Postby idlemind » April 11th, 2011, 6:48 pm
^^Oil in the radiator and water in the oil..
Fellas, I had the most shittiest day trying to find an electrician...
[RANT]It started when I left for work this morning, place was cool and the sun was behind cloud so I say I'll open up the sun roof and ease off the AC.
Reaching Pasea, it started to drizzle so I say time to lock up top.
Sunroof started to close normal but with about an inch again to close it stick and started clicking.
So I open it back to close again this time it reached halfway and start clicking...
I say sheit man this aint funny, send back to close again, the thing only moving back and forth by an inch, so now it stuck practically open with rain coming.
So I turn back and headed by the local trusty electrician in Pasea (Lalchan)
Man say, look that other car here too for sunroof problems, is the cable does burst and yuh cyar get that anywhere. The most we could do is push it back in the closed position but dat eh guaranteed. I say cool, have a good day, bounce starter and gone...you done write me off already.
So I reach home, pull up the manual and start scrapping down the headliner.
I aint see any pieces of cables, but I notice the motor was missing a bolt and was rocking. It didnt bother me so I replace the bolt, but still nothing, still stuck open.
Made a few calls, and my straightener say to go check a locksmith....yeah i was like wtf ah locksmith dan???!!!
So I cut out a cardboard to block the hole and went out by Derek's on the Main Road close to Trincity central road.
Derek say we go check it in 5mins it sounding like the cable burst...mind you I was the 6th car waiting to service.
Half hour past, I say bro, I gone...I go check you in the morning if I doh get thru elsewhere.
Call my Electrician, no answer.... call a couple tuners, like nobody have a northside electrician to suggest..
Then I remember there was a power windows fella in bamboo so I say it worth a shot.
Steupsss....I pull up by the man, explain my situation, man say he doh do sunroofs.
I say but boss the motor is the same thing like the power windows, he say nah he only dealing with windows. Confused at his excuse, I buss out...
Went by a padna opposite old Seenath's...he say nah he doh dig up in sunroofs, check the power window man, or Rohans right after Poyea. I tell him the Power windows man is a crunt but say wat lehme try this Rohan fella. Gone by Rohan, he pull out tester and start checking the connector, he say the electrical good, check a straightener coz the cable burst or the glass out the track. He carry me by a straightener in Temple street. Straightener man say he doh do that but he give me a number for a man in Malabar that does fix dem thing. Well by now I start getting fedup was a good thing I went home and eat lunch before I went Bamboo. Coz ah woulda cuss up somebody.
I call the man in Malabar, he say come in the morning, he busy all now.
I say bro, It hadda fix today, he say ...well padna I busy..click
I tell myself well tuh fcuk with dat! I heading back home....with meh cardboard roof (chucked by a piece ah 1/4" pvc coz it was looking like it woulda blow away)
Reach home and start pulling ratchet to disassemble everything.
Pull out the entire sunroof system and started cleaning and re-greasing the tracks.
Pulled on the glass to close it, still nothing. So google iymc...end up on evolutionm.net
Apparently, its a common Mitsu problem that happens when the bolts for the sunroof motor backs out, some men said they saw only 1 bolt attached, others say as they touched the motor, 2 bolts fall out. Seems like they run slack easily as it has no lock washer. But what this causes is the motor now slips out of the track where it contacts the cable assembly.
Gone now to take out the motor...Honestly I didnt want to do it myself coz chances are I wouldve been messed the sequencing on the track and motor...But I had no real alternative. Motor teeth was stink with gunk...cable track teeth was gunky, so i clean it up and reinstall. Pull the switch nothing, drop the motor alone and connect it, motor works fine and switches off at the end of the sequence (open/close) once it not connected to the sunroof.
My last attempt was to physically close the sunroof glass, set the motor to what i assumed was the closed position (the opposite of how it was stuck) and reconnect, with white grease in every moving part...and BODOW it decided to work like if nothing ever happened.
STEUPSSS...I was glad, but fcukin pissed that no technician was willing to try it.
It seems nowadays you really have to fix things yourselves and not rely on anybody even if you willing to pay. I reckon I saved myself a minimum of $300. But I really couldnt handle the excuses everyone was making about the cable burst. It even had me actually thinking that there was supposed to be a cable that mysteriously disappeared. It just goes to show that alot of these self proclaimed Electricians really dunno they ass from they foot sometimes.
Oh and no pics was too frustrated to handle a camera...plus the camera man/assistant/head mechanic was out working. Steups...now he telling me his ppl at work couldve fix it....Anyway>>>>>>>[/RANT]