My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 99

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
03/10/2019 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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Onwer claims “it sits for a while”

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There was a creeper in the trash can at work, I saw potential to do something ridiculous and over the top, purple with gold wheels just came to me, girlfriend suggested the underglow and it kindof snowballed from there...

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Geo prizm... Found while doing LOF. customer declined repairs.

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2016 Corolla with a complaint of grinding noises. This is what was removed from the wheel wells. Grinding solved.

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Oh boy.

(or girl)

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Guy was complaining about the check engine light and a funky idle so we start looking around...

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Mavis ruined this guys lug nuts and then couldn’t get them off. 5 minutes with a turbo socket fixed that.

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Desert rules. Anything you can do to get home...

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...the customer was fully aware of the radiator being full of it he just gave absolutely zero fucks about fixing anything and there was a laundry list of stuff wrong.

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The scariest spider of them all

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This is diesel bug. An algae that grows in diesel when there is water present. Jams up your entire diesel fuel system with what looks like pond scum

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3.4 out of an ‘01 Chevy Venture... Intake and exhaust pushrods aren’t the same length. One of my coworkers did head gaskets and wasn’t paying attention to what came from where, started it, and bent a few. He put new pushrods in and it runs fine now.

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I... I can’t even

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From Napa, the napa NCP premium chassis line made by tenneco I believe...

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Dodge Dakota

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They were all just hanging on, I used the barest amount of force and ‘ping!’

..after the 2nd, I knew..

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Shop cat is watc- [snores loudly]

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He did it again. Drain was almost completely full, maybe 1 qt of space left in it. So he drains a Cummins! A CUMMINS!

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Video: DrRawDogDGAF

Had a bad ignition coil causing the rough run, was struggling to achieve 35 on my test drive. After repairs it was still struggling to achieve 35. Felt like cam timing was off, I bet the timing belt was super stretched. Wouldn’t be surprised if it had a clogged cat and no compression either.

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That’s the pits...

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Just oil it and put it back in

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Hub, studs and rotor [had to be replaced]

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...it was a local body shop apparently this was their fix... but the client asked us to look at it after it failed our state inspection ... I’m dumbfounded

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1.2 vti engine from a peugeot 208 with 80k km’s on the clock. Belt was flaking rubber and clogged the snorkel in the oil sump

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Obligatory tire post

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Obligatory brake post

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DISCUSSION (12)

VincentMalamute-Kim > Urambo Tauro
03/10/2019 at 13:13

Thanks. I like reading these.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > Urambo Tauro
03/10/2019 at 13:22

Look forward to this every S unday, wash it all down with Folger’s.

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
03/10/2019 at 13:28

Shop kitty!

What in the heck happened to that air filter???

lone_liberal > Urambo Tauro
03/10/2019 at 13:29

It’s officially Sunday when JRitS gets posted. These posts also make me feel better about the state of my vehicles.

jimz > Urambo Tauro
03/10/2019 at 13:35

that seat belt chime one... man, that’s where you look at the customer and ask “who ties your shoes for you?”

Urambo Tauro > shop-teacher
03/10/2019 at 13:37

Kitty not patrolling the area like he’s sup posed to, maybe ?

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
03/10/2019 at 14:51

Could be!

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Urambo Tauro
03/10/2019 at 15:08

C/S grinding noise due to excessive snow. I can relate....

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Urambo Tauro
03/10/2019 at 18:01

Check Engine Light says the engine is dining out on air filters and timing belts.

Check Airbag Light says it's dark in here.

Check Seat Belt Light says that it is not a Check Engine Light.

NotUnlessRoundIsFunny > Urambo Tauro
03/10/2019 at 18:52

Wow! Some of those are just crazy.

I somehow love the purple creeper. It’s so great when someone just lets their creativity go wild, even on something ordinary.

Thanks for posting.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > jimz
03/10/2019 at 18:52

I lol’d but as an owner of that same model of car I suspect that it’s about the passenger seat and either the customer did a bad job explaining it or the service writer did a bad job putting it into the computer. Subaru has had issues with passenger seat sensors detecting an occupant and chiming when the seat is empty . The fact that it the chime goes away when the belt is buckled means it is a bad sensor not a bad buckle/wiring.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Urambo Tauro
03/10/2019 at 20:22

so much stupid!