It Was Waaaaaaaaaay Cool

[Bookerdog]

Originally posted by stangman96
BY THE WAY, THE CUSTOMER'S COMPLAINT WAS LACK OF POWER AND POOR GAS MILEAGE, WHAT A CROCK... NEEDLESS TO SAY, IT IS OWNED BY A FEMALE, SHE EVEN SAID IT WAS DYNOED AT A SHOP AND THEY TOLD HER THAT THE CONVERTORS WERE TOO HOT AND THE FUEL TRIM WAS WAY OFF. I HOOKED IT UP TO THE COMPUTER, FUEL TRIM WAS NORMAL, CAT TEMP WAS OK, NO CODES, AND IT RAN GREAT. GO FIGURE.. OH YEAH, SHE EVEN TOLD THE SERVICE WRITER TO MAKE SURE THAT NO "PUNK" DRIVES HER CAR, WELL SINCE I AM THE MUSTANG SPECIALIST HERE AT THE DEALER, I GUESS I AM "THE PUNK"

OK, first off, my condolences to the owner, no one should have to put up with this.

I'm more than a little surprised that we haven't seen anything from Ford on this one. I mean, this is an SVT dealer, and two other dealers refused to work on the car because they didn't feel they were trained up on it. Apparently the finest Mustang SVT mechanic in all of San Antonio was our good friend stangman96. Shouldn't Ford be here reassuring all of you faithful SVT owners?

I can't beleive what a poor mechanic stangman96 is. OK, the car has been dynoed, and the owner has a very specific complaint that only an owner with fairly sophisticated knowledge of high performance engines would have. Poor fuel mileage and hot cats when run on the dyno. OK, that means when running at high RPM there is too much heat bleeding into the exhaust.

Any tech worth his salt knows a hot cat means one of two things. 1. The exhaust timing is off and the valves are opening too soon, or 2. The motor is running rich and unburnt fuel is making it's way into the exhaust system.

With the added complaint of using excessive fuel, I'd wager that the answer is number 2. Oh, but that can't be right, stangman96 hooked it up to the computer. Hmm was that at idle? Was it at 2000 rpm? I'm so sick of "hot shot" techs who won't do anything more than hook up a computer. But this one goes the step further and decides that since he knows how to put a plug in an OBDII port, that he knows how to drive a car 140mph, despite the fact that he would have failed fuel systems 101.

I'm just sick of the guys behind the doors of auto shops thinking that the folks on the other side are idiots. This post pointed out quite nicely that the mental challenged appear on both sides.