why it's hard to trust mechanics..

[olly]

Me and my friends decided to help install a front mount cooler on my friend's s15. It was pretty simple. Bolt off stock cooler and bolt on new. Nice and simple. After installing the cooler we checked over everything to ensure everything was cool. He later bought a PowerFC the following week and decided to to get it tuned at what I thought was a reputable workshop.

While it was getting tuned the workshop recommended he have his injectors cleaned to ensure a good tune was done. So they got cleaned and put in and tuned. After a day, the car started acting up, stalling, having problems starting and so on.

We thought it was the injectors so we checked and found out one of the injectors o rings wasn't on so it would cause the injector to not close properly leaking fuel into the cyclinder causing the spark plug to be wet and hard to start. We started questioning the workshop about this but they said they knew nothing about it and that it was fine when they put it on. :twisted: #1

So we pull out the injectors and we take them to another mechanic whom we are friends with and ask him to clean it and tell us if they're okay. The first thing he says to us is that these aren't stock s15 injectors, they're actually s14 injectors. (Stock s15 injectors are 480cc and have a maroon top) When we looked at all the injectors on his car they were all purple top (370cc) stock s14 injectors. :twisted: #2

We knew they must've been swapped or else the car wouldn't have been running properly before we did all the mods with the stock ecu, or would it?! So my friend went to the workshop and questioned them about it. They denied everything and said those were the injectors in the car. My friend didn't even ask to be compensated, he just asked for his injectors back so he could drive his car properly, but to no avail they denied everything. :twisted: #3

overall my friend spent around $300 gettin his injectors cleaned only to have them swapped for smaller injectors and also has to fork out more money to retune it to proper injectors.. and we wonder why its hard to trust mechanics..

of course not all are like this :wink:

 

[Sylent Nyte]

And might I ask which shop this was, just so I know to steer clear of them for any services[I do my own work, but having small parts hung up puts things off for quite a long time] Was it a bloke in Coburg by any chance? :?:

 

[olly]

close it was actually protek..

 

[djcharliek]

Sounds like a story for today tonight! Workshops like that close down eventually. :roll:

 

[GSRSOL]

protek you say? thats where TOYGTI gets all his work done. :shock:

can't say id want to take my car there, but yes, olly, there are plenty more places out there that behave in similar manners let me tell you :evil:

 

[olly]

yeah i know.. shame how it only takes one incident to make or break a workshop..

 

[Sylent Nyte]

Bloody hell, I was under the impression that Protek were one of the best when it came to SR's and Nissans in general! :shock: BTW that pink car of yours looks a bit familiar, did it have the turbo swapped out by any chance?

 

[olly]

hrmm yeah i thought protek were good guys too! never been there myself though..

as for my car hrmm that last time it had a turbo swap was when the previous owner blew the stock one and put in a td05.

 

[Jonson]

im a 3rd year apprentice mechanic. let me say there is only a small amount of dodgy mechanics in comparison to good quality honest mechanics.

im sorry you got fucked over by a shitty one, as said above, eventually these workshops close down. bad word of mouth gets around and eventually they crumble.

It sucks that as soon as i say im a mechanic people assume im dodgy just because they had a bad experience before.

I pride myself on beign a Hardworking, honest and trustworthy mechanic. im still young and am almost finished my time. When my mate and I open our shop we are gonna be the best in Adelaide

 

[tenji]

u cant trust many workshops.

protek is usually pretty good but like every wrkshop

it also depends on the actual person whos working on the car...

sometimes the person doin it is just crap.

 

[olly]

i agree polo.. just cos there is one bad experience there doesnt mean the rest of the times is going to be just as bad..
it a shame cos everyone makes mistakes even mechanics,

 

[tenji]

yeh.

unfortunately a lot of workshops have dodgy ppl who work for them and screw it all up.

hence y so many shut down.


y aint u out tonite?

 

[olly]

no car .... plus work at 8am.. haha

 

[tharaka]

definitley post this on nissansilvia.com

 

[tenji]

no car .... plus work at 8am.. haha

haha fair enough i got a wedding on at 8:30 so no goin out tonite...


but i bought eddie murphy saturday night live on dvd hahaha

 

[bazeng]

when u find a trustworthy one.. stick with em..
if u keep changing, u wont ever build a good relationship..

or do it yourself..

 

[MADEVO]

i agree with baz, u need to develope a realationship with ur mechanic. Coz thats what trust is all about. You have to remember that these guys are in a working enviroment. Think about how many wankers these guys have to deal with everyday, everyone knows what its like to have a bad customer. it just farks up ur day, and if he goes back to working on your car after he has just had to deal with "Guido" and why his fully sick Vl isn't fully enough and running 10's, the service could be sub standard, coz ur just another guy??

 

[Jonson]

^^ what they said is so true.
if you are a good repeat customer and you pay some attention to what work has been carried out the mechanic will remember you and look after you next time.

 

[NZVR4]

im pretty sure every workshop will make a few mistakes or an employee is dishonest but the best workshops rise to the top through how they deal with those situations

but not all top workshops are honest,over here in NZ i took my old vr4 into a well known shop,he used to tune reece mcgregors GTR so im sure some of you expat kiwis may know who im talking about,i simply took my car in to have it dynoed and have the blow off valve plumbed back into the inlet,upon inspecting my car he noticed that the tial wastegate had been plumbed wrong and would correctly install it for me

i questioned it as it seemed to work fine,car was putting out a rock steady 20psi with no overboost etc,i got a call to say the car was ready and when i got there the dyno read out was only 300 odd HP@flywheel i wasnt too happy and asked why,he said after correctly installing the wastegate it was found to be faulty and would only run 10psi,i said it ran 20psi and he laughed and said the car was never boosting 20,i had no choice but to take his word on it,the bill was the next shock,1000 dollars to run the car up on the dyno and plumb back the blow off valve,the wategate work was agreed to be done at no charge but they obviously charged me the time it took for them to work out how to fit it.

sure enough when i drove it the car was gutless,after going back to him he said the only fix was getting a motec to be able to run it correctly with a special price of 8k for fitting and tuning-yeh right,as soon as i got home i re hooked up the wastegate the way it was and ran 20psi again

you just dont expect to get ripped off by industry leaders,either that or the simple task of setting up a wastegate is beyond them

 

[djcharliek]

Baz is right. When u find someone good, u stick to them. Sort of like a relationship.