Own a Fiero, Learn to be a Mechanic (Page 1/1)
imacflier JUN 18, 09:38 AM
G'Morning, All

Just a note to all you new/inexperienced owners:

Go to YouTube and search for andy's garage fiero

Keep scrolling down for related content.

Andy does a nice job on some basic work every owner needs to be able to do. I came on him while looking for a picture of the physical location of the V6 fuel filter, and there he was changing it out, complete with listing the tools required.

Spend a minute and take a look.

Regards to all,

Larry
Notorio JUN 18, 11:49 AM
Thanks for posting that Larry. This is an excellent resource with over 30 Fiero episodes as of today. It has already saved me the trouble of locating the Tach Filter
Patrick JUN 18, 03:49 PM

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Originally posted by imacflier:

Go to YouTube and search for andy's garage fiero



Or click Here.
Dennis LaGrua JUN 18, 05:33 PM
I checked out Andys Garage videos and while they are a good resource for the amateur, some of them leave out critical steps in the parts replacement process. For instance on his IAC replacement video, he omits the critical step of how to adjust the pintle valve.

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cmechmann JUN 18, 11:01 PM
OK I have to say something here.
Where I work we do see a fair amount of Classic and rare cars. Today I worked on a 1968 Jaguar E type 4.2. The owner has a few other obscure cars.
Last week I serviced his 1953 Citroen Traction Avant . 2 weeks ago his Lancia Scorpion.
Almost 5 years ago new owners had bought the shop. As a welcome token to employees, the owners had an invite for us to a private meeting at the Bunting car collection. We were greeted by George L. Bunting, Jr. This family was the owners of Noxell until they sold it to Proctor and Gamble. He met us outside his house and we followed him to the building that housed the collection. He had to be in his 70s or better. This collection has to be worth in the 100s of millions of dollars. Just some examples. BMW M1, LaFerrari, Ford GT, Toyota 2000GT. And if not more than a 50 cars of the same caliper or rareness.

Now I realize that there is a big disposable funds difference between those 2 people. And I am sure Mr Bunting has any important work done a specialty shops.

The first guy. Other than check the oil and maybe put air in the tires, He doesn't do much else to the cars. Once he had brought in older Alpha Romeo he had recently bought in we had to inform him that we could not even put it up on a lift due to the extreme rust issues. He didn't believe us until we put it on an alignment rack to show him. So his is not looking these car over before buying them, or just doesn't know what to look for. He seems to buy them for the "WOW" factor: He always does minimal work to the cars. Complains about pricing. Our rates are even for the area. And we let him bring his parts because of the rarity of some of the cars. By the conditions we see that he is not maintaining them even for stored conditions. You just can't cover them up. Batteries need to be kept tendered, Fluids changed, scheduled start ups, scheduled fluid checks and changes and periodic drives.
Well the paint on most looks good.
On the Jaguar and the Lancia had to replace slave cylinders due to the moisture in the fluid rusting the bottom of the bores and both were leaking. The Lancia slave cylinder gave out just as he was dropping the car off at the shop. He didn't want brake flushes. If you can't afford it, you reduce the number of cars you need to care for.
This is not how we would like to make our income.
We have other customers that bring in their older, classic, rare cars. They know what they have. They know what needs to be done. And bring them to us when they feel that the work needed is out of their mechanical realm. And we applaud them.

Now when we met Mr.Bunting, we were a group of 9 people. This was not a normal showing. Not in the normal showing times. So we had the chance to see some things and ask that more don't have a chance to. When he opened up the building he had to do a few things. So he asked us to look around while got busy. We gave him a hand with a few things. We hand moved a few cars around so they could be worked on latter. He checked each car. Looking under around and in. Checking different cars battery tenders. He had a set up where they would be on alternating schedules of checks. After about an hour and a half, he was done and started explaining how things are kept up. Him and his sons and other friends help maintain the cars they can and others are sent out to specific shops across the country. The building had an attached shop where there was one car in for maintenance, and another getting ready to be sent out for paint work. He has stated that he has personally driven every car. And the cars are routinely driven. We then went to his personal collection of Supercars. He drives those regularly.
The point is that is how it should be done. Granted he can afford the collection. However, if you are going to own an older, classic or rare car, learn how to care for it. Get something that is not above your means. Even if it ends up a garage queen, it still needs care.
Notorio JUN 18, 11:32 PM

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Originally posted by cmechmann:

Just some examples. BMW M1, LaFerrari, Ford GT, Toyota 2000GT. And if not more than a 50 cars of the same caliper or rareness ...




Gee, I was hoping you were going to tell us his Collection included a really rare ... Fiero
fierobug20 JUN 23, 06:48 AM
Thanks Patrick. I need all the help I can get!