Funniest Repair Orders you've seen?

[BlackBII]

...whats wrong with it?

Looks to me like it has a slow oil leak.

 

[LearjetMinako]

...whats wrong with it?

Just about everything under the engine was coated with an oil/greese substance.

 

[koda6966]

Just about everything under the engine was coated with an oil/greese substance.

If that's a problem.. then woops.

You should see the bottom of my truck.

 

[WNY964x4]

here are a couple for you

when i was working in this shop back in the summer of 07 , we had this car come in , the owner left a note saying that his headlights were staying on and draining his battery , so he brought it to the shop and disconnected the battery. well i go out after lunch and open he door and pop the hood , keys are still in the shop. so i reconnect the battery cable and the headlights come on , but then i hear this rapid dinging sound. i look at the headlight switch and it is in the on position. i had to laugh at that one.

another one , did not happen to me but to one of my teachers , years ago there was this family that basically lived out of their dodge caravan ( lease vans , when they brought in the old one it would get parked next to the dumpster and literally shoveled out ) well the people were complaining that on cold mornings when they were heading up 390 , after about 20 or 30 miles they would hear this lod CCCCCCRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNCCCCHHHHH , everyday it was cold. so they brought it to the dealership , my teacher test drove it the next day ( some other idiot c tech parked it in the shop overnight ) so he drives it and hears nothing , well he realizes they did not replicate the condition. well the owner of the dealership is getting nervous because they have a loaner and he does not want it trashed. so he pays the three head guys overtime to take it out early the next morning. sure enough 20 or 30 miles in they hear the crunch , but cannot tell where it is coming from , it sounds like everywhere. so they stop for coffee ( really cold morning ) and head back out , one guy in each front seat and one in the very back. sure enough they hear the crunch , my teacher looks in the rearvies and just sees the feet of the guy in the very back seat ( laughing so hard he fell over ) it turns out that the crunch was made by a 2 liter bottle shoved under the center seat. in the cold it would suck itself in , then after 20 or 30 miles and warming up with the cars heat it would expand producing a very loud crunch. some people are just pure slobs

 

[Boggin]

another one , did not happen to me but to one of my teachers , years ago there was this family that basically lived out of their dodge caravan ( lease vans , when they brought in the old one it would get parked next to the dumpster and literally shoveled out ) well the people were complaining that on cold mornings when they were heading up 390 , after about 20 or 30 miles they would hear this lod CCCCCCRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNCCCCHHHHH , everyday it was cold. so they brought it to the dealership , my teacher test drove it the next day ( some other idiot c tech parked it in the shop overnight ) so he drives it and hears nothing , well he realizes they did not replicate the condition. well the owner of the dealership is getting nervous because they have a loaner and he does not want it trashed. so he pays the three head guys overtime to take it out early the next morning. sure enough 20 or 30 miles in they hear the crunch , but cannot tell where it is coming from , it sounds like everywhere. so they stop for coffee ( really cold morning ) and head back out , one guy in each front seat and one in the very back. sure enough they hear the crunch , my teacher looks in the rearvies and just sees the feet of the guy in the very back seat ( laughing so hard he fell over ) it turns out that the crunch was made by a 2 liter bottle shoved under the center seat. in the cold it would suck itself in , then after 20 or 30 miles and warming up with the cars heat it would expand producing a very loud crunch. some people are just pure slobs

best one yet

 

[WNY964x4]

best one yet

the sad part is thas the god's honest truth

 

[Wicked_Sludge]

i just had this one in the shop on tuesday. '09 mercury mariner with 11,000 miles and 3 drivability complaints. the one that left me shaking my head was "customer states unless foot firmly on the brake vehicle seems to want to surge forward" (automatic transmission)

maybe they were used to driving a moped with a centrifugal clutch?

other complaints on the vehicle included vibration on accel (4 cylinder; normal) and noisey "lifters" (fuel injectors; also normal).

 

[WNY964x4]

some of this stuff really makes me wonder what ever happened to natural selection

 

[MountainMike]

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.

 

[RichD]

My non-car guy buddy called me one day and said he just bought a 75 bronco and wanted me to look at it because the "tranny was bad". He said it only had 1st and 2nd gears, I go over and we jump in, I then watch him shift the transfer case from low to high as he says "see what I mean?".......

 

[Taragon]

I had one from a Prius owner that complained that his gas mileage decreased in hilly areas. Well, no shit.

 

[Taragon]

bonus points to anyone who can tell what was wrong with the truck. it has to do with almonds.

Some type of bio fuel?

 

[TheBCE]

Flatbed truck brings in an older Four-runner with a broken rear driveshaft. My boss tells me to grab the four-wheeler and tow it in. I grab a few wrenches and go out to the Four-runner. I removed the eight bolts holding the rear drive shaft in and put the driveshaft pieces in the back. I put it in four wheel drive and drove it into the back of the shop. I drove right by the boss and the owners as they were paying the flatbed driver. They all had that "Huh?" look!

Lady brings in a minivan; work orders says that the sliding doors are difficult to open. They are hard to get open, but do move freely. I cleaned and lubricated the hardware, track, etc. No change. I sit in the van and plan my next move. She's got kids and the van is filthy. Snacks, trash and other kiddie stuff everywhere. The cupholders on each sliding door have a sticky trail from juice and soda below them. It was all over the door gaskets, causing the door to stick to the body. I cleaned up the gaskets and the door worked like new. My story said something along the lines of 'Gaskets on sliding doors sticky from spilled drinks. Cleaned gaskets and hardware; all OK.' The lady got charged an hour of shoptime for it!

 

[wrecking-crew]

My non-car guy buddy called me one day and said he just bought a 75 bronco and wanted me to look at it because the "tranny was bad". He said it only had 1st and 2nd gears, I go over and we jump in, I then watch him shift the transfer case from low to high as he says "see what I mean?".......

thats sad

 

[WNY964x4]

My non-car guy buddy called me one day and said he just bought a 75 bronco and wanted me to look at it because the "tranny was bad". He said it only had 1st and 2nd gears, I go over and we jump in, I then watch him shift the transfer case from low to high as he says "see what I mean?".......

if it was me i would have offerd to buy the truck from him for cheap since " it needed a bunch of tranny work " , but i can be a dick when an idiot i know has a vehicle i have wanted since i was old enough to identify cars ( i was able to do that by first grade , make , model and approximate year ) and i am 18 now