Yes, well.If I had gooder english skills I probly wouldn't be working in a parts store.
rlr29,
Aug 28, 8:41am
This one time, I was out drinking,thought I'd have a quick look at some car without being harassed, salesman pops out of nowhere and asks if he can help, was prepared to get the keys and start it up, at 11pm on a Saturday night.
rlr29,
Aug 28, 8:55am
Ask any well rounded sl*t where the access to her "Man Hole" is when trying to get into the ceiling of her house.
peter148,
Aug 28, 10:03am
My ex's father in Japan bought a Lexus 400 as a tax dodge for his various businesses.The car has been parked up and virtually never driven.
However he still gets the oil changed and all the other regular servicing done.
mrfxit,
Aug 28, 10:57am
So how would you have dealt with the Toyota/Daihatsu issue described above.
bjdw,
Aug 28, 6:47pm
If it is a Toyota rebadged as a Daihatsu then the Toyota engine number and year should give you the correct engine parts.BUT, there probably isn't an actual listing for that vehicle, I have to let the installer know this and he has to make the call about wether to install the part or not.
bjdw,
Aug 28, 6:58pm
^ If the mechanic knows that the part isn't listed for that vehicle it is up to him to decide to install it or not. No warranties apply if there is no listing.
mrfxit,
Aug 28, 7:06pm
What I was told at the time was that toyota did a deal with Daihatsu for Daihatsu to build that model van at their own plant. Some sort of reciprocal agreement, much the same that Austin had with Nissan.
bjdw,
Aug 28, 7:23pm
So we still don't know if it was a Daihatsu badged as a Toyota or a Toyota assembled by Daihatsu!
jswanny,
Aug 28, 7:32pm
Drive through at KFC "What flavour chockolate shake did you want"
mrfxit,
Aug 28, 7:44pm
Both apparently.(think about what you just said) When it was imported to NZ, the importer decided that it would sell better if badged as a Toyota, also apparently a very common trick in the early days of jap imports. "Licensed to build"I think is the phrase used in those days of brand manufacturing swapping. As I was told at the time, what was confirmed was that it was built by Daihatsu in japan "under licence" from Toyota, brought in japan by the importer as a "Daihatsu Delta Wide", imported to NZ, rebadged as a Toyota Townace Delta Wide & promptly sold. Somewhere in there was the fact it had Daihatsu part numbers but because it was an import (at that stage) & Daihatsu NZ couldn't do anything apart from confirm the story & that it had Daihatsu type part numbers but nothing lined up with the NZ data base.
mrfxit,
Aug 28, 7:54pm
It was a toyota built & badged as a Daihatsu BY Daihatsu JP / imported to NZ / rebadged as a Toyota by the NZ importer.
Remember Austin of England did the exact same thing just after WW2 with the Austin A40 Devon / Somerset & Farina licenced Nissan to build & badge as their own. The very 1stDatsun bluebird to come to NZ has Austin running gear. Never confirmed this but I think they had metric bolts.
Got told of an old army story many years ago from an army mechanic that had worked on a Sunderland flying boat after it had been recaptured from the Japs. The english & Yank mechanics couldn't work out why their spanners wouldn't fit ONE engine correctly but the other engine was fine, untill they checked the threads, 1 engine had imperial & the other was metric.
bjdw,
Aug 28, 8:02pm
So it sounds like it is a Dahatsu Delta with a Toyota badge on it.Even so the vin plate should have an engine code on it that should lead a parts man back to the daihatsu part.!
bjdw,
Aug 28, 8:11pm
Sounds like a real Frankenbeast, like a Cavalier but not
bjdw,
Aug 28, 8:47pm
Sorry, I've fallen off the wagon. .
mrfxit,
Aug 29, 7:15am
WAS a nice van till the front corners & the front floor joint rotted away. Might have to look in to "falling off the wagon" myself, after last nights episode with our teenagers at 1am, (with a 5am wake up for us & a 10 hr shift for the wife today)
paul271,
Aug 29, 9:58am
Had a customer come in a while back for a WOF, we failed her on a big rip in her seatbelt. I told her it failed and needed to be replaced. She wanted to know why it was a fail, so I told her that it could tear in an accident. She then told me deadpan that she wasnt planning on having an accident! brilliant.
mugenb20b,
Oct 5, 6:42pm
Yep, had plenty of those excuses myself, "no one ever sits in the back seat" stories. So, my reply is something along the lines of "I eat bacon, eggs and pies every day and I've never had a heart attack".
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