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Cullies · Joined: 22 Mar 2016 Posts: 21

Here is a link to a RTE archive 1971 about the standard of car servicing offered in Dublin.

Seems to be poor!

Five experts put three cars (Vw Beetle, Fiat & a Capri) through the mill at fifteen Dublin garages over a period of one week.

http://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/1122/833664-car-service-survey/

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JohnDale · Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 10:42 am Post subject:

Interesting post but nothing new even today. Thanks for posting,JD.
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Ray White · Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 7103 Location: Derby

I was working in a garage in 1971 and from what I remember, there were time pressures on mechanics just as there are today. I always tried to complete a service to the manufacturers requirements but the boss would sometimes come over and make a sarcastic comment about how long it was taking and get me started on something else before I had quite finished.

The jobs I hated most were petrol tanks. It didn't seem to matter what precautions one took, inevitably one went home stinking of petrol. Some jobs like this - and others like exhausts - often took longer than you thought they would, so I have some sympathy with the guy doing the work when perhaps he has the boss breathing down his neck.