Repair completed....wrong repair.
Just driving along on Wednesday, up the Fraser Canyon and *bingo*..a weird shudder in the steering and when I stopped to check..pop pop pop out the tailpipe. A misfire. Made some calls to the shop tha...
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I want to address a couple of points raised, and thanks for them, too.
The Scanner likely wasn't used properly. The info was there, but in memory, not coming up on the opening look-see. It was because it was showing clear that the guy looked elsewhere, took off the dog-house and hooked up a fuel gauge pressure sensor. I was sitting in the 'house' and saw all of that happening. And no, I wasn't offered the old pump and that will be part of the conversation.
The cost of tune-ups is outrageous. Coils are $80.00 each at shops. And there are ten for a V10. Add in new boots and plugs and we are over $1,000. Then there is the labour. As an aside...one can buy a pkge of coils 10 for 80 on E Bay but I am not sure sure that they'd last any longer than the time it took to put them on.
I had called Ford in Kamloops and both shops were booked into next week. So, I used Kal Tire. They have a strong warranty/guarantee statement...which I look forward to testing, now. They have shops all over Canada and until this past week, I would recommend them to any and all. I don't think that they 'hosed' me. I think that they guy made an error by not looking deeper into the Scanner modes, only looking at the opening screen and then moving on to something else. As I pointed out to the counter people..they were not listening to the customer. A fairly normal male trait, 'just stop talking and let me fix it'.
I wish that I had the mechanical ability to fix my own stuff, but I learned many years ago, not to dick with this sh*t. I have cost myself lots of dollars by trying to fix things. But..I will carry a spare coil from now on.
I will craft a letter today and we'll see where it all goes.
Gary Haupt
The Scanner likely wasn't used properly. The info was there, but in memory, not coming up on the opening look-see. It was because it was showing clear that the guy looked elsewhere, took off the dog-house and hooked up a fuel gauge pressure sensor. I was sitting in the 'house' and saw all of that happening. And no, I wasn't offered the old pump and that will be part of the conversation.
The cost of tune-ups is outrageous. Coils are $80.00 each at shops. And there are ten for a V10. Add in new boots and plugs and we are over $1,000. Then there is the labour. As an aside...one can buy a pkge of coils 10 for 80 on E Bay but I am not sure sure that they'd last any longer than the time it took to put them on.
I had called Ford in Kamloops and both shops were booked into next week. So, I used Kal Tire. They have a strong warranty/guarantee statement...which I look forward to testing, now. They have shops all over Canada and until this past week, I would recommend them to any and all. I don't think that they 'hosed' me. I think that they guy made an error by not looking deeper into the Scanner modes, only looking at the opening screen and then moving on to something else. As I pointed out to the counter people..they were not listening to the customer. A fairly normal male trait, 'just stop talking and let me fix it'.
I wish that I had the mechanical ability to fix my own stuff, but I learned many years ago, not to dick with this sh*t. I have cost myself lots of dollars by trying to fix things. But..I will carry a spare coil from now on.
I will craft a letter today and we'll see where it all goes.
Gary Haupt
