Reddit’s Just Rolled into the Shop is a veritable cornucopia of the many wonders and oddities of shop lyfe. You never know what’s gonna roll in. Here’s what caught my eye this week.
This came in as a night drop. The note read only; “Car is fucked”
One of the very few times I’ve seen an accurate self-diagnosis from a customer.
Choosy moms choose extra chunky!
...customer said it’s for [HOV lane] “haven’t been busted yet!” Just shook my head and laughed
Was just doing tires... Hope I never have to take that apart
What was left of the insert
More pictures; https://imgur.com/bXL28LO.jpg https://imgur.com/toSAh82.jpg
All-American Reflects
They are from fiat diesel
The old one set a false code for the Purge Valve control circuit. The new one started setting multiple coil circuit codes and missing like crazy on the first drive. There are signs of moisture on the circuit board and I don’t know what that blue corrosion-looking substance is on the upper left near that capacitor. Quality control seems to be slipping.
Nitro
07 CLS550. Really rough. ...it’s ALL neglect. Battery was definitely low, and there were plenty of low voltage faults, but over half of them were actual, currently present hard faults.
TRANSFORM AND ROLL into the shop
Discount Hitch
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It was a tow in... Topped it off is an understatement... there were three empty gallons of oil in the back seat... oil puking out of the dip stick stem and everything
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This time it was my bad..I was rushing a shit paying recall, thought I had threaded it enough before zapping it, I was wrong..
This was just driving it in, only ran for about 10 seconds in the shop, I was turning our vent fan on, opening the garage doors and closing the doors to the rest of the building. Then we all left until it was clear.
No shit he brought us special “no smoke” oil to fix this.
Filter gonna filter
Used to be a taxi, any corner you can imagine has been cut
#towtruckbait
Rebar alert!
Used & abused
Obligatory bra- I mean ti- I mean... hang on, let me start over
Obligatory brake post
Obligatory tire post