Mechanics, what's the dumbest thing you've seen someone do to their vehicle?

Mechanics of Reddit what's the dumbest thing you've seen someone do to their vehicle the list is long removing PCV hose assorted vacuum lines O2 sensor Etc thinking they're going to get better performance cutting a wire under the dash to hook a stereo then bringing the car to me to fix the tail lights pouring three quarts of oil in but the dipstick still shows low because they put the oil in the radiator putting gasoline in a Diesel truck again story two I did a co-op at a shop back in high school School guy complains about how

his car doesn't sit straight we pull it in and don't even need to put it on the lift to realize that he has 17-in rims on one side and 15s on the other took me about 45 minutes of explaining to him why cars aren't made like that before he told us that he'd be taking his business Elsewhere on a side note the side of the 15s were 100% bald like racing slick Bald and everything in that car was falling to pieces I have too many stories of crap I found in people's cars there but this

one has to be my favorite Story three let me tell you about diamond plate guy in Focus bro diamond plate guy had two things he used to modify his truck a drill and a ton of diamond plate it was an absolute base model V6 Ram 1500 with the exhaust chopped off which I thought was bad enough until I opened the hood he had Drilled or glued diamond plate to every flat surface air filter box intake manifold fan shroud Etc this was 18 months ago my eyes still haven't recovered but this is isn't the end he

had some crappy wheels that he had painted white himself I know this because he painted the inside of the wheel where it seats to the hub which caused them to seize to said hubs I literally had to buy a bigger Hammer to smack them off focus bro guy had a Custom straight pipe full Sparco race seats fivepoint racing harnesses lowering springs and a base model automatic Ford Focus SE Story 4 worked as a car cleaner at a dealership one summer in high school guy towed in a relatively new top-of-the-line Corvette he had bought there sometime

before I started he was pissed that it had died on the road and had been running like crap before that ranting and raving about how he spent all his money and it Only went X months SL years before completely breaking down one of my work buddies got it up on a lift and started looking it over he opens the oil drain plug and nothing comes out he pulls apart the engine and the oil could now be best described as glue owner talks to the guy and asks when the last last time he changed the oil

was guy had zero idea what he was talking about he had no idea that you had to do that he assumed you just added gas and that's the only thing You needed to do the engine was a complete loss which meant the car was a complete loss to him you know I was actually shocked to discover that situations like this are far more common than you would think it's mindboggling to me how people don't think to change the oil in their car like even if you don't change it as often as you're supposed to some

people just flat out don't do it at all they they don't take it in for any kind of inspection they Don't check the tires the tread on that just very very basic things that you don't have to be like a car person to know about they just completely neglect and like it says in this post they think all they need to do is just put gas in the car and drive it and that's it no maintenance it's crazy story five I was working at a performance shop at the time 2010 Golf GTI comes in for

lack of power and throwing check engine codes for under boost and several for fuel Trim management conditions did the typical process of checking the turbo waste gate operation pressure and smoke tested the charge side of the Turbo System for leaks tested fuel pressures all checked out remove the intake side from the turbo to inspect for rips in the rubber boot all good looked inside the intake Boot and this bought one of these turbanator gimmicky things and put it inside the intake it had turned completely on its side and was Restricting about 80% of the air

flow remove the obstruction in motor operating values return to normal and power was restored did not feel any guilt that this idiot had to pay a few hundred for me to diagnose and remove his awesome DIY performance mod story six dude spending thousands of dollars modifying their pickups for off-roading even though they spend 99.99% of the time on highways in the furthest off of a road they ever get is A Logging Road that a stock Forester could tackle with no problems and then complain about extra crappy fuel mileage and having to pay for new 35

5in knobby tires that only last 10K Miles because they wear out super quickly if you drive mostly on pavement and having to replace their front wheel bearings every other year because those larger wheels and tires are a lot heavier than the stock ones and being super surprised to learn that parts for a 34 ton pickup can cost Multiple times more than the comparable ones for the small sedan they sold to afford their bro Truck Story 7 I live in a small Southeastern City and see a lot of suspiciously clean and undented broozers driving around what

I wonder about these guys is doesn't the tire noise drive you effing insane it's probably not something they even think about before getting the pickup jacked up to fit those 35in Big Blocks but I would regret it's so hard story8 I Bought my car off a guy for $785 for all intents and purposes it worked fine but the guy said that it overheated almost daily 1999 Nissan Sentra manual 1 35k mil if it didn't overheat it would have been closer to 3 to 4K maybe even more I bought it anyways cuz I could try fixing

it and cuz I was desperate for a car my old one died and I lived 10 m from work so I brought the car home the guy filled the radiator per an agreement we made and The overflow tank was already empty I started feeling along the coolant piping and when I came to the thermostat sensor housing I could stick my fingernail inside the Gap my fingers came out soaking wet with coolant went to a part store spent $10 on a housing gasket $3 on some liquid gasket and $50 on new oil a new oil filter

a new air filter radiator cleaner and coolant spent an entire day putting that gasket in the reason it took so long is a freaking Story and a half that was all about Murphy's law changed the oil cleaned out the radiator and I haven't had any trouble since all in all a perfectly working car for about $850 I kind of feel bad for the dude who sold it to me edit so if you're satisfied with the story stop here the Murphy's Law Story the housing is underneath two solid pipes that are part of the AC system

which means that on top I have about 2 in of space to work with And underneath is so curved that only my skinny ass wrist will fit no tools there are three bolts one on top two on bottom and my socket wrench could only move one click at a time with some fighting getting the bolts out took 10 to 15 minutes each I put the housing gasket in closed it and tested it still leaking so I bolted it back up applied liquid gasket to either side of the physical foam gasket and finger tightened it then

you have to wait an hour for the liquid Gasket to dry before tightening it all the way after the hour I went to tighten the bolts got one got the second I turned the third four times and snap it seared right through the threading inside the housing so I had to unbolt it back up scrape off the now ruined gasket luckily it came in a pack of two and get the bolt out the bolt was sticking out one thread I grabbed a set of needle-nose pliers the only thing that would fit and began the painstakingly

