Sometimes, I despair!

[BenzBoy]

When I worked in the motor trade quite a few years ago, for a laugh, I asked Halfrauds for a set of piston rings for a Mazda RX7. Amazingly, not only was the kid behind the counter scratching his head, so was their parts supplier!

[Lewis]

That's brilliant ;D

[antdat]

I had a the same problem with my 200B, I went to the local Nissan dealer in it looking for a part. I asked the guy behind the counter for teh part (think it was a coolant pipe) he said he needed the chassis number. I said not problem you got a pen and paper i'll go get it as i pointed to the car.
i returned with the details he asked and he typed them in affter a couple of second he said sorry sir you car does not exsist.
I turned and looked at the car then back at him,
after a little wile i spoke with the manager and said look do you have the microfiche i'll point out the part on there. 3 weeks later i had my part

Now i just look up the part numbers myself. (I also have a system that can look up part numbers for other cars too the parts are blue print if that helps anyone)

[bryn]

Went into a main Toyota dealer a few years back with a modded '74 Corrola (I think it was on your stand last year at RCS). Not only did they have everything I wanted, he printed off a list of what was still available, then came outside to check it out before complimenting me on a nice motor...

Unlike when we went to buy a new Audi last year (company purchase, that's twenty proper cars to me), turned up in my old 528i. After ignoring us for sixteen minutes (felt like hours), we then walked out and bought from a dealer seventy miles away instead.

Some you win, some you lose.

[Davenger]

A mate of mine took his car to Quickfit to get some tyres put on it and got a phonecall from the trained chimpanzee in charge informing him that his car was shagged and needed new shock absorbers + springs. He strolled into Quickshit holding a piece of paper and showed it to said monkeyboy. It was a receipt for shocks and springs that they had fitted 4 months earlier in the same garage.
How they could forget doing shocks and springs on a Rover P6 I'll never know, probably the only real car they've ever worked on.

Muppets

[rustingdeathtrap]

He should have got them to change them first, then pulled the reciept and told them he wouldnt be paying as the old ones are still under warrenty.

[Davenger]

lol, he's not that clever

[ImpJimbo]

dminifreak said:

A mate of mine took his car to Quickfit to get some tyres put on it and got a phonecall from the trained chimpanzee in charge informing him that his car was shagged and needed new shock absorbers + springs. He strolled into Quickshit holding a piece of paper and showed it to said monkeyboy. It was a receipt for shocks and springs that they had fitted 4 months earlier in the same garage.
How they could forget doing shocks and springs on a Rover P6 I'll never know, probably the only real car they've ever worked on.


Muppets

He let quickfit fit shocks and springs to his P6

[BenzBoy]

impjimbo said:

He let quickfit fit shocks and springs to his P6

I wouldn't inflict that job on anyone, not even Kwikfit monkeys ;D

[Davenger]

benzboy said:

impjimbo said:

He let quickfit fit shocks and springs to his P6

I wouldn't inflict that job on anyone, not even Kwikfit monkeys ;D

Beats doing it yourself ;D

[greaz1989]

going around dealerships intimidateing them sounds like a good way to while a way the afternoon

i got ofered a quick fit apprentiship which i oviosly turned down ill post what jobs are involved soon trust methere not difficult

[rustingdeathtrap]

I wonder how long a quick fit apprentiship lasts and what wonderful job prospects you'd have at the end of it.
Apart from a job in quick fit

[tonycocacola]

i see your point but i think you should have taken it.
its money in your pocket and a bit of hands on experience.
and the way i see it money buys more cars.
it might be sh*t and you might have to work with muppets but its a start.

dad speech over ;D ;D ;D

[BenzBoy]

I was an apprentice for a Peugeot and Rover stealership many moons ago. I had to do the sh*t jobs, but to be honest, they're not gonna chuck you a set of spanners and say "there you go kid, change us the clutch on that motor". It was curse word though, especially stuff like cleaning out the oil tanks .
Lots of watching and learning though, which is dead useful!

[greaz1989]

I'm after a proper mehcanics apprentiship,i do not want my life to be misreable, i passed the eligability test last friday ,

ive spent the last 2 weeks working in my uncles garage and have learnt bassicly everythin that you'd learn in the 3 year apprentiship

i know I'm not going to get all the good jobs but at the end of the day i want to leave an apprentiship a trained mechanic not a monkey,

been put through to interviews for various hgv firms already going to start hunting myself next week 2 though

[BenzBoy]

That's fair enough - Kwikfit are just fitters, and it'd be quite a limited amount that you'd learn there I reckon.
At least in a "proper" garage you'd get to do diagnostics, MoT's, and repairs... more varied work!

[rustingdeathtrap]

Mark my words, any mechanics apprentiship is gonna make your life miserable. At least for the first year anyway. But is character building. Its only now that i can look back on my days as an apprentice and really appriciate what it taught me. Not so much about cars but more a general attitude to work and the determination to always try and better myself.
Apprentices always moan that they get all the curse word jobs, but what they don't realise is if they aint there those jobs still get done, no mechanic is gonna ask an apprentice to do something that they wouldnt do themselves.
Although i will say that if anyone offers you a greasing, run like the wind ;D

[PhoenixC]

benzboy said:

When I worked in the motor trade quite a few years ago, for a laugh, I asked Halfrauds for a set of piston rings for a Mazda RX7. Amazingly, not only was the kid behind the counter scratching his head, so was their parts supplier!

thats just cruel and bloody funny ;D ;D

[Revolution 9]

benzboy said:

When I worked in the motor trade quite a few years ago, for a laugh, I asked Halfrauds for a set of piston rings for a Mazda RX7. Amazingly, not only was the kid behind the counter scratching his head, so was their parts supplier!

That is pretty clever actually, and it's funny as well!! ;D ;D ;D ;D

[penski]

I got Halfrauds in Berwick to spend 90 mins looking for Spark Plugs for a mates Golf TDi

Greaz - become an MOT tester so we have someone 'friendly' to drop in to

*n