One of the benefits of being a layperson is having the luxury of "day dream" time. If I ponder a problem long enough - over a period of days or weeks - I can quite often arrive at the the most logical solution. The technically gifted professional mechanic, OTOH, must come up with a solution ASAP, as he is on the clock. This may lead to misdiagnoses and redundant or nonproductive fixes to seemingly complicated problems that are often deceptively simple to resolve given the time to think about them...
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Alex Chamberlain <apchamberl...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Dimitri Seretakis <dsereta...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > I keep running into "experts" that do things wrong and get away with it > because they are "experts". > > I'm not an expert in a lot of things but I when I know something is done > incorrectly no "expert" is going > > to convince me otherwise. I've tested the pH of MB antifreeze with > litmus paper and compared it to the > >standard green stuff. There is a pH difference of 2-3. > > I agree with Dimitri and Michael C here. I've often run into > "experts" that don't know as much as I do about older cars, be they > M-Bs or any other make. > > The only time I've doubted my own knowledge and thought "maybe they do > know better than I do after all" is in the case I mentioned of the > highly-regarded indy using green coolant. That shop has done other > stuff wrong, though, which weakens their credibility. I nearly came > to blows with one of the senior mechanics there who wanted to convert > my W124 to R-134a when the compressor died and I lost all the R-12. > And they had no solution to a wiper on the same car that consistently > left smears on the windshield in the constant light rain of a western > Oregon winter---I seem to be the only person who's ever noticed that > the efficacy of the monowiper decreases over time proportional to the > age of the spring in the wiper arm (the solution is to buy a new arm, > readily available, or replace the spring with a stronger one from a > well-stocked hardware store). > > Alex > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
