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Funniest Repair Orders you've seen?


I still like the K10 better than the F150 though, but thats because the K10 was beefy to begin with, haha.

You want to talk about tough Chevys? Try the K5 Blazer. My dad had an '87 that lasted New England winters as a plow truck.

I remember that truck well. It was the first vehicle I ever drove and the first vehicle I crashed. It was raining lightly, and I had just made a right turn. As I hit the gas, the back end snapped and I overcorrected. Ended up in a ditch hitting a maple tree. Drove the truck for about 6 months after that until it spun a rod bearing.
 
damn, thats tough, the K series was good in general =)
I like the older military style ones, we have an actual military K10 Blazer here that is still in service!
 
The truck would still be around if the effin' rust hadn't taken a toll on the tailgate support, frame, and floorboards.
 
The truck would still be around if the effin' rust hadn't taken a toll on the tailgate support, frame, and floorboards.

Spray all the metal with Rhino Liner!!! XD
 
so a few weeks ago a sold my gf '93 olds cutass for her, everything goes fine and shes happy with it. last week the guy that bought it calls me and and asks for some help changing out the ignition lock, with one he got from the junk yard, because he lost the keys, and he tried but says he cant get the old one out. so i head out his place with my steering wheel puller, my small box of tools, a power drill, and a drill set, thinking i was going to have to drill the lock.
when i get there i noticed a punch bit from an air hammer, a power drill with a LARGE wood auger bit in it, a flat head screwdriver, and get this.... a hatchet sitting on the passenger seat.then i see the large gaping hole that used to be the ignition lock, that looks like he had taken the sharp end of the hatchet to. nefless to say i passed on the job.
 
Not really a work order, but my mom just called me because she topped off the Escape's coolant bottle with Rainex washer fluid... I love my mom but :Facepalm:
 
Not really a work order, but my mom just called me because she topped off the Escape's coolant bottle with Rainex washer fluid... I love my mom but :Facepalm:

At least now the coolant will bead right up....Oh wait. :badidea:
 
heres mine. i work on cars and trucks and hopeuly getting a job in a garage somewhere. but we were putting new tires and rims on a f250 the rims were cheap(so were the tires) but they were directional so dipshit put them on back wards good thing i caught him dooing on the second tire, but then i told him the tires were upside down. it took him about 5 min ater looking to find out that isnt possible
 
customer complains that their vehicle wont start. Tech gets in the car and it starts right up. Customer says how did you do that? Tech replys, the clutch pedal must be pushed in to start the vehicle. ha ha ha
 
they guy who bought my moms old 93 2.3 with around 275,xxx miles called back complaining the truck had something wrong cuz it wouldnt go run more than 90 MPH...

Its a damn TRUCK!!!
 
kinda backwards, but here:

my Buddy (Brad), drives his ranger over to the ford dealership to get his transmission looked at "it wont go past 2nd gear, then it starts to drift into gears on its own", and the tech guy comes out and tells him he needs the key, so Brad jumps in his truck and pulls some wiring and it starts right up. The tech guy tells him he must have a key in order to work on the truck, he doesnt want stolen vehicles in the shop. (Note, Brad is a tech himself, not very bright, but knows his way around a vehicle enough to make it run, thats it though) Brad tells the owner to look in the bed, and sure enough, the key was welded to the bed. The tech asks him what anyone would... "Why???" all Brad told him was that it quit workin so he welded it to the bed so he could make a new one later on (just tacked it on there to keep from losin it apparently).

The tech goes over and pulls on the wire and pulls down the wire trying to start the truck again, and pulls the entire steering column down. Brad runs over helping him up, and tells him that he forgot to put that screw back in.

Now, when Brad got back about 3 hours later for his truck, his mom had to loan him nearly $500 for the cheap "fixes" he made himself.... they removed the key, and fixed the wires under the dash to the key-start (the neg. wire was not connected), put a screw in the dash where he had smashed the bottom of the dash before, so the screw held the entire unit up (this cost him like $20 in labor for ONE screw), and about 3 or 4 other part replacements later. Brad comes over and asks the tech "why did you fix everything??? "I just wanted the transmission fixed, and its still actin funny!" The tech laughs and tells him "Its not hard to master the automatic transmission, you just need to put in drive next time, and remove the parking brake!"

He thought his ranger was a standard....... like I said, not to bright.
 
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kinda backwards, but here:

my Buddy (Brad), drives his ranger over to the ford dealership to get his transmission looked at "it wont go past 2nd gear, then it starts to drift into gears on its own", and the tech guy comes out and tells him he needs the key, so Brad jumps in his truck and pulls some wiring and it starts right up. The tech guy tells him he must have a key in order to work on the truck, he doesnt want stolen vehicles in the shop. (Note, Brad is a tech himself, not very bright, but knows his way around a vehicle enough to make it run, thats it though) Brad tells the owner to look in the bed, and sure enough, the key was welded to the bed. The tech asks him what anyone would... "Why???" all Brad told him was that it quit workin so he welded it to the bed so he could make a new one later on (just tacked it on there to keep from losin it apparently).

The tech goes over and pulls on the wire and pulls down the wire trying to start the truck again, and pulls the entire steering column down. Brad runs over helping him up, and tells him that he forgot to put that screw back in.

