I think everybody has their own nightmare,believe system,values and the list goes on and on and on. Today I'm just gonna pick one, nightmare.
For people in PAS or Al Arqam their nightmare might be in the form of Megan Fox running to them fully stark naked in all her glory and begging to make love to them... well another man's nightmare is another man's wet dream... i guess
Mine? It's in the form of an Orange Nissan Sunny ... what the Fcuk? i hear you say? read on.
About a year or so ago me and my buddies tinkered with the idea of opening up a garage, where we can chill out and restore our cars.Yeah, we have a few old cars each. Toyotas, Nissans, Datsuns, Mazdas... you name it
So back to the story,
It's an open secret that i own a workshop and i talked about it openly with my colleagues. Oh! by the way I'm not a "garage worker" by trade.
End of December i received a call from one of my colleague.Here I'm just gonna address him as Mr fruity tutti. Mr fruity owns a 20 over years Nissan Sunny and 1 fine afternoon in December he called me for a meeting. There is no slightest indication of him wanting to sent his car for restoring and painting by the way. I quoted him RM 3500 and he passed me the key and agreed to leave his car with me. I also mentioned that the quoted amount would not include all the rubbers, front lamp-which has rusted from inside out from years of having shots and shots of rain water and the front bumper with holes that can actually house a few kitten.
Anyways all those parts,the rubber for 4 doors,the front bumper,the rubber for the front and rear windscreen, a new battery for the remote,a set of new abs rim cover, bulbs, a new battery and a new front plate number come to about RM750.
The car chassis was in a bad shape when we got the car.Both the left front and rear door was decorated with dent as if from a mafia drive by accident. The roof of the car was rigged with rust holes, yes no different from bullet holes from a botch short gun a-la Kurt Cobain suicide attempt.
The body works took about 6 days to complete,due to the fact that the 2 doors needing repairs and Mr Fruity wants a full painting i have decided to remove the whole interiors. It is near impossible to do the roof without removing the interiors. The dashboard was wrapped during the whole process. As with the paint process, my painter took a full 10 days from sanding to painting. Bear in mind,from the moment I received the key, the car didn't even left the garage and I actually took Mr fruity words that the car is in good shape for I have told him that we are not into engines and electrical repairs. Oh, we only start on the paint process 3rd week of January 2010 and the bodywork was completed a week before.
Through out all these process,Mr Fruity haven't make up his mind on what colour to be painted on his Sunny from hell. Just to brief you on a short "Painting 101" . A car that have been fully sanded and filled or bondoed whatever you wanna call it,should be paint as soon as the filler dried up.This is to avoid moisture to sip into the filler and retain water WHICH later will rust your car from the inside. Got it? So while waiting for Mr Fruity make up his mind,the Sunny of a bitches lay in the garage...waiting
Finally end of January Mr Fruity chose Solid orange for Sunny of a bitch. Which orange Momot? Do you think I'm gonna actually share with you my trade secret? Of course not silly! Well safe to say i didn't undercut him on quality. I used a very good and well known brand,which by the way is somewhere between 1 to 2 notch down from the top dollar paint. As for the clear coat,i didn't undercut him on that department too.
So what's the big deal with the clear coat Momot? Contrary to popular believe that the clear coat is not important, well, actually the clear coat IS 1 of the most important ingredient in the paint process. You pay peanuts you get peanuts. Something like that.
Back to our nightmare,
the Sunny from hell was done the 1st week of February 2010. Final inspection was the following week due to the fact that I am not around and a week of Chinese new year holiday. Since this guy is some senior in the company that I'm with, I actually checked and rechecked a lot of things on his car. This is when I noticed a lot of thing is wrong with the Sunny from hell.
