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

[Douglas Landaeta]

In the odd chance that I need to take my UrS4 to a shop, I remove the belly pan and the hardware bits- or at least tell them to either do it right or leave it off and hand me the fittings. It's enough fun to get it on right myself that I don't expect, or trust many techs to do it right. I also have a spare stock of parts (about $20 or less fir everything). There is one shop in Concord, NH that I do trust.

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On Nov 6, 2010, at 8:39 PM, Gregory Wolters <gjwarch at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I find on my S4 that I can usually put it together with heavy duty zip ties.  I 
> heard it on the list!
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> Greg
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> From: JC <jc at j2c3.com>
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> Sent: Sat, November 6, 2010 3:50:28 PM
> Subject: [s-cars] I will NOT buy MORE UNDERTRAY Hardware!
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> 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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