Funniest Repair Orders you've seen?

[mp3deviant721]

Dude, just posted there. That is nuts!

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

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





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Well, I guess the owner got lucky on this one. But damn, that piston looks like it was blown to bits.

 

[mp3deviant721]

Last month, an old guy comes in with his Buick Century. He and his wife are complaining about a check engine light and some sort of fluid dripping from around the muffler area. I had to do an oil change on it and figure out the CEL and leak. Did not find a leak, nor was there any codes. The "leak" they saw was condensation from the muffler. After I had to go pickup the guy, he gets into his vehicle and starts it up but still sees the light come on and go away. So I see him come to the service writer desk looking and sounding all mad. He tells the service writer that his light is still coming on. So the old guy demonstrates that the light comes on when he starts the vehicle, but it goes off. So the service writer has to explain to him that its supposed to do that. I felt bad for that old guy, he seemed kinda confused.

 

[MrE_Powers]

i have a guy at work that is going to a technical college for auto repair. trying to be a fixit stud for girl at work he does a tune up after her car develops a missfire. he takes a part off of the engine thinking it is a ignition coil to be tested by auto zone. asks the clerk
"can you test this ignition coil? clercks response "sure if you brought me the ignition coil, that is a spark plug wire"

 

[Shwack10]

My friend asked me to come over and check his lawn mower. He said he put oil in it and it started acting weird and smoking a lot. I go over to his house, check the oil and its filled up to the top. I laughed at him and showed him the place on the dip stick that said full, and let him figure it out himself.

 

[scotts90ranger]

I worked on a edger for a guy once with a 2hp briggs that wouldn't start, luckily it was an old one with just one orifice in the carb and it was just plugged, was going to do an oil change on it while I was there since it was an easy fix and found that someone put a whole quart in it... those things have a half quart capacity, I was wondering why there was a bunch of oil under the breather hose...

 

[ragajungle]

OH my God you wont believe the TARDS I have to work with. I fix copiers and the crap I have seen and had to deal with..... Last week some twat put a reem of paper in the machine with out opening it. She actually got snippy and said "well we paid enough for this it should open it up for me".


2 weeks ago some spastic hormonal thousand mile stare put a call in for "broken parts" I get there and the entire front of the machine was JACKED. Every paper tray was smashed, the touch panel and entire op panel was destroyed and there was blood on it! They used the f_cking paper trays as a stepping stool to change a clock battery on the wall and flipped the machine over on themselves.
Really? Really?


Apparently this is a common thing because now we have to go out and install yellow warning labels on all our equipment "Caution Tipping Hazard"

 

[FreeFloat]

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

I tried, but there doesn't seem to be any social groups called "Tailgate."

 

[mn_smokeater]

I tried, but there doesn't seem to be any social groups called "Tailgate."

Go under "group memberships" in your control panel and click the lil dot for tailgate fourm and join then when you go back to the main page it will show up on the list of forums.

Welcome to trs!!

 

[adsm08]

Go under "group memberships" in your control panel and click the lil dot for tailgate fourm and join then when you go back to the main page it will show up on the list of forums.

Welcome to trs!!

This link will take you straight there.

http://therangerstation.com/forums/profile.php?do=editusergroups

Jim must be rearranging things. Or else I was pretty out when I typed that.

 

[robertc1024]

Make sure you're logged in. You can't get there if you're not.

 

[AgPete139]

OH my God you wont believe the TARDS I have to work with. I fix copiers and the crap I have seen and had to deal with..... Last week some twat put a reem of paper in the machine with out opening it. She actually got snippy and said "well we paid enough for this it should open it up for me".


2 weeks ago some spastic hormonal thousand mile stare put a call in for "broken parts" I get there and the entire front of the machine was JACKED. Every paper tray was smashed, the touch panel and entire op panel was destroyed and there was blood on it! They used the f_cking paper trays as a stepping stool to change a clock battery on the wall and flipped the machine over on themselves.
Really? Really?


Apparently this is a common thing because now we have to go out and install yellow warning labels on all our equipment "Caution Tipping Hazard"

Woooooooooow....seriously? I can see peole using it as a temporary stool. People are dumb enough to do that. "But I'm only gonna stand on it for about 30 seconds! If I can Xerox my butt, it can surely handle all of my weight and off-center mass!"

That dumb B**** should not work in an office with the copy machine. She should be selling Mary Kay or protesting against something illogical, like "People for the Saving of Fire Ants...Ant's have feelings, too" or "The Warm Polar Bear Jacket Club."

Note: Not to offend anyone whose wife sells Mary Kay products. It was just an analogy for demonstrating her doing a predominately female profession where copiers are not necessarily involved.

 

[Pagemaster]

So i just started doing Heating and Air Conditioning and my first job is to install a bunch of thermostats in a bunch of schools. We hired a guy off the bench as a temp to help, he is a ten year veteran. we were putting wires into a t-stat and he asked me which ones we were using. so i said "the white goes in D-, the Blue goes in D+, the green goes the common, and the red to the 24 volt" four wires four holes that were all labeled.. i had to explain it four times and then show him how to do it......my total career time: one month. his total career time: ten years. enough said.

 

[03ranger4x4]

I think this stupidity happens literally everywhere it possible can happen. On my ship, in the US Navy no less, me as an e-4, 3rd class petty officer had to explain to an e-6, 1st class petty officer that the reason the transmitter he was trying to patch for a Data circuit kept overloading, was becuase he needed to put it in STANDBY before switching from normal to data mode. I mean, theres nothing complicated about that at all. Im sure someone who has never even see a transmitter before in there life could grasp that concept. Its kinda like stopping a car before you switch it into reverse.

Of course i explain this too him. And show him how it is done, and that the transmitter doesnt overload if you put it in standby before switching it over. And yet literally the same night i get called back into radio for a different transmitter doing the same problem (we have 10 of these transmitters, all of which are 100% identical...both phyically,and operationally) And i literally have to explain to whole put it in standby before changing the mode concept again.

If you were wondering, im an electronics technition, so i fix the gear
and the e-6 was an Information systems technition, all he needs to know is how to operate the gear, if it breaks they call me.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I heard a good one today....

Guy calls an says he just got new pads, rotors, and calipers put on his full size truck and that he drove it from location A to location B (he gave the names of towns but I'll leave them out to protect the ignorant, suffice to say it was a distance of around 20 miles or better up and down hills, lots of start an stop). He said that he burnt his hands touching the brake rotor and wanted to know if it should be that hot.

He also wanted to know why the truck didn't pull when you applied the brakes anymore...

I was looking for something hard to smack my head against, but I had to settle for a facepalm.

 

[TheTopher]

I heard a good one today....

Guy calls an says he just got new pads, rotors, and calipers put on his full size truck and that he drove it from location A to location B (he gave the names of towns but I'll leave them out to protect the ignorant, suffice to say it was a distance of around 20 miles or better up and down hills, lots of start an stop). He said that he burnt his hands touching the brake rotor and wanted to know if it should be that hot.

He also wanted to know why the truck didn't pull when you applied the brakes anymore...

I was looking for something hard to smack my head against, but I had to settle for a facepalm.

I've had the techs at work ask me that one a lot. The best one is if it's raining and there's steam coming off the wheels.