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[TVwazhere]

10 hours ago, Bitter said:

Test drives are normal. Doing 70 in a 45 like that for an plate sticker inspection is not normal.

This is pretty much what I've gathered, though most say New York State Inspections do not require a test drive. 

 

Honestly if I found he had done 45mph on the 4 minute test drive (and not 70 on a rainy day) we wouldn't be having this conversation. Definitely going to let the manger/supervisor/owner know and not throw a fit. At absolute most, hint that my $125 alignment that only adjusted rear toe on the car should maybe knocked down since no work on the front two wheels seemed to be performed (the alignment check was free). 

[TVwazhere]

2 hours ago, Benji said:

Wouldn't you be interested in playing the Karen once in your life?

Not really. It doesn't change what was done and it wouldn't actually make me feel any better about what happened. 

[Bitter]

@vetali

Thoughts? Pending P0507 and a set P2646, 190K miles 06 Element. Snap-on scanner is wiggin out.

 

[bcredeur97]

1 hour ago, TVwazhere said:

Not really. It doesn't change what was done and it wouldn't actually make me feel any better about what happened. 

yeah i mean it's not like he crashed the car or something. I'd probably say something like "hey it's not a big deal to me but just letting you know, other customers might not take it as lightly if it happens again" that sort of thing.

I don't burn bridges if i can avoid it. Never know who you'll meet again one day.

[TVwazhere]

4 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

yeah i mean it's not like he crashed the car or something. I'd probably say something like "hey it's not a big deal to me but just letting you know, other customers might not take it as lightly if it happens again" that sort of thing.

I don't burn bridges if i can avoid it. Never know who you'll meet again one day.

The bridge will be left standing but I will need good incentive to cross it again after this. That's also means about $2600-3100 of labor is lost for my GF's car repair they quoted her; we will be taking that elsewhere (AKA my garage, but we planned on doing that anyways)

[Bitter]

3 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

The bridge will be left standing but I will need good incentive to cross it again after this. That's also means about $2600-3100 of labor is lost for my GF's car repair they quoted her; we will be taking that elsewhere (AKA my garage, but we planned on doing that anyways)

Fuck them, let them know exactly why they lost that repair.

[Bitter]

56 minutes ago, Bitter said:

@vetali

Thoughts? Pending P0507 and a set P2646, 190K miles 06 Element. Snap-on scanner is wiggin out.

 

Oh boy. So the idle won't drop below 950, we're starting to think someone juiced the idle up to hide low oil pressure. There's a new aftermarket looking IACV on it. It does pass both scanner tool tests for vtec and IACV but customer says it shakes over 3K rpm which jives with a vtec problem. This is probably going back to the car lot and not getting fixed.

[bcredeur97]

48 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

The bridge will be left standing but I will need good incentive to cross it again after this. That's also means about $2600-3100 of labor is lost for my GF's car repair they quoted her; we will be taking that elsewhere (AKA my garage, but we planned on doing that anyways)

I've never really found a good mechanic where I live, just do everything myself. 

I want to find that little guy works who maybe has his own little shops, doesn't have too many customers so he can spend more time on everyone's cars, loves everything he touches and goes the extra mile to make sure everything is done right. So hard to find.

[Volbet]

On 3/18/2021 at 3:29 AM, Beasterdudeman_yt said:

Is that v6 on a MOTORCYCLE?!?!

Unfortunately not. It's a Triumph Rocket III, a three cylinder model. 

Even now, six years after the post you quoted, it's my "realistic" dream motorcycle. 

 

But as other's have pointed out, you can get motorcycles with V6 engines and above. 

The most overkill that I know being the Boss Hoss 502, which uses a Chevrolet V8.

 

[TVwazhere]

10 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

I've never really found a good mechanic where I live, just do everything myself. 

I want to find that little guy works who maybe has his own little shops, doesn't have too many customers so he can spend more time on everyone's cars, loves everything he touches and goes the extra mile to make sure everything is done right. So hard to find.

Thankfully I found that in a paint guy a few miles from my house. Freaking loves the blue on my car and the quality of half the stuff I bring him to paint for me (comparing my rear valance to a STI fiberglass front bumper he had for a different customer)

[Bitter]

10 hours ago, TVwazhere said:

This is pretty much what I've gathered, though most say New York State Inspections do not require a test drive. 

 

Honestly if I found he had done 45mph on the 4 minute test drive (and not 70 on a rainy day) we wouldn't be having this conversation. Definitely going to let the manger/supervisor/owner know and not throw a fit. At absolute most, hint that my $125 alignment that only adjusted rear toe on the car should maybe knocked down since no work on the front two wheels seemed to be performed (the alignment check was free). 

Nah. Just tell them/show them what happened, let them know you're not happy about it, and that you won't be returning as a customer again. Then don't return as a customer again. Or at least not as long as that employee works there. 

 

That speaks poorly of their work ethic too, I wouldn't trust that guy with my brakes or anything really. If he does that kind of dumb shit driving what kind of dumb shit does he do wrenching?

[vetali]

9 hours ago, Bitter said:

Oh boy. So the idle won't drop below 950, we're starting to think someone juiced the idle up to hide low oil pressure. There's a new aftermarket looking IACV on it. It does pass both scanner tool tests for vtec and IACV but customer says it shakes over 3K rpm which jives with a vtec problem. This is probably going back to the car lot and not getting fixed.

This is really really ironic. I just went through 3 IACs on a CRV. 2 aftermarkets both fixed the initial complaint but ran at 1100 RPM. OEM it was fine. I rechecked my diag each time and came up with a faulty IAC. I will DM some info, can't share publicly.

