on monday morning i put my good old mini in to get some new wires in the engine bay plus a stereo installed etc.....

i ring up monday arvo..... " oh its still in pieces , there are wires everywhere "

ohk fair enough.... i will ring you tomorrow then....

i ring up today...... " its all done i just gotta get some smaller tubeing to put your wires into"

" it will be here just after lunch"

ohk fair enough.....

at 2-30 this arvo i ring up and...." everything is ready togo but ur breake lights arnt working... u need a new (something) switch... and i cant do that till tomorrow...."



i told him that they were working when i put the car in.... and have never had a problem with the lights before.....


AHHHHHH

im now waiting for him to ring me back......

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you sure your car is nsw and not tasmania it sounds like my ex mechanics

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busier than a 0ne legged man in a butt kicking competion

Was your mechanic your father and also your uncle?

no its at an auto electricians......

nope wasnt my father

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that is so sh*t!

I hate when 'effers' 'eff' you around like that!

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well he said that he would ring me in 5 mins.....

that was 35 mins ago.... so i rang up and i ended up talking to some one else and they said that its now right to go this arvo......



fn wnkrs

update soon IF i get it back

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that is why i do all the work on my car. they now have your permission to change the brake switch and you only have their word that it is broken to go on. For all you know they could just be drumming up extra business (i am not trying to accuse them of anything, but i have seen and heard plenty of bad things about mechanics)

plus i just don't trust anyone else to do anything on my car without stuffing it up

its at the auto electrics...... and they were saying that (the brake hydrolic switch) i think . was not working anymore..... BULSH it aint working......

i do most of the work on my car myself..... but i hate electrics.... and needed it done properly

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if your brake lights wher working before you dropped the car off and they are doing electrical work then they f'd up.
the amount of non mini specialist's that i have been to always say the same thing..... "oh mate its an old car, you cant find any parts for these old things anymore, it'll cost you a fortune"
to which i reply, " mini's stopped production in 2001, and have the most amount of aftermarket and genuine parts of any other car in the world......."
end rant

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real men race downhill - keiichi tsuchiya

My mate is an auto electrician and i know from past experience (being in his workshop and whatching how he operates) if he or his boys stuff something up then he fixes it at his cost.

Dan

Three days labour $85/ph nice little earner.

Did they give you a quote or do and charge?

Steve

Hydraulic brake switch is very very easy to replace ur self. If it has failed then i highly doubt that they would of caused it to fail.

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well i got the car back.. the tail lights amazingly are working now....

70$ p/h but it cost me 480$ in the end......

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This happened to me (not brake switch but annoyingness) I took my car to a so-called mini place north of adelaide who apparantly had started doing from 69 and haven't stopped for engine tuning. They took it that I wanted a written inspection of my car which turned out to be about $500 in labour!?!?! I'm in year 11 I can't afford that kind of crap! And total bill came to 1200 bucks, they had it for a few weeks and 'stole' one of my large size clutch cylinders (they were bleeding my brakes, which I did ask them too, so I partly blame myslef for this,) They needed a new cylinder, I gave them a good second hand one they said they wanted to overhaul it for 300 bucks!, Luckily I called and asked what was happening, so I bought a new cooper s brake cylinder for 120. Basically after lots of money etc. I have come to the conclusion that the certain place in gawler don't care and just want money. In fact the mechanic had a go at me when we left for bringing it in saying he's to good for that kind of work...... Oh well, now I do all my work, even if it takes ages to figure it out!

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1964 Morris 850, 1330 Supercharged - 81.8hp atws.
1975 Leyland Mini S 1100S powered - Nice and reliable.
1977 Leyland Mini LS - Project LS-T

Very simple to undo a connector though and make it sound worse.

It's not in at Habib & Co Auto Electrics is it??

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