On Thu Oct-11-2012 16:45, Kurt Weiske (1:125/57) wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
    KW>   By: Roger Nelson to All on Tue Oct 09 2012 05:19 pm   
      
    > Camaro owner records mechanics abusing car, scheming to get damages   
    > paid for   
    > By Justin Hyde | Motoramic - Mon, Oct 8, 2012 11:27 AM EDT   
      
    KW> When I was in high school, my best friend had a '77 Corvette. A red   
    KW> corvette made him a huge target for anyone with a crappy MOPAR   
    KW> product with a V8 and primer spots at stop lights, and he lost more   
    KW> often than he won.    
      
    KW> He was a stickler for parts, and bought his own NGK spark plugs,   
    KW> had them replaced every 30K or so. After his 3rd set of plugs, the   
    KW> new mechanic he went to pulled him aside to show him something.   
      
    KW> He showed him 6 lightly glazed NGK spark plugs and 2 AC/Delco plugs   
    KW> burned down to nubs. It seems that his previous mechanic didn't   
    KW> want to reach in to replace the back two cylinder's plugs, so they   
    KW> tossed away 2 new plugs.    
      
   Most likely the mechanic kept the new ones for his own use.  That said, the   
   two rear spark plugs are a bear to change -- almost impossible from the top,   
   so I changed mine underneath.  Anyway, we discouraged that sort of thing, but   
   it still happens because of greed and laziness.  It's unusual for a mechanic   
   to get away with something like that because the car may not have idled or   
   performed well and had he been caught by the service manager, he would have   
   been fired.   
      
   I have a video somewhere of a guy with a Japanese vehicle powered by an array   
   of batteries with an expensive controller of some sort racing a 1/4 mile   
   against a Corvette and winning.  It was practically no contest off the line.   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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