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Funniest Repair Orders you've seen?


holyford86

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must be nice to have 3200 to throw at clutch parts. I mean don't get me wrong if I had a gt500 I would probably pound the crap out of it but I would like to think i maintain my stuff a little better than that, that is downright scary. I don't think that anyone who is 15 should be allowed to drive something that nice, personally.
 


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I get a list of things I have to do throughout the week. I like it that way, so I don't have to always be fiddle dicking around and asking every time I finish something. If I don't finish it all, I can continue on with the list. I just give it back at the end of the week so the boss knows what I have done.

Now, one of the items on the lists is as follows:

"Count Light Fictures".

Fictures?

I didn't say anything about it, but I put a side not on it:

"I couldn't find any lighted Fictures, but you're missing a sconce in the master bedroom".
 

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My boss bought a car at an auction, Very nice body, very serious engine noise. He figured that his prize tech (me) could fix it. The oil oozed out the drain plug hole, somebody had tried to crutch it. I pulled the oil pan and found NO contamination. I noticed junkyard numbers on the trans. I tightened the loose torque converter bolts and refilled the motor with the proper oil. It runs perfect, no knocks or rattles. I'm loved!
 

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Every older couple that comes and rents a car to go see Glacier Park ends up coming back in to the office after about 5 minutes to inform us that the transmission is malfunctioning. I take them out to their car to "inspect" it, and teach them that the car has 2 drive modes, DRIVE and SPORT SHIFT. I try to avoid sounding rude, but informing people on how to use the gear selector is difficult to sound nice.
Dude, that's easy to deal with. Get technical. Tell them how the system works from the shifter all the way down to the wheels. Then they walk away feeling like it's such a complex thing anyone could have made that mistake, but now they know and will happily inform any of their friends that find themselves in the same spot.

Really, it works great.

But sometimes a customer just needs to be scolded. Be subtle. I had one complaint, "Transmission jumps out of gear." We got the tranny out and found every shift collar beat completely to hell. 60k miles and had worse wear than a transmission at 600k miles.

I rebuilt the transmission and "helpfully" printed the driver instructions that go with the transmission and left them in the driver's seat.

I also have quite a few engine repair tickets where I added a little note. "Removed black tape from check engine light and test drove. Light still mercifully out."
 

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while working in auto parts, a customer walks in the door at a busy time of the evening and loudly and proudly states, " I NEED A SEAL FOR MY REAR END !!" the entire store burst out in laughter.
 

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Oh, I forgot about a good one. A lady brings in her 2000ish Audi something or other (they all look alike to me) for a no start. I get in and try to start it and just hear the "click-click" of the starter solenoid, thinking a dead battery. Get the guys to help me push it into the shop and I check the battery. Its good. I throw it up in the air to check the starter connections, their good. I hook my remote starter up to it and try it while tapping it with a hammer. still the same thing. For some odd reason I was looking around at other things while under the car and noticed the oil filter. The from the factory, oil filter. I then knew right then what the problem was. Dropped it down and checked the oil, nada. I then take a socket and breaker bar and try to turn the engine over, solid mass of metal. I then pull my hoist out and push the car out of my bay, and tell my boss that it needs an engine. Never in my life had I ever had so much trouble trying to explain something to someone. I finally got to the point where I had to put it in "simpleton" terms. "Oil is like a loaf of bread, If you leave it for too long then it starts to moldy and it isn't good anymore. If you eat it all then you have to buy a new loaf of bread. But if you buy a loaf of bread and eat some of it and then when it starts getting old buy another loaf to replace it, then you'll always have fresh bread. You need to replace your oil to keep it from going bad or being used up, you want it fresh". I then received a dirty look and later that day the car was towed away to another shop to get another opinion on it, I never did do the engine on it, and I was glad because I hate Volkswagen.
 

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A legend to the old man, a hero to the child...
I used to work for autozone and this came from somebody WHO WORKED THERE....(he was an idiot that used towork in a diamond store)

Him "This guys said he needs a set of spark plugs, but never said how many"
Me- "ok, what kind of vehicle is it?"
Him- "88 F150"
Me- "Ok, what engine is in it?"
(he runs back out to check the computer)
Him- "4.9 Liter"
Me- "Ok, how many cylinders does it have?"
(runs to check CPU again)
Him- "it says 6"
me- "ok, how many plugs does it need"
(He stands there with a blank stare)

The customer that was in there was a regular, and knew that he already despised this certian employee, so i said....

Me "Give him 8 and see if he says they'll work"

He walks out and hands him 8 plugs, the guys litreally throws them back behind the counter and walks out.

