Does your car fix itself as soon a mechanic takes a look?

[SOCO]

We all hate intermittent faults. They never misbehave when you have a mechanic to take a look, but my Ro has taken it to another level.

I was at the Fish today and amongst other things I asked Mark to take a look at my squeaking accelerator pedal. It wasn't my shoe causing it and it had been getting louder in the past few weeks. When they tried it out, it didn't sqeak. So, I went to show them the big squeak and sure enough there was total silence and silence all the way home too. Just one of those things?

On a previous trip I asked Andy to sort out the passenger door window that kept getting stuck. "It seems fine to me" he said, and it has never ever got stuck since.

Perhaps the Fish can fix things now via the Biblical powers of The Laying On Of Hands?

[DUMBO100]

At the the other opposite, I was tasked today with purchasing a used VW Caravelle with a wheelchair lift, being a specialist vehicle we asked to see it in operation at which point the lift stopped receiving wheelchairs and put us in doubt of it's £9k rrp(on top of the VW). Classic case of mechanical failure at the worst possible time

Edited by DUMBO100 on Wednesday 30th November 23:18

[ARAF]

Conversely, on another car, I have an aux belt that squeals a little when it's cold and under load. It hasn't happened receontly, but you can bet that when it goes to the main dealer it will make a noise and they will insist on changing it at their £150/hour labour rate.

[Glyn84]

I had one of these the other day when all power was lost to the dash, then came back a second later. Happened twice that day. Has never happened before or since. Don't think I'll either bother trying to explain that to a mechanic he'll think I'm loopy!

[SOCO]

In Cockney terms, these jam jars are mugging us off. They probably just need a dry slap.