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Tekkie®

posted for all of us...

On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 18:10:32 -0400, micky
wrote:

Please comment when anything seems worth commenting on.

A plaintiff on a tv court show complains that her car keeps cutting out,
turning off without being told to, and she takes it to a garage.

He puts it on the electronic whatever, and there is a code for the oil
pressure or the oil pressure switch. He looks and notes that wires
going by the oil pan are saturated in oil, so he replaces them and gives
her back the car. He also replaces the oil pressure sending switch,
either during the first visit or after she brings the car back.

She brings the car back within a day. and the respondent says, "The oil
pan gasket was leakiing and obviously it was necessary to r eplace the
gasket". He doe that and returns the car, but it cuts out even before
she gets home.

The rest of the story is complicated and a distraction but what do you
think of the mechanic so far?
Well, being a mechanic, I can say I feel for the guy. If the oil
sender is leaking, and the car is an oil mess, the first thing to do
is replace the sender. When that leak is fixed, and the engine cleaned
up, the leaky oil pan gasket becomes evident.. His only mistake was
not cleaning it up and then driving it enough to determine if the
problem was fixed - and checking for more oil leaks.

However, he has still not determined exactly what is shutting the car
down.

And we don't know the make and model - so cannot even make an educated
guess.

RIGHT! Prescription without diagnoses is malpractice.

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Tekkie *Please post a follow-up*