03-01-2013, 10:39 PM
This is England ed, I haven't had a dry road since buying the China! But now with what sounds like washing machine at full spin on my osf wheel I'm constantly worried the bearings gonna lock up or the wheek fall off or something so I darent push it at all now.
I have worked at garages though niall, and at ford for example they're not allowed to do any warranty work until the diagnostic computer (and the ford system) has decided what's wrong - and for the record, the system isn't always right. I spent more time on a laptop doing fuel pump learns and stuff like that than anything mechanical tbh. Oh and didn't touch a multi meter once. Was the same at Honda, didn't even see a multi.meter there lol, but did have to do a few things with the scan tool including live readings while the tech drove, you can't do that with a multi meter!
If your dad worked at jag, I can see it could be different with a.much higher labour charge etc, but unless he still works there, I'd assume times have changed even there now. The fact is, on warranty cars and with this 'brilliant' bonus scheme, in a normal average car garage, jobs are done as quick as possible for as little money as possible. And to get the bonus, more jobs are done in a set period of time. Everything is governed by money these days unfortunately. So that means stick the scantool on, wait for confirmation from the warranty guys to change the part, change it and retest. That's literally what happens these days.
I would also take ruans advice on most things, but I don't agree with him about diagnostics being pointless, if they were, obd2 wouldn't still be built into cars now...
I have worked at garages though niall, and at ford for example they're not allowed to do any warranty work until the diagnostic computer (and the ford system) has decided what's wrong - and for the record, the system isn't always right. I spent more time on a laptop doing fuel pump learns and stuff like that than anything mechanical tbh. Oh and didn't touch a multi meter once. Was the same at Honda, didn't even see a multi.meter there lol, but did have to do a few things with the scan tool including live readings while the tech drove, you can't do that with a multi meter!
If your dad worked at jag, I can see it could be different with a.much higher labour charge etc, but unless he still works there, I'd assume times have changed even there now. The fact is, on warranty cars and with this 'brilliant' bonus scheme, in a normal average car garage, jobs are done as quick as possible for as little money as possible. And to get the bonus, more jobs are done in a set period of time. Everything is governed by money these days unfortunately. So that means stick the scantool on, wait for confirmation from the warranty guys to change the part, change it and retest. That's literally what happens these days.
I would also take ruans advice on most things, but I don't agree with him about diagnostics being pointless, if they were, obd2 wouldn't still be built into cars now...