My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 120

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
08/04/2019 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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Put that thing back where it came from or so help me...

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Blue raspberry, yum!

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They hit the concrete post that we have on the outside of the bay. They didn’t cut it enough and we’re going to fast trying to be cool but smoked the side of the post.

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1990 Vandura

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How would you like to wrench on an !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ?

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The story goes that he had a flat and changed the tire himself, however he was taught to tighten the wheel nuts and then come back a quarter turn. Took about 100km on dirt roads for it to get to this..

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I’d really like for !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! to be the explanation. This is definitely no kind of show car, though.

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From what he told me, it’s a hill in a steel mill that he hauls for and he was loaded. Supposedly all the drivers have a tough time going up this hill and all you hear is “chugga chugga chugga” because all the trucks want to die out lol.

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So many questions...

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...never popped the visible part of the fuse. Car came in with windows and DRL inop.

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What’s funny is that I opened the one box that had the rotor just to make sure they were right. Proceeded to clean and prep everything. Grabbed the next box and knew it didn’t feel right, had a “ah shit here we go again” moment

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Is this a record?

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07 f150

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...On his lift he has a 200? white Ford Expedition. He guides me to the front passenger wheel well, the wheel and tire have been removed and are on the floor. Then he points up to the fender.

I stick my head up into the wheel well and look up towards the fender, and there it is. A large plastic and taped wrapped package, clearly containing a white brick. It’s very large, like 8"x10"x3". It’s heavily taped to the inside of the fender.

I look at Kenny and he looks at me.

Kenny: Cocaine.

Link to the full story:

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2018 F150 platinum...

He’s already paying for a new APIM, FCIM, FDCIM, labor to replace those, and around 13 hours labor for rewiring the harness behind the dash. Tech hasn’t found the round yet, just the holes

...it’s a preliminary quote. And these pieces are easy enough to take apart to see if wires behind are damaged. Tech popped it out on the drive to see if the modules stopped the round or if it kept going. It went straight through the screen and modules behind it so the tech quoted hours to fix wiring and the guy agreed with his tail tucked behind his ass.

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There are 12 open recalls on this car. I am doing valve springs and cam gears in this picture. Compressed air holds the valves up so springs can be removed with the heads on. Air to entire bank keeps the valves up and engine from rotating...

When they first came out they had several recalls. Valve springs, cam gears, fuel lines, gas pedal, and steering rack They had several recalls dealing with the fuel lines. One from ppl not following the procedures when reassembling. This customer just never had any of them done. A lot of this time overlapped and really worked in my favor.

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Customer calls and asks if she can bring her car by for a price on brake pads, because the car has been making noise for a few days. She says she doesn’t want us to change ANYTHING but the brake pads because she “Knows enough about cars to not get ripped off just because she’s a woman”.

Axle, hub (what hub?), caliper, pads, one rotor, knuckle. She ended up having it towed to some shop on the east side of Detroit that told her we were ripping her off and they could fix it for $300.

God bless.

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Some guy ran out of gas and landed his plane in the middle of the road in front of Jiffy Lube. So they pushed it into their parking lot to clear the road for traffic.

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DISCUSSION (13)

jimz > Urambo Tauro
08/04/2019 at 13:22

just in case anyone is curious:

He’s already paying for a new APIM, FCIM, FDCIM,

APIM: Accessory Protocol Interface Module, which is the SYNC module

FCIM: Front Controls Interface Module: the control panel with all of the radio and climate control buttons

FCDIM: Front Control and Display Interface Module: the small centerstack display for lower trim vehicles.

edited to add: I think this guy is slightly mistaken; a Platinum wouldn’t have an FCDIM; that display module is paired with SYNC Gen 1 which is only equipped on XLT and lower. The 8" display is passive (not on CAN) and doesn’t get a node ID. Sounds like the owner shot right through the screen which would have taken out the SYNC module right behind it.

lone_liberal > Urambo Tauro
08/04/2019 at 14:15

There is something befuddling about a person that is so convinced that they’re being ripped off that they refuse to believe their own eyes. You don’t have to be a mechanic to know that car needed more than brake pads.

His Stigness > lone_liberal
08/04/2019 at 14:33

But they know about cars!!!

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > jimz
08/04/2019 at 15:12

Takes out Ford sync, so nothing of value was lost.

jimz > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
08/04/2019 at 15:29

man, why you gotta

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Urambo Tauro
08/04/2019 at 16:41

How do you put the lug nuts on backwards? Did they spin them all on with an open end wrench?

Urambo Tauro > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
08/04/2019 at 17:32

Or a crow’s foot. At least t hat way you could use a torque wrench, or ( theoretically) an impact.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Urambo Tauro
08/04/2019 at 19:08

Nuts. Some people have them, some people lose them, some people eat them and some people fiddle with them ...but SOME people clearly have no idea what to do with them at all .

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Urambo Tauro
08/04/2019 at 21:52

Kinja'd!!!

I have a fascination to work on a car like this to see if it improves after changing the oil (a couple times ) .

pip bip - choose Corrour > Urambo Tauro
08/04/2019 at 22:32

poor guy with the drug find

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
08/05/2019 at 06:58

Lol! As if someone that dumb would use a torque wrench!

shop-teacher > lone_liberal
08/05/2019 at 06:58

Seriously! That's FUBAR'd!

shop-teacher > pip bip - choose Corrour
08/05/2019 at 06:59

Yeah, hopefully he got it back in the end.