[s-cars] I will NOT buy MORE UNDERTRAY Hardware!

JC jc at j2c3.com
Sat Nov 6 15:50:28 PDT 2010


Getting under the car for the first time in a long time today to take care
of my blown X-plug I discover that YET AGAIN the last time she was in the
shop, a bunch of the undertray hardware was lost (if I'm being generous) or
just blown off (most likely). 
 
The 2 front metal pins had lost their little backside retainer thingies
(which I always re-make when they get lost so I am always sure it is all
there when it arrives at the shop), and ALL of the 4 plastic fender-liner
pins were completely missing. You might think they just came loose, but to
underline the fact that it was negligence, the tray wasn't properly in the
bumper slots up front, and the side 'wings' were completely wrong in the
fender wells (on the outside not the inside of the fender liner).  Obviously
somebody jammed the crap out of it, didn't get it lined up right, pulled the
metal pins out so they lost the retainers, just jam-jam-jammered it around
until they could get the metal pins in, and then completely blew off the
fender-liner part of it. 
 
I've bought new pins for those damn things time and again after getting it
back from the mechs with one or two gone missing. Most of the time I've
generously thought hey OK they didn't fully engage the pin and it probably
fell out on the test drive or way home.. but this time I can tell they just
said "F-it" with those side pins. This would have also been the service
after which I found the bumper grills were jammed in so half-assed the
engagement clips got all bent and malformed and wouldn't clip in properly
because somebody had just force-slammed 'em in there without paying
attention. I'm lucky I didn't loose the grills actually.  Oh and never
re-clipped the ambient temp sensor either... 
 
/rant.  Just had to vent.  F at hhk I need a good shop.  No such thing I guess.

 
 
 
 


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