My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 88

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
12/23/2018 at 13:00 • Filed to: justrolledintotheshop, Reddit, wrenching, Fail

Reddit’s !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! is a veritable cornucopia of the many !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! of shop lyfe. You never know what’s gonna roll in. Here’s what caught my eye this week.

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Hopefully not a customer wait!

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Don’t let that car piss on it!

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[2016] Mercedes

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I wish I could say this was uncommon, but my shop has four getting replaced right now and six more waiting out back...

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You probably already !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! this one, but the reddit post offers some more clues as to what happened:

A coworker took this 2017 gulia on a test drive with a customer, wet roads and a driver who wasn’t used to the power (id guess) downshifted and spun the rear end, ended up in someone’s yard.

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OM NOM NOM

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What could go wrong?

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Yes...that is the exhaust welded directly to the tunnel brace.
Close up of more great welding on this here!
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Transmission case was cracked due to expanding ice as well...

As far as I can tell it rolled over on its side and slid into a creek or river and filled up with water. It’s low twenties here

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...one of the wheels still had stick weights on it

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Just rolled- waitaminute...

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Blundersteer

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We still don’t know what exactly exploded, it’s everywhere tho.
Even on the mirrors.
Someone’s gonna have a shitty Christmas

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There were several of these mummified baby mice.

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...didn’t expect a factory filter to be on that tight. Usually it’s the cars that haven’t been to the dealership for their last oil change.

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Don’t do coke, kids.

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Rear driveshaft front u-joint went bad, broke the transmission case, transmission adapter, transfer case tail shaft housing, driveshaft skip yoke, differential pinion bearings and who knows what else inside those units. Probably couldn’t hear the u-joint over the straight exhaust, first indication of a problem was that it wouldn’t move.

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Badge of honor

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Dee Ai WHY

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You don’t say?

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Naturally it didn’t run any better with the filter re-installed... approx 100 miles since the oil was changed, thankfully not at this shop...

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Obligatory tire post

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Obligatory brake post

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DISCUSSION (6)

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
12/23/2018 at 13:32

Those Toyota frames never cease to amaze me.

I wonder how old the tire that's shedding its sidewall rubber is?

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Urambo Tauro
12/23/2018 at 13:46

Kinja'd!!!

holy shit an exhaust shop did that?.. and they charged for it?

burn that place down

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Urambo Tauro
12/23/2018 at 17:04

Is that why a certain world leader proclaims UJ quite frequently?

facw > Urambo Tauro
12/23/2018 at 17:19

I’m irrationally bothered that that steering wheel doesn’t have its axis of rotation in the center. It would be so much more satisfying if it spun smoothly.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Urambo Tauro
12/23/2018 at 19:14

re the exhaust

Kinja'd!!!

NYankee1927 > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
12/23/2018 at 22:21

Don’t worry with those booger welds some slag will eventually burn the place down