Why do garages always WRECK cars?

fred246

salubrious wrote: »

As someone else pointed out, you'll get the apprentice doing a lot of the strip/rebuild work of this nature especially in the bigger garages who have these young kids in as cheap labour - Do yourself a favour and use a garage that only employs time served mechanics. You'll probbaly pay more though

And no, there is no need to even remove the dipstick to do a clutch on a FORD galaxy let lone add oil or change it blah blah blah

How do you find a garage that only employs time served mechanics and by implication refuses to train anybody?

I would have thought that it would be seen as good practice to check the engine oil level before returning the car to the customer after changing a clutch. Otherwise you could change a clutch and have the customer come back the next day with a seized engine. You are saying a garage should not check the oil level in a car?

arcon5

fred246 wrote: »

How do you find a garage that only employs time served mechanics and by implication refuses to train anybody?

I would have thought that it would be seen as good practice to check the engine oil level before returning the car to the customer after changing a clutch. Otherwise you could change a clutch and have the customer come back the next day with a seized engine. You are saying a garage should not check the oil level in a car?

Not the garages problem. Not their fault. You start touching things unrelated to the job you get issues like this.

Let alone topping it up, costs money!

They don't need to check engine oil on a clutch change anymore than they do when changing rear pads!