Friday light

Today was a typical "Friday light" day, but we certainly were not slow. We have a Chevy truck in with a oil leak that we discovered was a oil pan gasket and not the rear main seal (lucky and cheaper for him!)  the book time was 4.5 hours? we did it in 2.5 and charged the customer appropriately.
 Our shop is built on Honesty, to the point that we some times lose money!  I would rather be too honest in the customers favor and get a repeat visitor, that the other way around and never see them again. So although we could have charged him the 4.5 hrs we didn't and he left happier than not but he will be back!

 This next truck is from the City Of Poway maintenance department and the A/C compressor was noisy. When we hooked up the A/C machine we found that the compressor was not pumping like it should and also had leaks in  the barrel seal which is very common on the new style Chevy compressors.
So we replaced the compressor and all the extras that you need to to fix it right, did a A/C system flush, orifice tube ect.  Then evacuation and recharge we had it blowing @42degreese. A/C system work is tricky and you really should know your stuff before trying to fix one its not like changing a starter there are a lot more thing's that  you need to know to do it safely for you and your car. If done wrong you could waste a lot of time and money. 

This next one is a VW SUV Tiguan and has a water leak in the rear of the motor. This was very hard to see and locate the leak.  We started to remove the heater hoses because it looked like that is where the leak was coming from, we were wrong it was a by-pass tube that wraps around the right side of the block had a hole rubbed in it from the heater hose. We are currently waiting for VW to get the parts in to repair it there are no after market parts available for it at this time, and also the plastic hose connections (VW like to us lots of these!) are starting to deteriorate and they are brittle so when we move them out of the way they brake off. We have already quoted our customer and we like to stick to the original estimate. I don't like to call the customer back and raise the price so we will be eating some of this through the shop. Oh well you win some and lose some, but happy customers are well worth it.
These VW's along with many other newer cars take a special coolant that is vender specific to the car DON'T MIX COOLANTS! Bad Bad Bad, we routinely have to flush out and refill cars that have had the wrong kind of coolant or other fluids put where they don't belong so read your owners manual or call and ask. We are always happy to answer questions. 858-486-0881
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The radiator shop had a couple of fuel tanks still in the process of being cleaned out and also had a re-core radiator to do. This one is off of a forklift sort of vehicle for the NAVY on the navel base here in Coronado. We are proud to have many accounts with the NAVY here and are grateful to be able to help them with their work.
This radiator is an up grade from the original core ( we always go up never down) it has more fins per inch and a better tube design making it more effective in cooling the vehicle.
 Well thats all for today we have the week end off but will be back at it on monday, if you need any help or have any questions pleas give us a call I forward the phones to my cell phone even on my days off and am happy to help you.
David Avery  858-486-0881
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