Clutch damage

useing the clutch pedal as a foot rest

So you'll even know about the hidden belhousing bolt that I struggle to see and ended up feeling my way round for it. You know where it is?

There is nothing wrong with blaming you peter   I get the blame all the time  . Take two examples...

1/ Me and my colleague went out in the bosses Volvo to pick up a customers car. I was the passenger and my colleague stopped inside of a Yellow Box on the road when his exit was blocked and the lights on Red. A car scraped past and down the front of the Volvo and caused damage. The following day my colleague said it was my fault!

2/ I was recently asked to change a tyre on a car with TPMS. The sensors are pricey at the best of times so I try not to contact them. After fitting the tyre and ten miles down the road the tyre deflates, she says rapidly. I fully admit that the tyre machine stretched the bead too much and I did not see it until I removed the tyre. I blamed the damage on the bead for deflating the tyre. I put another new tyre on and inflated the tyre. After some ten miles she rang back and said the tyre was flat? I heard a voice in the background advising the valve was leaking when pushed side to side. Upon checking the valve on return to the garage the valve did indeed leak badly when moved side to side with some force but not going daft about it. I checked the mot records and the reason I changed the tyre was because the boss had failed it. truthfully I saw a legal tyre at the time I changed it, and experience now tells me to keep my mouth shut so I don't become targetted. I changed the valve and tested the operation of the TPMS light which worked fine. Ten minutes up the road she was back, the TPMS light was back on. I tested the wheels sensors and found that the offside front TPMS had failed. She blamed me and implied its my fault and said it worried her because she had a three year old child in the car with her. I did my best to explain it was not my fault because I'd not touched that wheel but after speaking to her advisor on the phone telling him that the front tyre TPMS sensor had failed, he told her that a sensor failed would not put the TPMS light on! She said that she was going to get an independant test done and if they said I was at fault she said I'd have to pay the bill?

The world of peoples ways of thnking has changed significantly in my understanding, and not for the better. People all seem to go down the same idea, blame,blame and more blame, targeted at the very person helping while the demons take all the money and no finger gets pointed at them. In summary, there is nothing out there of any value. 

When I first started we used to fit a clutch in a doctor s car a fiat rigatta every year  good surgeon poor driver 

We always write on the invoice clutch failed due to overheating driver keeping foot on clutch pedal. and take photos of the clutch and car so no warranty given .

Local firm employed a pensioner,clutch failed on van (peugeot partner) next day. We fitted LUK clutch it lasted 24hours. All friction material burnt off p/plate side.
We fitted another LUK clutch and the silly old bugger went looking for another job.
That was last week ... so far so good.

It wasn't anywhere near as bad as some previous ones I've seen. Refacing it would have been an option as would have replacing it, however, here at our place, history tells a story. 

Have you ever had it booked in for..... "It's down on power" which is pensioner-speak for "the clutch is £ucked"

(most don't know their nearside from their backside)