Justrolledintotheshop
Drove 4 hours for a "weird sound"
They were convinced it needed a turbo. All for a $2 hose clamp. You know it's good when you can hear the boost leak from a block away and they go "listen what happens when I put it in fourth and hold the brakes"
Discussion
people would save a lot of money if they just took two seconds to look and see what's wrong.
Agreed...but the average person has no idea what to look for.
if I didn't know about engines and heard hissing and could see or feel where it was coming from I'd think maybe that I would have to put it back in place. I'm not a plumber but when a pipe leaks I look and find where it's leaking.
So you have a general idea of how things work. When my girlfriends car needs to go into the shop I go with to explain it to them because she has no idea how to explain it. General knowledge of how simple machines and plumbing works can go a long way, but the average person usually has focused their knowledge elsewhere. I know how scissors work, but I wouldn't cut someone's hair, yet my girl is great at it.
guess that's a good way of seeing it
I'm in Roofing/ Construction.
If people just thought for 2 seconds about how shit works/ how it's supposed to function literally can solve over half of their issues/ questions. That's the basically the difference between unskilled laborers and roofing mechanics. I'd assume it's the same in a car shop for the most part.
It's shocking how many people are unable to just have some common sense.
Since turbo technology, cars got a lot more complicated than before.
An average person might be able to figure how a drainage works or how a joint should look like by looking at it for a minute.
I'd state that modern IC engines are amongst the most complicated every day items we have. It should be fine if someone just gave up on it and calls a professional with every problem.
Better that than turning the radio louder until the problem gets really bad.
I do agree with that. Especially on these regular consumer vehicles that aren't sport vehicles, it's a different ballgame now.
I’m pretty handy and can usually figure out how things work, and I have great success at repairing stuff when needed. On the other hand I can stare at the inside of a microwave or a television all day and I won’t know how they work. Most people stare at a car engine and think the same thing. It’s all hoses and tubes and chunks of metal and none of it makes sense.
Thanks for sharing that, it’s an excellent analogy.
Before I went to school to be a mechanic I literally had no Idea what I was looking at under the hood. None of it made sense to me. So I can understand customers who have no idea whats going on with their car.
I’m an electrician who recently had a CEL come on. So I pulled over, popped the hood, started checking fluids and to see if anything was obviously wrong. I didn’t see anything, so I called my mechanic buddy to see if he thought it was ok to drive the car further. He was surprised I pulled over and checked in the first place…
Good find..
Haha. I had the charge side blow off at 65 uphill. It sounded like a tire blew.
MAWP
"listen what happens when I put it in fourth and hold the brakes"
I can hear it, sounds like $500.
sounds a bit like a Choo Choo train
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Is no one worried about the amount of oil coming out of that charge pipe?
That's condensation from the charging of the air.
At least it hopefully wasn't breathing in unfiltered air?
Hope you got your moneys worth
Fleet employee so I got 4 hours of air conditioning while I drove which might be worth more than money this summer.
I drove two hours for a folded glad hand rubber yesterday