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[Doctor Gollum]

It's less time putting the bolts in by hand than trying to rethread the hub flange after crossthreading them with the windy gun

[Doctor Gollum]

They do it even when they know you're standing there, watching them. No attempt to hide it, which leads me to believe that they genuinely have no fickin idea what they're supposed to do.

I have gone into the workshop and physically taken the keys from my car because of the way it was driven into the workshop.

It was only a 1.6LSierra, but that wasn't the point

[Marks DTM Calib]

They do it even when they know you're standing there, watching them. No attempt to hide it, which leads me to believe that they genuinely have no fickin idea what they're supposed to do.

Its a shame as the guy running this place is a genuine chap who will do little jobs at no charge and attempts to give honest advice (re-sealed a tyre to rim and fitted a rear wiper FOC whilst I was there for two people) so there is always a que of customers.

But sadly there is just this fundamental lack of understanding

[Doctor Gollum]

That incident was 22/23 years ago, and the chap who was running it (and maybe still is) whilst I was taxi driving was always helpful enough. Polish, but ran a garage in the US for a few years, so very knowledgeable Only ever go went in for aircon regassing though as most other stuff was done on the drive and I have a couple of friendly tyre places for that sort of thing.

[Nick W]

It's less time putting the bolts in by hand than trying to rethread the hub flange after crossthreading them with the windy gun

The standard 1/2" windy gun is actually a pretty puny thing, and will struggle to do that. You can do up nuts far tighter with a moderate heave on a 600mm breaker bar.


However, gunning the nuts on then applying a torque wrench shows a total lack of understanding what they're trying to do.