Slow process of turning the bolt with the pliers 2 Ines of space at a time it took half an hour luckily my old now dead car used the same bolts so I snagged one off of it while I was at it and already pretty frustrated I went and rummaged around for another half hour before finding a bolt screwdriver that was the exact right size to fit under the piping and at least mostly tighten the bolts putting the entire setup together the third time took 20 minutes Plus waiting time for the liquid gasket to dry story

nine bad snow day for whatever F reason we were open guy pulls up needing a flat repair he pulled up in a way the car could just be pulled in cooworker goes to pull it in and can't stop slams into his box wasn't going fast enough to damage anything car had zero brakes say something to the customer oh the foot Brak that hasn't worked in years you have to use the handbrake we inspect the vehicle and Discover it doesn't even have brake calipers in the front with the hoses clamped off and not an ounce of

brake fluid in the master cylinder and the most surprising part they didn't want to get the brake repairs done look I understand that car parts can be expensive and not everyone necessarily has the budget to keep their car in tiptop shape but why would you want to drive around in a car that's basically a rolling death trap with no brakes in a Snowstorm no less like why are you even out on the road to begin with and then when it's brought to your attention you still don't want to get that fixed or repaired man people

are so stupid story 10 not a mechanic but we do almost all of our farm equipment maintenance brother called during a hellacious snowstorm telling me hurry get over here and bring beer I arrive with Bud Light in hand he's got two lawn chairs under his carport we get a beer and settled in Our chairs out of the snow we commence to watching his methed out neighbors that are higher than kites push this mustang they're trying to push start it after about 10 minutes we're hysteric they had been trying for almost 2 hours it was an

automatic transmission story 11 not a mechanic but former service Rider woman comes in for an oil change some common minivan nothing out of the ordinary walked by the van while it was up on the rack and noticed one of the Tires was nearly bald in the middle cords showing textbook overinflation I checked the tire pressure was well overinflated then looked around the vehicle two more tires were in exactly the same state overinflated and showing damage from it the four was a bit underinflated no glaringly obvious treadwear pointed it out to the customer when she came

back asked if there's any reason three tires would be overinflated long story short she was occasionally Seeing a low tire light on the dash no indication of which Tire just low tire told her husband and he just aired up all four tires happened again fixed the same way rinse and repeat so over time they kept the tire with the leak going but managed to ruin the other three by a tire pressure gauge if your car doesn't doesn't give you per tire pressure readings story 12 not a mechanic but a car Enthusiast saw a couple of

cars where owners didn't know what basic Maintenance was like no oil change no brake pad change the oil turned to jelly and you had to scrape it out the most ridiculous thing were the brakes my mechanic friend showed me the brakes of an elderly lady's car the brake discs were gone like almost completely wiped down to like 5 to 6 mm she said to him the car feels weird while I break story 13 she didn't actually do anything but a girl at my school noticed her check engine light came on and she wasn't sure What

to do so she started asking around teacher told her to take it to a mechanic and have them look at the engine she goes okay where's the engine without missing a beat teacher responds that compartment in front of the passenger seat that opens up glove compartment really the whole thing ended up with a class trip outside to her car where the teacher opened the hood to show her the engine she asked which thing in there is the engine my poor Teacher used to work on classic cars and I'm very sure he wanted to die story

14 oh finally a chance to tell my story I'll keep it short guy comes in with a key soul for an oil change mentions when he tries to pass people on the highway the engine bogs down doesn't want to pay for Diagnostics so I just say we'll see if the visual check included in the oil change brings anything up this guy put in some aftermarket turbo kit and that it was just a big fan attached to his Throttle body when he was at wot it would close the circuit in the fan would blast air into

his engine only he wired it backwards the fan would turn on spin the wrong way and the engine would starve for air update wot is wide open throttle for the uninitiated means when the gas pedal is to the floor story 15 I worked at a Chevy dealer and now work at a Jaguar Land Rover dealer I'm not surprised at people's stupidity anymore more than once I've seen people add oil To the coolant reservoir I've seen the inside of a motor where the customer never changed the oil since since it was new and the car had

50s something, miles on it the dumbest thing I see every day is people who come in with broke suspension parts bald tires and no brakes they don't buy any of it and just want the oil change and insist we're trying to rip them off but the same person will come in raising hell over a small safety recall and refuse to leave Until it's done because the car is unsafe story 16 service advisor here hope it's okay I post this had this happen a few months ago it's a copy and paste from my Facebook where I

typically post stories like this customer brings in car last week Wednesday with shaking issue cool take care of some of the issues the car actually has leaves 10 times better issues include bad axles TSB on diff dirty transmission fluid blown rear shocks kneading oil service Done and gone we listed the recommendations still required but customer declined only did axle and diff fluid service today same customer over the phone customer what in the effing hell did you do to my car me what's the issue customer the issue is back and it's fing 1,000 times worse what

the hell did I pay you for me okay well if it's our repair that caused the problem we're more than willing to see what's going on we didn't replicate anything After test drive so unfortunately we can't determine if it's the same issue without checking it out customer I demand a tow truck be sent out and you guys have to flip the bill on this I'm not paying for this nonsense me sir not a problem if it is work we've done we are happy to pay for the toe and correct the issues but be advised if

the issue is due to the other recommendations or new issue you'll be responsible for the toe fee customer yeah that's fine I know It's what you guys did anyway me oky dokies tow truck will be there within the hour tow truck picks car up notices issue tells customer notes it on receipt customer signs and acknowledges it coming back to this in a second get car puncture on rear right outer tire sidewall nice welt and gash the size of a penny tire completely deflated tow driver noted this told customer and rode it out and had customer

sign it grab air hose hook up to Tire just wheezing air Out me well then me yes sir you had a flat tire and you were driving on it customer nope not possible it left here fine and I barely drove it home and it sat since I picked it up from you guys me according to the receipt you acknowledged the puncture with the tow truck driver and signed it off knowing it was flat but we did install the spare drove about 10 m on the street and freeway and we cannot replicate the issue at this

time can hear the customer Trying to find receipt hangs up guess who just paid $75 on a toe bill story 17 I had a guy bring his motor swapped late 80s F-150 in for some transmission work these came Factory with either a 300 straight 6 351 V8 or a 460 V8 he put 2.3 carburated 4 cylinder out of an old Ranger in it the reasoning behind the swap was that it improved fuel mileage at the cost of some speed the thing could barely move under its own power if you floor it it would top out

at about 55 mph wide open and take a good minute or two to get there story 18 my old mechanic had a guy come in with a Ford Probe he claimed it was low on oil they take the dip stick out and the whole stick has oil on it he checks again with the same result the guy took the oil cap off and looked down into the hole and said see it is low he had put three to four cases of oil in the motor trying to fill the entire block up story 19 long time

ago the muffler of a friend's car Developed a hole her husband split a chocolate can and duct taped it over the muffler she later had to have some other work done and was going to go to the same repair man I used Not only was this man an expert he was an ex-stock car racer he always had the greatest bunch of cronies around but they did not suffer fools at all I had heard some of their stories and had an idea what they would say if they drove in with that chocola can I pleaded with

