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Originally Posted by michael
I have to vent here.
The weld cracked on my Outback exhaust this winter. I asked big chain muffler to grind off the surface rust and re-weld. I watched this guy zap at my exhaust for almost an hour creating a huge twisted rats nest the size of a grapefruit. There was only surface rust that needed to be taken off and he didn't even do that, I wanted to slap it out of his hand. How do you not know the basics and do that for a living  |
Its simple, most of the big chains do more brake jobs, headlights, and wipers and very little exhaust work that isn't 100% bolt on. So Minimum wage monkey fires up the welder maybe 2 times in his whole time working for them. He is going to bail for a better job ASAP since tire places don't do the nasty exaust work, or go to a real auto shop for alot more $$$.
That said, they should have them complete a 30 min training course... IE take rusty old scrap exhaust and show why welding rust doesn't work. Why you need to be careful with thin pipe. etc.