oh another great auto repair

[mnwildpunk]

So this pulled into the shop yesterday another marvelous repair by somebody. Compression fittings and a roller coaster of brake lines some laying on moving parts what's not in the picture is the line running back to this mess hung about 6 inches below the bottom of the car

Edited September 19, 2014 by mnwildpunk

[chunkypeanutbutter]

Blind guy with one arm doing his own brake lines

[mnwildpunk]

It looked like one of those things you see kids playing with were it has the beads one a pieces of wire

[Ace-Garageguy]

Holy spaghetti, Batman !

Pretty bad, scary, no logical reason for it. Typical. But I see a lot worse every day, day in, day out.

And some of the cars I get in are over 70 years old, so they've had a LOT of really "expert" repairs over the years.

One totally incomprehensible thing to me is that, although aircraft mechanics are required to be federally-licensed and pass a practical-skills test, older aircraft STILL get to have stuff like this on them. Having a piece of paper on the wall (including ASE certifications as long as your arm) is no guarantee that a mechanic will actually perform correct and good-looking work on a daily basis.

Sad that there's SO much total incompetence.

I really don't get it.

Edited September 19, 2014 by Ace-Garageguy

[Petetrucker07]

I think the "repair-man" was blind in 1 eye and couldnt see out the other.

[JTalmage]

lmao... wow. uses like 6ft for a 3" problem.

[cobraman]

Maybe the poor guy didn't have anything to cut it with . : )

[1930fordpickup]

Repair in the parking lot of some store at 5:00 on a Sunday night? You never know what people do in desperation.

[mnwildpunk]

I understand the parking lot fix but when you keep it long term that is scary. I remember I was up in blackduck MN and a rear wheel cylinder started massively leaking and there was no way I could fix it there with basic hand tools so I just blocked off rear brakes at the master but when I got home I fixed it the correct way.

[ShredHippie]

lmao... wow. uses like 6ft for a 3" problem.

LMAO!!

Is it bad that I recognize that this is a Taurus/Sable?? ..Done a lot of lines on these cars..

[mnwildpunk]

Taurus u r right

[Craig Irwin]

I remember when brake lines didn't rust out in 10 years, I drove a lot of OLD cars without ever having to replace steel lines.

[mnwildpunk]

Well here in MN there are a lot of cars that have a covering over the brake lines and the road salt gets in there and eats away at them. Whenever we at the shop see that we call it salted in the shell brake lines

[blunc]

I once got suckered into fixing a half-shaft problem on an older subaru while it was stuck in a parking lot, turned out that the previous "mechanic" had not installed the proper amount of bearings into the axle shaft carrier (for some reason this subaru required two bearings).

It really sux having to do any work involving suspension whilte in a parking lot and it sux even worse when it's Arizona and summer.

[mnwildpunk]

Oh and those wonderful roll pins subarus use on there cv axles

[Ace-Garageguy]

... we call it salted in the shell brake lines

Mmmmm...tasty.

[mnwildpunk]

Sadly no not at all but still lmbo funny

[Fabrux]

It really sux having to do any work involving suspension whilte in a parking lot and it sux even worse when it's Arizona and summer.

Try doing it in a parking lot in New Brunswick in -25²C winter.

[mnwildpunk]

I don't know °c but I do know changing the the last belt which meant taking off the other two in. -40°F plus wind chill in 12 inches of snow is a pain in the butt. Not to mention changing a starter on the wives car in the middle of nowhere while its snowing. Or doing a tie rod end in -23°f while on the side of the road while the wife (then gf) and stepson are nice and warm inside the running car

Edited September 22, 2014 by mnwildpunk

[Tom Geiger]

Been there, done that... awful repairs in awful weather. Now that I'm older I just call AAA for a tow to my favorite shop!

[mnwildpunk]

I can't do that cuz I'm a man and a certified mechaanic I refuse to have my newish wife see I'm a wimp lol

[blunc]

yeah, I agree...cold weather repairs suck too, when you bang a knuckle you won't know about it till your hands warm up or if there's blood all over everything.