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

[Joe Pizzimenti]

Zipties.
On Nov 6, 2010 6:50 PM, "JC" <jc at j2c3.com> wrote:
> 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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