I went to my last job today to pick up my last paycheck and saw this Infiniti J30 they've been working on since before I quit. My old boss just became a used car dealer, so he bought the J30 as one of his first purchases.Well after a used car inspection, the car needed a lot of work. MAF, brakes, 2 tires, and 2 O2 sensors.
After it was done (this was 2 days before I quit), they took it for a test drive and heard this weird noise coming from the rear window area. I asked my boss (whom isn't a mechanic) what type of noise it was. He couldn't answer. I offered to test drive the car myself to diagnose, but he said no (I'm not a mechanic either - but I read Nico all day). Five hours of shop time later, still same problem.
They ran an interesting series of diagnostics which included my boss driving with one of the techs in the trunk banging at the rear deck speaker area. Still no results. The next day and 4 hours of more shop time later, still no result. I had told my boss that if he let me drive then I could probably get an idea of what it is. He declined. As I left from my last day, they were still looking at it.
Fast forward to this week. I go to pick up my check today and see what you'll see in the following pics. Turns out that they thought the "noise" was coming from the rear window. This after they completely disassembled everything from the back seat to the trunk that wasn't metal. My boss decided to take out the rear window HIMSELF instead of having a glass installer do it. Well, he failed as you can see. So now 20 hours of shop time have been spent JUST on this problem.
So today when I came in, I saw the mess and asked him what happened. He told me what I just mentioned above. I asked him again, what type of noise were you hearing? He said a popping and buzzing. I immediately grabbed one of the Bose speakers/amp and hooked it up, turned on the radio LOUD and said "A noise like this???". His response: Mother******!!! It took me 2 minutes to find the problem after they spend 20 hours of shop time. Now they'll spend another $650 or so for a new rear window & moulding. Thank God for Nico!
Guess those paper mat's don't do much good for this situation lol
What happens when you decline Nico
Re: What happens when you decline Nico (gniknave)
im just guessing, did they decline your credit card and you bashed the cashiers car good, and took pics of it as a memoir??
edit: didnt bother reading the lengthy post, sry
edit: didnt bother reading the lengthy post, sry
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yelnatsch517
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Re: What happens when you decline Nico (S13GUY)
Good lord your ex-boss is an idiot. How was he not able to tell what kind of noise that is? Speaker distortion is so unique. Well at least from my point of view since both of the cars I have owned have had broken speakers.
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gniknave
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Re: What happens when you decline Nico (yelnatsch517)
Exactly! My Q needs an amp rebuild right now. To him 20 hours of shop time means $1960 that could have gone into another car + $650 for a new window and maybe another hour to put everything back together = $2708
His hourly is roughly $100 per hour (below average for that area).
His hourly is roughly $100 per hour (below average for that area).
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PoorManQ45
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Re: What happens when you decline Nico (gniknave)
I wondering, Why in the hell did he even have the radio on? When you are trying to identify an unknown sound, you should turn off everything that makes noise, radio, cell phone, possibly put windows up. So again, why in the hell did he have the radio on?
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gniknave
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Re: What happens when you decline Nico (PoorManQ45)
My thoughts exactly PMQ. See why I quit? BTW, he STILL didn't want the Nico web address after this
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noise diag with radio on? i will have to try that...
NOT!
NOT!
Re: What happens when you decline Nico (gniknave)
you sure showed the boss who has the brains.
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I Need $$$
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Thats probably why they couldn't find the problem when they were looking for it because they had the radio off. The only time that they did notice the sound was when they were not trying to hear it. Don't know if that makes any sense but its just my idea on it. Don't get me wrong though he is still a dumbass. Good job on showing him up.