[Bitter]

58 minutes ago, vetali said:

This is really really ironic. I just went through 3 IACs on a CRV. 2 aftermarkets both fixed the initial complaint but ran at 1100 RPM. OEM it was fine. I rechecked my diag each time and came up with a faulty IAC. I will DM some info, can't share publicly.

Appreciate it, I'll do a quick check on the thing monday morning and maybe re-talk to the client however I think they're off the deal on the car now and I don't think it was a deal. Honda or not buying a used car with almost 200K miles doesn't seem like a good idea.

[That_Random_Guy]

Randoms amazing luck strikes again. last week it was the hood. this week they finally finished the install and take it on the test drive to find it surging. after a while on the phone with fitech they concluded that the efi unit on the motor is bad.. I wasnt getting a tach signal in the system at all and according to fitech is a common defect. yayyyyy. so NOW i get to figure out how rma works with a fucking motor lol also herd ATK warranty is trash so i guess ill be seeing how trash very soon. brand new motor..... sigh

 

edit heres part 2 of hood replacement saga fml on that too

i musta been an aweful person in a past life cause its like amazing how bad my luck is

[Bitter]

14 minutes ago, That_Random_Guy said:

Randoms amazing luck strikes again. last week it was the hood. this week they finally finished the install and take it on the test drive to find it surging. after a while on the phone with fitech they concluded that the efi unit on the motor is bad.. I wasnt getting a tach signal in the system at all and according to fitech is a common defect. yayyyyy. so NOW i get to figure out how rma works with a fucking motor lol also herd ATK warranty is trash so i guess ill be seeing how trash very soon. brand new motor..... sigh

 

edit heres part 2 of hood replacement saga fml on that too

i musta been an aweful person in a past life cause its like amazing how bad my luck is

 

You can't just send back the EFI unit, you have to send the whole engine back? EFI unit=ECM right? Oh is this one of those units like a bolt on EFI TBI setup in place of a carb? Why not just go with a port EFI setup and more traditional EFI intake manifold setup but with a standalone ECM?

[That_Random_Guy]

12 minutes ago, Bitter said:

You can't just send back the EFI unit, you have to send the whole engine back? EFI unit=ECM right? Oh is this one of those units like a bolt on EFI TBI setup in place of a carb? Why not just go with a port EFI setup and more traditional EFI intake manifold setup but with a standalone ECM?

$1200 vs 3-5000 and fitech said everything attached to the tbi woudl need to go back. sensors and all. even the handheld system that goes in the car im not sending the motor back cause there is no reason for that. just everything electronic on the motor

[Bitter]

Just now, That_Random_Guy said:

$1200 vs 3-5000

A compelling reason!

[JoaoPRSousa]

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a35851952/audi-will-stop-developing-internal-combustion-engines/

 

Well, shit.

[bcredeur97]

2 hours ago, Benji said:

Besides the very high-end models above the RS4, they're all Volkswagen engines enyway. And that the Audi TT and Audi R8 are being discontinued in a year or so also isn't news, they said that one or two years ago already. Apparently to "improve their eco rating".

What VW’s use the 3.0L V6? (supercharged or the later turbo ones)

[bcredeur97]

1 minute ago, Benji said:

None, but they are also a rarity in Audis. The Touareg even has a V8 TDI from Audi. They have been designed by Audi but they are sparsely used anyway. Volkswagen has 4cyl only IIRC. I think it's sad that Volkswagen discontinued their own 2l 4cyl Bi-Turbo diesel. Same as Ford outside of the Ford Edge, the 240hp Bi-TDI would've been great in the Focus ST Diesel over the Mk3 185hp and the Mk4 190hp single-turbo.

Man two turbos greatly increases cost tho I can see why they didn’t 

[bcredeur97]

53 minutes ago, Benji said:

What do you have to say about the BMW B57 V6 higher-end quad-turbo engine?

i mean a car made for rich ppl is a diff story lol. at that point you're just doing it because why not

[iDeFecZx]

2 hours ago, Benji said:

What do you have to say about the BMW B57 V6 higher-end quad-turbo engine?

B57 V6?

[PandaCopyRight]

2 hours ago, Benji said:

None, but they are also a rarity in Audis. The Touareg even has a V8 TDI from Audi. They have been designed by Audi but they are sparsely used anyway. Volkswagen has 4cyl only IIRC. I think it's sad that Volkswagen discontinued their own 2l 4cyl Bi-Turbo diesel. Same as Ford outside of the Ford Edge, the 240hp Bi-TDI would've been great in the Focus ST Diesel over the Mk3 185hp and the Mk4 190hp single-turbo.

3.0 TDI the V6 ... was originally an Audi Engine that was redone by VW 

2 hours ago, Benji said:

What do you have to say about the BMW B57 V6 higher-end quad-turbo engine?

also BMW has never made a V6 to my knowledge .. its all I6 

even MB went back to I6 

[Bitter]

3 minutes ago, PandaCopyRight said:

even MB went back to I6 

They never had quite gotten that whole V shaped timing thing down so well when it came to long term durability.

[PandaCopyRight]

Just now, Bitter said:

They never had quite gotten that whole V shaped timing thing down so well when it came to long term durability.

look at their diesels .. their CDI V6 diesel line up was hell of a lot more reliable than the beloved OM606 while making even more power and torque

plus their V12 TT thingy by AMG is seriously reliable ... if you look past some minor oil leaking issues and needing to disassemble half the engine for some of the seals 

and V8s are ... id say .. better than BMWs offerings