They were fine decades back, when they had pride and the store was stocked for auto repair, now its just a giant “dollar store” of household items.
20 years ago, I went in asking about schduling replacing U joints on my GM truck drive shaft. (Because they didn’t have cir-clips on the joints, but would not come apart.)
The guys said they were booked but that make and model of GM had injection molded retention clips internally. They said grab a blow torch and heat the joint, you’ll see plastic eventually squirt out. And then he sold us the repair parts. Sure enough easy fix.
10 years ago: timing belt broke on friends car, we were stranded. Tow it to CT, they fix it. Drive 10km it breaks again. Tow it back, and find it was a faulty install. Had to have it fixed again.
They were fine decades back, when they had pride and the store was stocked for auto repair, now its just a giant “dollar store” of household items.
20 years ago, I went in asking about schduling replacing U joints on my GM truck drive shaft. (Because they didn’t have cir-clips on the joints, but would not come apart.) The guys said they were booked but that make and model of GM had injection molded retention clips internally. They said grab a blow torch and heat the joint, you’ll see plastic eventually squirt out. And then he sold us the repair parts. Sure enough easy fix.
10 years ago: timing belt broke on friends car, we were stranded. Tow it to CT, they fix it. Drive 10km it breaks again. Tow it back, and find it was a faulty install. Had to have it fixed again.
Now; zipties