So my friend left my house for a day so he could go to his doctor's appointment in NYC. I'm happy now because he was taking up all my time off with his car. He has a 91 Jetta which he's never changed his pads or checked the wheel cylinders since he bought the car almost 2 years ago. He kept telling me he need a new master cylinder. What do you know, instead of checking the individual wheels(brakes) he just goes out and buys 2 mast. cyl.. Guess what? they didnt do the trick. So after I take off the driver's side rear drum we see tar like brake fluid all over the pads(bad wheel cylinder). It was so ironic because he has way more experience with cars than I do. He always thinks its something other than it is.
After we fix his brakes, we start on his power steering pump. His belt is squeeling because he hit a curb trying to show off for his girl that was in the car. We find that the adjustment bracket is at it's max because his belt is old and worn. So I tell him to go get a new belt. He says "nah I'll just weld the two brackets together"( he bought an arc welder from walmart a few hours b4 and was dying to use it). So I laughed and said it's your car but I dont think it's going to work. So after the first few attempts he gets the weld to hold. Then we take the car out for a test drive and he's bugging out and keeps saying I can't believe I have brakes. So he eventually managed to break the weld. This guys drives like a maniac he's doing 180's yanking on his e-brake so he can slide, speeding up to stop signs so he can abuse his brakes. Oh by the way he has his uni-directional tires on wrong. Facing the rear on the. WTF?
After we get finished at about 1130pm he wants me to put a Tv in his center console. I look under his dash and there are wires everywhere. He's a safety hazard. His car will be on fire in 2 weeks. I wish I had pics. Well needless to say we didnt get the Tv in because my ideas weren't good enough for his taste. He wanted to place the Monitor where his radio used to be at the top of the dash. Prior to this hedid so reconfiguring and made room for it. So i fabricate a plexi glass mount that he wanted to paint blck to match his dash. He look at it and notices a scratch , i tll him to use a single piece because we had it two-ply. He just breaks both pieces and says My bad. So I told him to pull his car out of my garage so I could get started chaningin my springs. I pull my car in and get started. He like yo man you need new struts but then goes and starts messing with his car again. After like 5 minutes I stop and go upstairs. I helped his ass on his car for like 3 days and he cant even help me? He tries to help and just gets in the way. To make a long story short I bought struts yesterday and it took me a little over an hour to change all the brakes pads and slap the new struts on.
Thanx for reading this long post Just venting!
After we fix his brakes, we start on his power steering pump. His belt is squeeling because he hit a curb trying to show off for his girl that was in the car. We find that the adjustment bracket is at it's max because his belt is old and worn. So I tell him to go get a new belt. He says "nah I'll just weld the two brackets together"( he bought an arc welder from walmart a few hours b4 and was dying to use it). So I laughed and said it's your car but I dont think it's going to work. So after the first few attempts he gets the weld to hold. Then we take the car out for a test drive and he's bugging out and keeps saying I can't believe I have brakes. So he eventually managed to break the weld. This guys drives like a maniac he's doing 180's yanking on his e-brake so he can slide, speeding up to stop signs so he can abuse his brakes. Oh by the way he has his uni-directional tires on wrong. Facing the rear on the. WTF?
After we get finished at about 1130pm he wants me to put a Tv in his center console. I look under his dash and there are wires everywhere. He's a safety hazard. His car will be on fire in 2 weeks. I wish I had pics. Well needless to say we didnt get the Tv in because my ideas weren't good enough for his taste. He wanted to place the Monitor where his radio used to be at the top of the dash. Prior to this hedid so reconfiguring and made room for it. So i fabricate a plexi glass mount that he wanted to paint blck to match his dash. He look at it and notices a scratch , i tll him to use a single piece because we had it two-ply. He just breaks both pieces and says My bad. So I told him to pull his car out of my garage so I could get started chaningin my springs. I pull my car in and get started. He like yo man you need new struts but then goes and starts messing with his car again. After like 5 minutes I stop and go upstairs. I helped his ass on his car for like 3 days and he cant even help me? He tries to help and just gets in the way. To make a long story short I bought struts yesterday and it took me a little over an hour to change all the brakes pads and slap the new struts on.
Thanx for reading this long post Just venting!
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