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Beware of dodgy mechanics

Just a reminder to everyone that there are some dodgy Mechanics out there.

This customer had cylinder heads done on their holden rodeo V6. When they got the car back and the car was misfiring they took it back to the mechanic that did the job, who didnt want anything to do with it. So the car ended up being brought to us. We checked over the motor and found a dead cylinder.

We pulled the cylinder head off and as you can tell from the pictures there are water leaks everywhere from the head gasket nuts missing off the exhaust. Just warning you all that there are some dodgy mechanics out there, so please be careful. We dont like doing jobs that have already been done or that somebody else should have done right the first time. Partly because it usually makes the job harder to accomplish, but mostly because we think it is unfair to our customers.

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