Now, when Brad got back about 3 hours later for his truck, his mom had to loan him nearly $500 for the cheap "fixes" he made himself.... they removed the key, and fixed the wires under the dash to the key-start (the neg. wire was not connected), put a screw in the dash where he had smashed the bottom of the dash before, so the screw held the entire unit up (this cost him like $20 in labor for ONE screw), and about 3 or 4 other part replacements later. Brad comes over and asks the tech "why did you fix everything??? "I just wanted the transmission fixed, and its still actin funny!" The tech laughs and tells him "Its not hard to master the automatic transmission, you just need to put in drive next time, and remove the parking brake!"

He thought his ranger was a standard....... like I said, not to bright.

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is he still alive? its a miracle people like that wont kill themselves
 
i used to work at a marriott hotel here in town and i remember one night i gota WO in from the desk asking me to go assist a customer in calming down because he was paranoid that we installed cameras in the rooms and they were watching him.

well i went and checked it out, turns out, some one covered his ENTIRE room in sticky notes with his name on every one. so after having to call the cops to get the guy to calm down and running key code checks on the door lock. turns out it was his friends who played the pank, the guy was in ruins after it.

other strange orders ive had to deal with were commonly plugged toilet issues. one in piticular the lady caled in saying her toilet backed up, well i ran the snake and as it turns out, it appeared she flushed what loooked like an entire box of bloody tampons down the toilet, she didnt think i was a problem to flush all of that.... i had a few where people would flush towels and junk too...

and probably the strangest work order ive had was a complaint of a stinky room.... turns out the guest took a bunch of pain killers in the bath tub... a week before. ( if you can immagine how aweful of a stink that was)

also remember one time when rosy odonald stayed at the hotel a maid stole her camera... ahahah good times.
weird and scary, and some times excellent fun stuff happens in hotels.
 
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is he still alive? its a miracle people like that wont kill themselves

Yeah, actually, was with Jason today, and he loves puttin his little Focus into 1st, second, then drive, he really wants a standard, and does the gearing for fun sometimes, really makes a difference sometimes in acceleration. Terrible on the tranny though, and he knows it XD. He does it only when he feels the urge to, not overdoing it.

i used to work at a marriott hotel here in town and i remember one night i gota WO in from the desk asking me to go assist a customer in calming down because he was paranoid that we installed cameras in the rooms and they were watching him.

well i went and checked it out, turns out, some one covered his ENTIRE room in sticky notes with his name on every one. so after having to call the cops to get the guy to calm down and running key code checks on the door lock. turns out it was his friends who played the pank, the guy was in ruins after it.

other strange orders ive had to deal with were commonly plugged toilet issues. one in piticular the lady caled in saying her toilet backed up, well i ran the snake and as it turns out, it appeared she flushed what loooked like an entire box of bloody tampons down the toilet, she didnt think i was a problem to flush all of that.... i had a few where people would flush towels and junk too...

and probably the strangest work order ive had was a complaint of a stinky room.... turns out the guest took a bunch of pain killers in the bath tub... a week before. ( if you can immagine how aweful of a stink that was)

also remember one time when rosy odonald stayed at the hotel a maid stole her camera... ahahah good times.
weird and scary, and some times excellent fun stuff happens in hotels.

Yeah, no joke! I used to do some under-the-table work with them (when parents were gone, hehehe), but they hired me to clean up the rooms after the people left, I got to keep the stuff they left. I have found everything from used condoms to $300 gold watches.... guess which one I threw away? haha. It can be gross, but rewarding sometimes. I have been called in to warn people about a phsyco on the loose (April Fools Joke by the manager), and we emptied the building faster than the fire drill did back in 2007! We had one guy jump the 3rd floor fire escape railing, land on his feet and gun it in a random direction, I got his watch..... he stole a towel though for some reason.....

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This one is from a year ago:

I was at the counter at the Polaris dealership here, nice guys that own it, very bright, and very fun to talk with, but anyways, we get a customer comin in that wants his Polaris Ranger fixed, so since everyone was basically at lunch, and I can work on ATV's a bit, he had me go out and take a run over the damage for the guy. I walk outside and see a pile of nice Polaris Ranger being pulled by a shitty-ass crapped-up Chevy, looks like it drove through Nam during the bombing.... anyways. The guy starts up, and it putts like a broken Model-T, and the axles are creakin, he backs it up to the loading dock, so we can back the ranger off, and he jumps out and asks me what I think will need to be done.

I point at his truck and start telling him it'll need a new engine, some axle work, and some new suspension, on TOP of getting a new tranny. He turns and looks at me and says "WOW, your good at this aren't you? I thought my Ranger only needed a new tire!"
 
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Up here in the pacific north wet it seldom gets hot (right now we are 265+days straight below 75) so this guy comes in and wants his a/c checked out,tech comes up front and says "this car doesn't have a/c" ok pull it out-i told him outside as not to embarass him-he was just rolling up the windows and turning on the fan for 3 summers.Then about a month ago a woman in her 40's came in and asked for a fuel system cleaning and fuel filter ,i handed the ticket to one of the younger techs and he went to the car with the seat covers and floor mat and came right in and got the customer,they went back to the car and she leaned in for just a second then came back in and sat down.The tech pulled in the car and racked it so i went out and asked" why did you get the customer?"without missing a beat he says"there's a big bag of WEED on the front seat and I didn't want to touch it,do you want me to let the car down so YOU CAN SEE IT ? God NO just hurry!!:shok:
 

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