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Re: ACT USERS: Mechanic in Canberra.. who you use?
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Thu, 03 March 2005 22:37
 
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the biggest thing is being able to trust the person u leave ur car with... if hell was to freeze over and i had to take my car to someone else other than Ed or Ben, id be camping my little white ass in the driveway of the shop with a video camera and bat.
i left my first 180 with a guy in monash and the little fckers he called apprentices were driving it round all day and when i picked it up, i wasnt happy with the work - i could still hear the noise i put it in for... so little fcker no.1 jumped in with me (him driving) and off we went.. he redlined the first 2 gear changes and said he couldnt hear anything.. he then got really offended when i went fcking troppo at him... the car was cold to start with and i told him when i dropped it off, that u can only hear the noise at low revs, due to the loud exhaust - so when he redlined twice, i just about punched him out... then as we got back to the house, he went straight up the driveway and scraped the fck out of my front bar !!!! i was not a happy camper that day.
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Sounds like a familiar story that most modified car owners have experienced at least once.
I have a good network of people I trust my car with for wheel alignment/suspension (Chris at Inline), diff conversions (Rob at the Diff Dr), tuning (Jake at Jakes Performance). I had to take my car to another place for a wheel alignment once and I waited around while they did it, the guy working on the car took it for a spin around the block. I stood out the front of the place and could hear him redline each gear and get a lot of wheelspin on my new sticky rubber  Understandably I was annoyed and under no circumstances will be going back there.
People need to respect other peoples vehicles, especially when you pay the c$%ts for it.
Luckily for me I do all the work myself apart from the dyno tuning, and wheel alignments so I rarely have to leave my car unattended and if I do they get 7psi to play with instead of 20psi (except for my tuner who can dial in what ever he likes).
As a tip I would let places work on a nice car that regularly work on performance cars, that way yours is just another job, not some new exciting toy to play with after working on v6 commodores and camry's for weeks on end.
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