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Post by frank on Oct 28, 2006 18:02:24 GMT
hi just wondering what you all do for a living?? are any of you technicians? or just budding diyers?. some of you think that us peugeot dealer mechanics are idiots, and dont know what we are doing. so i am intrested to know your choosen carers are.
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Post by petercharlesf*gg on Oct 28, 2006 21:10:36 GMT
Left school with no exam passes and worked on a local farm with day release, attended agricultural college, failed exams! Took Government vocational training as an agricultural mechanic and evening classes in machinery systems.
Left country to work abroad first in Denmark and then British Leyland tractors in Norway (3 years), Clutch and Brake company translator/interpreter in Norway (5 years) importing Repco brake parts(Aus), Fitchel & Sachs clutches and pressure plates (Ger), Quinton Hazell assorted items (UK) amongst others. Volkswagen main dealer as mechanic (6 months). 1969-1977
Returned to the UK and took position as workshop foreman/Service Manager in a Massey Ferguson dealership.
All sorts of odd jobs over the years. Unemployment and redundancy forced me to try gardening, lawn mower repair, freelance tractor repair, painting at a holiday centre, storekeeper in a factory (17 years), now part time garden centre shop assistant and running my own woodturning business.
Have never thought of any mechanic as an idiot, but must admit to a certain degree of madness in myself!
Peter
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Post by Admin on Oct 29, 2006 8:23:32 GMT
Well I run a design agency that specialises in childrens book, so no mechanical background what so ever.
I'm sure most people would hesitate before calling all Peugeot technicians idiots. I for one am greatful that we have a couple here who are willing to jump in and help out, please keep doing it, it's a great service to everyone!
With their Peugeot training and day in day out experience I can't imagine anyone knowing more about the subject than an actual technician. I guess some people can get frustrated if a fault proves hard to pin down or keeps recurring, and one member here in particular seemd trapped in some deep dark nightmare car hell with his hpi engine. I suspect that these issues could be more properly addressed by the dealership management who sometimes do not always encourage customer relations as well as they might.
But even on that score I have only had good experience of dealerships, and the technicians seem fascinated to see an older Pug come in, often working on the car for free!
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Post by frank on Oct 29, 2006 17:36:50 GMT
yes 104zs i love it when the older stuff comes in as it great to see peugeots being looked after, i have a couple of 205 gti's and while both are by no means mint they are fast becoming classics. i just get the picture from a few on here, that they think all dealerships are rubbish at what we do. i can honishedly say hpi engines are crap and i have never met anyone else say other wise. even the trainers at the factory said it!!
anyway anyone else going to let us know what they do?
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Post by 205GRD on Oct 29, 2006 18:40:48 GMT
I am currently unemployed, having just graduated from university in Engineering Design and Appropriate Technology. (Basically mech eng with 3rd world technology and a bit of renewable energy)
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le moteur de mon peugeot est sur la table de mon ?pouse
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Post by 205tref on Nov 2, 2006 22:19:46 GMT
I did some electronics and some software engineering, and then became a photographer. After a few years of being a professional photographer and running a black-and-white darkroom business I got a proper job doing IT and then ended up via a very long story charging round the south of the country with a camera and a cherrypicker taking panoramic photos at stupid heights above the ground!
In between all of that I got my first roll of spanners when I was 17 to go with my first mk 2 escy (dad was a mechanical engineer) so it all went from there! I still prefer to do all my own work.
I've never had a bad experience with Peugeot techs, but have found very bad dealerships of other marques over the years. It's like anything else, you learn to spot the cowboys and steer clear; but main dealers shouldn't be a place you would find them.
I think these forums are very much like any other and a lot of people just mouth off and say the stuff they would love to dare to say in the real world.
