Have you ever had your car worked on by someone else, be it a mate or professional, only to find that the work wasn't carried out as it should have been? What sort of blunders have you come across?
When I was an apprentice a car came into the workshop to have 2 front chassis legs fitted along with two inner wings, front wings, front panel & bonnet. The guy working on it had the front end of the car up on axle stands & then cut off all of the metalwork & proceeded to weld on all of the new panels. Once the car was lowered back to the ground it sat "pissed" & the car was lopsided. (A car should always be on a level surface when doing this not jacked up at one end) His remedy was to pump up the front tyre on one side & lower the presure on the other to make it sit level!!!
. Needless to say it didn't drive straight either, so the car had to come back in & have all new panels refitted.Cheers.....Nige
I said to the guy, what about the list you wrote down of the things I wanted doing ? He lost it - how convenient. I got tucked right up by a proper cowboy claiming to be an American car specialist. The car did start and ran beautifully except for the exhaust blow.
