AA mechanic......car grinds to a halt just leaving a roundabout,crunching noise from engine. calls AA, man turns turns up wiff his little van. i tell him what happened and ask fer a tow home(about 4 miles) as something in the engine has come loose and any attempt at starting it will result in more damage. AA man ( i can't use the wurd mechanic to describe him) gives me one of them looks that say " what the **** do you know).
then proceeds to try and start it, all the while am listening to the noise of valve train getting destroyed and pistons getting blottered. he even goes as far as taking the air cleaner orf and stickin his untrained hand over the intake before he says "something has broke inside the engine best i tow you home"
gets hoime and pulls head orf..........a valve head has dropped orf and bounced around inside the combustion chamber resulting in fooked piston, fooked head and a cracked block.
am straight on the phone to the AA and after 6 weeks and two letters from real lawyers i get a replacment engine.
RAC mechanic...... doosul nova wint start am in me best pants and vest so call RAC.. bloke turns up in his little van and trys it.. the fooker starts first time ( after ave bin trying fer ages) it just fired up as if fook all wur wrong..
so then RAC **** says yer clutch needs adjusting, which being a nice man he does... so 'her' drive nove back while i return in me other car. an hour after i get back phone goes, nova wint go. i says FFS and drives back up, i find 'her' at side of road with a nova that now has a burnt out clutch.. this only took 10 days to get replaced at RAC expense.
so yes they really know what they are doing..*
am sure some of them have some mechanical training but dint take it as fact just cos they drive a RAC or AA van that they have any clue at all