her for days To get rid of that but but she did not I had to take my car in for service a week later and man were their comments I passed them along but she and her husband didn't see the humor for years later she was always referred to as my friend with the chocola can story 20 not a mechanic but while sitting in the shop waiting for my own car to have work completed I witnessed a customer and their mechanic talking about the customer's car needing suspension repair The customer had tried unsuccessfully to do

the repair himself the mechanic asked him why some lug nuts were missing and others were loose the customer replied how he thought he would be helping the mechanic by loosening the tire for him the customer had driven 20 minutes to get to the shop with a tire held on by a few loose lug nuts I'm going to keep this simple guys if you don't know what you're doing don't try to do it it's going to take a lot more than a 2 to Three minute DIY YouTube video to arm you with the knowledge that you

need to successfully perform your own repairs like this so even if you think you're helping don't do something like that you're only putting yourself and potentially other people at risk story 21 not a mechanic except on my own cars but even still I've seen some dumb things come through my shop the funnier one is when I installed a performance intercooler and intercooler tubing on my Mini but I forgot to tighten down one of the hose clamps on a tube the car ran fine for about half a day then I took it out at night and

gave it the beans on a highway onramp the Full Throttle air pressure in the tube caused it to pop off the intercooler immediately the intake sensors went nuts and the dash lit up like crazy within seconds the engine shut off while I was rolling about 60 MPH I figured out what happened pretty quickly of course it's the idiot Thing I did earlier today and was only a couple miles from home so on the highway shoulder I did what I thought was a quick fix without tools to make it the rest of the way home I

limped it off the highway onto a main Boulevard when I stopped at the first light it turned green I hit the gas the pipe blew off again the engine shut off again except now I was right next to a very busy taco truck and all of the 30-ish people lined up and eating took notice a few of them Ran over to help me push it off the street and into the spot in front of the truck being about half a mile from home I did the same fix as before lying down in front of the

car and reaching up into the engine bay to force the TU back onto the intercooler giving it a few extra grunts to get it in place more securely everyone was watching me do this now having seen my car randomly die in traffic watched me get help pushing it over then without a second's hesitation Diving down in front of it blindly reaching up into the dark engine bay and jerking things around like some Supernatural car whisper people were crowding around asking if I needed help I just got back up and hit the ignition and it started

right up everyone laughed and cheered as I pulled back out into traffic to get home where I could really fix it despite me being an idiot for that moment when I fixed it in front of a group of random strangers I felt Special then there was the time I I replaced the water pump and didn't tighten down a ground wire tight enough on reassembly it drove fine on the way to work but the wire shook itself free and the battery died while I was at work I was able to push start it on my way

home but the electronics kept acting crazy headlights dimming and dashboard losing functionality even though the engine was running fine made it home and checked everything and found the loose Ground but in the morning the car wouldn't start again I had killed the battery and in the process also blown out some chip for the security system immobilizer so even after replacing the battery it wouldn't start had to get that fixed by some other mechanic who might show up in this thread talking about the idiot who tried fixing his mini edit the reason I started teaching myself

to fix and break my own cars was long ago I took my Volvo into a dealer For service and the mechanic didn't screw the cap for the coolant back on after flushing it I got halfway through a 600m drive in the middle of a blizzard in January and the car started overheating open the hood and saw boiling coolant sprouting up out of the reservoir the mechanic had left the coolant cap beneath the hood cow the top part where the wipers go underneath the hood and amazingly it was still resting there let the car cool down

and the Reservoir was basically empty so I stuffed some freshly fallen snow into it and made the rest of the drive with the heat blasting the heat was so hot in the cabin I had to have the windows down on the highway in 20° temperatures just to make sure I got there without overheating again that's when I decided to poorly fix my own cars instead of paying someone else to poorly fix them first thing I did was replace the coolant again story 22 I'm a Subaru Dealership Tech so I see a fair share of questionable

mods I think the hentai WRX that visits frequently is probably the most WTF worthy iy put hentai stickers on all the windows plate frame Etc also seeing a lot of dumb shifter knob Replacements like sword handles and stuff but as I also frequently browse and this type of post is by far the dumbest thing I've ever seen story 23 Adam mechanic friend of mine tell me one customer didn't know that the oil would Need to be replaced every few thousand they just assumed that the maintenance reminder was to remind them to check the levels and

look under their car to make sure it wasn't leaking they thought that all the oil for people to buy was because either the oil would leak or evaporate out of the engine mechanic friend surprise Pikachu you know the more I'm reading these stories the more I think that basic car maintenance needs to be part of school curriculums like When students are around 15 16 kind of creeping up on that driving age make them take a full semester's class on just very very basic things that you need to know about your car so that you don't

destroy it are you with me comments let's hear it story 24 the worst one I've seen actually ended up being on a motorcycle I bought at some point the chain snapped came off somehow and got lodged between the front sprocket and the engine case and punched A hole in the case the owner JB welded a piece of license plate Over the Hole as a patch but didn't give a crap enough to to actually dig out the case pieces I never noticed it because on top of the license plate patch he glued a black piece of

plastic that the front sprocket cover slid into and looked perfectly stock I rode that bike a lot and it was fine for a while but I was on a trip with it about a 100 Mil from home when it overheated and died I limped it home But just barely I pulled the engine and that's when I found it I pulled the lower pan off and there were chunks of aluminum floating in the oil the size of coins one was about 2 in big the oil pump pickup was completely impacted with aluminum and blocked the gears

inside the pump were destroyed the bearings were worn almost completely through and the cams were destroyed it blew the head gasket when it was overheated I was effed Story 25 about 20 years ago I Worked in an oil chain shop in Northern Illinois this one day this red Camaro pulls up with some Florida plates on it the woman gets out of the car and says she's passing through town on her way to Milwaukee and that the engine kind of has a knock to it it's not accelerating very quickly I'm hoping it just needs an oil

change so I start the pre-oil change service filling washer fluids checking brake fluid power steering Etc and decided to pull the dipstick just to see How the oil looks nothing on the dipstick I wonder if maybe her car has a leak I pull the car onto the lift and man is that engine running not right so I raised the car to start service and everything underneath looks absolutely pristine no sign of any leaks I'm noticing that the oil filter looks like the Factory filter now the car has like 25,000 M on it so I assume

she'd just been taking it to the dealership for services then I open the drain plug Anyone who's ever worked in an oil change shop knows that the oil in a brand new car is a heavier weighted oil with a kind of green/ brown color so that's what I'm seeing I put a finger into the flow to look a little more closely at the oil and the light sure enough it's factory oil Not only was it Factory oil but there's enough little metal shavings in it that it may as well have been glitter oil so I

