Re: IML: advice - the pros and cons

["Robin Giesbrecht" <robings@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

100% right Mikey.


> From: "mike and linda sutton" <mikanlin62@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: IML: advice - the pros and cons
> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 09:12:52 -0700
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> In the past 8 years on the IML I have learned quite a bit about much of the 
> who, what, where to get a lot of valuable parts and such for our cars. 
> Being a mechanic by trade has made the work itself pretty much a no brainer 
> for me but I do understand that not everyone has acquired the methods and 
> skills to do their own stuff,  but thats ok.  For whatever reason some 
> folks just dont want to, dont think they can, prefer to pay to have it done 
> by someone else or just never got the knowledge and skills to do it 
> themselves and thats fine,  for the people who are trying to learn thats 
> great...knowledge is power and theres nothing better than getting knowledge 
> - as long as its the correct knowledge.
> Point being...today some of the best possible advice you can or will ever 
> get in your life about jump starting was given out by someone who definetly 
> knows his stuff in that area.  Im not here to cause a flame war or point 
> fingers but I have seen a lot of anecdotal advice given out since Ive been 
> around here that makes me cringe to think what kind of potential damage 
> could result to a car, or more importantly, to the person doing the work. 
> Usually its things of purely mechanical nature that if done wrong generally 
> only result in frustration,  possibly damaged parts and lots of extra time 
> wasted in trying to correct a problem.  Today it was on a subject that 
> could very easily result in SERIOUS damage to ones person and ones car.
> I used to throw a lot more " how to......" stuff out, but often found it 
> being debated by people who were convinced they knew better, or that the 
> advice they got from their nephews brother in law's neighbors paper boy who 
> knows a guy who had a car that was kinda like that but it was different was 
> better advice than mine.  So I figured that if someone wants to throw money 
> out the window or do it the hard way, its their choice.  Still, Id hate to 
> hear someone caught themselves on fire , blew a battery up in their face 
> and is blind, dropped a car on their chest in their driveway ( happened to 
> a neighbor of ours once ) or anything like that.
> Folks, PLEASE,,please be careful out there.  Most of the time youll never 
> have a problem but it only takes once.  Your car can always be repaired 
> after a mistake but you only get one set of eyes, ten fingers and two 
> hands. I tell my students you want to leave the shop the same way you came 
> in every day, we should all want that.
> Thanks much
>
> Mikey
> 62 Crown Coupe
>
>
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