My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 183

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
10/18/2020 at 13:00 • Filed to: justrolledintotheshop, wrenching, Reddit, 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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Video: SafferSpannerJockey

Isuzu kb 250

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Severely severed

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Can into my dealership with CKP code and he brought his own part. Co-worker found one motor mount bolt that was missing from driver side inside the timing cover. Belt and exciter wheel where getting chewed up by the bolt. Dude just said install his sensor only.

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At some point during a car seat fitting, something caused the car to engage some anti-theft safeguard, could have been a button pressed or sensing movement on the seats while the owner had the keys inside. This can be fixed remotely from Ferrari HQ in Italy, but because there was no reception in the car park, the car went into super-lock-death mode, wherein even a Ferrari technician flown interstate couldn’t fix it. Now its going back to the dealer. Pretty funny.

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I wish there was a charge for this lol, but it was written up under warranty so no money there

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08 Corolla

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(Fuel line plugged into vacuum nipple and fuel nipple has nothing)

There were about 20 other things that might make an old squarebody chevy with a jimmy rigged 350 not start but this one made me chuckle

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Video: sausage_mcgangbang

Rock n roll!

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...It also had trans issues and body damage so they declined the repair. But i fix cars all the time that look like theyre about to snap in half. All we can do is advise the customer. What they do is up to them.

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Wick-ed

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[Aftermarket amp] ...big 00 gauge wire fell out of it’s fuse holder. Definitely not factory.

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Note the different usernames behind these posts

haha seems that i share a place of employment with a man of taste.

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Video: Crazy-gamer-54

...it just had a hole in the front, but never found out how

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Duck!

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The person that did this also managed to not get fired.

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EDIT: 385K miles. Misread the work order.

He bought it new when they were drunk and offering got some kind of unlimited mileage bumper-bumper warranty. This thing might actually get a replacement engine.

Definitely on it’s second, might be third [transmission].

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The rod fell from the splash guard while it was being lifted.

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7.3 with a hole in the oil pan.

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17 f150

Dudes amp was wired straight to the battery and as far as I can tell it shorted out on the carpet (or close to it) in the back and lit on fire, burnt straight to the ground.

He did not use a fuse

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[It worked] up until the radiatior exploded

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Obligatory brake post (click link for video )

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DISCUSSION (12)

Just Jeepin' > Urambo Tauro
10/18/2020 at 13:16

“Here’s why you let a professional install your amp”

Yeah, I’m thinking I might throw away the work I did and let someone else do this.

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/that-s-not-gone-well-1845341896

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > Urambo Tauro
10/18/2020 at 13:19

Millions of dollars in vehicle, training and experience yet no one considered towing the Ferrari outdoors where it could get reception for the remote unfacking procedure.

Brickman > Urambo Tauro
10/18/2020 at 13:24

The makeshift oil pan is hilarious !

lone_liberal > Urambo Tauro
10/18/2020 at 13:55

We have a bumper crop this week. I need to know how you put a fucking Rolls Royce through a wall and keep your job. The owner’s kid? Nephew?

Nom De Plume > This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
10/18/2020 at 14:09

Or a repeater since it uses cellular/wifi. This was my thought as well, but official protocol and $500K car right off the lot nobody wants to put their dick in a vice.

I was already enjoying the chain of posts when someone pointed the below out. Two week paid vacation on whatever specialist out of town travel rates a Ferrari tech gets lololololololol. Per diem and 4 star hotel accommodations on top of that.

So, does that mean that the Ferrari tech went to Victoria for nothing, and now can’t go back to NSW without at least quarantining due to the border closure?

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
10/18/2020 at 14:58

The jump starter thing is simply baffling. You already bought a new battery. Why not just ... Install it?

Urambo Tauro > Just Jeepin'
10/18/2020 at 15:22

I mean, you at least used a fuse, right?

Just Jeepin' > Urambo Tauro
10/18/2020 at 15:25

The only thing that saved me, yes, although shorting out the battery was courtesy of the fuse holder that I failed to properly secure. Mama mia.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Brickman
10/18/2020 at 16:29

I like it. I should put that under my existing leaking pan.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > shop-teacher
10/18/2020 at 16:29

And if you have a parasitic drain, why not just disconnect the battery when parked?

shop-teacher > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
10/18/2020 at 16:36

Also yes.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Urambo Tauro
10/19/2020 at 05:12

that poor Rolls Royce