Had an exhaust leak and the bracket holding the muffler and tip was never installed right so the exhaust tip wasn't centered. No big deal. Went to the dealer they fixed the leak and straightened the tip. Got in the the car fired it up and was like wtf is that noise!!. The tech never fastened the bracket back down properly. Again not a big deal other than I had to sit at the dearler for another fn 45 min. Service writer was cool. How do you not hear a rattle that bad, that as soon as you start the car its there and this donkey tech had to drive the car around the dealer lot to park!!!! Total wasted 3.5 hours of my day. Is this what I have to look forward to with GM techs?

 

lol...don't get me started...

 

thats why if you can do it you DIY not take it to a stealership where the grease monkeys w/ an IQ of -10 can **** your **** up

 

This is true for the dealership I had to deal with near my house. There are some techs out there that know what they're doing, but they are hard to come by.

 

not all techs are retarted. and you would be surprised at some of the **** we have to find. ya he may be stupid, but he could have been having a bad day in his life too. don't be so quick to judge. Not saying that there arn't bad techs. hell even in canada there crappy techs and we have to go to more school than the guys in the states.

 

That's like here where I work. Some techs only do what the complaint is on the repair order.

 

yeah there are good ones and bad ones.. like with any profession.

The less the shop pays them.. typically the worse they are.

 

Understand that, but the tech caused the second complaint

 

There are some good techs, I'm one of them, or at least I like to think so. I take my time and try to have everything perfect. One of the reasons I don't do it anymore, takes to long to make stuff right and dealers don't like to pay their employees enough. So a lot of tech's half ass everything so they just get it out the door, especially under warranty. But the good techs usually the work already lined up for them for a day or two in advance cause they get the difficult jobs. If your what we call a "waiter" which is your waiting for your car, you'll just get the next available guy, and that would usually be some young guy they just hired from Jiffy lube so they don't have to have as many trained techs. That's why I became a mechanic so I don't have to let somebody else fix my car. But the job itself sucks so bad I started to hate cars, so now I only work on cars now and then so I don't get burnt out.

 

Yup.. thats a common theme with many mechanics.. always fixing problems instead of making/buidling/designing fun cars.

 

Sounds like the tech that dump oil all over my valve corver in my Balt.
He will be hearing back from me...And i will be getting a free detail out of it, Just watch
I think some of these tech got their ASE out of a Cracker Jack Box

 

As far as i understand in the states, for bodymen, might be the same for mechanics, is that as long as you have a tool box you can work in a shop, certification or not. In Canada you actually have to pass a governement intraprovincial exam to get governement certification. Now sure school doesnt mean that you're good, but it helps to weed out idiots.

But like any trade, being good relies on a couple things:

1. Actually careing about your job
2. Who you learnt it from
3. Some brains help but not always required.
4. genuine love of what you do.
5. a good boss.

;-)

 

The dealers suck, i took my car down there due to my car running extreamly rich and i asked them if maybe the car was flashed wrong and they were like what is a flash, i was like are you kidding

 

There are awesome techs at the dealer by me :-) in puyallup, Wa.