My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 102

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
03/31/2019 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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Poor Basil. Oh, he is in for a surprise! Goodbye, So soon, And isn’t this a crime...

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...I think he used a 3/8's battery impact

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Video: Ubbiedude

Tiguan

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...just sleeping. We woke him up and he ran off into the sunset.

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Photos: MyUsualName

I wish I had more details but of course neither me nor the guy who was working on it were told much of anything.

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This was actually after it sat on the bench during the time it took to empty the whole tank. The yellow at the top was gasoline and the white is water, alchohol and other unidentified fluids. Three vehicles so far I’ve seen, do believe the gas station shut their pumps down.

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...This was semi frozen and became a thick mostly solid chunk.

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Thoughts and prayers!

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Driver dropped a loaded container; high hooked kingpin. Bent a lot of stuff. I had to have container offloaded since chassis wasn’t safe in my opinion. Got grief about it needing to offloaded and “why couldn’t it be just ran to port real quick” actual quote from the lengthy email chain. Rear axles are out of alignment !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

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...You can only see the cost of one rotor. Each rotor is directional.

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It’s a carb from a 1973 Honda CB125...

That’s the actual carb body falling apart. I could see the bowl cracking if there was water in there and it froze, but it’s cracked all the way up the slide. Never seen anything like that before.

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...it came in for a new clutch, it’s an older VW jetta

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Carthago [motorhome]...

I love german cars, but these campers are something else to work on.

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Rats ate through her engine cover, wiring harness, power steering & coolant hoses, etc. She was super upset so she dumped a thing or 2 of crushed red pepper all over it, then she brought it to us to fix and this is what it looked like when we popped the hood.

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Happy trails!

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I ain’t even mad.

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Okay, now I am.

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I had a fun time watching my advisor explain what happened to the lady’s car. She was pissed! Stepped outside to “make a phone call” to the towing company...

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It still makes noise. The customer wasted a perfectly good bar of soap

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...we sell [cabin] air filters for teslas, and that’s probably why we have a section on them in the book.

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DANGER DANGER, HIGH VOLTAGE!

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Don’t forget to keep your fuel tanks properly inflated!

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Obligatory tire post

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Obligatory brake post

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DISCUSSION (3)

MM54 > Urambo Tauro
03/31/2019 at 14:45

That cracking carb is upsetting

His Stigness > Urambo Tauro
03/31/2019 at 14:55

I hate tow truck drivers. They’re either lazy, stupid, or assholes. Or generally a combination of the three. They ALL think they’re expert mechanics so they always tell the customer what they think is wrong, so they come in saying that they want that part replaced. (It’s always a fuel pump). Or they’re lazy like the above story and grab onto any control arm. Or they’re asshole and block your bay EVEN THOUGH they’re dropping off at your neighbor’s shop. And when you kindly ask them NOT to block your business they always say, “I’ll just be a minute.” And one time I responded to that with, “Okay. Don’t block my bay. You need to move.” And the driver got all huffy and puffy as he moved his truck.

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
03/31/2019 at 22:05

I don't understand the people who put tape on their tire, and expect it to do literally anything!