My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 79

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
10/21/2018 at 13:00 • Filed to: justrolledintotheshop, just rolled into the shop, 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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We had no history of us ever doing an oil change on it, but that only went back to 2016, it’s a 2011.

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Damn nature you scary

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Brand new QX60 came in for a quick oil change. This particular tech was known to do some dumb shit. He racked the car wrong and had it much too far foreword on the lift. Can’t believe no one got hurt. He was fired immediately.

Had to give them a brand new car

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Guess I’m not the only one this happens to.

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[...going to be auctioned off as salvage but needs the recall completed to be sold.]

Company policy.

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...a delivery company just ended their fleet contract with jiffy lube and switched to our shop.

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03 mountaineer passenger rear wheel

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Frieghtliner Cab SAM module, apparently they stop working after internally shorting out and catching on fire. Didn’t have a single blown fuse on the unit itself but did blow a 100amp mega fuse in the Power distribution module that supply’s it battery power.

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Don’t forget to like, shart, and subscribe!

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The wheels were off last week when it was at a shop in New Jersey. Those guys like tight nuts I guess.

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I wiped it for like 5 minutes straight. Debated spraying it with brake clean.

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Wanna see my collection of fine ceramics?

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...tech states no oil pressure... We had it idling while getting things ready to pull it out of bay after doing intake gaskets and when he got back in it had no oil pressure so we shut it off and started that diagnosing the next day to find oil pump full of these weird white fibers... Of coarse his day off

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It’s just so... round.

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Gotta scratch that itch

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Cylinder losing compression?

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1999 Windstar in for oil change... Rest of the car was just as interesting. Frame was literally almost gone with rot, tires mismatched and older than I thought possible, multiple massive oil leaks, no brakes, interior smelled lovely, the whole shooting match.

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...this came out of Ghia that was used for road racing. Thats a valve sticking out of the piston.

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Great minds think alike (posted within minutes of each other)

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Looks like somebody’s brain has a thick candy shell.

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Obligatory tire post

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Obligatory brake post

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DISCUSSION (9)

MM54 > Urambo Tauro
10/21/2018 at 13:35

The split RTV cap is too real

Urambo Tauro > MM54
10/21/2018 at 13:47

Happened to me once or twice. Thought it was a fluke. Apparently it’s an epidemic.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Urambo Tauro
10/21/2018 at 13:53

A friend of mine’s step- brother “Tommy-Boyed” his own car door trying to back out of their back yard. The car had been repainted just before he got it and he parked it behind the fence to “keep it safe.” That kid’s dad spoiled him rotten. We laughed, and laughed and laughed....