Never Assume People Know What You Do

TARider

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A friend came over today and I changed the brake pads on his wife’s car. When I finished he backed up out of the garage, straight across the driveway and into the large bushes that separate my house from the neighbors tearing up some trim on the car, scratching it a good bit and knocking down a 7 foot shrub.
Note to self: not everyone knows to pump the brakes before driving a car that just had the brakes worked on......
 
TARider said:
A friend came over today and I changed the brake pads on his wife’s car. When I finished he backed up out of the garage, straight across the driveway and into the large bushes that separate my house from the neighbors tearing up some trim on the car, scratching it a good bit and knocking down a 7 foot shrub.
Note to self: not everyone knows to pump the brakes before driving a car that just had the brakes worked on......
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Usually the mechanic would have done that:popcorn:
 
Fabrik8 said:
I'm not sure how he could have not applied the brakes before the process of backing up, whether that's to put it in park or whatever else.
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Yes, but he also had to learn that the pedal shouldn't go all the way to the floor.
 
I've honestly forgot about this needed step....but only once.
Harry moment but now I don't forget.
 
There is a reason most mechanics don't have their toolbox in front of the bay.
You're situation, you did the brakes, you need to test drive!
 
When I worked at Ford, the just out of school new guy, like me at the time, did a brake job on a focus, dropped it in reverse without pumping. It almost hit the post of the lift across the aisle which the transmission guy had an E350 extended cargo van hanging precariously on. He got it dumped into drive with much tire spinning on the polished concrete and shoved his just bought not even made the first payment on tool box through the cinder block wall into the parking lot. All two bays down from me.

That taught me the very first thing to do after the rack (or jack) goes down is to pump the brakes. That way you don't get stuck with the nickname captain raybestos.

Watching others screw up early in my career helped me out a bunch. That's also why the oil cap gets wedged into the hood latch as soon as I pull in an oil change. I've bought a new cap, but never an engine, LOL
 
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but the instant the pedal goes to the floor, isnt that a mental 'hey somethings wrong!' youd notice that as soon as you step on it to put it in gear. also theres ebrakes on cars for a reason. dunno. guess by nature of our hobby, were 'drivers'. turning cars off works good too.
 
When I sold my 01 F350 PS to Hector the Mexican from Hendersonville I tried explaining the tuner and what each setting meant and I still don't think he got it.Didnt even try to explain EGT's and what they meant/would do.I bet he's done roasted the turbo,or worse,on it my now.
 
Chuckman said:
but the instant the pedal goes to the floor, isnt that a mental 'hey somethings wrong!' youd notice that as soon as you step on it to put it in gear. also theres ebrakes on cars for a reason. dunno. guess by nature of our hobby, were 'drivers'. turning cars off works good too.
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My new '18 Mazda doesn't have an e-brake. Just a "parking" brake activated by a button. If you try to engage it while in motion it just beeps at you.
Crazy bullshit IMO. Esp since it's a stick... no more handbrake drifting.
 
Tim C said:
Watching others screw up early in my career helped me out a bunch.
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There's a HUGE difference in Smart and Wise. In my experience, the greatest knowledge isn't held by those who believe they are smart, but those who are wise from either their OWN failures, or watching the failures of others.

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