Possibly, although it's just good practice to make sure the part you're fitting is identical to the part removed. Assumption is the mother of all f*ckups.

TBH he should be checking the parts, but TMS and ECP were the suppliers so no surprise the wrong parts were sent. Can understand how the mistake happened but oh well. Least I got paid cash in hand, earned more in those three days than a month's JSA

He was happy enough to let me work three days but I guess he saw it as my fault, not his or the supplier's. Only good thing about not working there is that they let people wander about while you're working on motors. Was doing discs and pads on an Astra and the owner was over my shoulder the whole time getting very concerned as it wasn't going together how he though it would. Tried to explain that yes it was going together correctly, yes those retaining clips go there, and if you look at the old parts you'll see the wear indicating which pad was facing the piston but he still asked for the boss to come over and inspect it before he left. Arsewipe. I prefer the places that take the car in and don't let you have access. They were a bit TOO friendly there with taxi drivers hanging around undermining everything you do. I mean FFS, i showed the courtesy to wire brush a taxi driver's hubs and copper slip them to prevent the discs sticking on again, had to remove the old ones with a hammer. But apparently you shouldn't do that as "you shouldn't be putting grease near wheels" according to the taxi driver

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Bye bye Sundance Kid

I was going to post don't break anything expensive in the first week! Too slow!

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Some of my services: (See my for sale threads)
Engine mount/chassis repair
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Harness bars

unlucky on job man but garage i work in customers never come in its only bad when you have to go out and remove a radio and guy decides to come and watch you remove a radio wich 8/10 times you may damage it or the dash slightly as the clips that hold them in always get bent or jammed lol.

also on tool thing ive spent like £3k+ on tools over last 4 years lost/broke about 500 quids worth all sealy stuff tho but it does the job maby 2 or 3 snapy things only ever buy them off ebay tho for like half the price