Twas not my intention to tick you off. I will forever in your case refrain from telling you not to go to stupid mechanics in the first place, nor not to get aftermarket parts. It is after all your car.
Having said that, you can rest assured that I will be reading your posts about mechanics that can't follow directions with a little smile on my face. To me taking your car to someone that doesn't normally work on SVX's and asking him to install aftermarket parts is akin to going to the vet, handing him a pigs liver that you bought at the Safeway store and asking him to install it in yer gut. (Ohhhhh, that's kind of a nasty visual isn't it?)
