My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 132

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
10/27/2019 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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That’s the left rear rail on a 19 Tuscon for the record.

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This was a 2011 Jeep Wrangler.

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Unfortunately it was a very busy day so my manager told me to let it go. I did inform the customer though

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Try selling it on Goo-net.

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I wonder if this customer will be paying for his repairs in cash.

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...what a great way to start the week

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The subframe snapped from corrosion, gotta love NY. This is on a 2010 Mazda6. ...they recalled the subframes on these cars for this reason and all the damage will be covered.

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20 minute drive before starting... ...[OTC extractor tool] didn’t work as advertised. Haha

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I fix more mistakes made by jiffy than any other shop...

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...no, not using the forks which would be not ideal but not awful, using the top of the goddam mast

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Video: rust_buster

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Take a bow!

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The car has TWO, count em TWO OBDII ports, but only one has the OBD protocols. And you can’t see either of them. I took this picture with my phone facing backward. I only found the port by feeling for it, and then I plugged into the wrong one. The smog machine kept saying it had no communication. I checked my machine and it was fine. Then the customer comes back, after going to their regular shop, and they told me I plugged into the wrong port. I was confused but looked at it. I pulled out my phone and discovered the second port.

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Our service advisor and residant wild man grabbed it by the tail and took it out of the garage.

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Hemi ram

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Removing the carbon blockage from an EGR back pressure pipe

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...1991 Geo Metro
His shocks were bad and he figured this would solve the problem

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I’ve heard stories of it happening, Never thought it would happen to me. It caught my foot on the way down. If it wasnt for my boots I probably wouldn’t have any toes left.

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Obligatory brake post

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Obligatory tire post

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DISCUSSION (9)

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Urambo Tauro
10/27/2019 at 13:34

Kinja'd!!!

can relate.... i have little plastic boxes i keep my nuts and bolts in...all neatly sorted type by type...everything has its own little box

do other people put them back in the correct boxes?

of course they fucking dont.....

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > Urambo Tauro
10/27/2019 at 13:46

I think I’ll be carving a check engine pumpkin tonight.

His Stigness > Urambo Tauro
10/27/2019 at 16:51

Not sure if I was featured because JRitS, or because it was my post...

ANYWAYS! On with my comments.

Re tow idiot: I thank some useless deity each time I need to use a tow truck that my cars are actually derivable , thus eliminating the potential for this kind of shit. Most tow drivers are absolute idiots, even if they’re nice. You’d be surprised how many tow truck drivers are stopped and cited for either DUIs or driving out of class.

Re floor mats: Where does it stop? I’ve seen cars with four or five floor mats PLUS the underlying dealer plastic. Seriously, where does it end? Why even use the car? Just buy a second one you can get dirty and garage the first one.

Re jiffy lube: I will NEVER understand customers who refuse to take their cars back to the last shop and make them fix whatever thing they fucked up, and instead elect to PAY someone else to fix another shops’ mistake. I do not get it at all.

And finally, the tippy toolbox: I worked with someone that did that. I don’t understand it. The drawers themselves are heavy. People aren’t the most intelligent. I can’t tell what brand that is, but they almost certainly caused some massive damage to their box. Apparently stuff like that must be common because Sonic Equipment has a safety measure in all of their boxes that prevent this, and it drives me nuts because it prevents me from opening a second drawer while closing another one. Also, NEVER open more than two drawers at once.

Kinja'd!!!

Urambo Tauro > His Stigness
10/27/2019 at 21:09

While I do reserve my right to play favorites (it’s in the title after all), I have to admit I didn’t realize it was you until I went to add the photo credit.

And I’m right with you on all of the above comments, except that I think I do understand why not go back to Jiffy Lube... While it makes financial sense to have them do a free fuckup fix, it’s hard to reestablish trust. If a shop overtorqued my drain plug and owed me a new oil pan, part of me would be afraid that in their rush to get the free repair done and over with , they’d just end up overtorquing the new oil pan gasket bolts too, out of habit .

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
10/27/2019 at 22:38

I laughed a lot at “Wheel B earing of Fortune”

Urambo Tauro > shop-teacher
10/27/2019 at 22:49

I’m glad you clicked through to check it out! I still haven’t figured out a way to embed reddit videos here and it’s so frustrating.

His Stigness > Urambo Tauro
10/28/2019 at 00:12

Ah, yes, that’s true. And while I would hope most people would go back to them with a bill for their fuck up, you and I both know no one ever will because they’re too scared too.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Urambo Tauro
10/28/2019 at 04:16

that Geo is a bit shonky

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
10/28/2019 at 06:55

Kinja is just so inconsistent and buggy. It's hard enough to load pictures.