On Thu Oct-11-2012 16:45, Kurt Weiske (1:125/57) wrote to Roger Nelson:

 KW>   By: Roger Nelson to All on Tue Oct 09 2012 05:19 pm

 > Camaro owner records mechanics abusing car, scheming to get damages
 > paid for
 > By Justin Hyde | Motoramic - Mon, Oct 8, 2012 11:27 AM EDT

 KW> When I was in high school, my best friend had a '77 Corvette. A red
 KW> corvette made him a huge target for anyone with a crappy MOPAR
 KW> product with a V8 and primer spots at stop lights, and he lost more
 KW> often than he won. 

 KW> He was a stickler for parts, and bought his own NGK spark plugs,
 KW> had them replaced every 30K or so. After his 3rd set of plugs, the
 KW> new mechanic he went to pulled him aside to show him something.

 KW> He showed him 6 lightly glazed NGK spark plugs and 2 AC/Delco plugs
 KW> burned down to nubs. It seems that his previous mechanic didn't
 KW> want to reach in to replace the back two cylinder's plugs, so they
 KW> tossed away 2 new plugs. 

Most likely the mechanic kept the new ones for his own use.  That said, the
two rear spark plugs are a bear to change -- almost impossible from the
top, so I changed mine underneath.  Anyway, we discouraged that sort of
thing, but it still happens because of greed and laziness.  It's unusual
for a mechanic to get away with something like that because the car may not
have idled or performed well and had he been caught by the service manager,
he would have been fired.

I have a video somewhere of a guy with a Japanese vehicle powered by an
array of batteries with an expensive controller of some sort racing a 1/4
mile against a Corvette and winning.  It was practically no contest off the
line.


Regards,

Roger 
--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+