The first thing that later snow balled into an avalanche is the car was unable to start. No crank, no tick nor kaput, nada zip nothing. I called the guy from a garage near ours, the guy also can't figure out what the hell is wrong with the Sunny from hell- I know! I Know! enough with the hate already but I can't help it,this car is really jinxed maybe Satan peed on this car for all I care. After doing a few calls i managed to ask 1 of my regular electrician to have a look and guess what? The fuse box has water mark in it. If you still remember, i wrapped the whole dashboard during the whole painting process so there is no way water can sip in the fuse box all that while. The relay for the starter has been short circuit due to that. Alarm was not working so I sent the car to a key and alarm specialist to have a look and guess what? the battery is flat so I replaced it and we gave it a try, thank god it worked. In between all that i managed to change the rim cover, front number plate and bought a set of front lamp bulb.For people in PAS or Al Arqam their nightmare might be in the form of Megan Fox running to them fully stark naked in all her glory and begging to make love to them... well another man's nightmare is another man's wet dream... i guess
Mine? It's in the form of an Orange Nissan Sunny ... what the Fcuk? i hear you say? read on.
About a year or so ago me and my buddies tinkered with the idea of opening up a garage, where we can chill out and restore our cars.Yeah, we have a few old cars each. Toyotas, Nissans, Datsuns, Mazdas... you name it
So back to the story,
It's an open secret that i own a workshop and i talked about it openly with my colleagues. Oh! by the way I'm not a "garage worker" by trade.
End of December i received a call from one of my colleague.Here I'm just gonna address him as Mr fruity tutti. Mr fruity owns a 20 over years Nissan Sunny and 1 fine afternoon in December he called me for a meeting. There is no slightest indication of him wanting to sent his car for restoring and painting by the way. I quoted him RM 3500 and he passed me the key and agreed to leave his car with me. I also mentioned that the quoted amount would not include all the rubbers, front lamp-which has rusted from inside out from years of having shots and shots of rain water and the front bumper with holes that can actually house a few kitten.
Anyways all those parts,the rubber for 4 doors,the front bumper,the rubber for the front and rear windscreen, a new battery for the remote,a set of new abs rim cover, bulbs, a new battery and a new front plate number come to about RM750.
The car chassis was in a bad shape when we got the car.Both the left front and rear door was decorated with dent as if from a mafia drive by accident. The roof of the car was rigged with rust holes, yes no different from bullet holes from a botch short gun a-la Kurt Cobain suicide attempt.
The body works took about 6 days to complete,due to the fact that the 2 doors needing repairs and Mr Fruity wants a full painting i have decided to remove the whole interiors. It is near impossible to do the roof without removing the interiors. The dashboard was wrapped during the whole process. As with the paint process, my painter took a full 10 days from sanding to painting. Bear in mind,from the moment I received the key, the car didn't even left the garage and I actually took Mr fruity words that the car is in good shape for I have told him that we are not into engines and electrical repairs. Oh, we only start on the paint process 3rd week of January 2010 and the bodywork was completed a week before.
Through out all these process,Mr Fruity haven't make up his mind on what colour to be painted on his Sunny from hell. Just to brief you on a short "Painting 101" . A car that have been fully sanded and filled or bondoed whatever you wanna call it,should be paint as soon as the filler dried up.This is to avoid moisture to sip into the filler and retain water WHICH later will rust your car from the inside. Got it? So while waiting for Mr Fruity make up his mind,the Sunny of a bitches lay in the garage...waiting
Finally end of January Mr Fruity chose Solid orange for Sunny of a bitch. Which orange Momot? Do you think I'm gonna actually share with you my trade secret? Of course not silly! Well safe to say i didn't undercut him on quality. I used a very good and well known brand,which by the way is somewhere between 1 to 2 notch down from the top dollar paint. As for the clear coat,i didn't undercut him on that department too.
So what's the big deal with the clear coat Momot? Contrary to popular believe that the clear coat is not important, well, actually the clear coat IS 1 of the most important ingredient in the paint process. You pay peanuts you get peanuts. Something like that.
Back to our nightmare,
the Sunny from hell was done the 1st week of February 2010. Final inspection was the following week due to the fact that I am not around and a week of Chinese new year holiday. Since this guy is some senior in the company that I'm with, I actually checked and rechecked a lot of things on his car. This is when I noticed a lot of thing is wrong with the Sunny from hell.
later that day I deliver the car to Mr fruityand I was tired as hell.