go show the woman and say well part of the problem Is that you sure didn't have enough oil in it the other problem is that whoever did your last oil change put in the heavy grade Factory oil you really don't want that in your engine any more than 3,000 mil she looks shocked and says to me this is going to be the car's first oil change I didn't know you're supposed to change it so soon after you buy it so yeah woman goes out and spends $445,000 on a car and has no idea you're supposed

to change the oil every 3,000 m not once Every 30,000 Mi I know that after I finished the service and pulled it out of the shop it seemed to be running a lot better but I have no idea whatever came of that car or that woman story 26 not a mechanic however I have a story for this some years ago here where I live there was a fairly widespread craze of mixing oil I don't remember the type but it wasn't at all related with the engine like sunflower oil or something like that with diesel for

better fuel Consumption the thought was that this this type of oil would burn anyway in mixed with diesel it would give the same kilometers for less money of course it wasn't the brightest of ideas so I remember that despite being fairly young I remember strongly advising against this practice my mother didn't listen to me and proceeded to top her Mitsubishi pagero turbo great car for fuel economy I know with whatever oil she used now to be fair the car held up pretty well Despite the abuse which is because it was a tank however it eventually

succumbed if I remember correctly the fuel pump completely failed and had to be replaced entirely but I might be forgetting stuff the funny thing though is that the mechanic after looking at the engine for about 3 minutes or something like that asked almost angrily to my mother if she was using the oil when questioned how he knew he said something along the line of it's the Fourth this week that comes in with this issue story 27 had a guy show up at a tire shop bragging about being blackout drunk and needed his tire changed he

had a spare on with three out of five nuts he had tightened them by hand and they backed off had to replace all the studs folks would come in asking for tire repairs patches on tires that were literally cut in half like you drove on the rim for a week split down the middle in half they'd get so offended when I Explain they not only needed a tire but now a rim as well I've seen a fake intercooler on a Sunfire paper mâché used instead of Bondo the list goes on story 28 not a mechanic

but a parts Runner I had seen pimp up cars that should not run and others look like a Manor on Wheels one of the dumbest was a classic pimpmobile a 2010 Jeep Grand Cherokee neon purple fake leopard upholstery steering wheel was supposed to look like golden chains and the Internal work made no sense they needed brakes and wheel wells but the mechanics working on it were laughing every time they went near it by the end I had to deliver brakes wheel well battery axles and an engine block story 29 mechanic here lots stories one guy

has OCD and got a license plate called to clean only let one guy in our shop touch his base model Dodge Dakota 2007 had to double up on gloves and he would watch UND sprayed his car with chrome spray I work Primarily on equipment operator calls us to his machine saying he had a crack on his boom think the first arm on a large excavator I get out there and the whole boom has broken off and is on the ground my favorite though has to be the operator who blew a hydraulic hose in a for

forry setting maybe $200 to change the hose decided he wants to walk the machine out to make the hose easier and runs the machine out of oil blowing up the hydraulic pumps $26,000 two travel Motors $8,000 each and the auxiliary pump 25 200ish the machine was down for 2 months for him deciding to walk an extra 50 m out of the Bush so he didn't have to walk the extra distance I have tons of stories about lazy operators but this is probably the laziest LOL story 30 not a mechanic but I toured a car dealership

with my school for career day a little while ago woman got a flat tire kept driving for a long time and the tire was Fully severed it got caught in the wheel arch of this poor Q7 and tore half the wiring harness out the mechanic at the dealership said the bill was going to be close to 30k looking at it I was surprised it wasn't totaled story 31 what did you mean today or I've seen two different Vehicles one one pickup one solar power system in an RV wire up their twin 12volt batteries in series

frying several parts of the 12vt electrical system with 24 volt including The second battery then there's the young girl who poured motor oil into her brake fluid reservoir of her Cobalt thinking that's where engine oil went in to top it off it had been in there long enough to ruin just about every piece of rubber in the system so basically everything was contaminated to the point of needing to be replaced she probably got rid of the car I have to imagine a written estimate would have been at least half the value of the car at

the Time the time a customer had his buddy flat toe him in by tying his ranger up behind a Jeep with a big old length of rope for several miles was amusing and highly dangerous SL illegal they were very clearly impaired he had tried changing his spark plugs not the only thing it needed and managed to completely strip out the cylinder head on one plug then he blamed us when this basket case of an engine ran like crap when all we did was managed to get it to Run it all let's see 20K mil on

conventional oil sludging up in the engine absolutely no end to dangerous Tire stupidity including bearing witness to a rollover three vehicle collision caused by someone else installing illegal tires on an F250 which we refused to the very same customer mere days before customer comes in with an accord complaining her son seemed to have done something to make it louder we get it up on the lift and well he he had Taken a sawall to remove a 6-in section of pipe and used hose clamps and a metal bar to keep the two sections attached to each

other but completely open to the air she got the bill he lost all driving privileges oh one guy had a beat up Elva obscure vintage English sports car with residential wiring and plumbing fixes throughout that is to say brazed copper pipes in the cooling system with a home brew twin radiator pump which still overheated an actual res itial wire and Twist caps which still didn't work he wanted us to get it running again for hooning about in the field that would have required undoing literally everything he had ever done to the car and a lot

more it left on the trailer it came in on shame the ELA was literally a street legal track car of its time oh you did mean today Dodge Dart uses wheel bolts instead of studs cheap aftermarket wheels with incorrect spacing no hubcentric adapter rings has cheap Universal wheel space spacers to clear the front brake calipers neither the wheel spacers nor the wheels were intended for use in this application with wheel bolts the spacer has no way of centering on anything so trying to sandwich it between the Hub and the wheel while entirely supporting the wheel

in the air and threading in the wheel bolts one can't help but let it slip crooked which is what the customer did when he put them on himself which Caused it to scrape the brake caliper bracket it was a juggling act to get it centered enough not to interfere with anything but those wheel bolts are still being subjected to a lot of additional forces that Hub and wheel assembly was never designed for and it's some point something is going to fail also front tires were brand new rear tires were old worn and very dangerously low

on air basically flat never install two new tires on the front with old worn tires In the back this is dangerous in bad weather especially in the winter if the back end suddenly lets go first I don't care how good you think you are you are recovering when the front has so much extra traction and the rear has none the front tires act as a pivot and send you spinning out of control the back tires can't regain enough traction to straighten back out but if the front end lets go first the newer rear tires can

