Thread: How bad can tradesmen get?

When I bought my Defender all the flanges were welded to the axles .That the welds had`nt cracked was due to the power of the 300 tdi ?more than the expertise of the welder

AM

My first Land Rover was a 1966 SIIa which I obtained in 1973. It was bought from and serviced by a well known South Melbourne Land Rover dealer. When I serviced the vehicle I found a plug in the sliding joint grease nipple hole on the front drive shaft. The LR manual stated that...... 'this plug is to be removed at the first service and replaced with a grease nipple'

On the most recent dealer service on our D2a the coolant hadn't been topped up when the top hose clamp was replaced and the oil was filled to the add mark. On checking the service book, it hadn't been filled in for three years.


Deano.

fronts too.

I hate that....

espesially when you're doing a job for some hack who wants it done and dusted quickly because that makes the work cheaper (and I usually only work off of fixed prices) so he puts the flanges back on then welds them up for you....

picture my joy at the moment of this conversation

Mate, whys the left drive flange bolted down?

Oh I bolted that up for you while you had lunch

Wish you hadnt done that, I've got to pull it off again now

why?

(picking up the lock tab and second nut from the mud guard)
I didnt fit these yet, your wife called me in, lunch was ready

sorry

No great loss, it'll only take an extra 15 minutes or so
(pops the rubber boot off)
ummm, why is it welded?

cause the rears were

How do you expect me to finish this now?

just slide the axles out like the rears

(That look)

Thanks for the laugh I needed it today hahahahahahahahaha

I don't get it ... why would anyone weld flanges down. What is that supposed to achieve (are the bolts really that hard to get to that it's less effort to drag the welder over and weld laying under the car

seeya,
Shane L.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

I don't get it ... why would anyone weld flanges down. What is that supposed to achieve (are the bolts really that hard to get to that it's less effort to drag the welder over and weld laying under the car

seeya,
Shane L.

Axles to drive flanges is a bodge that can get you mobile again when the splines are flogged out and you are stuck, and anyone unscrupulous can do to reduce backlash when selling a Landy.

Oh crap, I know what your on about .... I've done that before myself knowing I'd be throwing it all away as soon as I got the parts .... but could be mobile in the meantime. Seriously though, who'd weld up anything on someone elses car if your a mechanic. Guess who'll be dealing with that ***** in the near future whne they bring it back

I hope there not welding up splines that are designed to slide

seeya,
Shane L.

Its not just tradies. The computer industry is just as bad. Long story short:
I noticed that my emails had stopped coming a week ago. I tried to log in but my login was rejected even though I knew the details were correct as they have been unchanged for 9 years.
Phoned the provider who have taken over another company. Five phone calls over 6 hours later, here's a summary:

1. The providers computer decided something was dodgy in my emails and stopped them (even though I have Norton which scans them and had not found anything suspicious), but didn't inform me it had stopped my emails.
2. The providers computer also changed my password, but didn't inform me it had changed my password.
3. The provider in its wisdom has arranged it so that the old customers can't log in through any of the new providers page, they have to use a specific page. However, they don't tell you that unless you ring them up, so you keep getting rejected by the providers page which most searches by Google, Firefox etc redirect to.
4. The provider will not accept any of the old passwords which are less than 9 characters with at least one capital. How many thousands of the old customers must have been cut off and forced to change their passwords, after much mucking about?
In summary, when I eventually got to my emails I found several important ones which were now out of date. If I was a business, I would be suing the provider for lost business and for the time I had to spend sorting out the mess they had caused.
The providers customer service people were very helpful over the 6 hours I was trying to sort out this mess, which was entirely the fault of the providers management, who are obviously incompetent and should be sacked en masse IMHO.
So, some tradies are not the only ones who deserve a big boot up the bum.



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