What are you working on today?

[CanAmAndMore]

Another day of not doing much at work because the work flow has been slow. I think it’s to do with our owners keep raising prices. Oil change on a 2004 Chevrolet Monte Carlo that thing was leaking from everywhere possible lol. The guy showed up with it and said he wanted it and his BMW done. Boss asked me which one I’d prefer to do I said the Monte Carlo any day. Customer provided his own oil and filter so he only had to pay labor for the oil changes. Which come to about $45 or so a vehicle I’m estimating but I don’t know. He ended up bringing the wrong oil filter for the BMW so we had to wait on him to drive a couple towns over to find the right one. That tied up a tech and lift because he had already drained it and threw the filter away. He would not accept our ACDelco filter from our Chevy parts department because he wanted a base model Fram that was $3 cheaper. The tech had to borrow all my tools for the BMW because he didn’t have the tool for the oil filter. The Monte Carlo wasn’t bad to do just annoying cleaning up the filter mess. We aren’t allowed to turn people away at my dealership even if say something like a Ford showed up then though it’s Toyota building we have to take them which is why we had to accept these two. Other than the Monte Carlo the only thing I did was fill up the sign holders with sand and fixed the floor machine for the 10th time. Hopefully our prices go back to normal soon so more work will come in. Our labor rate is $180 and oil change is $79.99 for the lowest price one.

That sucks.
Shops around my area are usually booked at least a week ahead, if not 2 or 3 weeks.
$180 American is really expensive.
Most shops here are $170 Canadian.

 

[clinebarger]

2016 Cadillac Escalade EXT, 6.2L. P0206 & P0300, #6 Injector Coil open circuit.....New injector.

2006 Toyota Tundra, 4.7L. Bearing noise coming from front of engine, Ended up being the Timing Belt Tensioner Pulley bearing. OE Toyota Timing Belt, Water pump, Tensioner & Pulleys on order.

2013 Dodge Charger, 3.6L. A/C works intermittently, Found A/C Clutch Relay Fuse (Hot side) terminal spread & melted, Simply moved the fused terminal & wire to the next slot over. Amp Clamped the compressor clutch circuits....Amp draw within range.....Not sure what happened??

 

[clinebarger]

Changed the Grand Am ignition lock to allow single key operation of the whole car. The one oval key now works the doors, trunk and starter. For some younger viewers, cars in the old days often came with two different keys for some reason.

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I believe the 4th Gen F-Bodies were the last to use separate Square & Round keys, My 2001 Camaro has them. I never use the Round door/hatch key as it has keyless entry.

 

[Kennedy01]

Today I didn't do much. Friend went out of town for the fourth and gave everyone a vacation through next Wednesday. I picked up a neighbor's 2009 GMC Sierra this afternoon, diagnosed it as having a bad left front wheel hub. I'll replace it Monday. I've got errands and some housecleaning to do tomorrow and really want to take a break from the heat.

 

[BMW Dom]

Yesterday working on my mom's BMW X3 with my dad

We did spark plugs, oil change, rear brake pad and sensor change, and brake fluid flush.

We went to start, and battery was dead .....

It was parked in middle of garage of course ....

Ugh

 

[Sam_Julier]

1995 Volvo 850 sedan

New radiator

New brake lines and brake fluid

 

[53' Stude]

Work was kinda slow. Guess everyone is on vacation usually Thursday is a busy day for us. Done lots of training as it was due tomorrow. So that’s out of the way now. Then after lunch I done an oil change, tire rotation, state inspection on a 2021 Sienna Hybrid. I advised new wiper blades as the ones on the van were original and torn so in Virginia they cannot be torn to pass inspection. Customer said they wanted to see, advisor brings them back for me to show them. I show them then he gets irate, accuses me of tearing them with his finger in my face then gets right against the bill of my hat with his forehead the manager and other manager run over and pull him back and escorted him out of the shop and made him pay full price for the wipers. Had he not of thrown his temper tantrum we were going to give them to him for employee price since he was a little upset. The boss came up to me after that and told me he would have someone else handle the rest if I wanted to go cool off in the break room and watch the baseball game for an inning or two. I took him up on that offer because had they not pulled him back it would of been bad I had to cool off. I stood there and didn’t say a word because I didn’t know what to do plus he was talking so loud in my face I couldn’t get a word in if I tried. Some people man you just never know about them. I mean yeah I’d be mad if I had to pay $50 for wiper blades too but I would act like an adult not a jerk and I would never accuse anyone of tearing my two year old original wiper blades either. And I tried to recommend air filter and cabin filter too because they were filthy he slapped them out of the advisors hand she didn’t know what to do she stood there in shock. I didn’t really do much after that because there was nothing to do.

Man, you get all the whack job, a hole customers in your dealership. That guy would be thrown out of our shop and never come back.

 

[atikovi]

I believe the 4th Gen F-Bodies were the last to use separate Square & Round keys, My 2001 Camaro has them. I never use the Round door/hatch key as it has keyless entry.

Your Camaro must have a chip in the square key so this wouldn't work anyway. You may never use the round key, but I bet it's on your key chain and you take it with you anyway just in case? I've done this mod on half a dozen GM vehicles from trucks to Corvettes early 90's on back.

