Re: "For the want of a pin......"

Posted by Jim L. in OR On 2012/7/26 0:55:23

OUCH!!!! I guess I got lucky all the way around. And thanks, Tim, for the info about that clip. It certainly sounds like the likely culprit.

My mechanic is like many small independent shop owners. He is getting close to retirement but still wants his people to have something. With all the different kinds of hardware that's needed to work on todays cars with changes in that hardware as well as software, sometimes every year and the high price of diagnostic tools for each make and sometimes model - if they are available at all he feels he has to specialize to survive. The only way HE sees is to concentrate on the cars like we and our kind value. I'm not a big conspiracy fancier but, if it walks like a duck.... The upshot is that he is trying to teach some of the young guys the skills necessary to work on older cars. I try to support him as much as I am (financially) able. Sometimes though, stuff happens.