From: "mike and linda sutton" <mikanlin62@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: IML: advice - the pros and cons
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 09:12:52 -0700
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
----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com -----------------
This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please reply to
mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be shared with
everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for the
Administrators should be sent to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm
Back to the Home of the Forward Look Network