still slow the car down in a straight Line long enough for the front tires to regain traction for a safer stop if you have four matching tires of equal wear and grip it's much easier and more predictable to recover from a sudden loss of traction conventional wisdom is is really wrong when it suggests to put new tires in the front Michelin did a lot of testing with it and it's our corporate policy to put them in the back for that reason same for winter tires never install just a pair on the front Of a front

or all-wheel drive vehicle with all seasons in the back we only install in sets of four winter tires with the modestly better mismatch pair going in the back if they aren't all four the same story 32 worked for Hondas a grease monkey ported cars and took customers cars to various shops around town sometimes take a car from Georgia and drive to North Carolina this one guy had a brand new minivan used the dark side of a kitchen sponge on his car CES That he noticed the soap wasn't coming off after spraying down the van and

customer came in for a oil change and you do the check underneath to upsell crap passenger front CV boot destroyed along with joint and Axle got my service manager he brought the customer in and showed them customer said just need it for another month we couldn't let him leave because it was a safety hazard dude was pissed had to get his mom to pick him up who lived like 3 hours away The entire time he's female dogging and moaning telling us to burn the car to the ground we've effed up his life pretty amazing story

33 knew a guy one day who got in a car crash saying there's something that made him pass out so I check pop the hood nothing wrong nothing wrong with the engine the bottom of the car was somewhat intact after repairs were made by insurance and then I asked for no reason hey did you attempt to make any adjustments or Modifications to your car for any reason and he responded saying that he had recently plugged the exhaust pipe with a banana and keeping it there with Superglue in order to bring a monkey home because his

kid wanted one I crap you not I told him that because he plugged his exhaust pipe with a effing banana that the carbon emissions weren't going into the atmosphere and instead were going into his car making him pass out and that it was a miracle that he Didn't suffocate this was in 1997 when I moved to India for 4 years yeah I've actually known of people that have died doing this so please don't shove crap in your exhaust pipe goodness gracious story 34 unscrewed the radiator cap on a hot vehicle I remember the absolute shock

as I turned around from the till after serving another customer I remember screaming stop and their head turning to look at me but it was too late bang boiling hot water water Straight to the face that day sucked ass large amounts of ass I was just a kid 17 years old thought that guy was going to die in my arms on the driveway absolute horror show for those of you that have never seen third degree burns just no no no no story 35 I took a few High School autoshop classes so I guess you can

call me a mechanic a cooworker of mine asked me to look at her car as it was making some grinding sounds the first thing I did was check the oil saw that it was Not even touching the dipstick so I told her to add some oil and see if that fixes the problem next day she comes to me and says she added oil but now the car won't start so she has her car towed to my house I look at it and try to turn it over the starter is engaging but the engine isn't turning

I pop the hood and check the oil she took my advice of adding oil but I should have clarified how much to add she added so much oil that it was practically spilling out of The dipstick tube once I drained the oil down to a practical level I was finally able to get the engine to turn over only to discover that she hydrolocked the engine with all that oil and shattered the connecting rod or piston sounded like a rattling Coke can full of screws I felt bad that this poor girl just destroyed her own car

because I told her to add some oil story 36 I worked at a Jiffy Lube when I was 18 and saw a bunch of sketchy cars the most impressive Thing I ever saw was an Acura MDX with the V6 that had the original oil and filter in it with 56k miles it still ran and drove under its own power but was nothing but sludge and was way down on power the woman who owned it brought it in because she said it was running rough lol we told her that it was toasted and needed an engine

and she should go to a mechanic we filled it with new oil at least since she was planning on driving it wherever she was going we wrote it in The report and sent her on her way story 37 I have a number of good stories my favorite is the guy who poured not one but two 2.5 gallon containers of dies diesel exhaust fluid into his fuel tank it crystallized in his fuel system so I had to replace every component and flush the lines and tank it was a company truck that was still under warranty but

the factory doesn't cover idiocy needless to say the company's owner was not happy about the 3500 repair just Because his employee was careless the dumbest thing I've seen hands down was a customer who came in with a lifted Crown Vic so he could roll around on 30-in rims instead of SP spending the money on a fabricated kit to do it he shoved blocks of wood between the spring coils so it couldn't compress story 38 my dad's a mechanic so I frequently hang out at his Workshop I don't pay much attention most days busy working on

school reading or whatever I do remember Some guy messing around with the motor to stylize it painting it black that led to a whole host of issues because he couldn't even be bothered to paint it properly so there were just clumps of dried up black paint everywhere under the hood my dad has this did your parents drop you on the effing head when you were a child look that he reserves only for the stupidest of people and I counted that he made it five times that day while repairing the car which Involved replacing a multitude

of pieces that cost the guy a fortune story 39 we had a little girl come in to get her oil changed her car was smoking when she pulled in checked her dipstick and the oil went all the way up to the stick we asked her how she measured how much oil to add she said she just kept adding it until it was was full she drove a 98 Honda Civic engine barely holds four quarts she added 24 quarts it took 45 minutes to drain out I didn't even think There was that much room we used

her oil to fix it and didn't charge her that's how you get held on liability story 40 not sure if it really counts because I'm definitely not a mechanic but when I was working in rental cars I got a few really dumb customers doing stupid things to their cars the most memorable was the guy complaining we charged him for repairs and towing after he poured gasoline inside the engine block he didn't think he should have to pay for It because he was like Hey I opened the hood and poured gasoline into it but I have

a flight to catch and don't have time to deal with it so I'm leaving the car at location I guess he thought everything after the car was no longer in his possession was also no longer his responsibility spoilers it was story 42 not my story but my friends he's a mechanic and had finished working on this old 's hybrid and tells her he's done and she can pull out she goes into The car turns it on and waits for about 10 minutes he then goes up to the window and asks if something is wrong she

says no I'm just waiting for the engine to turn on in an electric car after she already turned the key story 44 started my apprenticeship at Canadian Tire fairly young lived in New Brunswick at the time this story in particular is something I did to my own truck I had bought a sacked out 1996 Dodge Ram 1500 as a first first truck and loved it I Went to bring the truck in for an oil change and general lookover we needed a safety inspection every year I brought it in under the lift all good I begin

bringing the truck up slowly and I hear some creaking not uncommon for a 1996 Dodge in one of the saltiest places in Canada I look around the shop to see who's still in the shop and the creaking continues I start to hear metal bending and look back to find my truck folding my damn truck in half I don't think I've Laughed so hard my whole life I had to bring it down and put the lift arms back under where it folded into itself and unfolded it needless to say I didn't pass a safety story 45