 

[atikovi]

New window motors for the 91 Grand Am. One half done with two hours into it so far. Hope the plastic tape drive doesn't break a week later and I have to do this all over.

 

[supton]

Realized i’m 60k over on plugs? not sure, maybe I didn’t write it down. Decided to proactively pull plugs, just to check, was reminded I have cheap tools and get cheap results—long sparkplug wells and an extension that pulls out of the spark socket before it lets go of the plug. Argh. Anyhow, wound up pulling the VC as one tube is leaking.

I should be ordering the TB kit but instead perusing local car ads. Priorities.

 

[Malo83]

Nothing, staying indoors today, *110 predicted.

 

[mr_boring]

I finally made it into a Walmart. Bought and put an air filter in my F150. While I had the hood up I changed the oil filter (I usually run an oil filter for 2 changes ~16k, this time I ran it for a little less than 1.5 - going on vacation next week, so why not..., it's going to idle a ton because I remote start it 10 minutes before my wife gets in, her asthma is triggered by million degree air and we'll both be in and out of it a ton) and put the battery tender on it. Hot AF outside. Even the last few nights have stayed hot. Air quality is terrible as we have a high layer of smoke from Canada making it super hazy. No heat dissipation at night

 

[nomas]

I did my initial oil change on my new Generac Inverter Generator . Too hot out to get too involved with much .

 

[michaelluscher]

Vans battery was weak from lack of use, let it cook on the charger for a few days

I will never financially recover from this many Posi Taps
They are one of the better ways to do 12v work

Tinkering with the planned DD replacement Fusion, found out why the console was loose to the dash and rattling
**** Dana Ford, I'm tired of their ********
New screws and dash pop nuts were ordered

Ordered a STRATTEC jeweled Ford key blank, local locksmith cut it for $5, now no redundant IKT with the aftermarket Remote start/security system
PATS programming is light work no reaction when you have two functional keys
Kia Boyz ain't gonna catch me lacking

$12 bumper bracket now keeps the bumper cover attached
...it's still damaged, but at least it's tight to the body

Heat shrinking all connections hopefully lowers the risk of car burning down

Posi Taps, Tessa tape, weatherproof crimp connectors double stacked with marine heat shrink means hopefully this won't give any trouble for the duration of this cars service life
Ford's like to positive control everything, but the remote start unit pulses a ground to flash the markers, so I wired a relay to make it work

A little more tidying up is required in here, but nothing's chafing, loose, or rigged
Posi Taps, double crimps, marine heat shrink, or T harness plug and play where available
There's no reason 12v add ons or work should make a car dysfunctional or unreliable IF DONE WITH REASONABLE CARE
I can lock/unlock/start the Fusion from sitting in the coffee shop down a hill and 5 blocks away from my backyard where it's been sitting
Not the 1+ mile range as advertised, but most adequate

Starting to look like a car again, needs thorough scrubbing, that's on the agenda

 

[Hermann]

Got my new Air Fryer from Costco hooked up and where I want it to be. Chung's Pork Egg Rolls were the Guinea Pigs. Did a fine job of getting then hot all the way through and they were crispy in ten minutes. I think I did OK for $49

My lady friend recently bought one from Amazon and it made perfect Louisa Toasted Ravioli in 8 minutes. So impressed I bought my own.

 

[AutoMechanic]

Only thing I worked on today was checking all of the fluids and everything in the cars. Topped off the oil in dads was a quart low. I finally managed to not have to do anything major for anyone this weekend lol. Probably have to work on stuff tomorrow. Then work Monday then we are off Tuesday so that’s my parents anniversary so hopefully spend time with them. Really don’t want to change the oil in my truck or Escape tomorrow. Truck hasn’t been done in a year less than 1,500 on oil but I don’t go over a year. Escape is due so I can’t go anymore on it.

 

[someonesomewhere]

Changing relay with the new $11 unit appears to yield no change.

AC runs pressures look good when jumped but I don't know why it's not turning on by the switch on the dash.

When the compressor is running I saw it doing this when jumped. 85ﾟ right now



I also created an account on the Ford Taurus. TCCA forums because I'm not understanding why the dash switch does not appear to be turning on the compressor. It's like there's a fuse I'm missing or something although the ones related to the circuit appear to be functional and do test for continuity with the DVOM unless there's one that I am missing. https://www.taurusclub.com/threads/ac-will-work-when-i-jump-it-with-a-paperclip.356567/

Relay I took out tested 75 homes resistance and again the new $11 one appears to have yielded no change.

Bypass the switch on the inside. Sounds like a switch problem to me if all the relays, etc check out.

 

[Pablo]

Setting up my router table

 

[Delta]

Setting up

Hey, uh, might want to blur out your address there. Nobody here would likely do anything with it, but not sure of the guest that browse through here.

 

[Pablo]

Hey, uh, might want to blur out your address there. Nobody here would likely do anything with it, but not sure of the guest that browse through here.

Yeah, not worried. People find me. I'm kinda public for years.