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[Hot Air Beast]

1984 GN posting here to reach as many owners as possible.

my car has been in a local shop here in Canada for a month. I am beginning to think something has gone drastically wrong. I may be facing a tough time to get the job done or to have two the car to someone who knows what he is doing. Project was to install Standard Part number 165L - ignition lock cylinder housing repair kit - readily available from NAPA. Any idea what book time is to install this kit so I have somewhere to start when I confront this shop?

 

[Darkstar72]

Lock cylinder itself pays 0.9 HRS from All Data. I'm sure housing may add more time...figure maybe another hour if things were tedious or brittle.

Steering column lock pays 1.7 HRS with tilt wheel and 1.0 HR without tilt column.

 

[Hot Air Beast]

Corrected spelling

 

[Hot Air Beast]

Lock cylinder itself pays 0.9 HRS from All Data. I'm sure housing may add more time...figure maybe another hour if things were tedious or brittle.

Steering column lock pays 1.7 HRS with tilt wheel and 1.0 HR without tilt column.

 

[Hot Air Beast]

Thank you.

 

[Nick Micale]

Even with my old and broken down body, I can still change an ignition lock in 20 minutes on a tilt or not column!

 

[gnmaster2004]

A month to change the lock cylinder? I would be concerned also

 

[grass doctor]

sounds like a mechanic from Quebec LOL

 

[berserker6]

Hope you took notice of your odometer before you dropped it off. Good luck

 

[TurboBuRick]

Go get your car out of there...

 

[TurboWh1]

Go get your car out of there...

I second this. Easy job to do yourself. Check out YouTube

 

[Hot Air Beast]

The garage now tells me that pieces are falling out of the column so it is not just a kit that is required - am now searching for a rebuilt column - WTF!!

 

[Anthony P]

I hope this is not the same shop that lost your engine/accessory brackets a few years ago. Time to take the car back into your possession.

 

[278.C.I.STAGE 2]

They have taken it a part, and for got what goes were, and now they can't put it back together.

 

[Hot Air Beast]

I hope this is not the same shop that lost your engine/accessory brackets a few years ago. Time to take the car back into your possession.

Nope - this is a local shop - the other was a machine shop that rebuilt the engine.

 

[Hot Air Beast]

They have taken it a part, and for got what goes were, and now they can't put it back together.

I suppose that is a possibility.

 

[NY Twin Turbo]

Go there with a tow truck. Get it out.

If it were here in NY, I would call an old friend of mine. His name is Trouble. And I would ask him to come along for the visit.