Where is Joolz
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I was talking to Himself not 48 hours ago. He is alive and wriggling, last seen grappling with a rusty Chimaera and a mug of coffee.
He claimed he is working 168 hours a week, and how folk keep calling him with involved requests such as 'How do I make my Griff go faster? Should I swap it for Wedg1e's 390SE?' and 'Which car do the cable ties come from on my Cerbera Lightweight?' and the like. Apparently he 'only has one pair of hands', whatever that may mean, and tells of how he struggles to hold up a V8 engine whilst refitting the rear brake pads and listening to clients wittering on about which colour of anodising would look best on their dustcaps.
So when he's busy, he leaves the answerphone on. I called him a couple of weeks back, whlst hurtling (ahem) up the M42 in the van. I got the answerphone, but he didn't call me back. He played me the tape: I sounded like I was gargling Vodka with my head in a bucket. Now I admit to gargling Vodka whilst driving, if only to calm my nerves due to the 2@'s out there, but normally I would remove the bucket first.
As I didn't leave my number, he had to resort to calling an assortment of 0898 lines to try and trace the call. Or that's what he said, as he tried to hide the 17-foot long phone bill...
Moral of the story: call him, speak clearly, leave a number (preferably not a mobile!). Then expect him to get back to you at 2AM...
Ian
He claimed he is working 168 hours a week, and how folk keep calling him with involved requests such as 'How do I make my Griff go faster? Should I swap it for Wedg1e's 390SE?' and 'Which car do the cable ties come from on my Cerbera Lightweight?' and the like. Apparently he 'only has one pair of hands', whatever that may mean, and tells of how he struggles to hold up a V8 engine whilst refitting the rear brake pads and listening to clients wittering on about which colour of anodising would look best on their dustcaps.
So when he's busy, he leaves the answerphone on. I called him a couple of weeks back, whlst hurtling (ahem) up the M42 in the van. I got the answerphone, but he didn't call me back. He played me the tape: I sounded like I was gargling Vodka with my head in a bucket. Now I admit to gargling Vodka whilst driving, if only to calm my nerves due to the 2@'s out there, but normally I would remove the bucket first.
As I didn't leave my number, he had to resort to calling an assortment of 0898 lines to try and trace the call. Or that's what he said, as he tried to hide the 17-foot long phone bill...
Moral of the story: call him, speak clearly, leave a number (preferably not a mobile!). Then expect him to get back to you at 2AM...
Ian
Thanks.
Have left answer phone message and also e-mail giving my home number. I understand he is busy and if he kept answering his phone he wouldn't get any work done. I asked when the best time would be to ring and also if he rang me I would call him straight back.
I assumed he would maybe take an hour out each day to deal with the answer phone/e-mail messages.
My latest plan is to pay him a visit and hope he is at the unit. So if you are online tonight Joolz I am going to ride across tommorrow on my push bike(75 mile round trip).Hope he takes pity on a fellow cyclist and offers me a cup of tea.
Alan
Have left answer phone message and also e-mail giving my home number. I understand he is busy and if he kept answering his phone he wouldn't get any work done. I asked when the best time would be to ring and also if he rang me I would call him straight back.
I assumed he would maybe take an hour out each day to deal with the answer phone/e-mail messages.
My latest plan is to pay him a visit and hope he is at the unit. So if you are online tonight Joolz I am going to ride across tommorrow on my push bike(75 mile round trip).Hope he takes pity on a fellow cyclist and offers me a cup of tea.
Alan
Hi alan .. got the messages .. just don't get the time to reply.
today I have : been to doncater to collect a car at a pre-arranged time and the owner wasn't there, two hours wasted!
waited for the courier.
chased around to get some discs across to portugal, international phone calls and then the person phones to say he's sourced some over there. argh! no money for me then.
chased up some poly bushes. and some early griff springs.
ordered two sets of suspension.
spent another 4 hours trying to sort a bloody water leak for the fourth time on a cerbie that stands out all the time. time and money down the drain.
delivered a car to sheffield - I did allow myself a coffee at my sis' house though.
made a new tracking gauge.
talked a guy through getting into his alarm-faulty cerbie.
talked a guy through why he shouldn't buy a tuscan.
talked a guy through why his tuscan feels more unstable than his cerbie.
played with my MBE mapping software.
fitted two upper ball joints to a chimaera, set suspension, did road test and delivered to owner.
it's almost nine o'clock pm and I'm just having a coffee before starting the last 3 hours up to midnight when I'll go home ready to start at 8 am tomorrow.
And tomorrow it gets busy!!!
today I have : been to doncater to collect a car at a pre-arranged time and the owner wasn't there, two hours wasted!
waited for the courier.
chased around to get some discs across to portugal, international phone calls and then the person phones to say he's sourced some over there. argh! no money for me then.
chased up some poly bushes. and some early griff springs.
ordered two sets of suspension.
spent another 4 hours trying to sort a bloody water leak for the fourth time on a cerbie that stands out all the time. time and money down the drain.
delivered a car to sheffield - I did allow myself a coffee at my sis' house though.
made a new tracking gauge.
talked a guy through getting into his alarm-faulty cerbie.
talked a guy through why he shouldn't buy a tuscan.
talked a guy through why his tuscan feels more unstable than his cerbie.
played with my MBE mapping software.
fitted two upper ball joints to a chimaera, set suspension, did road test and delivered to owner.
it's almost nine o'clock pm and I'm just having a coffee before starting the last 3 hours up to midnight when I'll go home ready to start at 8 am tomorrow.
And tomorrow it gets busy!!!
Joolz, I'm pleased that your busy, but from your list of work, you actually only managed 1 job - the chim's ball joints.
Do you have an assistant? I reckon it would be more cost effective for the assistant to do the running around collecting cars, phone calls etc. and you do what your best at - working on the motors and raking in the cash.
Of course - any shitty jobs that comes up on a car - you can get the assistant to do that and you just "supervise"
Do you have an assistant? I reckon it would be more cost effective for the assistant to do the running around collecting cars, phone calls etc. and you do what your best at - working on the motors and raking in the cash.
Of course - any shitty jobs that comes up on a car - you can get the assistant to do that and you just "supervise"
Yeah but it's got to be better than working 16 hour days and only get one job done.
You do have to find the right person but once you have and can trust them to do things like ordering parts and delivering cars. You then get more work done, hence more money, and some sort of life outside work as well.
You do have to find the right person but once you have and can trust them to do things like ordering parts and delivering cars. You then get more work done, hence more money, and some sort of life outside work as well.
icamm said:
You do have to find the right person but once you have and can trust them to do things like ordering parts and delivering cars.
You couldn't get an apprentice for that - wonder what it costs to put a 19 year old on trade insurance for a TVR garage? Added to that, you've got to find someone you can trust not to drive valued customers' cars like a tw@t.
I could do it Joolz! Promise I'd be good!What you really need is someone who wants to know more about TVR's and is after more work experience this year... ...so would be working for free.
Will get in touch after my test...
Edited to say: obviously wouldnt be able to drive customers cars, but would provide an extra pair of hands.
>> Edited by BCA on Friday 14th February 22:45
Will get in touch after my test...
Edited to say: obviously wouldnt be able to drive customers cars, but would provide an extra pair of hands.
>> Edited by BCA on Friday 14th February 22:45
What you need is a guy who's taken early retirement and is looking for a way to earn pin money and stay the hell away from his wife for a few hours a day
rude girl said: You couldn't get an apprentice for that - wonder what it costs to put a 19 year old on trade insurance for a TVR garage? Added to that, you've got to find someone you can trust not to drive valued customers' cars like a tw@t.
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