rant Idiots who know nothing.

[nevins]

Where do I start, I have got a vw polo for sam as her colts gone and it makes life easier, The car needed a few things for it to be road legal no big task.

 

1st off was was the gear linkage and gear box mount. Now to explain the 1st moron who claims to be a vw polo expert and breaker. Just like in every car production they have different parts for different models. I ordered a gearbox mount, full set of engine mounts and gear linkage explained the parts and also gave part numbers. So I stripped the car down ready for the parts to be delivered.

 

Few days later a big box turned up, I thought great time to get to work. Not frigging likely, every part was wrong! WTF, how do you mess up a delivery when all the part numbers are given also the gear box mount was no where in sight.

 

Slightly pissed off now I rang him up, only to be told they were right. I then cross referenced all the part numbers and found he had sent me the 6n2 parts which belong to the facelift polo not the 6n which I have. Also he argued that the car does not have a gearbox mount. I then asked him what a mount is called that bolts to the chassis and gearbox, which he replied a gearbox mount. But then he added although that is true they aint called that at vw, they call them a rear engine mount so he did not include it. What a prick.

 

Now to top it off a courier delivered two electric window mechanisms which I have just opened and guess what they are broke. They were boxed up and wrapped in blue roll and thats it. I now have to work out a way to modify them as these are rare to find due to high demand. Plus the reason they are broke is not the packaging but the way they were removed from the car. Are people so thick and idiotic that they are in capable of removing a part without damaging it when they know it is needed in one pissing piece.

[ilicos]

Trading standards?

[nevins]

Looking into what I can do, at the moment, Its a pain in the arse as I have a car sat idle, although the coilovers that are fine can be fitted. Just annoyed at how stupid some people can be and have the nerve to class them selves as experts.

[ilicos]

Easiest way to get business is to call yourself an expert, ..... The truth is that real experts are few and far between.

[JustGav]

Poke them with a pokey stick

[evinX]

New cables for the window mechs? or has the motor gone to? that shouldnt be hard to diy.

 

But for a vw 'expert' you'd expect them to order the right bits when parts numbers are supplied, if hes such a expert he should of thought about different models and should know that the prefacelift and facelift models have different parts...wouldnt call him an expert...bleeding amateur.

 

Hope you get it sorted, i know how it feels, especially when you look foward to recieving the parts.

[nevins]

What a day, the replacement window mechs looked good but as soon as they were switched nothing happened, So i opened them up only to find twisted wires that had eaten away at the internal runs. I give up. On the originals the same had happened but the previous owner had also burnt the motors out.

 

As for the coilovers, what was supposed to be a simple job has turned into a night mare. Some one has decided to bin the 18mm ny-lock nuts on the struts, and replace them by cross threading 13/16th hardened steel ones in place. They are that tight that I have bent a pair of maul grips trying to hold on to the shaft of the strut trying to move the nut. Could not even chisel the bloody thing off.

 

So in the morning Iam picking up a new retaining cap and top mounts and savagely cutting the retaining cap around the nut and letting the bloody thing drop out that way lol.