Thread: Rip off mechanic!

Did mine up at Ace's one year. Shattered the front uni on the shaft. $25 later I had a series uni joint on the front and no more rubber joint to fail again.

Also i'm fairly sure the D2 Rotoflex coupling shaft is the same, if it is i have a complete shaft as well sitting in the garage

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Baz.

Originally Posted by Shamo

I took my disco 1 to a mechanic yesterday to get a quote on a tailshaft grinding noise, and i got a quote back today, what had happened was the rubber bit (forgot the word - tired) inbetween the tail shaft and where it joins the diff had worn out and pretty much buggered up my tail shaft joints something chronic... anyway the point of the story is that they quoted me $1000 yes thats $1000 to get it fully repaired with a second hand tail shaft! and i told them to forget about it, so i called up brittish offroad on the sunny coast and ordered all the parts i needed to do it plus some extra things i wanted for only $350 with postage, now hows that for a bloody rip off mechanic! won't be going back there thats for sure.

Shamo

It's called being in business to make money and not just to make freinds

Ive rang parts joints and if you didnt know any better you would be led to pay several hundred more than what you need to.

I have in the past been caught out but I know that if I were to order a rubber coupling through my parts supplier it would cost upwards of $200 but I can get one from LR for about $130 and after market for $100 to $110.

Thay may also have only ever had 1 before which probably took them all day to get apart if they are not LR specialists.

I wouldnt be too hard on them, they have already lost $1k of work, thats bad enough punishment for most smaller mechanics, if your happy with other work they have done then I wouldnt sully them because of this.

Originally Posted by garrycol

I wouldn't have thought a U/S donut would wreck the shaft - did it just need a $100 donut and the rest was going to be cream for the mechanic.

Garry

If you leave them for too long then they wear away at the sides of the drive flange and the flange on the tail shaft where the bolts go through and then yoiu have to replace them.

Originally Posted by garrycol

I wouldn't have thought a U/S donut would wreck the shaft - did it just need a $100 donut and the rest was going to be cream for the mechanic.

Garry

Yeah i think it has been happening for a while, you see i got the car from my dad and he was always aware that there was a clunking noise (for about 3 years now) and since i have been taking it offroad i think i may have finished it cause it started to like grind and make all sorts of noises. When the mechanic looked at it he said the whole area was about to fall out (tail shaft and cuplink and diff yoke) which is no surprise to me, hence why i need a new tail shaft etc.

In reply to Justin Coopers first comment about the prices and where they got it from, they said they had called brittish offroad (because i told them to because they are the cheapest around most of the time) and thats where they got their quote from, hence why i was very annoyed!

Shamo

I'd get rid of the donut altogether. I found i was changing them annually after the lift so had a uni fitted.

Originally Posted by mns488

I'd get rid of the donut altogether. I found i was changing them annually after the lift so had a uni fitted.

I'll be doing the same one day but even with 4wding, mine are lasting about 2 years