"Mechanics" piss me off. You take your car to them to fix something and they find 10 other things that apparently need immediate repairing, for ten times their original quote, then when you finally get you car back, you need to crawl around under your car and fix all the things they fcuked up. Seriously, there are more bad mechanics out there than good, and the only equipment they can use correctly is a fcuking calculator!
Case in point, my beautiful "Rally Roo".Ever since I had the stainless headers installed, the "Check Engine" light has come on, and even disconnecting the battery for a couple of days to reset the ECU hasn't done squat. I promised the wife I'd take her for a drive to Maldon tomorrow, so I decided to jack it up and see what the "mechanic" had forgotten to plug back in this arvo. Sure enough, once I jacked it up, I saw a plug dangling under the car, probably where it'd been disconnected when the original headers were removed.
Much worse though, ATF was pissing out in the region of the transmission oil cooler. It was a simple enough cock up, the "mechanic" had overtightened the hose clamp, and tore the hose. Because I'd been parking it on my front lawn, I hadn't seen any drips, so if I hadn't driven it into the carport and jacked it up, I probably would have blown up the transmission. Once I'd worked out what he'd fcuked up, it was pretty simple to fix it, but it still pisses me off that I paid this turkey 1500 bucks, and I then had to spend time fixing his fcuk ups. Cheers, Terry.