Does this count as just rolled OUT of the shop?
Behold, the automotive genius that is Firestone.
MIL brought her car, 2013 Nissan Juke, to a tire shop near her for a bad starter, they won't do more than plugs on cars, so they recommend she bring it to Firestone.
Firestone replaces the starter, but she said that it's running horribly afterwards. WHY she left that place with the car messed up is beyond me still.
I go and pick it up to bring it to my garage and look at it. It's running like total rat ass, unreal how someone could claim this was repaired, thing barely idled and I swore it was going to die on me in the 5 mile ride home.
Codes show CYL 1 misfire. Change plugs and swap coils, CYL 1 misfire remains, it doesn't move. Few vac lines are shit, changed them, no difference. Check compression, extremely even across all 4 cylinders, so it's not a valve stuck open from carbon deposits.
I figure it's the fuel injector. They had to crack off the intake manifold and fuel rail to change the starter, so I figured they borked something or forgot to plug it an injector.
Instead of tearing into it, I order 4 replacement Bosche DI injectors for it, all the necessary fuel rail fittings and o-rings, intake manifold gasket, turbo inlet gasket, everything that could break when I tear into this, since I wanted it to be one and done.
Get everything off, remove the TB, get the intake loose, and this is what I find....
https://photos.app.goo.gl/zoMcPxsfEEidVEvP9
Lol language warning
I sat there cursing in disbelief for like the next 10 minutes straight.
Absolutely unreal. I have no idea how this rag straight up did NOT catch on fire, it reeked of gas and was obviously seeing combustion as evidence by the carbon build up on it.
I'm at a loss about what to do next. The initial urge is to go down there and flip my shit, but I doubt that gets anywhere. They definitely replaced the starter, I figure asking for a refund on the labor is more than fair.
I've only read about this shit, have never seen something like this with my own eyes. Does anyone else have tales of fixing the fuckups of other mechanics?