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27-08-2010, 08:25 AM | #31 | |||
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23-09-2010, 03:29 AM | #32 | ||
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a particular tyr shop i had a wheel alinment done at siad my car drove funny and whaldent garenty his alinment as he thinks something is rong with the front end i had just replaced everthing with new parts even the rack turned out he couldent under stand old cars dont drive like new bombs thay have personality same mechanic said he couldent wheel aline my mates pano cous it was modifide wtf it is stock exept its lowerd
then there is the d@#%@#% head that works at ####### customers car comes in overheating he clamesto have fixed it charged the girl $1500 the car cooks and cracks its head the next day turn out the rad was blocked cant work out what work he did there isnt one then theres the body shop he f^^%#d up the paint job on my mates pano heaps of runs and the paint peeled of the door in one place this is 2pck by the way i do all my own work and even help uthers fix what the local dicks f up around here |
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23-09-2010, 07:41 AM | #33 | ||
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about 2 and a half months ago i brought my au xr6 from a local dealer/mechanic, anyways about 2 weeks ago i brought one of those gauge brackets from miss aly. then brought 2 speco oil and water temp gauges (mechanical). so i take them and the car to that same place to get fitted, after about 2 and a half days they called and said "awww the gauges wont work there the wrong ones, we'll pull them back out of the car if u want" so i say im coming down to get the car, leave the gauges hooked up, ill do it myself.
get down there and one gauges doesnt light up and they charged me $150. PATHETIC
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23-09-2010, 07:44 AM | #34 | ||
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Translation please ??
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23-09-2010, 08:34 AM | #35 | ||||
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When I left school and was at uni I used to work for my father part time. He had about 5 company vehicles and he used to take them to an old italian bloke named sergio in Greenacre. Long story short, this guy used to go up to Big W to get his parts. Who on earth has ever heard of FirePower brake pads? To top it off, if they didn't fit (wrong model etc) he'd get an angle grinder and modify them. He'd never bleed the brakes, he never flushed radiators, he never did anything positive except change the oil. Suffice to say, I made my father stop going there after his NC fairlane was found to only have the front left brake working; mould and air in all the other 3 lines. Throughout this all, a mate of mine who's an auto electrician and myself would tinker on the weekend, and we eventually sorted out all of the issues including high temperature (75% blocked radiator). This idiot mechanic said hi temp was a design fault and wanted to install a thermo fan. He'd fill it up with water FFS. Funnily enough, nothing ever broke down after my mate and myself started repairing things. The funny thing was, this idiot sergio used to come around and ask if we needed anything serviced. I gave him a lecture on how criminal liability works and how his shoddy workmanship would be considered contributory negligence. Shortly after that he stopped working from home. Then again, it could have asbestos related diseases from modifying brake pads with a grinder.
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23-09-2010, 09:24 AM | #36 | ||
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I was driving along in the XY and noticed that my rear end felt a little wavy, so I pulled over and noticed that I hadn't done the wheel nuts properly and there were only two nuts left!
I phone my mate to bring me his jack and some wheel nuts.....30 seconds later I see said mates car (modified RX7) making a U-turn; all I heard was a huge rev and dump, smoke everywhere and he fly's right by me.....WTF that doesn't look like him... Phoned him up and told him what had happened. He had it in for a check-in (I think it was leaking power steering fluid) and I suppose the mechanic thought he would have a bit of fun. His response when confronted "These cars are meant to be driven hard"... Needless to say, I had to use all my force to hold my mate back!
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23-09-2010, 09:41 AM | #37 | |||
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23-09-2010, 10:20 AM | #38 | |||||
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23-09-2010, 11:01 AM | #39 | |||
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23-09-2010, 11:51 AM | #40 | ||
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oh ltd that is the funniest post i have ever read on AFF
i am sitting here at work trying not to explode from laughter
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23-09-2010, 11:56 AM | #41 | |||
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23-09-2010, 12:42 PM | #42 | ||
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I want to know who miss aly is
And Mr Hardware, i did burst out laughing - i'm still getting funny looks from my workmate
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23-09-2010, 12:50 PM | #43 | |||
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Hahaha ltd that's gold I kept referencing the other post cos it was not making sense, then saw what he had written, absolute genius you are!
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23-09-2010, 01:09 PM | #44 | |||
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23-09-2010, 01:18 PM | #45 | ||
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23-09-2010, 02:06 PM | #46 | |||
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23-09-2010, 02:13 PM | #47 | |||
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23-09-2010, 04:03 PM | #49 | |||
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23-09-2010, 04:09 PM | #50 | |||
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23-09-2010, 04:15 PM | #51 | ||
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Gentle ppl's. I think he's copped enough. Back on topic!
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23-09-2010, 04:41 PM | #52 | ||||
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By the way, your family is ford crazy apparently!
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23-09-2010, 05:05 PM | #53 | |||
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23-09-2010, 11:40 PM | #54 | ||
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i bought my turbo ute almost 4 months ago, just out of warranty now (3 months/5000kms, standard short term dealer waranty)
first 4 weeks i had it, i had to take it back 4 times. bought it on the saturday & took it in on the monday morning for a flickering battery light. mechanic says ''i'll ring you when it's ready''. picked it up tuesday arvo on the way to work, they never told me it was ready...i rang up & asked getting ''yeah it's ready, no problems now mate...all fixed''. battery light comes back on as i left their driveway, so i call them & book it back in first thing wednesday morning. he had no idea of my booking. again, no call to tell me it's ready, i had to ask them friday morning, and got the same stupid response ''yeah, you should have come & got it yesterday'' . (it turned out to just be a wiring short of some kind, and is all good now) i then discover a power steering leak the week after, no big deal i figure, every falcon i've ever had has had the high pressure hose go at some stage. i take it back in, after booking it in...not just rocking up. he again had no idea i was coming...took 2 hours to arrive to my 9am monday booking. ''yeah, no worries mate, the high pressure hose is common, i fix it real quick'' he says. few days later, i notice spots on the driveway...power steering is leaking worse than before. i try to be as polite as i can to the girl on the phone as i book it back in again, insisting she double and triple check he know i'm coming, as the last 2 times he claimed no knowledge of my appointment. i get to my appointment...and have to wait over an hour for him, no idea i'm coming again. i go for a walk before i lose my temper with the guy...3 hours later he says he's replaced the hose again. and i leave biting my tongue (still 2 months warranty at this point...can't say anything to much in case an expensive problem pops up). after having to fill the power steering fluid up (he couldn't even fill it after replacing hose) i had about 9 weeks of happiness. now i see the power steering is leaking again. i would not have gone back there if i still had the warranty - rather spend my own cash & get it done right. the hilarious thing is, every time i went there...he kept telling me about how they do servicing & repairs. like i ever would go back there. it was Australian fleet sales in Penrith, NSW. i have told everyone i know to avoid the place like the plague...i only went with them because they offered me a much better trade in than anywhere else, i was stunned how high the trade price was, and quickly agreed (it was actually triple what sinclair ford offered me). won't make that mistake again. plus their salesmen (well, all the ones i spoke to) were extremely polite, great attitudes...one in particular that i spoke to was the chief reason i didn't lose my temper there, wish i knew his name..., he deserves the recognition. the good points were few & far between
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