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22nd August 2014, 02:17 #11
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I've just got the Pug 206 back from the mechanics' after they've had to drill a hole for a new oversized sump plug.
Last weekend, I'd decided to do an oil change which is a pretty easy sort of thing to do and after boshing in a load of engine flush, I tried to undo the previous sump plug and found that it just spun about and wouldn't come out.
I suspect that who'd ever did the last oil change, used a rattle gun or impact drill to screw in the old sump plug and had jolly well stripped all of the threads off. Probably some dim-witted seventeen year old apprentice who was more worried about facebookery on his iDevice than actually bothering to do a job properly.
$355 later and several days off the road, for a stupid part that should have cost less than a few bucks and no more than an hour at most. I'm not taking my car back to those jokers ever again.The Old Republic was a stupidly run organisation which deserved to be taken over. All Hail Palpatine!
I guess they are still discussing. But I think it's high possibility it will be there, especialy now when Ireland fell out. Maybe they could spice things up and mix some stages with gravel. And...
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