A mechanic on watchdog..

One of the most uncomfortable viewing experiences ever on Watchdog. The way that guy was talking to the women :eek: His incompetence around cars seemed actually dangerous to his customers as well as their wallets.
 
This guy lives local to me. I was looking for a mechanic a while ago and he was the first one to come up after a quick search of the web. He had so many bad reviews I ended up going to someone else. Thank god.
One reviewer said he charged her about £600 to fix her rear wiper. And it took him about 10 days to fix and he kept the car the whole time.

Oh, and he's a pervo as well. "I wont tell daddy if YOU dont tell daddy".

http://www.mobilemechanicwallasey.co.uk/

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
 
Ugh, I watched this today on the iPlayer and felt sick pretty much immediately. What a scumbag.

I must say the confrontation was a huge let-down though!
 
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 :D
 
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.
 
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.

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?
 
I think the point they were trying to make is that he made no attempt to check anything in any logical manner and then conned the person.
 
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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.
 
[TW]Fox;23034391 said:
Anyone here had a failed alternator fuse?

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)
 
Have you ever checked a fuse though?

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.
 
If you dont tell daddy i wont tell daddy

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.
 
I didn't start fixing my own cars purely for the fun of it, I did it because I had poor experience of mechanics.

Likewise! I had a car come back from a 'garage' with more problems that it went in with! :D 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.
 
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