had a customer swear by self-repair and would want just diagnosis this man legitimately had his 98 Pontiac Grandam rear suspension held together with bailing wire and a Pepsi can zip ties made up for 40% of the vehicle by volume and refused anything we suggested for work simply on Principle the effer still passed emissions every year to my knowledge last four years anyhow and scares me that there are cars out there on the road that are held together by actual Faith story 46 my daughter had a friend who worked her way through college as a stripper

and yes she graduated and quit Dancing after she murdered her crappy Toyota because she let the brakes and engine sees no oil pads and rotors worn down to destruction well I did the dad Thing I taught a couple of stripper car maintenance classes in my driveway because she brought three of her co-workers my neighbor across the street spent a long time mowing his front yard watching these girls leaning over the hood bending down to check tire pressure Etc my wife just laughed at me story 47 I was just a grease monkey in a tire and

lube shop one year while taking care of my grandparents in a small desert Town in Washington the boss left for a Week-long vacation and left me in charge this kid got hired maybe 19 years old tops he was so goddamned obnoxious he told everybody all of these outlandish stories he used to to be on the SWAT team he was an ASC Certified mechanic he just got out of rehab for heroin one day I told him to drain the oil out of the car I was working on he went downstairs after a few minutes he said

that the oil was out I checked the dipstick the actual dipstick not the dumb crap in Lower Bay and it was still maybe a quarter over full without saying anything I went downstairs to check F stick's handiwork I guess they never taught him that transmission fluid isn't the same thing as oil the kid drained a brand new at the time Subaru's transmission fuming I stormed upstairs and bered him in front of the whole crew I told him the only excuse to be that stupid was that somebody must have pissed in his mother when she was

Pregnant with him kid cried and we all shamed him for being a dick I ended up having to call the customer and say there had been a mixup and that we were going to be replacing the transmission fluid as well at no extra cost customer was totally chill and I covered the Shop's ass fast forward to win the boss's back he quickly exits the boss's office who's roaring obscenities and chasing him out the kid left when we asked what had happened he said he had Gone to the office to nark me out for being mean

boss chewed his ass out because I'd already left a report on his desk explaining the whole situation for him to read when he returned that was one of my favorite jobs ever the crew really was like family we hired some crappy people sometimes but they never lasted Long Good Times story 48 I was at Napa buying washer fluid and there was a super hot chick walking out as I went in when I walked out with my jug of Expensive water I saw this woman bending over the bumper of her car tiny skirt Riding scandalously High

pouring a cord of oil into her washer Reservoir I said um Excuse Me Miss and she said I have a boyfriend a-hole so I got in my car and left I like to think the next time it rained 40 weight oil sprayed all over her thighs in generous cleavage story 49 I'm not a mechanic but I got one for you guys 7 or eight years ago I bought a 1984 L Camino with a 350 swap off of List for, 1500 bucks get it home and on the drive home the throttle keeps getting stuck open pumping

the gas got it to stop the first few times but I decide to run up to AutoZone I figure I'll pop the hood there buy whatever I need and fix it in their lot as I'm at the stoplight in front of AutoZone the throttle gets stuck open and will not cut off I end up shifting it to neutral and cutting it off until the light turns green as I had started to break torque At the red light I pull into the parking lot and as I try to stop I'm smoking the rear tires like crazy

I get the car off pop the hood and remove the air filter off the top the problem is immediately evident instead of a throttle spring there's an old bread tie the throttle got stuck open as the bread tie had broken the previous owner literally used a effing bread tie on his carburetor story 50 oh God the dumbest thing has to be my brother he has three bachelor's Degrees and is a MD but has no idea how anything mechanical Works he calls me and says my car's a piece of crap it won't Drive he's so angry

I can't figure out what's wrong he drove a very reliable low mileage Honda court at the time that I did all the work on the thing was Immaculate and something must be really wrong with it I arrive and he has the radio blasting he tells me it won't go in a drive I sit down turn the key it fires up goes in drive and works Fine he put the key into the accessory position to listen to the radio turned it up too loud to hear if the engine was running and tried to drive away with

the engine off he does most of my medical work and sometimes I worry story 51 not a mechanic but when my husband and I were young we didn't have a co-signer for a vehicle so we didn't have a choice on our first car the dealership only approved one and it was a Santa Fe they had just got in they were still Detailing it when we signed the papers we drove around for a few weeks no problem but suddenly the battery started giving us problems it would die or the wires would slip off no matter how

tight we made sure they were my dad came in to look at it one day and figured out the battery was not a car battery but a tractor battery he bought us a new one story 52 former service Rider had a lady coming in wanting her oil checked because she thought it was low checked It myself and informed her she was actually full the oil was clean and she was all good to go she wanted proof so I showed her the dipstick but for whatever reason she didn't buy that she wanted to see that the

engine was indeed full of oil I tried to explain to her that's not how it works and that it only takes a few quarts for a car her size to be good to go even went into detail about how the engine pressurizes itself and the oil is pulled up from the pan into the Engine to do its job she eventually left though seemingly unconvinced because she couldn't take off the oil cap and look down into the hole to see oil a few hours later she calls the shop mad as hell because she put in a

number of quarts more of oil before it was actually full and was on her way down to us in order to show us how to do our jobs tried to inform her that the best option would be for her to pull over but she promptly hung up telling me she Would see me shortly a few hours later she calls back back again trying to say we ruined her car and that the engine blew on the interstate because we didn't properly fill her Engine with oil wasn't until Insurance refused to cover anything because she had overfilled

her engine and blew the seals before seizing the engine and shockingly nothing we did she would regularly come by the shop for a while threatening to Sue and so forth when she was eventually contacted by our Attorney she stopped coming around not really sure what happened to her after that this unfortunately is a problem that we encounter far too often in the area of customer service where the customer thinks that they know more than the paid professional that has been assigned to doing the work this lady got exactly what she deserves period story 53 I

think the worst thing I've seen as a mechanic was something I had to do my boss is was the service manager he had An older Mazda 6 and that thing was a bucket it blew a freeze plug as freeze plugs are generally brass and the engine block on this was iron there was no option to weld it as I would have liked voids the purpose of the freeze plug I'm a Weare but he was adamant on it being permanent despite several warnings I finally just slammed it full of JB Weld shoved the freeze plug in

and JB welded it as far as I'm aware it's still running story 54 I do some of my own Work I text with my old shop teacher so if I think I'm effing up he usually has the right answer by doing my own work I also do some of my family's work mainly changing over tires and checking air pressure my dad is stubborn as a mule he tells me to check his pressure and add it a bit put it up to stand standard 35 PSI the standard if you don't know your car's exact PSI this

