Who works on your car?

[RacerX03]

Just wondering who does the work on you guys cars? or do you all do the tuning an performance mods yourself??

oh yea Kenny Tran from jotech motorsports works on mine.

 

[paul s]

I work on my car..

 

[clownface]

ive done all the work on it, mods and maintenance, although i figure ill need to take it to a alingment place for a alingment and i figure when its time for working on the inside of the tranny ill have to send it somewhere, shep, TRE someplace like that.

 

[AWD Eagle]

My Mitsu master tech friend of almost 20 years and myself.

 

[Defiant]

What, your cars need work


My '95's just on a nice little vacation at the Chrysler dealership.

Meanwhile, the '94's needed a new battery a while ago. Oh, and I did put on a strut bar, plugs and wires. It's really been a remarkable car, so far.

I hired a local independent shop to do the belt job when the water pump died. It was before I'd found this board.

Another shop did the clutch and AC repairs on the '95 when I first got it.

 

[crankbender]

I have a team of demons I have enslaved with my incredible mental prowess. However we have a telepathic link so it is just their hands and my mind....

Oh yeah and that gremlin I havn't found yet who keeps messing things up.....I don't "let" him do it though. I just can't stop him

 

[midnght]

Originally posted by JCaruso
Last rotation, I watched as the "tech" used his air gun to zip my lug nuts tight, then, (giving him benefit of the doubt for being ignorant and not contrary), watched as he went around the car with his torque wrench. Of course, the gun had already torqued the nuts so tight that the wrench had absolutely no effect.

I requested the service writer to make him back off each nut and then tighten it properly to the proper torque using the wrench for the last few "twists."

Stuff like that irritates me. The guy had taken the time to read the special instructions on his work order, so, he dutifully set the wrench to the requested setting, but, he obviously has no clue about how the thing works.

Caruso

I am the same way, but I do it to myself. I go around checking and double checking. I am WAAAAYY too anal about my car.

 

[JCaruso]

Originally posted by midnght
I am the same way, but I do it to myself. I go around checking and double checking. I am WAAAAYY too anal about my car.

No such thing as being way to anal about your car. If you don't care for it, no one will. I'm one of those who basically won't let anyone else even drive my car unless I'm in it with them.

I also stay in shape from the extra miles I walk - from the most remote, least conjested area of any parking lot - in order to minimize the chance of someone dinging my door with theirs. I've yet to understand how manufacturers who design cars and most people who drive them (make that park them) and designers of parking lots simply accept that dents are inevitable. My car has no dents because I simply refuse to park it in any space unless there is enough room that anyone parking next to me would have to go out of their way to deliberately cause their open door to strike my car.

Plenty of folks make fun of me for that - but I don't care. They don't have to live with my car, I do.

I'm not so fussy about keeping the exterior of my car spotless - it doesn't bother me to see it get salted up during snowy weather or watermarked during the rainy season. I might go a couple of weeks without washing it - I figure none of that sort of stuff is fatal to the appearance of my car. Whenever I do wash it, it looks totally new again. Once the thing gets dented, you cannot (cheaply) restore the appearance.

Obviously, if your brakes start vibrating because some guy over torqued you lug nuts, it can be corrected, but, again, not cheaply.

It amazes me how inattentive to detail some dealer service writers can be - and how inefficient the communication between service writer and service tech can also be.

I once stopped at a Jiffy Lube for an oil change. Told the writer "oil/filter ONLY . . . don't touch the tires (pressure is just where I want it), forget the air filter (dealer checks that), stay out of my trunk area (I check my own washer fluid), don't vacuum, I'll take care of it, just give me new oil and a new filter"

He nodded and typed furiously, but, the guys in the bay never received a copy of his instructions, and I finally had to step out and explain my desires to them, myself.

I run my tires at higher pressure than what's written on the sticker 'cause it works for me, and I get really tired of folks adjusting my pressure down.

Sorry to rant - as you can see, I'm a bit anal over my car as well.

Caruso

 

[BlackAWD]

Originally posted by JCaruso
No such thing as being way to anal about your car. If you don't care for it, no one will. I'm one of those who basically won't let anyone else even drive my car unless I'm in it with them.

I also stay in shape from the extra miles I walk - from the most remote, least conjested area of any parking lot - in order to minimize the chance of someone dinging my door with theirs. I've yet to understand how manufacturers who design cars and most people who drive them (make that park them) and designers of parking lots simply accept that dents are inevitable. My car has no dents because I simply refuse to park it in any space unless there is enough room that anyone parking next to me would have to go out of their way to deliberately cause their open door to strike my car.

Plenty of folks make fun of me for that - but I don't care. They don't have to live with my car, I do.

I'm not so fussy about keeping the exterior of my car spotless - it doesn't bother me to see it get salted up during snowy weather or watermarked during the rainy season. I might go a couple of weeks without washing it - I figure none of that sort of stuff is fatal to the appearance of my car. Whenever I do wash it, it looks totally new again. Once the thing gets dented, you cannot (cheaply) restore the appearance.

Obviously, if your brakes start vibrating because some guy over torqued you lug nuts, it can be corrected, but, again, not cheaply.

It amazes me how inattentive to detail some dealer service writers can be - and how inefficient the communication between service writer and service tech can also be.

I once stopped at a Jiffy Lube for an oil change. Told the writer "oil/filter ONLY . . . don't touch the tires (pressure is just where I want it), forget the air filter (dealer checks that), stay out of my trunk area (I check my own washer fluid), don't vacuum, I'll take care of it, just give me new oil and a new filter"

He nodded and typed furiously, but, the guys in the bay never received a copy of his instructions, and I finally had to step out and explain my desires to them, myself.

I run my tires at higher pressure than what's written on the sticker 'cause it works for me, and I get really tired of folks adjusting my pressure down.

Sorry to rant - as you can see, I'm a bit anal over my car as well.

Caruso

I HEAR THAT!!!

 

[Defiant]

Originally posted by JCaruso
No such thing as being way to anal about your car.

Absolutely and exactly right. There's not many things you can "overdo" on a car that'll hurt it.