Re: IML: advice - the pros and cons

["mike and linda sutton" <mikanlin62@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the past 8 years on the IML I have learned quite a bit about much of the 
who, what, where to get a lot of valuable parts and such for our cars. 
Being a mechanic by trade has made the work itself pretty much a no brainer 
for me but I do understand that not everyone has acquired the methods and 
skills to do their own stuff,  but thats ok.  For whatever reason some folks 
just dont want to, dont think they can, prefer to pay to have it done by 
someone else or just never got the knowledge and skills to do it themselves 
and thats fine,  for the people who are trying to learn thats 
great...knowledge is power and theres nothing better than getting 
knowledge - as long as its the correct knowledge.

Point being...today some of the best possible advice you can or will ever 
get in your life about jump starting was given out by someone who definetly 
knows his stuff in that area.  Im not here to cause a flame war or point 
fingers but I have seen a lot of anecdotal advice given out since Ive been 
around here that makes me cringe to think what kind of potential damage 
could result to a car, or more importantly, to the person doing the work. 
Usually its things of purely mechanical nature that if done wrong generally 
only result in frustration,  possibly damaged parts and lots of extra time 
wasted in trying to correct a problem.  Today it was on a subject that could 
very easily result in SERIOUS damage to ones person and ones car.

I used to throw a lot more " how to......" stuff out, but often found it 
being debated by people who were convinced they knew better, or that the 
advice they got from their nephews brother in law's neighbors paper boy who 
knows a guy who had a car that was kinda like that but it was different was 
better advice than mine.  So I figured that if someone wants to throw money 
out the window or do it the hard way, its their choice.  Still, Id hate to 
hear someone caught themselves on fire , blew a battery up in their face and 
is blind, dropped a car on their chest in their driveway ( happened to a 
neighbor of ours once ) or anything like that.

Folks, PLEASE,,please be careful out there.  Most of the time youll never 
have a problem but it only takes once.  Your car can always be repaired 
after a mistake but you only get one set of eyes, ten fingers and two hands. 
I tell my students you want to leave the shop the same way you came in every 
day, we should all want that.

Thanks much

Mikey
62 Crown Coupe 


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