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    Labour hours for work done. Is this right?

    Hi,

    Can a qualified mechanic please give me a rough estimate for the total labour hours involved in doing this? Bear in mind the bike was stripped to a state in which fairings were off, tank wasn't bolted on, and spark plug leads were exposed.

    http://imgur.com/2sdgYjm

    Cheers

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    Obviously you or someone else that knows fuck all has touched something they knew absolutely nothing about & messed things up entirely. You are at the mercy of anyone stupid enough to get involved in your self created problem & whatever they charge to disentangle your balls up.
    I will not take on that kind of work, as the further you get in to the job, the more retardation you discover & the punter is unwilling to accept the cost usually because they have no money to start with & thats why they attempted home repairs themselves in the first place.
    And yep, I meet your requirments of being a qualified mechanic with the added bonus of running my own garage for over twenty years.
    The invoice is a cracking read & the work was executed in a thouroughly understandable & methodical order though.

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    How long is a piece of string? Depends how fast he worked and what he had for lunch.
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    no one can answer your question coz you haven't said how many hours you were charged that i can see.......
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    Quote Originally Posted by sidecar bob View Post
    usually because they have no money to start with & thats why they attempted home repairs themselves in the first place.
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    Agree with everything but this Bob.
    Some of us just like the challenge and can usually manage a fairly decent job. It helps having a shitload of quality tools as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sidecar bob View Post
    Obviously you or someone else that knows fuck all has touched something they knew absolutely nothing about & messed things up entirely. You are at the mercy of anyone stupid enough to get involved in your self created problem & whatever they charge to disentangle your balls up.
    I will not take on that kind of work, as the further you get in to the job, the more retardation you discover & the punter is unwilling to accept the cost usually because they have no money to start with & thats why they attempted home repairs themselves in the first place.
    And yep, I meet your requirments of being a qualified mechanic with the added bonus of running my own garage for over twenty years.
    The invoice is a cracking read & the work was executed in a thouroughly understandable & methodical order though.
    Thank you for your input. Work was carried out by a qualified motorcycle mechanic at my home before I took it to the shop. Someone that has made one simple mistake (no matter how terrible it ended up being) shouldn't deserve the description of knowing 'fuck all' and 'knowing absolutely nothing about'.

    I'm just looking for an estimate at how long this would usually take a qualified mechanic to do. With just the one (terrible) mistake made, we managed to do it in just under three hours which included taking the head off and re-installing. I told the shop before bringing it in that the problem must lie in the timing / engine top end as everything else (fuel, air, spark etc.) was all in good order. Just looking for an estimate, not a rant about how stupid we are. Cheers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jamiestreet View Post
    Thank you for your input. Work was carried out by a qualified motorcycle mechanic at my home before I took it to the shop. Someone that has made one simple mistake (no matter how terrible it ended up being) shouldn't deserve the description of knowing 'fuck all' and 'knowing absolutely nothing about'.

    I'm just looking for an estimate at how long this would usually take a qualified mechanic to do. With just the one (terrible) mistake made, we managed to do it in just under three hours which included taking the head off and re-installing. I told the shop before bringing it in that the problem must lie in the timing / engine top end as everything else (fuel, air, spark etc.) was all in good order. Just looking for an estimate, not a rant about how stupid we are. Cheers.
    Maybe he shouldn't have drunk the beers before he finished.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jamiestreet View Post
    Thank you for your input. Work was carried out by a qualified motorcycle mechanic at my home... we managed to do it in just under three hours which included taking the head off and re-installing... Just looking for an estimate, not a rant about how stupid we are. Cheers.
    So the engine got royally fucked in 3 hours? Excellent effort!

    Just pay the bill.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jamiestreet View Post
    Thank you for your input. Work was carried out by a qualified motorcycle mechanic at my home before I took it to the shop. Someone that has made one simple mistake (no matter how terrible it ended up being) shouldn't deserve the description of knowing 'fuck all' and 'knowing absolutely nothing about'.

    I'm just looking for an estimate at how long this would usually take a qualified mechanic to do. With just the one (terrible) mistake made, we managed to do it in just under three hours which included taking the head off and re-installing. I told the shop before bringing it in that the problem must lie in the timing / engine top end as everything else (fuel, air, spark etc.) was all in good order. Just looking for an estimate, not a rant about how stupid we are. Cheers.
    You have to admit that clearly my round up of them knowing fuck all isint too far off the mark though.
    Reality is that it looks like essentially you just tipped the parts in the top of the engine & bolted the lid on.
    Nothing was laid out or marked up, but hey, being a mechanic is a piece of piss, obviously any halfwit can do it.
    Bags not use your qualified bike mechanic, it wasnt one simple mistake, it was an absolute cluster fuck by the looks of it.

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    7.5-10 hours (i.e. 1 - 1-1/2 days) seems fair.

    Personally, I hate following up somebodies fuck ups; would much rather start with something that ran beforehand. Saves me having to double check every damn thing rather than just working on the original problem. Just think how small the bill would have been if the poor mechanic didn't have to do that.

    You'll think that is too high, but that's because you don't know what you're doing. I originally would have thought a day longer, but they haven't replaced the valves... and even that depends on who fixes measures/inspects and then fixes the head itself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jamiestreet View Post
    Labour hours for work done. Is this right?
    Is what right? You haven't told us how many hours you were charged for.

    It sounds like you have wrecked your own motor, then asked someone else to diagnose the problem from scratch. It was your money that you wasted.
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    OK, not a qualified mechanic but I do my own work on my DR650, and leave the GSX1250 to the real mechanics to work on. For that job to that point I would give myself 8 - 10 hours. Maybe a qualified mechanic could do it faster, but I suspect he would take the same length of time and do a better job.

    My experience is that you can have a good job, a quick job, or an inexpensive job. Choose a maximum of two of those three, because you will never get all three. It appears you chose none of the above.
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    I would have used a GO TO END - done the compression test FIRST. Saved all the other work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trade_nancy View Post
    I would have used a GO TO END - done the compression test FIRST. Saved all the other work.
    Nono, read post #6 again, he told the mechanic it must be a timing issue, thefore helping the mechanic & saving himself valuable labour.

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