Hola, folks!
End of another day. The internet has been out since I got home from my last job, so I’ve been doing all my scheduling and whatnot via my phone. Slows things down a little bit, but that’s not too big of a deal.
I was supposed to be making progress on accomplishing those two big goals of the week. Unfortunately, I think I set the goals a little too big, as with being sick and scrambling with staying on top of work to make sure that Malaki had work, and also getting a little distracted with my phonetic stuff, I haven’t made that much progress. I still have a lot I need to do before my mom gets home Saturday. Been a bit crazy.
Anyway, busy seemingly unproductive day today? Only 5 cars ish. Maleki did two on his own. I did two on my own. I did half another on my own (bigger job), and I did half a job with Malaki. Maleki did a diag of a 2017 Mini Cooper that died driving through a puddle. In the end, it was yet another blown motor. 😕
While he did that, I worked on a 2016 Dodge Ram ProMaster with a misfire. Turned out to be a bad fuel injector, but to replace the injector on those, you need to pull the intake. And because the front end is so small and the opening so tight (tiny hood), you have to remove the front covers and the upper radiator support.
So dumb. So many ridiculously designed things on that one, like having the four stabilizer connections for the manifold all be pointing out, and instead of being bolts, they’re studs and nuts, and not just studs, not integrated studs, so instead of being able to remove four bolts and done, you revive four nuts, and then you have to remove the entire brackets as well.
Ugh.
Engineers.
After that, I did a diagnosis on a 2017 Nissan Rogue. She says she did a lot of research before buying it because it was reliable, and her last Jeep wasn’t at all.
I didn’t have the heart to tell her that the very badge on the front (Nissan) is a sign it’s not gonna be reliable. 😕)
Anyway, wasn’t getting fuel. In the end, it came down to either IPDM or fuel pump, I think. And she has an extended warranty, so I told her that her best bet was to take it to Nissan, so that if they do indeed cover it, she’ll get factory Nissan parts with the warranty instead of aftermarket parts.
Maleki did a battery replacement in a 2016 Land Rover Discovery some I did an alternator on another Honda Odyssey.
Then Maleki tried to do a brake job on a Jeep Renegade, but he didn’t have some tools he needed, so I went over to help him, and we finished the night on that one.
I headed to the parts store to get ready for tomorrow, but the poor workers at the store didn’t know what they were doing, so I had to teach them how to use their system, and then I had to call the manager and get permission to go back into the parts area to pull my own parts off the shelves (good thing I’m friends with the manager). Did I mention that Allison made manager?!?!
🥳😊😎🥳😊😁🥳
Go Allison!
So I was at the store probably an hour trying to get taken care of. While I was there, they had a customer trying to get help, trying to warranty out brake parts, but they couldn’t find any record of it, and they couldn’t find the right parts, so I decided to try and help, and fortunately I was able. I as able to recognize that the part he was trying to warranty out was an O’Reilly’s part. So… Not gonna find his info in the database. 🙃
Gonna be a busy one tomorrow! Many cars. Maleki is gonna try and break $300 tomorrow. Today was a good day for him because the first two cars were European, and those cars are billed differently because… they’re a pain in the butt! So European, exotics, and diesel are billed differently than Asian and American, so he made a little more today, not a lot more, but a little more with those.
I’m feeling much better. So that’s good. I’m a little on the edge, but it’s not terrible.
Oh! Internet just came back. 😊 Just in time for… bed. 🙃 But even 11, but Imma crashin’.
G’night, all!
Lift the World
~ stephen
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