Ever since having the transmission fixed, the car has had what seemed to be a slightly low idle, it would idle smooth but was causing the car to vibrate as if it had solid enough mounts. Blip the throttle a tad and it would smooth out. Today I took the car to Hills Garage to have some new tires mounted and asked him to see if he could bump the idle a bit since it seemed too low. As soon as he got in the car he said the idle looked fine but the car felt weird, as if an engine mount is broke/missing/not installed correctly.
He put the car up on the lift and noticed right away that on the lower mount you could see where the bolt was before, now its moved over little bit causing the mount to hold the transmission/engine a bit low on the front side. He loosened the mount, lifted it and tightened the bolt down where the old marks had it.
He then looked at the motor from the top side, one of the bolts for the mounts were sticking up a tad bit. Wasn't sitting flush with the mount. He went to remove the bolt and noticed it took very little effort to remove it. Once it was out he noticed why it wasn't sitting flush, they added a washer to it. The bolts have built in washers so its pretty weird to find a washer on a washer.
Once the bolt was in his hands it was clear something was wrong. Looks like the bolt was too long, so they added a washer to add some length, on top of that it was still too long so they ground down the bolt a bit, on top of that there wasn't enough threads on the bolt so they went and made some new threads.
Why?
2 guesses.
1. Lost the bolt and grabbed what they could find and made it work.
2. Put a shorter bolt into another mount and the longer bolt went into this one.... Rather then back track to the correct bolt they just made it work.
I'd bring this up with Honda of Annapolis but I'm sure it's my fault.
I will forward this to HoA and see if they care at all, but I doubt they will.
My advice to everyone, if you're going to get work done on your car, take it to jiffy lube or any other shaddy places, at least you know from the get go to double check their work. Why get a false sense of having the car in the right hands when clearly dealerships are no better then the quick lube places.
Big thanks for
Nissan and Infiniti mechanic in Baltimore for making our car run smooth again.