He had a look,and I knew he didn't like it. The car is missing the sun visor,the temperature is creeping to Hot range and the wiring in the trunk is like an octopus from outer space-really bad. For all this I admit it's my problem and we set another date for me to fix whatever is not right with the Sunny from hell.
A few days later I picked up the car and he passed a few remarks saying he should've sent the car to his friend and a few other remark that seems to me, came out from a sore loser. I'm kinda amazed on why people think that if their friend is having a business and if you give some business to that friend, you will get good discount and lower price. Hello dickhead haven't you learn already, lower price = bad job/lower quality/ bad material? God... you even have to pay 30 euro for a fuck. so what, if that hooker is a friend, you really think she's gonna give you free fuck or discounts? oh please... and all this shit during my day off?
so Sunny from hell part Dos
When i got the car, its very hard for us to start and I also noticed the water temperature is creeping. The engine fan is OK i can see that but the temperature keeps on creeping to the Hot zone. Honestly THIS, i can't fix or rather i don't wanna fix for i don't even know whether this is the car problem from the start or during its stay in my garage.
So here is what i did on the 2nd session. I tidied up the wires, cables and the trunk cable. I fixed the petrol door opener cable-the one where you push or pull from the side of your seat when you wanna fill gas. I actually resprayed the front vent grille- the one near the wiper, i resprayed the wiper and the front door rubber decoration. Re thread the screw for the trunk/petrol door opener yup its the same thing i mentioned just now. I go outta my way to change the worn rubber plug for the engine so it won't cause the engine to leak water. As I was test driving the car,it rained. the wiper malfunctioned. I went to see the wire man for the god knows how many time i lost count. He told me all this unable to start,wiper malfunction etc is because of the fuse box is in a bad state and it needs a replacement.
looking at my watch it's already close to 4:30 pm and in 1 hour it's going to be jam everywhere and have to sent the car to him as soon as possible. Last stop,my garage to install the window visors. while installing the visors I noticed that the temperature is just a few notch below H zone and take a peek at the the fan,guess what? it stopped working. So the whole process again, switch off engine-check fuse-check fan-working-restart engine- fuck! now the freaking battery almost flat.
As with any other customer that I handled, before delivery I will wash the car. While waiting I decided to have a few bottoms up of ice lemon tea near the car wash. Give it about half an hour or so then I went and collect the car. Time check? 5: 30 pm damn,I'm freaking late. Promised Bebet to bring her out... I'm s0o0oo gonna get fucked after this. So collect the key,pay the guy Rm7 crank... nothing... god... of all the time the bloody Sunny can go flat,it actually chose a car wash to die on me. So i ran to a car workshop nearby, bought a battery-install it-crank-thank god it worked.
So here I go, re-deliver the car. Jam as hell,but I managed and all the while keeps on checking on the water temperature and I still can see it going up and up and up. finally about 7pm I reached Mr Fruity's residence. He had a look and i briefed him on the problems (notice the 'S') of his car. He still insisted that the car was in good shape when he sent it to me,yeah right.
I reached home about 8 pm that day with my wife giving me the cold shoulder treatment. well I deserved it. I know I promised her but this Sunny from hell is really giving me the heartache and headache. Not to mention the stress. That's why I need to solve this once and for all.
last I heard from Mr fruity he called me a conman... well too bad. I tried though. Believe me I did my best. If you're not satisfy,too bad, that's the best i can do for you. I quit the garage business earlier this month. I just don't think it's even worth to consider anymore,the idea of having a garage I mean. Why not? well, people who are involved in business, they give their 110% or more and here I am doing it during my off day and yes I can clean up people shit-I'm referring to their car by the way :) - but this is too taxing on my well being. My credibility is at stake,my time... which i don't have much anyways. Lesson learned from all this? Never ever EVER ever EVER do business with you friends,colleague or boss if you want to remain friends
So what is you new hobby Momot? I'm doing photography nowadays. Its me versus me. So its okay i guess but hey! that's another story
