Funniest Repair Orders you've seen?

[adsm08]

Well, this one isn't "haha" funny, but I sure had me laughing for a few days.

2007 Focus is brought (I presume towed) in. RO reads as such:

1. Customer States car has oil leak

2. Engine won't start.

I figured, it needed an oil pan gasket and a battery....


Photos of the true carnage can be found in this thread: http://www.therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94156

 

[mp3deviant721]

I don't have access to your link adsm08.

 

[Mike Tonon]

High school shop class in CT, attempts to change oil in new car

They drained the oil and filled the TRANSMISSION with the new oil! The engine and transmission both blew!

 

[adsm08]

I don't have access to your link adsm08.

Go to USER CP, SOCIAL GROUPS, and then sign up for the Tailgate and try again.

 

[mp3deviant721]

Dude that sucks for that Focus owner. EEEEK.

 

[AgPete139]

Well, this one isn't "haha" funny, but I sure had me laughing for a few days.

2007 Focus is brought (I presume towed) in. RO reads as such:

1. Customer States car has oil leak

2. Engine won't start.

I figured, it needed an oil pan gasket and a battery....


Photos of the true carnage can be found in this thread: http://www.therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94156

Dude, just posted there. That is nuts!

MP3Deviant, this is the piston that he removed after disassembling the Focus motor:

Dude that sucks for that Focus owner. EEEEK.

Nope, it rules for that Focus owner. It happened right BEFORE his warranty ended.





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[Hopman]

Dude, just posted there. That is nuts!

MP3Deviant, this is the piston that he removed after disassembling the Focus motor:

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What piston? All I see is a pitted chuck of aluminum w/ some wires on it.

If the piston was that bad, how bad was the rest of the engine???

 

[multiranger]

Back when I was a Tech I had a Hyundai come in for service. The complaint. The car doesn't have much power going up hill.. (I know it's a Hyundai right).. Anyway I drove it and seemed ok to me... Put it on the scanner. Came back with perfect results. Well I walked up to the snack machine area to grab a Coke.. In the customer waiting area was not one but two very very large women.. Walked back to the car drink in hand, Looked at the rear bumper to see the thin rainbow lesbo flag decal. Open the door to check weight limit on car. Walked up to the service writer and asked if it belonged to 2 women in waiting area.. He replied it was theirs... I asked him if he wanted to tell them they were too fat for the car or should I??? Needless to say he wouldn't let me!

 

[miles]

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!

i was a canon tech for 17 years and at a small school one of the copiers made only black copies i quickly opened the optics to find a semi-circle of sugar cubes stacked two high and perfectly shaped in front of the main lens i showed the princple and she was brave enough to ask if mice could have done it. i calmy informed her that she had gremlins of a much larger size removed the suger and left shaking my head these people teach our children wow!!!

 

[adsm08]

What piston? All I see is a pitted chuck of aluminum w/ some wires on it.

If the piston was that bad, how bad was the rest of the engine???

Cyls 1 through 3 were pristine. #4 looked like someone dropped a hand grenade down it and got the head bolted back down before it went off.

I found a total of 7 holes in the exterior of the engine, including where the rod went through the oil pan. One exhaust valve was found next to another sizeable chunk of piston, behind the flywheel. The other was still unaccounted for when I boxed the engine up. The spark plug was pushed back out of it's hole.

This thing kept running after the piston shattered. I really want to know how fast she was going when this happened.

Oh, and those aren't wires, those are the piston rings.

 

[AgPete139]

i was a canon tech for 17 years and at a small school one of the copiers made only black copies i quickly opened the optics to find a semi-circle of sugar cubes stacked two high and perfectly shaped in front of the main lens i showed the princple and she was brave enough to ask if mice could have done it. i calmy informed her that she had gremlins of a much larger size removed the suger and left shaking my head these people teach our children wow!!!

Depends. Where they highly intelligent cyborg mice?

Don't underestimate the power of the rodentia or the ****ing idiots, especially in large numbers. Afterall, those vermin assisted in killing 150-200 million people in the 14th century.

Oh, and those aren't wires, those are the piston rings.

Yup, one Compression Ring and the curly Oil Ring.

I think he knew what they were...he was just kidding about it not being recognizable as a piston...a hunk of aluminum & metal wires.

 

[adsm08]

I think he knew what they were...he was just kidding about it not being recognizable as a piston...a hunk of aluminum & metal wires.

That thing was barely recognizable. I still have it on my box as a trophy.

 

[kcm1582]

Back when I was a Tech I had a Hyundai come in for service. The complaint. The car doesn't have much power going up hill.. (I know it's a Hyundai right).. Anyway I drove it and seemed ok to me... Put it on the scanner. Came back with perfect results. Well I walked up to the snack machine area to grab a Coke.. In the customer waiting area was not one but two very very large women.. Walked back to the car drink in hand, Looked at the rear bumper to see the thin rainbow lesbo flag decal. Open the door to check weight limit on car. Walked up to the service writer and asked if it belonged to 2 women in waiting area.. He replied it was theirs... I asked him if he wanted to tell them they were too fat for the car or should I??? Needless to say he wouldn't let me!

Something similar happened to a friend of mine.

A car came in to his shop for an alignment and had really bad wear on the drivers side front tire. So he put it up on the rack and started to take his measurements, but they were all perfect. It didn't even need a toe adjustment, so completely stumped he went back to the service writer and told her what was up. She pointed him to the owner out in the waiting room, when he turned the corner into the waiting room he saw the 450+ pound owner. Long story short she had to explain to the owner that he needed to be in the car during the alignment.

 

[adsm08]

I've had to do that with normal sized people who had +450 lbs of crazy and were upset that the wheel was ever so slightly off. So I made them sit in the car, set it where they wanted, and hold it still while I aligned it.

 

[The_Dealer]

lady come in to an oil change place i was working at and said i think i need to add some more oil, i just added some and its making funny noises(we could hear it knocking as she pulled in), and the oil pressure light was on. checked the dipstick and was way too full. opened the oil cap and the oil was even with the top of the valve cover. ended up doing a drain and refill, and i shit u not there was about 4 or 5 gallons of oil in it. she said she didnt know how much to put.

not a customer, but a lady come into the same place and said she had her 09 bmw m6's oil changed at jiffy lube(fawker was so bad ass, expensive ass rig), andyways she said it didnt have any power and was idleing funny and starting to ski[, and about 10 different dummy lights were on. checked the oil, and nada. noticed the washer fluid reservoir was looking a little funny colored. that dumbasses put the oil in the washer fluid.

one last one. working at same place, just started like 2 days earlier. this redneck inbred joker with meth teeth and a cig hanging out with an ash like 3 inches long(looked like a white leonard washington) said he got his f350 7.3's fuel filter changed there and its leaking fuel pretty bad. checked everthing out(while the fool said look at the fuel, gotta stick your head under there to see it, watch your eyes, looks thats fuel, watcher self(while still smoking the cig lol). anyways i traced some fuel lines around and the fawker changed the head gaskets and had the hardline btween the block and heads...derrrr


also not a customer but was going to troubleshoot a guys amp and subs for him, he said he hooked it up like the instructions said. he had a beer can screwed into the firewall with topsoil in it. the ground wire was going into the can down in the dirt. i was like man wtf is this, he said the instructions said "wire to good ground" so i went to lowes and got some new dirt. i was like wtf...true story.

i think every place i work im surrounded by stupid people...as a matter a fact i think they flock around me everywhere i go