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[Ken T]

Interestingly enough my second car was a Volkswagen beetle that had dropped a valve. I stripped the engine, got a new valve, reworked the head and rebuilt it. It went fine for several weeks, then I was going from greenock to edinburgh to see an old flame, when it started knocking. The knock got worse, and I ended up abandoning it having to be towed home by the old man. Hey that's life, you learn from mistakes, don't rust VW's 

Ken

[JamesV6CDX]

James I’ve got a 380 short Walther PPK pistol you can borrow if you want, I tried to use it on myself a few years back, but the mechanism jammed, it really is a good test to see if your lucks in at the moment. 

Made me laugh 

[Taxi_Driver]

I once used a torque wrench, set to 25nm's, iirc, to tighten the plugs, it seemed stupidly tight to me, so not suprised one snapped off on you James. Somewhere between 15-20 nm's seemed to be more appropiate to me.

[Jimbob]

They say bad things happen in 3's, so you should be safe now 

[Plomien]

They say bad things happen in 3's, so you should be safe now 

which is why you should always have the 4th pint 

[Derek_in_Penzance]

You mustn't beat yourself up about a few things going wrong. They may have been acts of God, they may have been due to some error, but either way one has to press on and be positive. If by a process of investigation and deduction you think you may have made a mistake of some sort, well, we've all made cockups and the important thing is to learn from them. If not, it's just bad luck, and we all have our share of that too.

Your concern for your abilities and integrity is what makes people, including myself (still), want to avail themselves of your services. So be positive, take pride in your work, and look forward to many more of your engines running like sewing machines!

[robbo299]

As people have said.. s**t happens. Even F1 cars blow engines etc and just think of all the millions they spend on engine rebuilding and the facilities they have. Some don`t even last 50 miles! Don`t beat youself up over it mate.

[Del Boy]

Don't worry mate, probably just a run of bad luck, like you said about all you've done and they haven't gone wrong 

Take no notice, it's his son talking, cos it makes sense.....

Oi 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

As others have already said James, shit happens and we all have runs of bad luck, but you have just got to dust yourself down and learn from your experiences for the jobs to come.

After all a car is just a machine, man made, and always ready to destroy itself thanks to the designers brief!  We just try and keep them going against the odds, and remember the youngest miggy is at least 5 years old now, with most getting into double figures!

Just because you have had some mechanical let downs does not mean you are a failure!   The machines have just decided to 'life expire'

Anyway James, you are still going to supervise my first V6 cam belt change when I get around to it!!

[amigov6]

We all have our ups & downs luckwise but that does'nt put your mechanical prowess in question mate.
    Put your fave CD on, open your fave drink, leave the tools & kick back for a while.

[cem_devecioglu]

Rule ..  Success for every case is not guaranteed..

if there is a hidden problem that you cant see or not seen before, can happen and all you can do is watch unfortunately.. That is experience..

its been two days I'm trying to repair a donald pc and some half hours ago I was able to start it up..

so it can happen..

[Del Boy]

As others have already said James, shit happens and we all have runs of bad luck, but you have just got to dust yourself down and learn from your experiences for the jobs to come.

After all a car is just a machine, man made, and always ready to destroy itself thanks to the designers brief!  We just try and keep them going against the odds, and remember the youngest miggy is at least 5 years old now, with most getting into double figures!

Just because you have had some mechanical let downs does not mean you are a failure!   The machines have just decided to 'life expire'

Anyway James, you are still going to supervise my first V6 cam belt change when I get around to it!!

You're brave, i'll muck in and do stuff to a car but for one I wouldn't have the patience and for 2 no doubt it'd go wrong 

[feeutfo]

bah, pull the bugger to bits and see what happened. Nothing to loose, and you'll love doing it.