recently did some work on Burnouts ride. Valve covers and gaskets, new coils and plugs, intake gaskets (plenum, didn’t pull the whole intake off),,, That was three months ago.
Late last week, He made statement that “its leaking again, can you take care of it?”
BIG pause on my part,,, Nissan, 200K, V6, not the best maintained,,,,
“I’ll look at it, but you have to be there too!”
Well,,, He came by today, and I jumped in ( I made him come to me as I started doing a little drinkin’ around 5) and
NOT MY PROBLEM. But I knew he would have to see if for himself. He knows now that the gaskets aren’t leaking, that the leak he is seeing is from somewhere else entirely.
I then let him know “If this were a regular shop, and you made claim that thier repair had failed three months later, you’d be laughed at. They might pull it in, and then hand you a NEW estimate for leak repairs, but no way in hell are they gonna cover three month old work; not for gasket replacements.”
Whats his problem? rear main seal. From what I can see that is, without getting it in the air and doing a thorough inspection. But I am seeing wash at the back of the oil pan. NOT MY PROBLEM.
He then asked me ‘to help him’ with rear strut replacements. And yah, probably in need, and he supposdedly has them in hand. (I question most of his claims, he hasn’t proven reliable in many ways.) I asked him “you have a tool set, why do you need me?” and his answer was “you have tools that do the jobs, i don’t”
And thats why good mechanics CHARGE. Those tools aren’t FREE to us, they sure as hell ain’t gonna be FREE to the customer.
and the knowledge,,,
the story about an engineer charging a company $15000 for fixing thier engine with a hammer ping. $1 for the hammer ping, $14999 for the KNOWLEDGE to know where to hit the engine and how hard. That sort of shit doesn’t come for Free either.
sigh
I’m raisin’ Cain over nuthin’ except the age old bitch of anyone who does service calls for a living. Seems everyone is an expert but no one wants to actually DO,,,,
yah,,.
Nuff said right?
I’m tired. Like I told Burnout when he texted, “I’ve been WOT since early mornin,,,” I get a wee grumpy when I’m tired. Its one thing to wrench with friends, but Burnout is an associate: I do not believe I would invite him over for a BBQ. In otherwords, I dont’ fully trust him. Thats a big thing in my world.
BUT, I don’t need to worry about his griping I do shoddy work now. I don’t have to worry about Buffalo muckin’ up my plans on moving Da’s stuff around. And I still have a job lined up for the week in case of slow-downs while Son of Bossman is off Vakay-ing. (I would have done the job this weekend, but I didn’t get the parts in until late yesterday eve. Sonday is always my domestics day, no exceptions.) Bills are paid up for this past month, already dipped into next month a touch, and have room to manuever as well. Not that I want to see a slow-down, but I could absorb one (a small one) without stress right now.
I can’t complain, and yet here I am, gripin’ about stuff.
I must be gettin’ old. (ain’t no gettin’: GOT! LOL.)
Love y’all. Thanks for tuning in and listening to this old curmudgeon grumble about literally nuthin.
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