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Post by dabber on Nov 5, 2006 12:53:25 GMT
 Nice of you to ask , I work in a foundry controlling materials in and out , i have been fixing cars since my dad could not fit under them to easily (not unlike sending small boys up chimneys to clean them) , I dont have any official training in mechanics and have not got a clue when it comes to electrics however I would prefer to fix my own motor than trust a garage mechanic and this webpage helps a lot with that. Lets be honest, is a garage mechanic going to do anything but the basics when you send your car to him? also some of these people know shortcuts to do stuff that I really dont want them to do, I would prefer to do things right first (well maybe second) time.
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Post by 205tastic on Nov 5, 2006 21:44:40 GMT
hi i'm a classical music student, i like playing with my cars - my dad was an independant ford mechanic and i still love the older stuff - first car at 7, now, having grown out of the mk1 fiesta, i'm playing with a 104 ZL project! i for one am most grateful to the sensible advice most techs give out on the forums - it's their time which could be spent doing other things than their day jobs ;D cheers!! |
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Post by 205309407 on Nov 24, 2006 17:22:10 GMT
I work for Peugeot, in their systems support team looking after the IT needs for the wholly owned Peugeot dealers.
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Post by Donaldiesel on Nov 26, 2006 17:28:03 GMT
Hi,
I run my own business restoring church clocks around the country. The company 305 diesel estate has now covered over 230000 miles.
Donaldiesel
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Post by chompy on Dec 11, 2006 23:30:19 GMT
ima technical support specialist, but mechanic by night  |
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Post by jonlucpicard on Dec 12, 2006 13:57:37 GMT
Hi, i have worked as a van driver since passing my test in 1990 in a variety of jobs including general haulage, holiday brochure deliveries and foreign newspaper deliveries. In 2001 i met my lovely wife (who is disabled and a wheelchair user) and in 2005 i gave up work to become her fulltime carer.
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dash
First past the post
Girl driver...
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Post by dash on Dec 12, 2006 18:19:17 GMT
As a girly  i work in a busy office as an assistant property manager, been there for 5 yrs since school. We have a laugh and it pays the bills |
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Post by stagemanager on Jan 15, 2007 20:35:11 GMT
Hello everyone
I work in Germany, in Recruiting "Head Hunting" ;-) been over here for 15 years now, had an old 306 from 1993, and have just brought a nice new 307 platinum :-)
Living in Frankfurt and working with companies searching for managers at different levels, mainly in Germany, Switzerland, and France.
Looking forward I hope to many years driving my new Peugeot, my old 306 was very reliable, lets hope the new 307 lasts…………………..
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Post by Piston Broke on Jan 21, 2007 17:36:52 GMT
Left school with s0d all to my name. After several years of disappointing looks, under breath muttering and forlorn head shaking from my parents I enrolled with the OU and chundered out a BA. 4 more years added an MSc in Orbital Mechanics (calculating orbits of spacecraft etc) to my potfolio. Currently working on my overly long drawn out doctoral thesis which is about the probable structure of the jovian atmosphere (astronomy is my main interest after pugs) - every time I get stuck in I seem to end up buying another pug and once the 4 wheeled project begins everything else seems to slide. My latest distraction is a very tidy and original Mi16 2 litre which now nextles on the drive alongside my tuned 406 HDi.
All this education has been of zilch use, cos i'm a copper, but i'm looking forward to the day that senior officers, solicitors in court etc all have to address me as 'Doctor'.
Should please me mum.
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Nice of you to ask , I work in a foundry controlling materials in and out , i have been fixing cars since my dad could not fit under them to easily (not unlike sending small boys up chimneys to clean them) , I dont have any official training in mechanics and have not got a clue when it comes to electrics however I would prefer to fix my own motor than trust a garage mechanic and this webpage helps a lot with that. Lets be honest, is a garage mechanic going to do anything but the basics when you send your car to him? also some of these people know shortcuts to do stuff that I really dont want them to do, I would prefer to do things right first (well maybe second) time.
i work in a busy office as an assistant property manager, been there for 5 yrs since school. We have a laugh and it pays the bills