Funniest Repair Orders you've seen?

[LearjetMinako]

Sometimes it is spooky what you can find in a customer's vehicle. Had one for a simple rotate & balance. Nothing with that, its just all the revolver parts just laying around with dashboard and floor. There was even some live rounds on the floor. All I could think of is that there must be a complete revolver somewhere in the cab. If not, I could probably build one from all the parts.

 

[mwood1985]

stuff in cars

Sometimes it is spooky what you can find in a customer's vehicle. Had one for a simple rotate & balance. Nothing with that, its just all the revolver parts just laying around with dashboard and floor. There was even some live rounds on the floor. All I could think of is that there must be a complete revolver somewhere in the cab. If not, I could probably build one from all the parts.

i work at pull a part so whatever i find in cars i get to keep. so far ive got two remington shotguns an 870 and a 11-87 a browning deer rifle and three pistols out of junk cars. one of the shotguns was rusted to hell but i think i can fix it. one of the pistols i had to turn in(ruger single six .22- filed serial number) the second was a Colt 1911 from 1923 that ones good . 3rd pistol was burnt. the rifle was in the case and spotless its in my cabinet pending a day that i can put the dogs and shotguns up and get in a stand to hunt deer instead of running dogs. no telling what else might show up we found a ladies cremated remains one day..creepy. porns pretty common. i did get a 200 north face internal frame backpack out on a jeep still had store tags on it

 

[Shoeboy]

I had one this morning, customer complaint was whenever he put the window down the power seat would move and crush him up against the steering wheel, and whenever the window went up the seat would move back to where it was before hand. I tried the switch and nothing happened, so i decided to check the schematics to see if the two ran on a common setup, they didn't, completely different, nothing even close to sharing wiring (which I kind of assumed but wanted to verify). Since the customer was still in the shop, I asked him to show me the problem, so he sat in the truck and pushed the button and sure enough the seat moved. The seat moved because when he pushed down, his knuckle also hit the "Driver 1" button, and when he hit up, his knuckle would hit the "Driver 2" button. It never used to do that until his daughter started driving and set "Driver 1" for herself and "Driver 2" for him, when before they were both set the same.

 

[That Baker Guy]

i work at pull a part so whatever i find in cars i get to keep. so far ive got two remington shotguns an 870 and a 11-87 a browning deer rifle and three pistols out of junk cars. one of the shotguns was rusted to hell but i think i can fix it. one of the pistols i had to turn in(ruger single six .22- filed serial number) the second was a Colt 1911 from 1923 that ones good . 3rd pistol was burnt. the rifle was in the case and spotless its in my cabinet pending a day that i can put the dogs and shotguns up and get in a stand to hunt deer instead of running dogs. no telling what else might show up we found a ladies cremated remains one day..creepy. porns pretty common. i did get a 200 north face internal frame backpack out on a jeep still had store tags on it

thats awesome, i wish i worked for pull apart i would have so much crap layn around, i bet its fun too.

 

[mentalbreakdown00]

Ive had a few in my shop, one I hit a small opossum and now it smells horrible, it was 2 days ago when I hit it. Next was a missfire, but I heard a wierd squeak when I started it this morning. That one was a squirrell aparantely bit into the plug wire as he went to start it, and fired squirrell it was.

 

[mwood1985]

thats awesome, i wish i worked for pull apart i would have so much crap layn around, i bet its fun too.

fun.. not when i actually have to work but let me out back to get parts and that 50% off everything is nice

 

[AgPete139]

2 hours ago, I go to Autozone to rent a slide hammer.

ME: "I'm here to rent a slide hammer?"

A-zone: (looks directly at his computer screen.) "What year?"

ME: "It's not for a car. It's a tool you can rent."

A-zone: "From us?" (astonished look on his face) (Why else would I be there?)

ME: (I nod.) "Yea. It's used to pull parts with, and for dent removal."

A-zone: "There's a junkyard down on Memorial Ave. where you can do that." (You-Pull-It)


ME: I asked to see the chart with the tool pictures listed. They don't have those charts?! I got in another line with another employee.


The Employee #1 comes and gives me an attitude, and then Employee #2 assists me.

Employee #2: *chuckles* He's new from 2 months ago.


HOLY CRAP ! And why was I not hired a couple years ago when I applied to work there?

At my job I heard the parts guy on the phone with someone needing a sway bar for their car. Except they called it a torsion bar... and it was the rear sway bar... the parts guy has got to be a psychic or something to figure out what half these people need.

For the record, the sway bars ARE called "torsion bars" as well. They do undergo torsional (think rotational) stress since it's connected to the lower control arms and the body when cornering. The forces on each side work to counteract & decrease body roll. Sway or anti-sway is the more frequently-used, common terminology.

My non-car guy buddy called me one day...I then watch him shift the transfer case from low to high as he says "see what I mean?".......

Ha. Awesome.

Had a kid come in the shop the other day with the 3.8 v6 mustangs. He was complaining that his mustang sounded like crud with flowmasters and couldn't keep up with mustangs he tried to race. I tried to keep a straight face and explain to him those were 8 cylinders and he had a six cylinder. Punch line... He asked how much for two more cylinders. Had to teach an automotive lesson at work lol

Dumbass. I hope he continues to get spanked and feel like an inadequate driver forever.


