Had to valet a chrysler voyager today, as soon as it turned up tuesday pm, the car dealer jumped out and said: "i will pay more for this one" so stuck my head in and low and behold it was hanging---BADLY. anyways i love a challenge but after 7 hours i thought the £55 i charged him to Hard mop, then fully valet it seemed cheap lol anyone else had anything like this happen?

cheers Statey

 

Yep.....

Had to fit a shower pump the other day so i gave a price that was pretty good....

EVERYTHING that could of gone wrong did and ended up costing me about 4 hours......

Oh well, these things happen.

 

Had loads of jobs like that, last one was service a dental chair, usually takes me around 3 hours, this one took 7 and i still couldn't clear one of the faults!

It was one of those jobs you just had to walk away from and go back later.

 

I once offered to do a crankcase inspection on a Wartsila Diesel. Was supposed to be a 3 hour job. Discovered the crank was bowed and had to change it. Took me 2 weeks.

 

AND I TTHOUGHT SEVEN HOURS WAS BAD lol

 

To make it worse it was a total fucking nightmare of a job
NEVER volunteer for anything

 

biffing the mrs!!!


Oh hang on, you said longer

 

my first attempt at mechanical work and why i dont like it .i changed the cambelt on a astra gte would have been simple but took me all day the reason ,i fooked up didnt no they had a little bit of metal in the bottom pulley cant remember what its called but i lost it lol.

 

Key.

 

i think its a bigger word than that might be wrong lol

 

Woodruff key.

 

thats it

 

planned to take 2 years to build my 100e...

took bloody 9 years in the end!!

steve

 

my saf was gona be ready for ring trip in aprill ,went in the rs2000,then it was ring trip in june ,iwent in the rs2000 again lol hoping to go init mid october cant go in the rs2000 sold it .

 

umm.. everyday i get jobs that take longer than they should,.. or rather longer than expected!

report will come in saying there is a very simple problem with a machine...
get to site and either;

1: said machine is close to being a write off lol

2: some manager type or other will appear saying 'oh while you are here,
could you look at this too'

agggh!!!

 

Yep.....

last saturday, fitting rear beam mounts on a 2wd Saff, 1st 1 took 20 minutes, 2nd 1 took 3 hours.... fookin cars!!!!!!

 

Always.

Went to network a printer the other day, should have taken 5-10 mins, ended up taking an hour as I had to rewire half the network.

Keeps you on ur toes tho, and would be boring if it was ALWAYS plug n play

 

Yes i have had that with my valeting business also ...........

Mind you i did a a volvo seats + carpet shampoo inc trim dress to remove spilt milk (about 2 pints worth) yesterday and took me just over 1 hour for £50

Valeting is pish just now as folk aint really spending money tho

 

yep am tilling a kitchen should of taken 2 days max tomoorow will be the 4th day although it WILL be finished