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.
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Isuzu kb 250
Severely severed
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.
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.
I wish there was a charge for this lol, but it was written up under warranty so no money there
08 Corolla
(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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Rock n roll!
...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
[Aftermarket amp] ...big 00 gauge wire fell out of it’s fuse holder. Definitely not factory.
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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...it just had a hole in the front, but never found out how
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].
The rod fell from the splash guard while it was being lifted.
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
[It worked] up until the radiatior exploded
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