The Day After or Sunday Ramblings... April 10, 2011
Well, for quite some time since I have been taking my vehicles for service the day after the service or at least the 'morning after' like all mornings after is very traumatic and a busy time for me.
Traumatic, because that is the time when I go over the vehicle with fine toothcomb for all kinds of bugs and evidence of shoddy work done. And discover many, to my annoyance and deep worry !
Busy, because that is when I get the vehicle back to shape to my liking.
And normally Sunday mornings are generally the mornings after 'cause Saturday being the day of service, by and large.
And this day too, I went down with certain amount of trepidation. But I needn't have worried really as there was no major work done at the ASC during the II service and also that overall the quality of work was largely better.
But then some observations and notes do come up, yes ? After all life is not perfect, right ? And a perfect life is one which has imperfections !
But I ramble. Let me have let the snaps do the talking again.
The engine bay looked very neat and polished:
All squeaky clean:
This was because I had stood on 'their' heads and ensure that they air blow out the droplets of chemicals and water they use in the engine bay area. This has a stickish property and collects lot of dust and grime down the line. Especially on the lung box:
As well as the fuel filter & pump area which also collects a lot of muck:
And my 'inspection' of the underbody areas for the quality of anti rust Wurths application followed.
Front left wheel well:
Front right wheel well:
General underbody view:
Front right suspension wishbone:
Rear left wheel well and portion of ladder:
Rear right wheel well and portion of ladder:
Rear differential:
Forward section showing ladder cross members or rungs:
F'd differential and member:
Rear sections:
And a general view forwards:
Not that some unintended parts didn't get a dose of Wurths !
Here is one:
The underside of the bonnet. So that is fine !
Here is another, here is another ! I found I wouldn't rust in a hurry either. Had liberal spray of Wurths on me as well after yesterday's supervisory actions:
And they are not warts or moles please.
No wonder a few of my grey hair also disappeared. And I thought I was another curious case of Benjamin Button ! Till I realised that Wurth had reduced my worth !
A few minor cock ups:
1. Couple of spots inside not clean and a seat left soiled. Tolerable.
2. Not tolerable is:
A ball pen streak left on front passenger seat. No it is not because the grease monkeys sit with pens stuck in the rear pockets. That was a constant annoyance with grease primates at M&M ASC.
This particular streak from Toyota ASC was basically when a particular grease monkey completed his act he picks up the job card from the dash and what does he do? Instead of going to the work table he places the job card on the seat and starts to write his piece of action and how he supports Anna Hazare ! Invariably some of his script remains on Admiral's leather seat.
Next time its eagle eye on this aspect as well !
3. Some spots show shoddy work.
The bonnet underside damper left dirty:
The radiator vanes not flushed with water. Remains dirty. Water is to be forced from the grill side. This keeps AC super fine. I need to do it next Sunday then...and next time at the ASC need to force 'them' to force water to force the muck to be forced out of...etc !
Overall then a fairly satisfactory state of affairs as of now. Not as horrendous on the morning after like with the earlier services elsewhere.
Now one thing wanted to understand and puzzles me. Why are there so many pen and colour code markings in the engine bay and components ?
See below:
And there are millions of other markings around. I can understand for positioning and fitments etc.
But why in the world should a simple paper label, on the timer belt cover - giving engine number etc, have as many as a zillion markings ? That complicated ?
Anyway there are still some mysteries unsolved on Earth. And thank God for that - it makes life that much more interesting.
And meanwhile seeing my exertions, a Honda Civic looks on bemused from the neighbouring parking bay, with its hands folded:
And with that ends my rambling/s, as a trilogy, on my first set of service experience/s with Toyota.
And with that the Fleet Admiral is all ready to face the ravages of time and weather and the monsoons round the corner !