Post your work pictures here!

Any one else see a lot of these?

2016 grand Cherokee UK market

Doc wrote: 2016 grand Cherokee UK market

:huh:
Fussy customer? I mean, yeah, a dead new ANYTHING should be tight and right for the money you spend.
Did you find anything loose or missing in there?

Hi Noah, the noise from this dash was horrific - not just a quiet rattle.
It was the heater duct that runs on top of the cast crossmember you can see in the pic.
The heater duct had been mis-formed in production and the casting tags had not been removed.
I'm surprised there weren't more rattles as nearly every piece of interior trim on these just clips in.
I lasted 3 months at this FCA (Fiat, Chrysler,Alfa romeo) dealership - almost 90% of the work was warranty.
Happily back in the independent sector for now, concentrating on troubleshooting and auto electrics.
Cheers

Doc wrote: Hi Noah, the noise from this dash was horrific - not just a quiet rattle.
It was the heater duct that runs on top of the cast crossmember you can see in the pic.
The heater duct had been mis-formed in production and the casting tags had not been removed.
I'm surprised there weren't more rattles as nearly every piece of interior trim on these just clips in.
I lasted 3 months at this FCA (Fiat, Chrysler,Alfa romeo) dealership - almost 90% of the work was warranty.
Happily back in the independent sector for now, concentrating on troubleshooting and auto electrics.
Cheers

Congratulations for getting out! I was gonna ask what warranty time was for this, but I'm not sure I want to know

Here is a series I took of a car that I fixed for my neighbor. I sold the car to her son after replacing the engine and some other mechanicals. He proceeded to try moving a cement barrier 3 weeks later, totaling the car. His mother was still paying for the loan and had just lost her husband, so I didn't have the heart to sent it for scrap. It took me the better part of 8 months to get up the nerve to do this as I am not a body man. Almost 2 years trouble free since done.

After removal of the carnage

donor chassis

Floor pan pulled back out

test fitment

Panel tests

Finished product

Wow awesome job jconiber! Thx for sharing..

I think I got this from iATN a few years back,I have it as my computer desktop background and it makes me chuckle seeing customers and other techs reading it

2015 Land Rover comes in with no power brake assist. It uses a normal vacuum booster, with a vacuum pump on the intake camshaft. Tech finds no vacuum at the pump, no other controls present, sells a pump. Here's a shot of the engine bay:



And the back of the pump itself:



Gets the pump off, and his exact words were, "Houston, we have a problem." :lol:



Oops! The drive plate for the pump snapped off in the intake cam when the vacuum pump seized up. Just curious, can any of the Euro guys tell me if this is a common failure?

New toys!

I was just checking those out on AES Wave! I'd like to know how they work out for you.

Love 'em so far. Didn't have many opportunities to play with them on Friday, but they look like they'll work well.

Only concern I have is having the pins themselves bending. The regular backprobes have replaceable pins, but not these I'm somewhat hard on backprobes, so I'll have to be careful how/when I use these.

I found out at work this week that Ford Escort station wagon rear hatch support pistons are a suitable replacement for the old lazy ones in my Mustang's hatch.

Trailblazer front chuck?
I Win!

Wiring harness Wednesday

This is exactly why I'm so strict with my guys about going by the tenth digit of the vin instead of the date of manufacture!

This 2007 was manufactured in 2005

Whoa, seriously? :ohmy: Yeah, always go by the 10th, but I can see how someone might get confused there.

Sun setting through a distant snow at the junkyard.
I really couldn't capture the golden haze in the sky with just my phone, but it was a sight to behold...
Won't be long now...
The diesel's are hard to start in the morning, the air tools are already freezing up. Just touching a wrench is enough to bite your fingers.
Not a job for everybody, that's for sure!
Oh, and no heat in the old air cooled Trojan front end loader!
Savage...

Pretty! The sunset, not the working conditions

Found a Chia pet in a Ford van the other day:

Noah wrote:

This is exactly why I'm so strict with my guys about going by the tenth digit of the vin instead of the date of manufacture!

This 2007 was manufactured in 2005

A similar story from about 1980, a lady customer bought a new Lancia Beta.
Now the Beta design was good but it was was probably the worst car ever for disolving into rust even by Fiat standards it was a lemon and destroyed Lancia's reputation in the UK market to the extent Fiat withdrew the Lancia brand and ran a buy back and crush.
So two years the lady realises she is driving around in car full of holes and complained to Fiat.
Fiat offered her a 50% discount on a new car, new car arrived so she started to fill in her insurance forms --- the chassis number was only 5 higher than than the car it replaced it turned both cars had been built in 1976.

Fiat and Chrysler the perfect storm.