This thread is great, and I want to comment on each one (but I won't whore).

 

[RedneckSTX]

Back when I was still roofing I was sent out to a womans house to fix a roof leak, when I got there I asked her to show me where it leaked through into the house at, after she showed me the water stain on the ceiling in the kitchen, she proceeded to tell me "its not leaking now, it only leaks when it is raining outside"

 

[LearjetMinako]

Back when I was still roofing I was sent out to a womans house to fix a roof leak, when I got there I asked her to show me where it leaked through into the house at, after she showed me the water stain on the ceiling in the kitchen, she proceeded to tell me "its not leaking now, it only leaks when it is raining outside"

. Common sense, right?

 

[OilPatch197]

2 hours ago, I go to Autozone to rent a slide hammer.

AutoZone is loosing me as a customer, we used to shop there when the stores were new, it's like in the past three years AutoZone is going to the Crapper. They used to have competitive prices, a good place to get oil and filters, but now why bother.


IMO *NO* change in the cash registers! IMO the few times I have been in Autozones, it's like, "dude got a penny?"

O'Riley's and NAPA are winning me over big time(they even have stools you can SIT on while THEY look up the parts, the complete opposite of AZ- I almost blew a gasket when they pointed the computer toward YOU, like WTF!), and I like CarQuest, but finding one is tough.

I like buying parts from places that KNOW about the products they sell, because of the lack of knowledge, yeah I don't expect AutoZone Personnel to talk me thru a task,

but I DO, and I DEMAND the personnel know **SOMETHING** ABOUT WHAT THEY SELL. novel Ideal here.

The only thing I buy from AZ anymore is Master(Airtex) Fuel pumps, cause they are made in USA and My Father is employed by them.

 

[crx81]

I don't have any auto stories, but I was a Xerox technician for 7 years.

I had one customer complaining because the bypass paper tray didn't work. When I took it apart, I found that it had strips of bacon jammed in it.

I had another customer who, as we were walking across the warehouse to the machine, was explaining to me that the machine wouldn't feed 11X17 paper. I stopped dead in my tracks (half-way to the machine) and said, "That's because you don't have the 11X17 paper tray loaded in the machine!" (I could tell from that far away.)

My final story is an office full of anti-men type women who called complaining that the copier kept jamming. When I arrived, the one woman stated very loudly that the machine "must be a man, because it doesn't work!" After finding the only problem was that the paper was all loaded skewed and crumpled, I informed her that the only problem was the "WOMAN who loaded the paper!" She was quite embarassed and was nice as pie from that day forward!

 

[adsm08]

This one was more a dumb writer than a dumb customer (not that the customer was too bright either).

Line 1: Customer states that car is missing.
My response: Well how am I supposed to do lines 2-4 if I you can't find the car, and how much are you gonna pay me to go look for it?

He of course meant that it had a misfire.

Then there was the time the used car manager complained about an auction car he'd just brought back. "Radio lights get dim when headlights are on."

 

[GoodOld85BlueBalls]

One of our operations personell filled out a work order on a engine to change one sparkplug. ONLY "ONE" SPARKPLUG!!!! It had completly droped out and he kept running the engine on only 11 cylinders. In the time it took him to log on the computer, navigate his way to the correct form, fill out the form, e-mail the form, call his supervisor to tell him he sent the form, the have the supervisor chew his @ss for not changing it himself, he could have had it changed out 3+ times! What a freaking moron!

 

[LearjetMinako]

I remember this thread. Too bad I'm no longer an automotive tech. I would have kept them coming. But now I get to share stories of a 3:00am stocker.

 

[Beanmachine7000]

AutoZone is loosing me as a customer, we used to shop there when the stores were new, it's like in the past three years AutoZone is going to the Crapper. They used to have competitive prices, a good place to get oil and filters, but now why bother.


IMO *NO* change in the cash registers! IMO the few times I have been in Autozones, it's like, "dude got a penny?"

O'Riley's and NAPA are winning me over big time(they even have stools you can SIT on while THEY look up the parts, the complete opposite of AZ- I almost blew a gasket when they pointed the computer toward YOU, like WTF!), and I like CarQuest, but finding one is tough.

I like buying parts from places that KNOW about the products they sell, because of the lack of knowledge, yeah I don't expect AutoZone Personnel to talk me thru a task,

but I DO, and I DEMAND the personnel know **SOMETHING** ABOUT WHAT THEY SELL. novel Ideal here.

The only thing I buy from AZ anymore is Master(Airtex) Fuel pumps, cause they are made in USA and My Father is employed by them.

I just had this problem at our local AZ... Asked to see if they had an exploded diagram of the rear suspension of both a Z28 and V6 Camaro, to see if the rear axles were interchangeable, then to be told by the desk clerk, that "the gear ratios are different and I would blow it up because of that"... Then asked to see if they had a RR axle shaft for the Z28 and V6 to see if the part numbers matched, only to be told again, that "the gear ratios would be way different and if I tried doing that, that I would blow up my rear axle"... I tried explaining that it was THE EXACT SAME REAR AXLE IN BOTH CARS, but he didn't understand that...