Young 'uns don't know nuffin

Not far from me there is a large Jaguar dealership, very swanky place in a rich area. A customer brought in a V12 E type for a service (an early one) after servicing they could not get it started, after much head scratching they rang a friend of mine that specialises in buying selling and playing with jags on a small business scale. He questioned what had been done, then asked about how they were trying to start it, 'Have you pulled the choke right out' he asked. 'What is a choke? the young lad said. It turned out the oldest mechanic in the place was 23 and so they did not realise it had such a thing. But the scary bit (to me) is that they were unable to fault find such a simple thing as too weak to run, a quick bit of carb cleaner spray would have made it fire.

Reply to
Mrcheerful
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Amazing. And these guys are working on high-end motors? My son's 17, brought up on Minis & Capri, knows exactly what to do with a choke.

Every recovery driver I've ever spoken to "used to have a Mini".

But they let kids with no background fix Jags? I'll stick to proper classic specialists methinks!

Reply to
asahartz

And what's more their getting slacker.

Reply to
Rob

They can't even spell anymore...

Reply to
Duncan Wood

r u dissin im ?

Reply to
Mrcheerful

In message , asahartz writes

My lady friend had a Capri long before I met her. She was disgusted when automatic chokes were introduced, and she had nowhere to hang her handbag...

Her hair? It's kind of yellow, why do you ask?

Reply to
Gordon H

na wot I mean man ... he is dissin the bwad mecanix crew ...fight...fight...fght

Reply to
Stephen

*a pedant writes*:-

"any more"

Reply to
David Quinton

Aye, a colleague recently took his Rover P6 to a local garage for a straightforward job and general service after which they couldn't get it started. It was turning over, but not firing. Sounded like a simple electrical fault to me, but he'd been given a load of waffle about possible fuel problems. I only heard after it had been in the garage over the weekend, during which time they'd "tried everything" without success. I asked him if there was a spark and was dying to go and have a look myself, but he wouldn't take the hint so I wasn't invited. Then they called in an "electronics expert" who couldn't fix it. Eventually, some old bloke who had his own car in for an MOT looked over, showed them what was wrong and the car was running perfectly within minutes. I'm 99% sure it was all down to a new set of points being fitted with the low tension lead the wrong side of the insulator. If not, it had to be something very similar.

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Willy Eckerslyke

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