I had another guy once come in and ask for an injector pump for a 351?

I love the old guys who come in with a new model chevy or ford and ask for parts for a 351, or 350, and it actually has a 5.3 or 5.4L, and then they get pissed when you tell them thats not the engine in there vehicle.

later,
Dustin
 

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I'm a supervisor at a full service car wash and you wouldnt believe some of the crap people pull.

Had a guy come through with a new g35x and there was cement spots on it and he wanted me to rub it off with a towel. I told him there was a good chance it was gonna scratch up the paint. He said do it anyway. So i started and by god it was scratching the hell out of the paint. So i stopped and told him it was scratching and this isn't a good way to take it off. He said do it anyway. When all was said and done he had SEVERAL nice scratches all over his car and was absolutely furious that we had scratched his car. Dumbass

Also, there used to be this chick that would come in and she was seriously like, supermodel/pornstar hot. We opened the trunk on her car one time and found alot of different pictures of her and another girl. Haha it was just me and two other guys staring in the trunk of the car. She ran out (in a sports bra and those pink brand victoria secret short shorts) and closed the trunk, smiled at us and said dont worry about the trunk. I miss that lady.

And all the time people come in with barf, blood, seman, human feces all over the inside of their car and expect us to clean it. Luckily, the only good thing about OSHA, we cant
 

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My neighbor Got one of the new toyota matrix's when they first came out. After about 2-3 years she took it into the dealership because her milage was getting worse and worse, and it was running like crap. The service department took a look, came back and asked when the last oil change was done. She NEVER HAD IT CHANGED FOR 75,000 miles! She thought her 75,000 mile warranty meant no service for 75K.
 

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well i dont work in a shop and i dont get repair orders but i am a rock gate opperator for a contracting company that oils and chips country roads. Last week me and the other gate worker had just finished out a set of dumptrucks and hopped off as we were waiting on the next round of trucks, there was about a quarter mile of un-gravelled exposed tar left on this section of road and a brand new Dodge Ram 4x4 diesel with 35" bullydog mud tires comes over the hill, (mind u that those big a$$ tires stick out past the wheel wells by almost a foot) me and tim both tried to signal the man to stop but he was talking to the passenger and drove right past me into fresh glossy 200 degree tar. It took this genius about 400ft to realize what he had driven into. he then turns around and drives BACK THROUGH THE TAR and stops next to me and saays "damn, uhh its really sh!tty down there, im glad yall are gonna repave it and fix that" i replied "you just drove through exposed tar with no rock at all. thats why its so bad." he then said he was going to the sherrif,..... the sherrif is my uncle. My uncle Dan called me and said a pised off man in a ram came in and stated "the roads are so bad that when i drove down one it threw tar all over hell on my truck, and i expect the city to clean it off" Dan went outside looked at the damage and issued the idiot a $1000 citation for destruction of county roads, and he had to clean it himself. Only a Dodge owner could be so stupid.
 

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i was at my friends shop they had new 2006 Ford F350 needed a new head gasket and he said he would just buy a new motor said on the papers "new head gasket owner wants new motor" i thought that was pretty funny
 

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I used to do maintenance for a Holiday Inn hotel in town... Came in one day and had a ticket that said "Guest complaining of evil demons in toilet"... Obviously this man was so afraid of his toilet (it had a leaking flapper valve) he insisted to be moved into a different room... I went and replaced the valve and wrote in "Used black magic to destroy evil demons inside toilet"...
 

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Well, I don't work in a shop but considering I work on my cars, and close family's cars, this would top the charts. About two years ago a close female family member came home and said "Chris something is wrong with the car". I asked "what do you mean?" She replied "the steering is funny". So I walked outside to assess the situation to find not 1, not 2, but 3 flat tires, including bent rims. The only tire left with air in it was the front driverside tire. I look further under the car, to see the floor pan a little bent. I asked her "how far did you drive this car when it began acting funny?" her reply "about 5 or so miles". I replied "You notice you have 3 flat tires?" Her response was "I heard a thud" and "well I thought if I drive slow I would be ok the tires are new". Needless to say, she apparantly didn't pay attention around a turn, and jumped a curb (8 inch high at least) with a saturn. Women drivers for the win :icon_thumby:
 

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I Work at a shop can't remember anything at the moment... But I know a girl that maintains that she is a good driver. So far she has hit an immobil truck... TWICE! driving forward into her drive way which me and 3 of my friend could like never hit no matter how little attention we payed, and backing back out. Then she jump two curbs and bent her rims and sepereated 2 tires. backed into stuff. ect ect. and now her oil light is on, low oil most likely.
 

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