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Warning: My neighbor's old dryer taught me a lesson about assumptions
I was fixing her 15 year old Kenmore and she said 'it's just a noise, but it's the only thing I have left from my mom.' I spent an extra hour checking every roller and belt, not just the obvious ones, and found a cracked idler pulley I would have missed. When do you slow down for the 'just a noise' jobs?
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quinn6061d ago
That line about it being "the only thing I have left from my mom" would get me too. I'm usually the guy who hears "just a noise" and thinks "yeah, it'll be fine for another six months." But man, I learned my lesson after I rushed a fix on my own car's weird squeak and the wheel bearing basically exploded a week later on the highway. Now I at least try to listen a little harder when someone says that, lol.
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ryant501d ago
Yeah that wheel bearing story is a real wake up call. I had a similar thing with a clunking sound I ignored on my old truck. Turned out to be a loose control arm, and the whole thing just dropped on me while I was pulling into a parking lot. Cost me way more than if I'd just checked it out when I first heard it.
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