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the coupe shares a lot of panels etc with the 420
Took my USA truck in today.
Did I get the biggest of C*nts as inspector.
He even checked if my heater controls worked
spend 40 chf to use the lift at the carwash place and cleaned the underside for atleast 15 minutes (specially the joints) and he writes as a remark that it was filthy underneath . Keep in mind we just had big snow and tons of salt on the road.....20 min drive from the wash.
Then he makes a mistake on the emissions test; had it done yesterday at the garage and past with flying colors. Now I went from 33 ppm HC to 1007HC (100 max) and he refused to admit his wrong even thought the other mech said he did it wrong.
Then abused the shit out of it on the rolling banks (I know they do it rough but this was out of order)
And to finish it off he starts giving me shit for driving a big US car and that it is a stupid choice and that real Europeans dont drive vehicles like this ( Im 100% Belgian btw) and then he refuses on top of that to explain to me the issues I have to fix .........just gave me the list with the codes....
:msnsick : :msnma d:
Really wanted to punch the in the head afterwards.
Bummer. Clearly the inspector had an agenda (I don't remember anyone ever paying attention to the heater). Unfortunately there is no Ombudsman or such to contact when you get a dork.
Just bad luck... there are fewer dorks now than 10-15 years ago, not that that makes your experience any less annoying.
We've had similar experiences here, brand new lights failing , not being touched for the retest and passing (and the other way round) emissions that passed not an hour before but failed on the test etc etc
Best one was orange gasket sealer failing, but the black replacement sealant the garage replaced it with passing.
A law unto themselves
Yeah a simple law: fail just for the sake of saying they're strict and no-nonsense. I've told before that an MFK means jack sh1t in my book. My Lexus passed with flying colors when I imported it and I'm pretty sure an a arm bushing had already failed before the inspection.
The one thing that does seem to really tick them off is if the car is dirty - This tends to make them look for things to complain about.
Years ago I had washed the car the day before, but had only outside parking... Some birds had crapped on it and I didn't have time to wash it again before the appt. I apologised and explained what had happened, but he still berated me for bringing the car in such a disgraceful condition and decorated his sheet with lots of little crosses, demanding amongst other things that I replace the brake disks as "they were worn". Went to my Garage, the mechanic asked "Albisgutli, heavy set guy with a mustache, a squint and a Wallis accent?" Yep. "He is known for this kind of thing." When we mic'ed the discs they were _well_ within spec. Years later I heard that that inspector was transferred to a desk job, to the great relief of many mechanics in the Zurich area.
Rust on discs is another favourite failure for our mfk office
They do indeed, although sadly apparently not the front wings, had a hell of a job sourcing one a couple of years ago after being sideswiped by a local in Calais, ended up getting one from a scapped model in the UK and importing it.
Taken me ages to find a photo of ours, but her she is, being loaded onto a tow truck after the clutch cable snapped on the hottest day of the year last summer.... good job we were on our way to the shops and not back loaded up with ice cream and other frozen goodies!
A couple of emergency stops should polish them up
Last time I took my old 928 porsche for the MFK he did check the heater; as luck would have it I had pulled the fuse for the fan because it was noisy and forgot all about it.
He did pass it but I had to promise to fix it.
I took out the fan motor (not a job I would like to do again) and found the blade had slid down the shaft a little so it was easy to fix.
At the same time I fixed the well known random 928 heater fan starting. It has a thermostat in the air tunnel which turns on the fan if it thinks there is overheating - you just have to bend the sensor a little.