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**hoconnor6605** · 06-22-2009, 02:02 AM

Friend of the family bought a Caddy few months ago, recently it had some major issues with it one day. I took a quick look at it and found out that one of the nuts that holds the cables on to the battery post, is a wrong nut to begin with. Thus half the electrical system got fried do to bad contact to battery post.

Took dealership 9 days to fix it, they had to replace most of the wirring. 2 days later, head lights are not working. He took it back to find out when the first major repair was done they put in the wrong fuse box. Car spent another 4 days in the shop.

This says as much about some mechanics as it does the quality of American cars. There does seem to be some idiots out there that fit the wrong fuse box or the wrong belt when surely there is information that tells them what they need. If it's not that they are disconnecting unrelated things. I even took a used car to one mechanic to check over before I bought it. He insisted he do a vacuum check on the engine and broke two of the spark plugs as he replaced them!?!

06-22-2009, 02:02 AM	#13
hoconnor6605 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 501 Senior Member	Friend of the family bought a Caddy few months ago, recently it had some major issues with it one day. I took a quick look at it and found out that one of the nuts that holds the cables on to the battery post, is a wrong nut to begin with. Thus half the electrical system got fried do to bad contact to battery post. Took dealership 9 days to fix it, they had to replace most of the wirring. 2 days later, head lights are not working. He took it back to find out when the first major repair was done they put in the wrong fuse box. Car spent another 4 days in the shop. This says as much about some mechanics as it does the quality of American cars. There does seem to be some idiots out there that fit the wrong fuse box or the wrong belt when surely there is information that tells them what they need. If it's not that they are disconnecting unrelated things. I even took a used car to one mechanic to check over before I bought it. He insisted he do a vacuum check on the engine and broke two of the spark plugs as he replaced them!?!
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