Garage mucked up my bike

*******. Trading standards?

whats the story with your bike now mate?is it running any better?if you can get to hamilton on sunday i'll balance your carbs and see if that'll make any difference-let me know if i can help

husky

Originally Posted by tristdac

OUTCOME:

Mechanic denied, denied, denied. He will take no responsibilty for the state of my bike. Said it would take him another hour to put it back as it was and he would charge me for it. Yeah right! It really ****es me off because I could have paid a five year old to balance my carbs with the same outcome. Surely you pay for "the job" rather than the time. A good mechanic should know how long a particular job will take and quote appropriately. Maybe I'm just being naive. Basically he said he gave me advice before he started and I didn't take it. I asked.. "what advice was that?"... he said that balancing the carbs may not "improve" how it was running. I said that I DID take that advice and decided to give it a shot anyway. I told him that if he had told me before hand that there was a chance he would make make my engine worse, then there is no way in hell I would have paid him to "give it a go".
Anyway... a few bucks poorer but a bit wiser I think. Lesson learnt...
IF YOU WANT IT DONE RIGHT.... DO IT YOURSELF!!!

Take it to another Garage and get a second opinion & quote.
Get them to fix it and send the bill to the original garage and threaten with T/Standards if no refund.

[yorkie_chris]

What a w4nker. This problem you have does not sound like improperly balanced carbs. Even if there was a problem, then the carbs being balanced wouldn't make it worse. If the carbs were grossly out of balance then surely said mechanic would have noticed.

Originally Posted by husky03

whats the story with your bike now mate?is it running any better?if you can get to hamilton on sunday i'll balance your carbs and see if that'll make any difference-let me know if i can help

husky

Thanks for the offer mate, but I don't think I'd be able to get it that far.