is what I learned however he has the sticker on the doorframe listing the exact PSI at 34 f It good enough I tell him I put it up to 35 he tells me no no no make it 55 are you insane 55 your crap May damn well explode you don't know what you're talking about maybe it's 55 that's stupid I'm not doing that the tire even says maximum 55 PSI dad you don't need it at the max there's a reason the standard's 35 and in fact there's a effing sticker inside the door frame from the

manufacturer stating as such fine f out of here I'll do it myself do It and you'll f up your tires listen to me you idiot I've got more experience working on cars and you do but you don't have life experience I'm older I know more in the end it stayed at 35 but I mentioned it to my Dad's friend dude used to be a mechanic and he just laughed your dad's an effing idiot sometimes Story 5 5 this will never see the light of day but Collision technician here most cars come in with almost bald

tires fuzzy steering wheel Covers that just slip on the steering wheel in empty alcohol containers good tires are important car manufacturers spend a lot more time designing a steering wheel than a cover that's sold at Walmart alcohol and driving don't go well together story 56 mechanic here if you're not racing and don't know what you're doing don't mod your car with A&M stupidity I've seen Wings tune kits lowering kits fart cans and bolt-on intakes screw up all sorts of things Many aftermarket modding companies don't have your best interest in mind and will improvise when installing

stuff you can't see easily like lowering kits the dumbest thing I've ever seen though is the time a 2014 Outback came into the dealership this is 2015 with less than 20K on it apparently the kid of the people who bought the car attacked the interior with a screwdriver in a meth rage we quoted about 10K to replace all the panels that were damaged last thing If you drive a WRX you're a toolbag no exceptions you might think you're not but trust me you are story 57 I used to do Towing in roadside assistance I was

dispatched to assist a customer with a tire change I arrive and it looks like the guy had attempted it himself he tells me hey man my jack won't go high enough so that's why I called you okay I take a look he's using the factory scissor jack but instead of placing it on the pinch weld like he was supposed To he placed it under the floor and had punched a hole through the floor of the family minivan also this dumb lady who was having her son's Jeep toe to the shop it kept losing electrical power

she was ranting about how it couldn't have been her son's fault and he was a professional when he hooked up the stereo and light bars she kept trying to get me to take her side like I even care that the shop kept doing crappy work and removing her son's mod and how they were Going to pay to fix it for those not aware that's a really really crappy wiring job caused by the dumbass son that mess of wies not be there and was certainly the cause of the vehicle losing electrical power somewhere one of my

other favorite guys at least he was honest I got called to tow a really nice 50 Chevy B air when I show up there's burnout marks on the driveway customer's explanation ah well you see I got really drunk last night and started doing Burnouts in the driveway to show off to my friends then the transmission blew out eventually well that sucks then there was a dude who tried paying me with a quart-sized Ziploc bag full of joints after he had just wrecked his car into a a tree on the median he told me I know

how to deal with guys like you and whips out this bag of joints I declined his offer sorry bud cash or credit only also picked up this sketchy looking couple once they had to pay $50 in Overages for their toe since their roadside plan didn't completely cover it the dude says man we don't have $50 but she will blow you the entire way and the girl winks and smiles at me nope nope nope don't pay my bills ended up leaving them since they didn't have the $50 that job kind of sucked but I always came

home with a story at the end of my shift story 58 I'm not a mechanic but I work customer service for the software on a vehicle it connects your Vehicle to your phone this is what I do keep in mind I'm pretty much it the guy calls in and says that his vehicle isn't moving figured he needed me to connect him to RSA roadside assistance which I get all the time but no apparently he called me because he ripped his effing rear viiew mirror off which is connected to everything specifically it's where the control is

of all the stuff I handle there's buttons on it and he had thought I could somehow magically fix it over The phone I think it probably glitched everything out and sent it into a panic state which put it into locked mode he was apparently trying to manipulate our service and change how the buttons work or something even if you were going to f around with the wiring why would you turn on the vehicle and try to drive it he said can you get my vehicle moving seem to think I can somehow turn it off locked

mode which even if I can he effed up the head unit I couldn't interact With it in any anyway so I just said I can send RSA over to you and he hung up I can't even imagine what he thought was going to happen story 59 my kid had a Suburban coming to the shop for a gas leak like it was pissing gas not dripping once they got underneath it they found that most of the vehicles exhaust system was replaced with plumbing grade PVC pipe that was wrapped and looked like it had caught fire at

least once in addition all of the body Mounts were either gone or nearly gone so the body was basically floating on the frame had another car towed in during the winter with the complaint that it would run for a few seconds then sputter and die it was left in the shop overnight and the next morning it started up just fine couldn't find an issue with it and returned it to the customer that night it gets towed again for the same thing after more investigation discover a custom using The term very Loosely dual exhaust that had

no water drain in the muffler so the condensation in the exhaust would gather and freeze solid blocking the exhaust drilled and drained about a gallon and a half of water from both Mufflers Story 60 worked for a small auto shop as a contractor while in school had a gay couple bring their Ford Freestyle in for break work she'd attempted to do it herself but couldn't get it back together and brought it to us they were Arguing with each other in the lobby pop the wheels off and the rear calipers were hanging by the hoses and

dragged on the ground the entire drive to the shop what would have only been like $50 for us to do brake pads it ended up being over 400 for new calipers hoses one rotor and the pads they were were not happy second best had a trucker from Texas deliver a load to Northern North Dakota in February he shut the truck older 379 Pete with 3406c down overnight in the morning it was running poorly so he drives it across town to us whole engine was trashed the main bearings literally melted 15 w40 Rotella turns into Jello

when it's -20 outside 35 service hours later and lots of money later he was on his way back to Texas Story 6 one I had a fraternity brother in college completely destroy his F-150 he changed the heads and intake out up to the manifold pressure without upgrading his Pistons and rings he also took a hacksaw and cut a hole in the side of his truck to mount one of those cheap plastic air scoops which he glued in place using superglue finally he did his own custom paint job rattle can to matte black ended up blowing

the block a month later put 5,000 worth of Parts into it to haul it off to the scrapyard his patients ended up renting him a beamer for the rest of the semester man I wish I had stupid money like that story 62 not a Mechanic this was told to me by the mechanic I brought a shared car to my friend drives up hills in the highest gear possible slowly losing speed then downhill speeds up as much as he can to do the same thing again uphill you could hear the car struggling and I told her

