A mechanic on watchdog..
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Lol. Looks like he's asking for knowledge on his website
"Also being a fully qualified auto electrician, provide me with a wealth of knowledge on all electrical faults from rewiring dashboards to repairing lighting systems"
I have some advice. Slim fast.
How old was he too as he claims 40 yrs experience
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Wow, just.. wow.
Some of the things they do on the car are odd though. I mean... a disconnected Lambda sensor? That must be the worlds rarest fault as there no reason why it would ever be simply not connected. It's therefore not exactly unreasonable to suspect that a Lambda sensor fault is a faulty sensor rather than a disconnected one.
Can't defend that rest mind
Some of the things they do on the car are odd though. I mean... a disconnected Lambda sensor? That must be the worlds rarest fault as there no reason why it would ever be simply not connected. It's therefore not exactly unreasonable to suspect that a Lambda sensor fault is a faulty sensor rather than a disconnected one.
Can't defend that rest mind
SkodaMart
SkodaMart
Whilst I don't condone his behaviour in the slightest, tampering with fuses is a ****s trick.
Fuses don't blow unless there is a serious problem. Replacing a fuse is not a repair, it will just blow again if the fault remains.
Fuses don't blow unless there is a serious problem. Replacing a fuse is not a repair, it will just blow again if the fault remains.
Quite. The whole disconnecting things and replacing fuses way of breaking a car for somebody to fix is just odd. Surely its best just to replace a simple part with a broken one?
SkodaMart
SkodaMart
In all my years (22) of repairing my own cars, I have not had to change a fuse.
Other than dodgy old Minis and Fiestas with spotlights that are way too big for the circuit they were wired off.
Fuses only blow in an over current situation, such as a dead short or massive spotlights!
Diagnostics is (usually) the way forward.
Unless you are being set-up that is.
Other than dodgy old Minis and Fiestas with spotlights that are way too big for the circuit they were wired off.
Fuses only blow in an over current situation, such as a dead short or massive spotlights!
Diagnostics is (usually) the way forward.
Unless you are being set-up that is.
Have you ever checked a fuse though?
SkodaMart
SkodaMart
[TW]Fox;23034391 said:
Alternators fail for many reasons.
Control unit over charging the battery, carbon brushes worn out, loose belt, bearings kaput.
Fuses don't blow!! Unless it had a serious fault, or damage to the wiring.
(as you are well aware)
Maybe it does have a serious fault though?
So before diagnosing it willy-nilly you'd want to check the basics first, surely?
SkodaMart
SkodaMart
Yes I have in the cases mentioned above.
To be fair, it is usually pretty obvious if a fuse has blown but that statement is based on the fact that I have only ever repaired cars I have personal experience of driving.
Why? By your own admission, they never blow, so why bother checking?
*checks location*
You don't happen to work as a mobile mechanic?
SkodaMart
SkodaMart
He is a horrible man. A disgrace to the trade, but I have met mechanics just as incompetent.
I didn't start fixing my own cars purely for the fun of it, I did it because I had poor experience of mechanics.
They are not all bad however, and due to knowledge of my own cars, some of my friends are now mechanics, which is a strange twist.
SkodaMart
SkodaMart
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Likewise! I had a car come back from a 'garage' with more problems that it went in with!
Funny now but was annoying at the time. They tried to fob me off by telling me they never went near the stuff that was not working anymore, luckily I knew exactly what should have been done to fix the original problem and what they had to remove in the process.