We had this bus come in. The customer said that she is going on a road trip at the end of the week and that she wants a to make sure she is all set, she also noted that her exhaust was broken and needed a new one  

The owner decided on just putting on a new exhaust. Also doing a drain and fill(oil change), spark plugs and a fuel filter 

This week we had a 2003 Euro Van come in because the owners wanted to start getting into camping and wanted us to do a look over and make sure it was all good. 

So we ended up doing sparkplugs and coils, ball joints, fuel filter, and remounting the transmission cooler to the front where the radiator sits 

I started with doing the plugs and coils because they were going to be the fastest. after doing that i did the ball joint because that would take me a little bit longer because i had to disconnect the strut and sway bar end link and the control arm. After that i did the fuel filter. then thew transmission cooler 

The transmission cooler was a the hardest thing to do because we had to take out the old one. That used engine coolant to cool the transmission and run the new lines to the front mounted cooler. The we finished that and sent the car home.

The first week was really fun i learned a lot and got to get to know more about the people i would be working with till June 7th. I hope to work with them for long because so far i really love the environment. 

On the first day I really didn't know if i should show up early or hoe strict about long hair the owner was going to be so in the morning i put it up just to be safe. What i worked on was a Subaru that was just getting a service, with sparkplugs. The spark plug were a little tricky on this because they were on the sides near the firewalls. When i saw service the shop will change oil, add any fluids that look a little low. We also add washer fluid, and check all tire pressure and tread left. We would also look at how much brake pad is left and note it down for the customer. The owner usually leaves early on Mondays and Wednesdays at 2. So i just hanged around helping out the other guys.

The second day we had that interesting Tiguan come in. 

And for the rest of the week i just helped out where i was needed to knock out some car to make room in the lot. for the appointments that were coming in the next days. 

The shop had a newer Volkswagen Tiguan come. Customer said that when driving it was shifting hard from first to second. At first we thought it was the transmission.

After we drove it we knew that it was not the transmission. We parked it in one of the bays and scanned the car, it was a misfire in cylinder 2. Our first move to diagnose the issue was to swap the coil and plug into another cylinder then, turn it on and see if the misfire follows. If it does then its either the coils or plugs. But believe it or not it did not follow. 

So after then we did a compression test. after we did that we saw that there was 10psi compression in there. so we tested another cylinder to make sure our machine was reading correctly, and we got 210psi in that one. 

So after that we did a leak down test to see where the compression was going. So we pumped 100psi of air into the cylinder at top dead center to make sure we had a sealed cylinder with no open valves. We saw that the cylinder held none of the air so that means that it could wither be going out the intake, into the crankcase, or the exhaust. If it went out the exhaust then we had an exhaust leak easy fix. If it went out the intake then we have an leak another easy fix. If it went into the crankcase as so it did then we either had a hole in the piston or a broken ring. And the car would either need a new engine or a full bottom end rebuild. 

So we basically told the guy to go trade in his car and get a new one.