My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 129

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
10/06/2019 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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Shear brilliance

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How long before it’s a million?

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Customer called and said his bushings were getting worn out and asked how much it would be for us to install bushings he bought on Amazon.

I gave a bid to actually properly fix his truck. He wanted to drive it to Texas in 2 days and also be towing another vehicle behind it. He didnt like my bid and had to call a tow truck to remove his truck from our yard.

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...faulty alternator

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Chevy. Trailblazer engine

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Mercedes C-class

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ECU removed and inspected. Found melted solder. She no go

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There wasn’t even a state inspection sticker on it, and I certainly wont be the one to change that.

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Yo ho nope and a bottle of run

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Man, he melted everything in that corner, LF. Caliper ,pads, rotor, abs sensor is melted, axle is trash... I asked him how he didnt notice any noise,he had no explanation

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A gentleman came into our business for a new wheelcover. He just had his tire replaced after hitting a pothole and blowing out his old one and losing the wheelcover. We offer to install it for him, but he declines because he wants to make sure they put the lugnuts back on tight enough. He procedes to get the lug nut wrench out of the back of his car and jump up and down on it on each of the lugnuts. He then walks back into our showroom with two broken off lug nut studs in his hand and asks if we think it will be alright...

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Video: frey64

He threw the shirt away. It did a pretty good job of keeping the oil off the floor. Lol.

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Guy my customer bought it from bought a rebuilt long block and he did the rest of the work himself... lots of loose bolts and stripped out bolts shotty work haha

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Looks like somebody ended up on Santa’s naugh t y list.

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I’m going to have to double-check my filters now!

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...it’s owned by an older lady actually. Her husband has one of those orange 30th anniversary miatas and the go to car shows together.

I think I heard the owner say it was a kit, so if thats the case there could be several out there.

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Cut me some slack , ok?

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[someone couldn’t get the bad one out and “installed” this to keep DTC from showing up] ...is exactly what happened

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Malfunction, nobody was near it and it decided to raise by itself. Three arms weren’t placed underneath because they weren’t needed, one was moved under the car and caught it as it was moving up

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Got yer daily allowance of fiber, right here!

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Dropped liner, then blown head gasket.

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It’s currently in the shop because the doors don’t latch properly. Baby steps.

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Obligatory tire post

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Obligatory brake post

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DISCUSSION (8)

His Stigness > Urambo Tauro
10/06/2019 at 13:12

The MKVII drain plug cracks me up. I love the tool somewhere for it as it was a few bucks and figured why not .But everyone is acting as if the sky is falling. Maybe people should go back and look at all the stripped drain plug posts...

jimz > Urambo Tauro
10/06/2019 at 13:53

that Continental looks like it might be at the Design Aid garage in PDC. Whoever took that photo must not need their job very badly.

edit: apparently not, I read further down that it’s @ a dealer in CA.

jimz > His Stigness
10/06/2019 at 14:00

that drain plug design actually seems like a good idea, provided the slot is deep enough to keep it on the screwdriver once it’s free.

kind of like the drain plug used on the 2.7 EcoBoost and 6.7 Powerstroke:

Kinja'd!!!

His Stigness > jimz
10/06/2019 at 15:21

The only difference is that it *needs* a special bit for you to torque it properly and not drop it. It was not designed to be used with a screwdriver.

I can see a screwdriver fucking it up over time. Yet another reason not to have your oil changed by the lowest bidder.

Kinja'd!!!

jimz > His Stigness
10/06/2019 at 15:51

The only difference is that it *needs* a special bit

well yeah, it’s a German car.

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
10/06/2019 at 21:43

I'm embarrassed how long it took me to figure out what was wrong with that oil filter ... Drrrrr!!

Urambo Tauro > shop-teacher
10/06/2019 at 21:48

T ook me a minute, too. It’s like a game. Every time I visit JRitS, I open up a bunch of posts, and start closing them one by one until something catches my eye. And I don’t close each tab until I understand what I’m looking at. In this particular case, I had to read the post title to figure it out. Now I can’t unsee it haha.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Urambo Tauro
10/06/2019 at 21:53

good old VW plastic sump plug part number 06L103801

we replace them each service