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Originally posted by Dave A
A lad I know is an apprentice mechanic with renault, in 1 1/2 yeas there he has learned how to plug in a diagnostics machine and replace sensors.

I tought him more about how an engine actually worked in 15 mins when he watched me setting up my throttle bodies, he didnt even know what compression and ignition was, didnt know what TDC was, didnt know what a crank was, didnt understand even the basics of engines, he thought the rocker cover gasket was the head gasket FFS!

in 6 months time he will be working on cars by himself

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Originally posted by Dave A
ford are just as bad, a mate took focus there recently as it was running on 3 cylinders, they replaced the coil pack, still ran rough, replace the leads, plugs, lambda, then blamed a faulty engine loom, replaced that, no better, went on for 2 weeks.

I went to ford to have a look at the car as they said they were stumped. I had checked all the earths etc... couldnt find the fault.

looked at the coil pack, the monkeys at ford had fitted the leads in the right order on the coil pack but they looked odd, some were stretched and others were slack. the stickers on it that identified the relevant cylinder on the coilpack had been stuck on upside down swapped the leads round and it was fine.

[Edited on 21-09-2006 by Dave A]

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Originally posted by Dave A
typical renault bullshit

what they meant to say was:

well, we are all a bit useless really and apart from changing the coilpack for a new one we are unable to diagnose the fault as we are not real mechanics. We rely on computers to diagnose faults these days. So because of our lack of training and general mechanical and electrical knowlegde we will blame the customer by coming up with some sort of lie that will put us in the clear.

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