Funniest Repair Orders you've seen?

[rum66runner]

Had a customer drive a car into the shop my buddy owned that took 2 days to drain the oil. Just globs of greasy looking crap would come out. Spray with carb clean let it sit till another gob came out then repeat the whole process. Remember this car drove in under its own power......

Why didn't you use a motor flush or deisel fuel after you drained a quart?

 

[rum66runner]

anyways here's mine 2nd day on the job car i'm working on gets driven to the exhaust shop (that's a long retarded story in it's own) comes back it's puking oil motor oil that is I R&R'd the transmission. Turns out the car was towed they never started just pushed into the shop and they wrote small oil leak on the RO. (car was already on rack and in air).

 

[mattpresley]

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"

LOL I feel your pain. I do asbestos, Mold, Water damage, fire damage and restoration (drywall, cabinets, retexture, paint ETC.)

My favortite was the sue happy tenant in one house that had mold. Me and my crew remiediated the issue and we set up a Negative air machine to keep the affected air(now clean and passed clearence awaiting teardown) contained and an exhaust which blows 99% purified air(cleaner than what we breathe). I took the little ranger to pull our equiptment and she give my the worlds fakest cough and said the exhaust made her sick.
I tell her
1. The air from that exhaust is filtered and purer than any air you have ever breathed.
2. The contained area passed clearence and it's even safe inside the plastic, which I'm here to tear down right now

She responds back with, "Oh, you know what? I'm pretty sure there's a gas leak here then." The only appliance run off gas in that house was a heater which I inspected, because the homeowner was so nice and I didn't want the tenant to continue raising hell, and found no leak

Some people just deserve death for acting like that!

 

[erocka1982]

i used to work at Simmons-Rockwell (a huuuge dealership here in town) once we had a repair order for a tune up for this chick whos a stripper. after the car was in the garage for a little bit, it really started to smell bad. she asked if we could get rid of the garbage in the trunk but the tech didnt wanna do it untill it was on the RO and he got paid for it..lol...he charged her 1.0 to back the car up to the dumpster and empty the trunk...

 

[dtathog79]

I had a prius owner come to see why she was only getting 43mpg,poor baby,try driving my ranger..it is winter,the gas engine is running longer.

 

[idriveafordranger94]

Actually last week I had a funny incident working on a 2004 Cadillac Deville. The customer complained of "whirring" noise coming from the right side. I racked the Caddy and noticed it had locking lug nuts, so I climbed inside to look for the "key." I opened the glove box and there were half eaten peanuts, sunflower seeds, and things I had never seen before, but no key. I looked inside the center console and there was more of the glove box "contents" and a little bag where he spit his chew. It was one of the most discusting things I have ever seen. And for some reason the car smelled like meat....

 

[Carlos Murphy]

RO's

Had a somewhat overweight customer drive in in a BMW 2002 years back, wanted the right front shock replaced.

A woman drove in one morning saying the oil light came on last night just after she ran over something.
I put the car on the rack and found the front of the cast aluminum oil pan missing along with the oil pump...
I pulled all the bearing caps off and reinstalled them one at a time and found no damage.
She lived a short distance from the shop.

A guy had his new BMW 540 towed in, no start...
There is a read-out in the instrument cluster that estimates RANGE according to how much fuel is in the tank and your average mileage... it read "0", the fuel gauge read "0" and the low fuel light was ON....

 

[sr975j]

i heard at auto zone...."i need 8 denso iridium spark plugs" "for what kind of vehicle?" "a 99 ford f250 with a 7.3 powerstroke"

fail

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Oh the stories I have... but no repair orders that I can think of...

Working construction we'd always send a new guy down to the truck for some mythical tool (rebar stretcher, gravel stretcher, etc) "It's got the long blue handles in the passenger side box! You can't miss it, got the name written right on it." Saw a few guys come back saying they couldn't find it but the best were guys that brought back some sort of tool wanting to know if they found the right one. Had one guy bring back a cast bronze groover wanting to know if he found the stretcher tool we asked for....

Going to parts stores is always a trip... especially with my choptop. I went in one day with a list of parts I needed and the part numbers. Handed it over to the guy working the counter and after glancing at it, he promptly asked me what year, make, and model I had so he could look the vehicle up....
me: You're not going to find it that way, I gave you the parts numbers you need.
him: I can't look it up that way, I have to have the year make and model.
me: It's not going to help you to know that.
him: No, it's the only way I can do this.
me: *sigh* Ok... It's a 1989 Ford Bronco II 2wd with a 1988 Bronco II 2.9L motor, a 1989 Ranger transfer case, front and rear axles from a 1986 Bronco II, a lift kit for the front from a 1990 Ranger, 1993 Explorer leaf springs, chevy drop shackles, rear driveshaft from a 1987 Bronco II, front driveshaft from a 1985 Bronco II, 1994 Explorer front seats, a 1987 Ranger tailgate and part of a softtop from a Jeep TJ. That all fit in your lil box there?
him: *speechless*
me: Want to see the list again?

 

[masterbrenden]

did anyone ever here of the fieros going 30000 miles in between oil changes lol
my buddy from work said someone started the rumor
he said it was they were swapping motors for a whole year before it was all sorted out
hahaha f'in gm's

 

[monsterchuck]

I had a neat one a while ago. A very pregnant lady(like, about to POP) brought her Toyota Prius into our Ford dealership. She was complaining of mice living in her car, and every now and again they'd stick their heads out of the vents in the dash, and she was afraid she was going to go into labor from being scared. Hop in the car to pull it in, and there are about a dozen mousetraps set inside this car. Spent the better part of two hours digging as far into the car as I could, trunk, dash, under seats, ect., and couldn't find any evidence of mice at all. No nests, not even a mouse turd. Eventually, we just put in a parts request for a cat. It should have ended there, but the parts guy didn't get it and was trying to get a price on a catalytic converter. Sometimes I wonder about people.

 

[koda6966]

I was in advance the other day and ended up walking out because I got sick of waiting for the very pissed off rich guy who obviously knew nothing about his car to get his "OBDIII" code reader. I guess he doesn't understand the concept of such a thing not existing.

 

[Jason]

Where the hell do you guys live? I spent my life in parts stores, working there and running them, from age 18 until 28 and NEVER ran across anything like what I read here.

 

[masterbrenden]

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

freaking hilarious

 

[adsm08]

Where the hell do you guys live? I spent my life in parts stores, working there and running them, from age 18 until 28 and NEVER ran across anything like what I read here.

I'm in NEPA and I run into parts guys all the time who have no clue what they are doing.

I used to work with one down in Harrisburg at Hoffman Ford. He'd been standing behind that counter since I was in diapers and I still knew more about how to do his job that he did. Biggest idiot I ever knew. He can rattle off part numbers that have been discontinued for 20+ years, but if you go in and ask for even the simplest thing out of anything from a 2002 on up, he needs a million details to find a part that the same for all options packages and still orders it 3 or 4 times before he gets the right thing.