Sent my car to get new plugs and a valve cover gasket a few months ago. Today I had the hood up looking at an unrelated issue and saw some problems. On the passenger side of the intake there is a rather stout metal bracket with power steering lines. It is considerably far away from the brass insert in the intake. On the driver side nothing is bolted in that hole either. Also, the air filter housing is up about an inch or so--is something missing or did it just not get rotated before they clamped it? I also found a wire laying on the heat shield over the manifold, instead of being clipped where it should have been. Could I trouble someone to take a pic of your car showing how these items should be properly hooked up?

 

pics of the problems

 

another pic

 

 

 

Thanks for the pictures! Pretty much what I thought. I found all this and more left as a mess on mine while searching for a water leak. I sent the car to a different shop for a water pump and informed the previous shops owner. He went to inspect the sloppy work and apologized, paid the other shop to fix this and the other issues we found.

 

That worked out great.