My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 177

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
09/06/2020 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.

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

An f350

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

...In this case driver was alone and was lucky enough to live but fire Department stated that the only reason was because it was a BMW otherwise like a honda or toyota person would have been dead.

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Opel Corsa D, 1.0L

It’s apparently due to some kind of over pressure in the camshaft cover. It’s generally due to a head gasket failure. This one in particular, I don’t know as the head gasket was changed 6 months ago due to a warped cylinder head (it was fixed too). I don’t know man, it’s like this car was designed to fail.

...Engine was seized due to water being present below and above the pistons. Valves don’t seem bent or anything, just a shitload of water everywhere. I don’t even

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

1.0 diag, 0.30 to remove the wrapper!

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

They clipped a piece of the shield and crawled in there for warmth. Assembly guy took the shield off and there were another 7 crabs in there

They seem to be fossilized lol mustve been in there for atleast 2 years

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

If you zoom in you can see a nice 3/16" hole at the base of the dipstick for water to pour into. It took forever to get the remains of the old dipstick tube out.

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

(click link for video)

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

(click link for video)

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Happened about a year ago at our shop. Had to put customer into a loaner and bring it to our body shop.

...She was actually a nice old lady so she didn’t get crazy on us.

...The tech ended up getting fired cause he didn’t pass the drug test after this.

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Well that took effort...

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

(click link for video)

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Truck came in with intermittent shut off and crank no start. Tracked the issue to loose FICM voltage supply from fuse box. But we were more interested in the 5 propane bottles strapped in the bed.

Anything over 10 psi of boost and it injects straight propane into the intake pre-turbo.....

Actually dynoed an extra 80 hp...

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Chain, chain, chain... Chain of fools

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Did one of these recently... what an unpleasant car to work on.

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Oh is that all?

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

(click link for video)

Unit also had broken dipstick tube. We expect the customer shoved it in there to plug the hole.

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

This happened at a different location of the company I work for, the shop just opened two days ago.

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Ok everyone no worries, this happened yesterday and I kept the trailer at the shop and told him to grab a different one

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

...NAPA reman! Most likely a re-boxed Cardone imo

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

(click link for video)

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

(click link for video)

Yeah this ones a Midwest beater...

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Not Subaru’s fault...

...Came in for a fluid change where an apprentice drained the front differential and then didn’t fill it up again.

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Botch-lock!

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Obligatory brake post

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Obligatory tire post

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

DISCUSSION (15)

MM54 > Urambo Tauro
09/06/2020 at 13:44

My crown vic was so rusty that the dipstick tube rusted through, though it wasn’t somewhere that really got wet so I was able to patch it up with some epoxy and aluminum foil jammed in where I didn’t have access to epoxy it. Kept the big dirt out!

The backwards lug nuts: How? (as in both “how did you get them on there” and “how it it not occur to you in the difficult process of putting them on there that maybe they go the other way”)

Nom De Plume > Urambo Tauro
09/06/2020 at 14:18

Welcome to Cratersville, North Exploda. LOL

Kinja'd!!!

onlytwowheels > Urambo Tauro
09/06/2020 at 14:35

Kinja'd!!!

This one reminded me of something that had happened to my sister a long time ago. Back when department store parking lots had concrete parking blocks for every space. Obviously distracted, she forgets about the concrete block and drives over it, her Olds 88 transmission pan taking a direct hit. Anyway, she limps up the road, less than 1/2 mile to the nearest service station. They take the car in, tell her they are going to replace the pan and it will be a couple hours. She drags the kids up the stree t to a McD’s with a Play Place and kills the time there. When she returns, the car is set to go, she pays the invoice and leaves. Days later she brings the car to me, saying it it leaking. She tells me about the incident and says that they put a new pan on. I jack the car up and have a look. What I see resembles the fine repair above, except they painted the pan Chevy orange on her car. The leak was coming from the shoddy weld.

Anyway, I demand to see the invoice, and they did in fact charge for a new pan. I call the number on the invoice and speak to the service sta tion owner, and tell him he needs to put the new pan on she was charged for, or refund her money. His reply, “Well, maybe next time we don’t fix it”. My sister wound up contacting the BBB, it took many weeks to get this resolved, but they did put a new pan on.

phenotyp > Urambo Tauro
09/06/2020 at 15:37

Some good gore this week!

Urambo Tauro > MM54
09/06/2020 at 15:38

I’m just as stumped as you over how they managed to get that far with the lug nuts. I almost didn’t include i t here, as t he pic may have been staged just for a shitpost. Unless somebody really did tighten them with an open end wrench...? Eh, c ustomers have done dumber things, I guess.

Urambo Tauro > onlytwowheels
09/06/2020 at 15:45

Wow. Granted, not everyone’s going to bother looking underneath , but still- t hat’s pretty ballsy to scam somebody over one of the easiest things to see under the car. ...And to risk your reputation over it!

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Urambo Tauro
09/06/2020 at 15:57

Kinja'd!!!

Seen a lot of failed tires in my days, never seen anything like this before!

onlytwowheels > Urambo Tauro
09/06/2020 at 16:03

My belief is that had it not leaked, they would not had been caught. My sister or her husband would never have gone under the car to see what was or wasn’t done. I was baffled by the Chevy orange painted pan, initially thinking they may have gone to the bone yard and bought a that was damaged and painted to replace her pan. That thought disappeared after about 2 seconds. The place must have had other bed dealings because I see they have a 1.8 star google rating and 1.5 stars on yelp. Nothing has changed would be my assumption.

facw > Urambo Tauro
09/06/2020 at 16:16

I mean you could just put them on hand tight like that, and then decide it was good enough when you went to tighten them down and realized you were a moron?

Urambo Tauro > facw
09/06/2020 at 16:33

Heh, f irs t wheel change I ever did (on my own car), I assumed the taper was an aes thetic feature... and they were plain open-end lug nuts, so I was still able to use a socket to tighten them without realizing my error . Had they been external thread like the ones seen here, I’d surely have learned my lesson sooner.

Urambo Tauro > onlytwowheels
09/06/2020 at 16:36

They’re still in business, huh? Guess I shouldn’t be surprised; there’s a shop in my area that has a reputation for using compression fittings on brake lines...

onlytwowheels > Urambo Tauro
09/06/2020 at 17:01

That’s scary. Dangerous scary.

I believe the only reason this place is still around is it’s location, an intersection of two very busy state highways, the majority of their income is likely from gasoline sales. And yes, maybe the occasional repair scam too.

shop-teacher > MM54
09/06/2020 at 17:45

This one is really baffling. How does somebody dumb enough to think this is the way they go, also own an open-end wrench to put these on?

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
09/06/2020 at 17:47

The F-150 I was given had a compression fitting in the brake lines. I need to find out what mechanic my friend used, and make sure I never send anybody there.

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
09/06/2020 at 17:49

That trailing arm mount is going to haunt my dreams.