time and time again it's bad for the car but she apparently is an expert on driving and aggressively let me know she knows knows exactly what she was doing this went on for a month when all of a Sudden the gears were completely effed $1,400 repair the mechanic laughed his ass off when I told the story the girl still think she's doing it right I hate hot girls who never get told they suck at something story 63 I'm probably a lot older than most of the guys on here I went to high school in a

rural area in 1980 a guy in my school inherited his great aunt 64 Chevrolet Corvair which was a nice old low mileage car within 2 weeks he installed a hood scoop from Another car on the hood of the cor for those who remember cor they were rear engined cars the guy was tooling down the road cooling whatever was in his luggage compartment SL trunk which was under the hood area brilliant story 64 not a mechanic but a rider Camry with 200k comes into the shop nothing unusual as Toyotas run forever just came in for maintenance

suddenly my text come up to me asking me to come look at something they asked me to look at the left rear Brake I see the rotor is completely gone the caliper is hanging by one bolt and the only thing keeping the pads in place was the wheels holding the caliper together the caliper pins are completely seized I call the customer and explain what happened he had his buddy do his rear brakes and had no idea the caliper was ruined he was so happy we caught it before something happened I guess he's been driving like

that for a while story 65 I have one about my own stupidity I Was about 22 and I bought a 300Z with a seized motor for cheap such a cool car I had a lot of guy friends in a car club and everyone was willing to help so yay replaced everything motor sltr and everything else that moved took 2 years I was poor and got a second job just to pay for the car finally I get it running it's awesome when I get it home I took the radiator cap off the new radiator and put

the original Nissan cap on it from the old radiator cuz I thought it Was cool car kept getting hot I couldn't drive the damn thing because it would get hot and matter of minutes nobody could figure it out because nobody noticed and I didn't know that it could even cause a problem so I decided to sell the car I was sad and frustrated a friend came over looked at it discussed pricing came to a crappy deal because of the overheating issue and he would come back the next day with cash he handed me the cash

I signed the title he took a New radiator cap out of his pocket and explained to me that I shouldn't have changed the cap such an a-hole I was literally crying I had put so much work into it and instead of telling me he caught my mistake he used it as an opening to get a car for cheap yeah it's bad enough to pull one over on someone like this but even if you did figure that out for real why would you wait until after the sale was Final and then tell them like hey you're

an idiot and I Just scammed you that is a jerk move story 66 had a lady complain her car wasn't running right after she filled up I thought maybe she got bad gas like water or something come to find out she put a full tank of diesel in it by accident had a lady call up and say I was driving and a light came on that says check engine well I'm on the side of the road with the hood open and everything looks fine this was a plow truck and the guy filled up the tank

and The brackets were so rotted that one of them snapped instead of calling a tow truck he tried to tie it back up and keep plowing because one bracket was still present nonetheless the tank ripped out and took everything with it had a guy come in who just bought a new car privately for 5,000 he wanted to replace the tire so he could go to the DMV to register it and he'll come back and get it inspected the car isn't insured registered or inspected as he is Leaving he didn't look both ways and pulled out

in front of someone and the car was total he didn't get anything for the car because it wasn't insured or registered and he switched plates story 67 I was working on a 1981 Buick Grand Marquee that the pinch walls were so rusted I couldn't put it on the lift without it corrupting the entire Integrity of the car and completely breaking the frame so I had to put it up on an ignment rack to even get under it To check it out when I got underneath the car everything was rusted out the radiator is falling out

and hanging from both the hoses the engine mounts were rusted the whole suspension system was shot and it had no fluids in any system it just blows my mind that it was on the road at all story 68 two friends and me well one friend in an acquaintance of him had a good thing going where we'd pull our money and buy Camper vans restore them and sell them or buy them Abroad drive them back home get all the paper paperwork done and sell for profit it was a decent gig I mainly like to because of

the road trips abroad and getting to work on Camper vans while making a few bucks besides my normal job the acquaintance of my friend was a nice man he had money didn't really need to make more but was in it for the same reasons I was I'm pretty handy around cars engines and motorbikes my friend is a goddamn genius with them and I assume The third dude would be somewhere in between my friend and I skill-wise boy was I wrong we found a van we liked and contacted the seller it was abroad France were in

the Netherlands and both my friend and I were unable to go pick it up the other guy had some business to do in France he owned several companies and is always up to something and said he'd pick it up and drive it back we gave him our cut of the money and on he went sure enough my friend gets a call The van broke down reason the dude put diesel in the water tank my friend told him it's fine we'll have to clean out/ possibly replace the water system just get it to a gas station

and put diesel in the diesel tank don't worry about the water tank for now just get it home friend gets another call Van broke down again turned out dude didn't put diesel but gasoline in the diesel tank I thought you said gasoline though we were unable to help him out and basically Told him to sort it out he managed to arrange transport to get the damn thing back to us which is when we really started doubting his ability to think not only is it very obviously a diesel van the cap of the water tank does

not look anything like a gas tank it also has water written right above it in bright red the van was white same for the diesel tank which did look like a gas tank and had diesel written above it then we checked the water tank to see What he put in there because when he called us he clearly said he put diesel in the water tank he got some out it was obviously diesel story 69 back in my car service days a customer was watching their car very carefully then about halfway through the oil change they

came out and claimed the guy who was cleaning the windows had scratched his car with his belt there certainly was a scratch around where the guy had been standing the the customer is busy raising a stink With the manager so the manager calls the guy who had been cleaning the windows over and asks him to show his belt to the customer the customer looks pleased until he realizes it is a nylon belt that attaches with velcro and impossible to scratch a car with so the dumbest thing is attempted insurance fraud I guess story 70 not

a mechanic but I saw a guy miss his exit but decide his truck is capable of off-roading at highway speeds and turning at 45° at the Same time he caught some air when he came back on the highway crashing down and his truck swung back and forth he manages to get the handle of his truck but his wheels and undercarriage are audibly effed I drive next to him and can hear everything scraping and clunking dude pulls over and everyone else just drives along thanks for risking Our Lives a-hole enjoy the 10 to 15K damages to

your truck could have avoided all that if he just went to the Next exit and swung back around story 71 I worked at a tire shop in high school I forget what car he had but it was a type of SUV and he comes in for a change of all four every new tire has a sticker on it telling you brand Dimensions Etc and we always feel it off before putting them on the car of course occasionally some of the sticky material on the back of the sticker will stay on the tire after ripping the

sticker off so we put all four on and send him on his way only For him to come back 20 minutes later complaining that the sticker residue was hindering his performance on the Highway by 10 mph and demanded a full refund as well as four new tires he eventually left after a long argument with my manager and the entire service crew just bursted into laughter