:lmao: I try not to show it, but I have not found a mechanic I can actually trust not to :censor: up simple stuff. So after getting the car back from them, I have to double check their work. I cannot even trust the stealership to do things right either. :tsk: I give a tire shop actual torque specs and preference for air pressure on the tires. They still managed to over torque it :facepalm:
Which mini hydraulic jack would you recommend? :hmm:
You my friend are the kind of person who's car I hate to work on.
1) If you can't trust your mechanic do it yourself since youre so anal retentive
2) If it something that you can't do, I wouldn't suggest going back to the same shop more than once because of the way you obv. treat your mechs and techs.
3) Did it ever occur to you that some people are such pricks to us, that we do things to ensure that they never come back to us?
I.E. I put the requested 32psi in the tires as per my gauge, and people like you come back in complaining that your gauge says 31psi. Hmmm what will you trust? My 50 dollar gauge or your 5 dollar pencil gauge?
Maybe something will happen to ensure that you never come back since you want to be a f*cking prick.
4) We make money per job, and do not get paid to fix our f*ck up. Therefore it is in our best interest to ensure that we do it quickly and correctly the first time so we dont waste time doing it again.
5) You never know who that guy working on your car might be, maybe he's a highschool drop out. Or maybe he's a factory trained tech for Porsche who's local dealership closed and he got laid off. Or maybe he a millionare who is also certified, and has no need to work but does this because it's fun to him (a little extreme, but you get the point)
6) As for the over torque it is a simple enough answer, and is not (generally) any fault of the techs. It is most likely the beaurcracy of the shop. For instance where I work we are REQUIRED to use torque sticks (basically 6" extensions of different grades of sprung steel) the sticks come in three colors: Red, Yellow, and Green
Yellow is what is appropriate for BMW's (e46's anyway) however it goes anywhere from 80 ft-lbs to 100 ft-lbs, so even with a quick zip of the air impact and then hand torqueing to 88 ft-lbs (still required to use torque stick) 9 times out of 10 it will be over torqued by about 10-15lbs. So odds are the techs followed their protocols as they were supposed to, but the problem lies with the beauracracy (making us use impacts and torque sticks).
FYI Torque sticks can be extremely painful when they spring back at you, just a little side note.
