guy who tested it, or he got bribed a lot to pass that