Having to redo work

Also known as find and read the directions before you start, even with used parts. I've spent about 8 hours this weekend installing a slightly used set of JIC Cross Competition coilovers on my M3, and I'm still not done. The rear shocks have been the only easy thing. On the first side yesterday I didn't install the lower rubber spring pad. So I remember to do that on the other side today, which involves cuttingart of the pad, pop everything in and button it up. Come inside and look at a set of online directions again and see that I need to flip the pads top for bottom. So, I get to redo the springs on both sides, which will take about and hour. My maleness of just dive in and figure it out costs me time again...

The fronts are even more frustrating - they come with a "camber" plate that only seems to install properly as a caster adjuster. It won't install perpendicular to the direction of travel, only parallel or at a slight angle off perpendicular. I wised up enough to stop so I can call JIC tomorrow and get some guidance before I have to redo even more work.

I've tried 3 times to get my wife's car to stop leaking coolant. I haven't yet been successful. Maybe sometime I'll read up on cooling systems and find out why...

What is more fun is being paid to redo someone else's work. Because it means that somebody's money is being wasted instead of being more productive.

Most recent one was pulling the engine out of a (blank) because the "rebuilder" did not install any of the oil gallery plugs. And the (new) clutch got destroyed, too, after the oil blowing out of the rear gallery holes got to it. Fortunately, this was discovered while manually priming the engine! But still, it meant pulling the engine out, stripping it down, and while we were there, you'd better bet that EVERY fastener got double-checked for torque. The only other problems noted inside the engine, thankfully, were just the rockers were set to 8 turns loose instead of 1/2 turn tight.

I get paid to re-do work every day.

Do NOT buy a car at the Barrett-Jackson auctions. If they had to have every car inspected before it crossed the block, they'd be out of business.

The mis-represented cars coming out of there can be downright amazing.

Shawn