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Originally Posted by UncleHo

also the driest,

Sorry UncleHo, but Antarctica is the driest continent. Australia is only the driest inhabited continent.

its just that grease nipples have become obsolete......

most workshops wouldnt even know where the grease gun was.....since its been that long since it was last used......

a service is simply oil and filter.......
and then a quick look around to see what else they can hit you up for.....
such as wipers....brakes.....globes......machining of rotors.....coolant flush....brake fluid flush.....etc......




these days.....im afraid....if you want the job done proper......
you gotta done it yourself......

these days.....im afraid....if you want the job done proper......
you gotta done it yourself......[/QUOTE]

Its a shame,but this is the way it is these days

I dont mind paying to get the job done,if it is done properly.

More often than not i seem to pay the good money,& get the half done job.

Originally Posted by camel_landy

Well, as they say...

"If a job's worth doing..."

I ended up pulling up onto a dealer forecourt and doing the work myself. I them bought the parts from them to keep them sweet.

M

Same here. I checked my car all the time on the trip around Aus . I had my own gresse gun and i gressed mine once a month as well as checking engine, gear box, transfer box , front and rear axle, and swivals for oil levals. I also changed the oil myself in camp sites every 8000 k's. Mine did not go into a gargae around Aus , did it all my self.
I also used to check the car every week for the land rover normal things like Wheel bearings, Uj's and stuff

Belive me Leeds it is not just Aussie Garages most of the UK ones would have not gressed the UJ's unlesss you had asked them to , they would have done the least amount they would need to

Ali

I m now 45 years old and wonder why I am still a motor mechanic.
Most of the people who knew any thing have left the trade.
At the end of the day in a hot unairconditioned workshop and I come home covered in dirt with cracked hands and a aching back i question my sanity.
The pay is rubbish and instead of being held in high regard by society as a automotive engineer you are called a grease monkey like in a earlier post.
My missus earns much more money with little physical effort in air con comfort.
It takes more than ten years to learn the trade well and the vehicles are changing all the time unlike a doctor who is well paid to work on one model which never changes.
I tonight have just come back from a meeting which discussed the new engines and the oil type requirements and the the cost of the oil involved with salesmen/ customer expectations.....etc
People want the green fuel efficient engines but not the servicing cost and problems involved.
Any very simple mistake or just having a bad day can cause a engine failure these days .
Why would any one become a automotive engineer ?
thats why you cannot get good servicing and repair work.
I forgot to mention the competition from backyard and do it yourselfers who may or may no do a good job driving down prices of labour and the increasing cost of having a licensed workshop with the modern gear need to handle late model vehicles.

the way things are going......mechanics will be obsolete soon.......

new cars will probably just end up going to the nearest computer technician for servicing.......

One of my Range Rover customers once said that the man in our workshop who was best at his job was the man who greased the seats and steering wheel.

its becoming an obsolete trade...

mainly because we're becoming a jap car society...

one of the later jap small cars has a 100000 km service interval... at which point you stop the car, push it into a metal chipper and then buy yourself a new one.

the same can be said about the new landcruisers, some of the nissans and even some of the jeeps. Its not that they have a 100,000Km service interval its just that if you chucked one of them at half the stuff a deefer can deal with it would roll over, die horribly and leave you stranded to die. If you were lucky enough to survive and get the wreck back to a dealers they'd just cross load your gear into a new vehicle hand that to you and then push your old broken one into the metal chipper.