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And especially when they are ASE certified and work for the Subaru Dealership. Long story short, I have been hepling a friend install a VF-34 and sti pinks on his bugeye today. Got to the point of removing the turbo around 3pm.
First thing I find is that one of the studs on his Helix up-pipe is stripped and it comes out all cross threaded. At this point I should mention that this car had the turbo replaced under warranty about a month ago. So, I know that this damage was done by the dealer, and they didn't bother to retap it or use a new stud. They just forced the old fubar'd stud back in there.

Ok, no big deal, I figure I can work with it. Then I pull the turbo off. Turns out the also broke the inlet plumbing when they reinstalled it and it end is all torn up with around 3-4 splits in it. I don't know how they got it to seal, but somehow they put it back together like that.

Now, I have just spent the last 3 hours running around Boulder picking up a used inlet and the gaskets required to reinstall the intake manifold, which we now have to remove because of the inlet.

You can get that we will be taking pictures and sending a nasty letter to the dealership over this. I knew there was a good reason I stopped letting Flatirons Subaru touch my car after Bret Carter left; THEIR MECHANICS ARE HACKS!

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MY00 2.5RS; 151hp to the wheels
MY90 EJ20G powered wagon: start damnit!

I've taken a car to a mechanic twice. One time they left the steering rack partially unclamped, the other time they billed me for no work.

I don't go to mechanics.

hehe, i live with them... they're not all bad

I know exactly what you're alll saying....

I hate mechanics too, but mostly I have to go to them.. which really really sucks.

yeah....I don't care if I was filthy rich....I'd still probably do my own work on my cars.

Legacy777 wrote:yeah....I don't care if I was filthy rich....I'd still probably do my own work on my cars.

yeah me too

Yeah, I hate the bastards, too.

Steve

My dealership won't allow me to use the shop. Insurance purposes.

But I was in boyscouts with one of the techs, so he is gonna hook me up. All that has to happen is that he has to be in there, lol.

Gonna be easy to swap my uppipe when I have a lift to work with and a full range of tools

I've told the story of the ppl who did my clutch a 1000 times, search my old posts...

There are some good mechanics out there but there are a lot of bad ones too. I don't trust to many people to touch my car.

Isn't that why we're all here? we like/enjoy doing our own work on our own cars? I agree, mechanics arent' ALL bad, but they have bad days like the rest of us, where we decide to do our work either half-ass, or just good enough to get it out the door to the next stage.. how many of you have worked fast food like McD's or something, and put together a cheeseburger with missing parts...?
But yes, in this case, they not only cut the corner, they apparently chopped it off completely.. totally their bad.

it took me getting ripped off (severely) 3 times before I realized that I couldn't ever let anyone touch my car but me and my buddies.

A good service manual, some tools and a familiarity with curse words is all you need to accomplish anything automotive.

A good service manual, some tools and a familiarity with curse words is all you need to accomplish anything automotive. [/quote]

amen

white_n_slow wrote:A good service manual, some tools and a familiarity with curse words is all you need to accomplish anything automotive.

... and beer ....and website ...and bandaids

right!

must have bandaids, and neosporin. i got owned by the intake yesterday.

screw bandaids....they're for wussies

paper towel and some duct tape works fine until the blood clots...hehehe

Hehehe... That's funny, because my standard wound dressing is a napkin or paper towel and a ziptie or two. I discovered it by accident one day when I tore my thumb open at 3 am at the swimming pool while testing the submarine out... All we had were our parts/tools for the sub, no first-aid stuff. Then the pizza delivery guy showed up with a boatload of napkins.

Paper and scotch tape here.

Steve

I just BLEEEEEED on my engine! STi red intake manifold au naturelle!

Yeah, half the time I don't even know I'm bleeding until I see a trail of red over the parts/tools and look at my hand to see a crusted blood trail...haha

Clean the wound with PB Blast, starting fluid or brake parts cleaner (what ever's closer) and then use 2 part epoxy or JB weld to close the wound. Then wrap it in either duct tape or electrical tape and wait for the red streaks to start up your arm before seeking help.

A trick my grandfather taught me:

Use a brown paper bag from a grocery store. Just tear a chunk off of it and use it on the wound. It stops my bleeding for some reason.

Also, if you'll believe this, a small amount of kerosene will take the soreness out of the wound as well.

I dislike mechanics and shops that actually vandalize your car or claim to be skilled but are a bunch of hacks. A couple of years ago I took my car to the local Jiffy Lube for a period of about half a year to get my oil changed (don't ask me why I did that--I still ask myself that question till today).

While waiting for my car the attendant comes in and says I need a new air filter because it's dirty. I told him no. He tried to explain the importance of keeping the air filter clean. I told him no, that I just replaced the air filiter before coming in to get the oil changed. He left. When I got home, I found that they had not replaced two of the bolts for the air filter housing. Then I inspected the air filter and found that they had put a hole through the filter element! Not even two hours old and it has a tear in it? Boy was I mad! I went back to Jiffy Lube. They didn't replace the air filter but they did replace the bolts (took them about 40 minutes because they had to go the auto parts store TWICE to get nuts and bolts of DIFFERENT sizes!

A few weeks later I notice these strange looking oily-ish stains were on my new driveway after parking in a different spot (I back my car into the driveway and park at the same spot). They were not oil spots from engine or transmission oil. I finally found the answer--the new CV boot that was installed a few weeks prior had been slashed and the grease was dripping on the driveway. Someone had slashed it! I found out later (from the mechanic that I now have) that mechanics do that sort of thing. He said the newbie mechanics will slash a CV boot ACROSS the accordion folds so they have to be taught to slash it in line with one of the folds so they can claim that it was "wear and tear."

Several weeks after that I find that two friends of mine had taken their car to the same Jiffy Lube and both had the threads of their oil pans stripped. Jiffy Lube had to cover the cost of buying and installing the new oil pan (and oil too). Out of curiosity, I checked my oil pan and found that the threads on my oil pan had been repaired! And I KNOW it was not that way before!

Or, take the new "premier repair shop" in town. Supposed to be good German quality repair. My friend had to take their car back 5 times to get the brakes fixed and it cost them about $1200.00. Just for new pads and to cut the front rotors!

Or, another newly acquired friend who was visiting on a holiday this past year. His new truck started acting up so he took it to a repair shop. It was on a Saturday and within half an hour of closing. The shop personnel said he needed a new radiator and other parts. Because it was on a holiday weekend and they were about to close, he did my friend "a favor" by ordering all the parts and that everyone was going out of their way to make sure he got his truck fixed. The parts would be arriving within two hours. The price--$1450--but that was a good deal because normal regular prices would be over $2000. My friend couldn't believe his new truck would need that kind of repair and after pondering over it for a few minutes decided to leave wtihout getting it "repaired." He went to the local hardware store, talked to one of the hardware store personnel, bought a radiator cap, and it solved his problems!

I guess everyone on this Board has accounts like this happening to themselves or their friend. . .