IOwnCalculus posted:

I BROUGHT MY CAR IN FOR A WIPER REPAIR AND YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO SCAM ME

IOwnCalculus posted:

I BROUGHT MY CAR IN FOR A WIPER REPAIR AND YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO SCAM ME

PCOS Bill posted:

So who jumped in and took it for a drive anyhow?

drukqs posted:

atomicthumbs posted:

Darchangel posted:

... why?


I need to see this car.

atomicthumbs posted:

CharlesM posted:

I want to know what kind of car it is.

Wasabi the J posted:

Imagining getting Swarovski crystals to the loving face in the event of an airbag deployment.

atomicthumbs posted:

quote:

Customer drive in a 99 Isuzu Rodeo with a complaint the driver wiper doesn't move and would like a general check out. The frame literally had two rust holes large enough to put your hand through, the floor pan was rusting out, the brake lines were deteriorating, and the list goes on.
When we told the customer about all this, he asked, "what will the wiper cost to fix?" Needless to say we won't be fixing his vehicle, but he did drive it out, and told us he would be taking his business elsewhere...

`Nemesis posted:

quote:

Customer drive in a 99 Isuzu Rodeo with a complaint the driver wiper doesn't move and would like a general check out. The frame literally had two rust holes large enough to put your hand through, the floor pan was rusting out, the brake lines were deteriorating, and the list goes on.
When we told the customer about all this, he asked, "what will the wiper cost to fix?" Needless to say we won't be fixing his vehicle, but he did drive it out, and told us he would be taking his business elsewhere...

Root Bear posted:

And on a different note, some kind of Hum job from my social media feed:

smackfu posted:

If you get quoted a few grand in repairs on a lovely car, it's not like you are going to get it fixed.

Bajaha posted:

This actually exists? There really are no bounds for separating idiots from their money.

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`Nemesis posted:

It's a mix between idiots and poor people. Some people don't have the cash to pay entirely up front.

http://jalopnik.com/broke-rear end-americans-are-getting-screwed-on-rental-tires-512270536

Code Jockey posted:

Maybe this is a state by state thing but if a car is that bad, like "holy poo poo this will fail catastrophically at any moment" bad, can you call the cops or something if they just drive off?

`Nemesis posted:

Unique and compelling features such as paying double for them.

But it's easy for me to say that as I can afford new tires, or at least use a credit card with an acceptable interest rate. Life is a lot tougher when you're cash strapped and have no access to affordable credit.

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Mountune Focus ST Short Throw Shift Arm Installation

Ten hours and a beat up shift arm and it's done. In a word installation went poorly.

For the Mountune arm you really do have to remove the stock shift arm because the Mountune part is replacing it. So I really did have to get that roll pin out that I had trouble with and ended up ignoring during the Cobb installation.

The Mountune kit comes with a pin removal tool (punch) and it's smaller than the pin. This fact will become important later. I used the punch to hammer out the pin and it took a lot of force and a lot of time. Probably an hour of straight hammering but I got the pin out.

At this point I hammered the pin to the front side of the Mountune arm, put the arm in the car, aligned it and started hammering the pin though. Again it took a lot of force.

I got the pin about half way in and when I stopped to take a short break I realized the roll pin had deformed on the end I was hammering It was so flattened that that was no way it was going all the way though.

So I have the arm installed and the pin only holding on one of the two points it's supposed to hold. This means that there is a good possibility of it shearing at some point. I can't push the pin though because it won't fit now and that means I can't push it out like I did originally.

The battery box came out so the pin could be backed out. I figured I'd just get a new pin and try again.

More hammering to push the pin out using the punch and remember how I said it's smaller than the pin... While the punch went inside the pin. This did two things. It expanded the pin making it hold tighter. It also, pushed one of the inside layers out of the pin but didn't move the top layer. Again, it made it even tighter.

For those who haven't seen the roll pin it looks like a Hostes Ho Hos. It's one piece of metal that's rolled over itself so there are three layers with a hole in the middle.

The punch just pushed out the inner layer and expanded the upper layer so it held tighter. I know it's was held tighter because I switched to the bolt the Cobb kit came with for pushing out the pin which is a bit larger than the punch. It didn't budge.

Hammering wasn't working so the next idea was to try a C clamp to push the pin out. On one side goes the bolt on the side with the pin a socket was put over the pin so it would go into the socket as the socket is pressing around the pin. The bolt ended up bending instead of pushing out the pin...

Next idea try pulling it out from the front. Vice grips and screw drivers didn't get anywhere. Well, not anywhere it did eat though the top layer of the pin. So it looked better.

Final idea, drill out the pin. Don't do this it sounds like a good idea but it isn't. I really isn't. An air drill was used so it had enough power. It did go into the center of the pin and began drilling it out. It did heat up and start trowing little flaming bit out. Also, as it turns out the pin is really hard. Harder than material around it. So drilling out the pin in hopes that it would weaken and shear isn't going to happen.

Back to the C clamps. At this point I had gotten a stronger bolt. Slowly, oh so slowly it came out. It did end up ruining the clamp and it did eat though the front of the shift arm around the roll pin.

The pin at this point is throughly destroyed. I used a class 10.9 M6 bolt to attach the arm instead of the roll pin. The M6 is very close in size to the roll pin. An M7 is too large by the way. There is some play with the bolt which is not present with the roll pin. As far as shifting is concerned I don't see a difference.

FYI, I did drive the car with the roll pin half in and with the bolt. I couldn't tell a difference between the two.

My advice to anyone is if the roll pin doesn't come out easily, don't put it back in. Either get a new one or try something else.

fyodor posted:

Oh man Focus/Fiesta ST forums are pretty funny sometimes:

fyodor posted:

Oh man Focus/Fiesta ST forums are pretty funny sometimes:




edit: VVV I guess the OP had enough shame not to photographically document his idiocy.

th vwls hv scpd posted:

What is this roll pin holding together? I'm completely lost here because I can't imagine where it would need to be.

th vwls hv scpd posted:

What is this roll pin holding together? I'm completely lost here because I can't imagine where it would need to be.

Safety Dance posted:

Well thank goodness for the central tire inflation system.

Maker Of Shoes posted:

I have no earthly idea. It looks stupid as gently caress. Gimmie a tried and true two cable setup with bushings and a pivot ball please.

Night Danger Moose posted:

https://youtu.be/QYtVYwdaSD8

Saw this on my way home for lunch today. Please mute, I forgot that it recorded sound to (I don't record poo poo very often). Oil leak? It started belching blue smoke when the light turned green.