Bolt in the static pipe
Following a 50 hour at a maintenance facility I don't use any more(!!!), my mate was plagued by low suction (oh well - it happens to us all........!).
For convenience he took the aircraft, a Cherokee, elsewhere to have the fault looked into . The fault was quickly found to be a bolt - presumably used temporarily blank one of the static pipes(not sure of the exact detail) - that had not been subsequently removed.
All the original facility would do was give his letters a stiff ignoring, refuse to return the bolt and spread it around that my mate (a professional honest as the day is long sort of a bloke) had put it in there in an endeavour to avoid paying the bill.
In reality, all he wanted them to do was deduct the bill for the investigation/ remedial work from their 50-hour invoice.
This is the same M3 facility that stiffed me for a new oil cooler - one that miraculously failed catastrophicaly (a 20ft oil slick) during the post 50-hour ground run - and decided to chuck the old one (200 hours from new) away before anybody (the CAA and the manufacturer for example?) could take a look.
Guess what response I have got to my letters?
Yep - a stiff ignoring.
HP