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PETA violations against my 930
Not that PETA! The PETA I'm referring to is my own group of People for the Ethical Treatment of Automobiles.
![]() First, someone put the front driver caliber on without the spacers. Seen below is what was missing. ![]() Second, someone enlarged the bolt openings in the passenger side outer spring plate cover. I guess they did that to make it easier to align the bolts with the openings. This was an unnecessary; it isn't that hard. Why do people do a halfa$$ job when they work on cars? Also, if anyone has 2 extra spacers, I'll take them.
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Stephanie My minions:'86 911 Targa 3.4, '87 930, '05 Lotus Elise, '19 Audi RS3, '13 Focus ST, '16 Focus RS |
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"Why do people do a halfa$$ job when they work on cars?"
Easy. Because there are idiots out there that have no business putting a wrench in their hands. Maybe the "technician" thought this would be the cheap way out in creating floating calipers! ![]() Fortunately the spacer is not unobtainium. Our host sells them for $5.25 ea. "OEM-93035155301"
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It would be fun to find a way to shame previous owners and/or mechanics that do things like this. I have a hunch it would be a very long thread.
![]() Steph: I'm going to look at an 86 Targa with 80K miles - how's your's been as far as reliability, etc?
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My Targa has been great. The only times I have gotten stranded was 1. a DME and 2. I didn't connect a ground wire well enough on a new radio. It would cut out when I would break and then start back up again. It has almost 170,000 miles on it. I do think I am getting close to needing an engine rebuild.
Of course a rebuild will also give me the time to fix another PETA violation: Someone has crushed the hard oil lines on both sides with a badly placed lift.
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Stephanie My minions:'86 911 Targa 3.4, '87 930, '05 Lotus Elise, '19 Audi RS3, '13 Focus ST, '16 Focus RS |
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Thanks. I'll look for oil line damage when the guy does the PPI.
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