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.
...I had to grind off a majority of it
...in this case I think it was an over rev on a downshift. You’d be surprised how dumb some of these drivers are
xterra 3.3
A car is a veritable schmorgasboard-orgasboard-orgasboard
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They ran it dry and never checked on it.
...Both sides were totally rusted out. She hauled it out on a tow truck, Since I “refused to just replace her struts”.
Im in Florida, this is a Minnesota 2010 Toyota Camry
Photos: Windowsweirdo
Da bigga da gob, da more $ da job
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Whoa... deja vu
[5.4 triton]
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Tore down found a crack in the combustion chamber on cyl 4
Welp, I don’t see any oil weeping
Honda Avalanche
40 hours for oil change + spark plugs. 15 000$
...Basically the whole rear end had to be dismantled
Customer brought their car in because the airbag light was on after being repaired from a front end collision. At least they put a brand new wrecking yard airbag in....
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Pulling the reservoir off the hose felt like pulling a tape worm out of something. I had already seen the corks and fished out the glove, but the tape was the icing on the cake.
Wonder what they charged for this...
Brand new outback had an aftermarket remote start installed. Other shop cut the wrong wire. Now it gets a dash harness
...It was a 2008 Benz GL AMG with very low miles, kind of breaks my heart. It was a beautiful car
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He did not close the valve on it
Obligatory tire post
Obligatory brake post