Funniest Repair Orders you've seen?

[LIMA BEAN]

For something like the engine that is a retarded way to do it.

I also maintain that the only fill port on a transmission being the dipstick tube is equally retarded. Filling a fluid through the same tube you use to check the level is just flat out dumb.

But women use the same tube for drain and refill, works pretty good for them

 

[MrRangerSir]

Back in the 90's I managed a shop that installed mobile cellphones, (remember those?). Customers were always trying to blame vehicle damage on my installers.

Sales department had this woman with huge coochies and she knew how to use them. Very good at selling phones, but no respect for her coworkers. She brings a customer back with a new Navigator. Vehicle pulls into the garage and a few minutes later, the tech comes up to me to report existing damage on the front bumper. Damage noted and he proceeded with his work. Of course, when the customer picked up the vehicle, he was furious about the damage on his new truck and the well endowed salesgirl came back to chew us out. No amount of reasoning was going to shut her up, so I took her outside to where the customer had parked his truck and showed her the perfect impression of the front bumper in the snowbank in the parking lot. Her last words on the incident? "Well, I still don't understand why you can't just take responsibility for this". All this and she had not even dyed her hair blonde!

 

[93 Ohio Ranger]

A person asked why there was tranny fluid leaking, the pan was held on with a set of clamps and a few of the bolts......

Or someone asked why engine was making noise, bone dry on oil.

Or the funny part, whys my car loud, the whole exhaust was hanging down..

 

[adsm08]

Got two today.

First one is not mine. One of the other guys put an EGR cooler and a few other things on a 6.7 what was loosing coolant because Ford told him to even though he was pretty sure it was head gaskets. Shipped it. Today it got towed back. Customer said "Now it's leaking engine parts". Put a rod through the block.


Next one, the RO wasn't funny as much as the findings.

C/S Fuel gauge does not read correctly: I followed the test out to the part where you have to take the pump out and check the resistor card. I pulled the pump out and it was the wrong shape. Don't ask me how, but he managed to BEND the FUEL PUMP. Tank did not appear damaged.

 

[K.Strong]

Not car related but still funny.

Lady comes in with her Blackberry, goes off on this huge rant about how much she hates it and how she was "pressured" into getting it. She says she wants to cancel the contract. Pull up her account to see the phone is about 7 months old(you have 14 days to cancel). I explain to her that she cant cancel unless she wants to pay the fee to. She flips, says "well I read online that you can cancel within the first year for a full cash refund!!!!" She was so positive just because she read it online that it was right and I had no idea what I was talking about.

There is about 15 more minutes of trying to explain this to her that I don't want to type out.

 

[kcm1582]

A few days ago I had a good one. An old Integra came in with an exhaust leak. Apparently the owner and his friends put a performance exhaust manifold and muffler on the car. The manifold was sealed to the block with rtv, the triangular manifold to cat gasket was installed 180 degrees off so none of the bolts were holding it only the clamping of the pipes and more rtv. And somehow they couldn't find the dime sized hole on the mid pipe right in front of the new muffler.

 

[Colin]

A few days ago I had a good one. An old Integra came in with an exhaust leak. Apparently the owner and his friends put a performance exhaust manifold and muffler on the car. The manifold was sealed to the block with rtv, the triangular manifold to cat gasket was installed 180 degrees off so none of the bolts were holding it only the clamping of the pipes and more rtv. And somehow they couldn't find the dime sized hole on the mid pipe right in front of the new muffler.

 

[cookiemonster]

i just had this lady come into the shop the other day to have her car towed..... she said she needs it towed to the shop because it wont start. So i go tow the car in get it into the shop and couldn't find the keys for it.....called the ladie up and she said thats the reason her car won't start....because she cant find her keys.....FML!!!

 

[triumphrider-1]

Seriously?

Was she a blonde?

 

[88ranger89camaro]

I remember back when I worked at a service station, a guy came in and said

"Can you check my transmitten fluid?"

 

[kryptonitecb]

To add to the AZ stories, I had a CUCV Blazer, horrible waste of money and I no longer have it. Well I here about how you can rig up the glowplugs with a ford solenoid, I think easy day. So I head to AZ and while waiting in line I over hear the guy in front of me. He complains how he's replaced the entire intake with new parts. I chime in asking what happens. He says the car turns on but when you give it gas it dies. The cashier butts in asking if he had replaced the carb. I talk over the cashier and ask if the guy replaced his fuel filter. The guy hadn't, it was a $15 filter after buying a few hundred in "recommended" parts. So now its my turn

Cashier:what year?
Me: it doesn't matter
Cashier: ok....what model is the vehicle
Me:a blazer but I need a solenoid from any ford vehicle
Cashier: ok so what year blazer
Me: .....no I need a ford solenoid
Cashier: sir is this for a ford or chevy?
Me: ...chevy....no no no its for a Ford
Cashier: ok what year
Me: (at this point I look past him at the shelf) look man which one of your shelves has solenoids on it?
Cashier: the parts are mixed I need to know what vehicle this is going on
Me: have a good day, bye
I drove 5 min to O'Reilly's and told the guy what I wanted. He didn't look anything up, just took a step over to a shelf behind him, peered in a box and handed it to me. "This what you want?"
Took me longer to drive to O'Reilly's than to find the part I wanted. AZ no longer gets my business.

Sent from the road while ignoring traffic

 

[killj0y]

For something like the engine that is a retarded way to do it.

I also maintain that the only fill port on a transmission being the dipstick tube is equally retarded. Filling a fluid through the same tube you use to check the level is just flat out dumb.

i agree with both these comments, I post on e46fanatics because of my wifes bmw and a lot of guys there do it that way...its freaking stupid leaves all the crud at the bottom!

 

[adsm08]

Today

"Front seems hot". It was a typo of course, but it made us all laugh for a while.

 

[Twister]

To add to the AZ stories, I had a CUCV Blazer, horrible waste of money and I no longer have it. Well I here about how you can rig up the glowplugs with a ford solenoid, I think easy day. So I head to AZ and while waiting in line I over hear the guy in front of me. He complains how he's replaced the entire intake with new parts. I chime in asking what happens. He says the car turns on but when you give it gas it dies. The cashier butts in asking if he had replaced the carb. I talk over the cashier and ask if the guy replaced his fuel filter. The guy hadn't, it was a $15 filter after buying a few hundred in "recommended" parts. So now its my turn

Cashier:what year?
Me: it doesn't matter
Cashier: ok....what model is the vehicle
Me:a blazer but I need a solenoid from any ford vehicle
Cashier: ok so what year blazer
Me: .....no I need a ford solenoid
Cashier: sir is this for a ford or chevy?
Me: ...chevy....no no no its for a Ford
Cashier: ok what year
Me: (at this point I look past him at the shelf) look man which one of your shelves has solenoids on it?
Cashier: the parts are mixed I need to know what vehicle this is going on
Me: have a good day, bye
I drove 5 min to O'Reilly's and told the guy what I wanted. He didn't look anything up, just took a step over to a shelf behind him, peered in a box and handed it to me. "This what you want?"
Took me longer to drive to O'Reilly's than to find the part I wanted. AZ no longer gets my business.

Sent from the road while ignoring traffic

You must have some really special people working at the AZ near you, a few of the people at the one by me know what they are talking about. They helped me chase down a charging issue once. I wont set foot in an oreilys near me, everything is locked up in cages and the people are dumb.

 

[gribly]

I got in an argument with a guy at NAPA one day - he kept insisting I was wrong to want the larger 8.8 bearings for my Navajo. I can't remember now how I convinced the guy to let me buy them, but it was rediculous. I still shop there, though.