Oil Change - Let down by mechanic!!

Mercdriver

fred246 said:

452 said:

fred246 said:

All I said was that I like youtube videos showing a job if one is available. You can get Haynes manuals with text and black and white photos, or electronic manuals with text and line drawings. If someone has done a youtube video of a procedure being done then they seem to be the best. That's all I have ever said.

I've seen some shocking how to YouTube videos. 

Yes there are good and bad youtube videos.

So how do the people you constantly tell to follow youtube videos when they don't know themselves how to do the job know which are good and which are bad?

You're the worst kind of irresponsible.

MinuteNoodles

shaun_from_Africa said:

If the sump is aluminium alloy then a magnet won't be any use.

Good job there's a strainer on the end of the oil pickup pipe and an oil filter to catch the particles as I stated then isn't it? It is not possible for engine damaging bits of metal to make it past the oil filter unless you run the car without one or poke big holes in the filter elements with a screwdriver.

Mercdriver

flusteredmotorist said:

TonyMMM said:

I can honestly say that in dozens of oil changes I've done over the last 40+ years, I have never used a torque wrench once ..... I do (usually) use a new washer though.


Amazing how long a thread can keep going with no input from the original poster ....

Well I gave an update on Friday evening stating that a local garage is due to recover the car to have a look at it.  What more do you want from me?  Do you want to know what I've had for my breakfast today as well?

Tony's post wasn't a dig at you.  It was a comment on the forum (and many others) getting diverted by differing opinion.  Here we have the Freds who search the forums for anything with 'garage' in them because he thinks people should use youtube to find out how to do he job, even though he says there are good and bad ones and despite the fact that someone like me wouldn't know the difference.  

fred246

All I have ever said is that if a youtube video is available for a certain job it is often superior to a car manual. A video is worth a thousand words and diagrams sort of a statement. I was servicing and repairing cars way before youtube started in 2005.

mattyprice4004

fred246 said:

shaun_from_Africa said:

flusteredmotorist said:

reading posts from some users, I may have made a poor choice in letting a mechanic work on my car in the first place?!?!  

There's only 1 poster who thinks that but to be honest, if a mechanic turned up, did a perfect job, valeted your car free of charge, took you out for a nice meal then gave you a jackpot winning lottery ticket, Fred would still find something to complain about regarding the actions of that mechanic.

A mechanic should maintain professional boundaries with their customers and shouldn't be taking them out for meals or giving them lottery tickets unless it was part of a promotion.

Time to launch MSE Fred246 bingo - 1 point for every time Fred calls all garages thieves / useless etc.
We'll start with this thread. Go!

mattyprice4004

flusteredmotorist said:

TonyMMM said:

I can honestly say that in dozens of oil changes I've done over the last 40+ years, I have never used a torque wrench once ..... I do (usually) use a new washer though.


Amazing how long a thread can keep going with no input from the original poster ....

Well I gave an update on Friday evening stating that a local garage is due to recover the car to have a look at it.  What more do you want from me?  Do you want to know what I've had for my breakfast today as well?

Sausage and hash brown roll here - rather unusual, but works well.  
In all seriousness, I hope the damage done wasn't too bad - please keep us posted with what the actual damage / problem was, and good luck. 

shaun_from_Africa

MinuteNoodles said:

shaun_from_Africa said:

If the sump is aluminium alloy then a magnet won't be any use.

Good job there's a strainer on the end of the oil pickup pipe and an oil filter to catch the particles as I stated then isn't it? It is not possible for engine damaging bits of metal to make it past the oil filter unless you run the car without one or poke big holes in the filter elements with a screwdriver.

Just because there is a strainer and a filter in the system isn't a good enough reason for me to cut corners and rely on them to collect any contaminants I may introduce into the oil. Don't forget that the filter may well be after the pump so if any metal made it through the strainer, it could damage the pump before getting to the filter.

There is also a fine filter in the fuel system but would you knowingly allow muck to enter the fuel tank simply because you think that the filter would stop them doing any damage. I know that I wouldn't so why should the oil system be treated any differently?

motorguy

fred246 said:

Does sound like someone has just registered this new account to post this story. Suspicious. At least it's cheaper than having your car wrecked by the main dealer.

Probably some bloke whos read on a forum that servicing a car is easy and he just needs to look up a video on youtube to know what to do.

After all mechanics have no qualifications have they - as you keep telling us, so its all easy.

motorguy

fred246 said:

All I have ever said is that if a youtube video is available for a certain job it is often superior to a car manual. A video is worth a thousand words and diagrams sort of a statement. I was servicing and repairing cars way before youtube started in 2005.

Sounds like your backing out of your big statements that anyone can service a car and that mechanics have no qualifications so its all easy.

Better to do it yourself or get a mobile mechanic to come out because that always works out better that going to a main dealer.

Oh - hang on....

motorguy

RichardD1970 said:

fred246 said:

I've just been looking at youtube videos of how to change oil. Never done it before because I've never needed. Not one of them shows you using a torque wrench to put the drain plug back. There's always a torque wrench setting specified so why not use it? There's one by a Scotty Kilmer titled "You're doing it wrong" that shows a long extension bar to loosen the drain plug and then he uses the long extension bar and says tighten it nice and tight! Lunacy. It's the same with spark plugs and roadwheel nuts. Always use a torque wrench and you can't go wrong.

But, I thought in previous threads that you told everyone not to use garages and to use YouTube if you didn't know what you were doing?  

Oh he did.

Apparently its better to get a mobile mechanic out and pay them a few pounds rather than go to a main dealer - thats the drum he's been banging for years.