Dave2302

I cannot believe that BMW is more complex than a W221, I have had complete Dashes and HVAC out of S Class in less time, much less, can usually do one in a day !! Sadly this is the problem with Warranty Work, they never want to pay !!

Now you just know you gotta do the rest of that floor and walls

FFS

Very well said, although you will probably get slated for wanting to pay for a decent job first time Love the "Parts Darts" ............... And don't forget to change the DMF while your at it

I do not fleece my Customers. I advise them, and tbh, I have never had anyone not do a DMF at the same time, despite cost. This may be a location thing again,my Customers like their Cars reliable, a breakdown up here in bad weather with no phone signal can be very serious sh!t !! /\ /\ /\ Couldn't have put that better myself. Back in the late nineties when I had the Transmission firm we did 2 or 3 without changing DMF, and before the 12 months was up they had either come back rattling or juddering, so nope, I don't do them without now, and nope, I don't feck around asking customers to sign disclaimers, the sort of guy who wants a cheap job is not the sort of customer I want. My workshop is booked up 3 weeks in advance, and has been for a very long while now !! We all do very high mileages up here, a lot of my custom is fleet owners. One guy does Bristol and Back from IOS weekly, his Manual E Class Estate has now done 230k miles, and due to the way it has been maintained it still drives like new. On the flip side, if I removed a Gearbox and found the DMF to be very recent, and not Chinese, of course i would send it back to Factor for Credit, but that has never been the case, usually the bast@rds are rattly anyway by the time the Clutch needs doing !!

Yeah, my thoughts entirely Welcome, btw I'm older than you and have a very good grasp of Technology, both IT and Vehicular

Yes I agree with that, it is the Logos andname that are normally the problem A sentence however, that mentions the Name should not be a problem. One could always try telling them to feck off and see what happens next LOL For example, the Landy Man, have LR actually copyrighted "Landy" ????????????????????

I agree with you on a sales car, statutory warranty etc, but if I'm putting a Clutch kit in a workshop customers MB, VW, whatever then I personally have to guarantee it, and I don't wanna be doing it again in 6 months time cos they are whinging it rattles or judders 30 years !! That is around when they first appeared in about 1995 era Like me, you're showing your age lol

It was their 126's that inspired me The Skinner Bro's, they were mates of mine, took my Fiat 500 to Avon Park once with them. Nice lads, but they didn't like my Business partner who used to take it to strips more than I did and tell everyone he built it etc etc !! Mind I didn't like him much either after he stole a load of money out of the Business, then cost me an f'ing fortune to get rid of the c*nt !! The elder Bro lost his young son, very tragic, they are lovely Guys, good craic

Bummer !! BTW, I wasn't trying to sound offensive, and you've answered me, you did indeed change it !! I just come across as abrupt sometimes, I say it how I see it FWIW, (and obviously you may have), I always use the LUK Clutch Kits, rather that the cheapies. I have only had one LUK Concentric Bearing go, in a fair few years now, like you it was immediate, like whilst on road test, and was on a Vauxhall Astra. The Factors did cough up a few hrs labour at trade rate as goodwill gesture These concentric Bearings are a right pain, and I feel yours, it is a real bugger when you fit a new part only to find it's wafty I also agree with the other post about DMF's, if I'm doing a Clutch on a vehicle with DMF then it's having one of them too, or I will simply turn the job away Again I only use LUK. Cheers Dave

I think the trick is to use the word 'Independent' ........................ on your blurb I have "Independent Mercedes -Benz Specialist" on mine, also all over the workshop van, no problem so far Shhhhhhhh

FFS, refund them yesterday !! Imagine what is going to happen if something else sh!ts it's pants on their Hols, they'll want compo, mountain rescue, hire car, 4 poster hotel suites etc etc etc. And I can't believe you fitted a Clutch without doing the Concentric Release Brg, jeez, I did that once when they first started with them, next week i was doing it again, never ever will I not fit a 3 piece kit these days

LOL, I could have been that garage many years ago when i had the Trans Firm. I / Customers did all that, but the funniest 2 were:- I Built a V8 Chevy powered Fiat 500 (old 1972 shape), hot summers day, units all had their doors and windows open, big tyre burn out in our Car park, both the neighbouring units evacuated coughing and thinking there was a fire Also went in one Sunday, (bin collection was a Monday Morning), scrapped a load of old Auto Box Gearsets etc etc, filled up next doors skip then put some of their Cardboard boxes on top. Bin lorry lifts bin at 10am next day, humongous rumble and crash, bottom fell outta their bin I denied all knowledge of that one In my defence I was only in my early 30's and a little wild back then

I'd stick that on retention and EBay it

Lolololol

LOL /\ /\ /\ You forgot "January Sales" followed by "they're all skint after January Sales",

LOL, know what you mean, someone texts me, I read it twice then reply covering all bases, around 3 minutes..................... Any one of our youngsters, phone goes ping, 3 seconds later thumb nails go clatter clatter clatter on screen, done !! 15 seconds tops

Yeah, but they buy the cheap Tarmac Roller your selling, then come back a week later and steal the 2 diggers and a Shogun that they saw while they were casing your site

Glad you got shot of it That would have sold in a heartbeat where I am, plenty young "Jockesses" that daddy woulda bought that for, the local gals would think it was "cool", and the boys would think it Gay, well some but not all of 'em Cheers Dave

Nice easy fix then Glad you got it sorted. FWIW you'd be surprised how many Garages just have a drum of cheap 5w30 and bung it in everything !! I don't stock drums now, just order the correct quantity of correct oil per job Cheers Dave

Never Trust a Copper springs to mind !! Asshole !! BTW, £140 isn't trade on an ML Battery, that's around my "marked up" Retail, so cop got fleeced lmao I pay around 85 squids for an Oldham 3 yr warranty to fit big MB's, Oldham is actually either as good as or better than Yuasa Oh no, I can't believe that

Post yes. And I have one of the quickest broadbands in our area but I put nothing involving money anywhere near a computer that goes on the internet lol !! Religious Grounds or insanity might work for me

Nice one