Mr Hardware Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 Here's a little story for you all. I know i needed some new points for my ke55 4k-c stocko, so i went down to autobarn at lawnton to get some new ones. the fella says does it have a bosch or denso distributor, I said I don't know. So he comes out to look at the car, takes off the distributor cap, has a look and puts it back on. Bosch sure enough. So i go inside, get the parts, pay, walk out, get in lil champ and she don't start. She cranks just like normal but won't kick over. Plenty of fuel, started first time every time in the 20,000klms i've owned her. WTF. So i take the dizzy cap off and put it back on again and try again, nothing. So i go in, get the guy, tell him it don't start now, and he says, so, big deal. He comes outside, says 'all i did was take the cap off and put it back on again, your problem, ring the racq or something' so i wasn't too impressed to say the least. So some dude came and had a tinker, couldn't find the problem. Then a little later a different autobarn employee was on his lunchbreak and came and had a tinker too, seems everything was working right except no spark to the plugs. So he devises that my points are dead (?) and he puts in the new points i had just bought. Car starts. Weird. Here's my Q. Could the original fella have 'broken' the points? (there was no physical damage on the points, just a bit of pitting) Or was it just plain coincidence? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felix Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 it could have quite possibly been a coincidence. usually as points get old the rubbing block wears and gradually closes the point gap. once they get to the point they no longer open the car won't run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Jamie Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 he may have bumped them out of adjustment playing around with the cap. generally "experts" do things like this, then have no idea how to fix things when they break. if he had half a clue what he was looking at, he wouldn't have had to take the cap off at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xany Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 he may have bumped them out of adjustment playing around with the cap. generally "experts" do things like this, then have no idea how to fix things when they break. if he had half a clue what he was looking at, he wouldn't have had to take the cap off at all too true jamie....if he had of just looked at the distiributor, he would have been able to tell that it wasnt a denso one...afaik the denso ones are smaller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medicine_Man Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 I've had a pretty new set of points break on me once before, the plasticy bit that the lobe inside the dizzy pushes back and foward snapped clean off and the points jammed shut. Result, car refused to start for me.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felix Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 afaik the denso ones are smaller. yep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muller Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 just like to say, what a dickhead that that guy was. whatever happened to you break it you bought it. just cause its an old rolla dosent mean that you can just dissregard it or there not worth fixing, if you had been driving a porsche or something i bet he would have changed his tune. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Hardware Posted January 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 amen to that muller the damn distributor says bosch on the cap, so i don't know why he thought it was a good idea to take the cap off. but the old points still sparked when you moved them with your finger weird so do you reckon he f@$ked it? or coincidence? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolla__Boy Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 he may have bumped them out of adjustment playing around with the cap. generally "experts" do things like this, then have no idea how to fix things when they break. if he had half a clue what he was looking at, he wouldn't have had to take the cap off at all Experts :y: I'd say it was coincidence. Although the old points may have just been at a point where they were still working, and as the cap clipped off or on, moved them slightly to where the pitting wasn't allowing them to work. You still should have punched him in the face for his attitude :D He is working in a customer service environment, and needs to adjust his attitude, I bet next time you don't go to that particular shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Hardware Posted January 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 I bet next time you don't go to that particular shop. Yep. I think i might just write a little letter... Does anyone know anything about autobarn? are they franchises or owned by the one company? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corolla_Kid Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 I think they are franchises but i could be wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teddy Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 (edited) Autobarn Auto uleh'ing tossin oppsie butheaded anialily-retentive rude noob-ulets. Edited January 5, 2006 by Teddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Jamie Posted January 6, 2006 Report Share Posted January 6, 2006 seriously dude who cares, you can't prove anything and even if you could, what's it going to get you? nothing. someone fixed your car for free so you've broken even anyway. quit complaining about a spot of bad luck, learn from the experience and get on with the rest of the project Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muller Posted January 6, 2006 Report Share Posted January 6, 2006 Autobarn Auto uleh'ing tossin oppsie butheaded anialily-retentive rude noob-ulets. thats a big generalisation, not all autobarn stores are like that. the one we got here has a few helpfull people that will bend over backwards for you as well as some, well you listed it. just make sure that you say, no thanks I'm right till you get a good one ask you. i agree with jamie too, so what its a little bad luck. don't get too excited cause something will happen again soon enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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