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

[Harold McComas]

Where you at again JC? Maybe we can help with the recommendation.

When I had my S6 I never bothered with the fender fasteners.

I used to have my oil changed at an oil place, bro-in-laws' bro-in-law was 
the manager so I thought I would be taken care of. EVERY time I went they 
said your are missing several fasteners. When they overfilled by a quart I 
said no more. Did my own oil changes and in 3 yrs never lost a fastener.

Doug L, if it is the shop I am thinking of, I had a good experience there, 
my brother in law did not.

Harold

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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.
>