Road Force Balancer

[L DC]

I'm with you 100% on this one Bob.

Case in point: I take my QSW to have front tires replaced and tell the guy (monkey lad in this case) NOT to use the lift they have in the shop because its designed in the shape of an "I" is such that it hits the muffler running down the middle. The muffler is the first thing the lift jacks-up because the lazy ass monkey-lads in that shop don't bother adjusting the brackets up at each end of the lift platform "I).

We can all imagine the kind of damage the muffler would sustain having the car weight resting on it. I had work done on the exhaust system a while back and I fail to notice that the work done made the muffler hang a bit lower than its stock position.

Intead, I also told him to PLEASE use the floor jack to individually change each tire. But the lazy ass monkey lad wanted to do it his way and it was not like there was a line of cars waiting to be service.

He gives me a dirty look and proceeded to place the jack under the front subframe, at which point I told him not to do that because he would bend the subframe. The monkey-lad got stupid and said: "this car is too old and you should get a new," to which I responded; if you give me the money I would more than happy purchase a new RS4 to replace it.


-Louis

--- On Tue, 1/25/11, Robert Myers <bob at chips-ur-s.com> wrote:

> From: Robert Myers <bob at chips-ur-s.com>
> Subject: Re: Road Force Balancer
> To: "Vincent Gelinas" <vrgelinas at gmail.com>
> Cc: "quattro at audifans.com" <quattro at audifans.com>
> Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 8:47 PM
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> Does the PHRASE "Monkey Lad" no longer mean anything to our
> list 
> members?  The "ML" (tm) doesn't touch my car if I'm
> not there to 
> watch and be sure he at least remembers "righty-tighty,
> lefty-loosey".
> 
> Cody, you are most definitely NOT a monkey lad but you've
> met them, I'm sure.
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> At 08:28 PM 1/25/2011, Vincent Gelinas wrote:
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> >Excellent point and well said.
> >
> >V
> >On Jan 25, 2011 8:00 PM, "John Cody Forbes" <cody at 5000tq.com>
> wrote:
> > > Road Force balancers are common. Pretty much
> every company that makes a
> >balancer makes a road force, but Hunter is the most
> popular. I've been using
> >them for 5 or 6 years now at the past few places I've
> worked.
> > >
> > > Customers should never be, and extremely rarely
> are, allowed in to a shop.
> >The liability is huge. One customer wearing his flat
> bottomed loafers slips
> >in a drop of oil and BAM the livelihood of everybody
> that works in that
> >building is down the drain. A windowed viewing area
> should be all that you
> >can hope for.
> > >
> > > -Cody (mobile)
> > >
> > > On Jan 25, 2011, at 6:18 PM, "Max Hoepli" <mhoepli at vif.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi all,
> > >> For the first time a road force balancer was
> used on one of my rims was
> > >> cleaned due to oxidation and refitted with
> the tire and balanced.
> > >>
> > >> Anyone have experience with this type of
> machine? Who are the
> >manufacturers
> > >> of road force balancers? And $$$.
> > >>
> > >> Automotive Import Market on Denison in
> Markham, Ontario claims to be the
> > >> first shop in Canada to have such a balancer.
> I found the shop through
> >Tire
> > >> Rack. I didn't like the part that the car has
> to be driven to the back to
> > >> the garage and clients are not allowed to be
> in the shop. Clients can
> >wait
> > >> in the large waiting room-rim/tire display
> centre.
> > >>
> > >> Max
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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