Hilarity aside it
is worth pointing out that so called 'experts' in their field are just as capable as doling out 'crap' advice as the rest of us;
As anecdotal evidence I offer the example of the car my Ex and I used to own; now this is going back some 12+ years to when we had a 'breathed on' Opel Manta GTE, and like all Mantas the windscreen rubber leaked so that the water got under the carpets and rotted the floor pans (note for our younger members: unlike the cars of today, which are made of metal that doesn't rust, cars used to be made of something akin to compressed cardboard that dissolved when it got wet!).
I took the car along to a young local mechanic who had his own business; he was following in his fathers' footsteps but being brainy as well has good with his hands had gone to Uni first and qualified as an
Engineer ( :shock: ) in metallurgy and God knows what (I myself only have an OND; could have had an HND but only three of us wanted to enroll and they wouldn't run the course for just the three of us...
)
Anyway, he took one look at said car with terminal rot in the floor, said 'Yeah, I can sort that' and promptly fabricated two new floor pans; and things of beauty they were too.
He was also an MoT Tester so was quite happy to certificate his own work.
Fast forward 18 months and the other half is now Ex#3 and takes said car for it's MoT, somewhere else. The Tester takes one look at the underside of the car and tells Ex#3 that she's lucky she's still alive as the seats could have fallen through the bottom of the car at any time! She promptly scraps said car and phone's me up to lambast me for endangering her and her daughters' lives...
...
'But you know damn well that the car had two new floor pans welded in from the inside; you saw the car when it had the interior stripped out completely, you saw the new pans before the interior went back in. You've just scrapped a perfectly good car!'
'Oh yeah...' :facepalm:
That's the difference between an Engineer who knows what he's doing and how to do it...
...and a well-meaning 'Expert' in his field :roll:
