Thread: Some people should not be let loose to work on stuff

A mate of mine back in NZ, (a few years ago), spent many hours carefully crafting a perspex cover for his new intercooler on his Mazda. When asked why, he said it was to protect it from stone damage........ I remember lots of laughing and pointing in his direction

I used to look after the air conditioning in a large project home builders display showroom and headquarters. I constantly got complaints from the 3 girls on reception whenever I walked in the door about how the temperature was never constant. I got so sick of the whinging I got and old thermostat from the back of the ute, punched a hole in the gyprock, poked a bit of wire in the hole, pushed out the ceiling tile to make it look like I was doing something in the roof, went back to the hole I made and fished more wire out of the hole, connected up the thermostat, screwed it to the wall and said " there you go girls your own personal control. I was the best tech they ever had and never heard a complaint again.

Years ago when living in Sydney in the 1970's my mate and I recieved a panicked phone call from his mother, could we come to *** service station as she had put oil in the car, but didn't have enough money and needed lotza xyz dollars

Must be a common one. One of my mates restored an Alfasud for his daughter. Got a call one day that it wouldn't go. This was from Geelong and he lives at Donvale. Filled to the filler hole.
And she worked as receptionist in his panel shop. Youda thunk she would know.
One for the tradies. when I got my Maxidrive fitted by a well known Rover Specialist, I was driving home and heard a clunkity clunk. Stopped in a sidestreet and you may have guessed, all the nuts on one wheel loose. NOT HAPPY JAN.
Regards Philip A

My sister once ran out of petrol in her car. She found a bottle of engine oil in the boot and poured that in (she thought it was petrol), then wondered why it wouldn't start

I sometimes feel the thread title relates to me. My mechanic probably agrees too!

Years ago I bought an imported Toyota Crown Super Saloon from a car dealer in Beaufort Street in Perth. This thing had every conceivable option and was a pretty flash bit of gear in its day, especially when compared with the "big three" Australian offerings - just looked like it needed a bit of attention.

I saw it at the back of the yard - it was pretty dirty inside and out, and had just been traded - no price yet on the window. Asked the salesman how much they wanted for it, as it looked as though it would clean up OK (which it later did - came up like a new one). He told me that they didn't think that they could sell it, as the engine sounded horrible and they thought it was about to blow up.

I offered them $250 for it and they accepted (I had a spare engine if I needed it). Took it around to a mate's place, pulled the dipstick to check the oil level, and oil flowed out of the top of the dipstick tube.

Drained the oil completely and re-filled back to correct level (it had almost 20 litres in it) - and the thing ran without problems for many years & still going strong when I eventually sold it.

Pretty much confirmed what I have always thought about used car salesmen.

Originally Posted by ezyrama

I used to look after the air conditioning in a large project home builders display showroom and headquarters. I constantly got complaints from the 3 girls on reception whenever I walked in the door about how the temperature was never constant. I got so sick of the whinging I got and old thermostat from the back of the ute, punched a hole in the gyprock, poked a bit of wire in the hole, pushed out the ceiling tile to make it look like I was doing something in the roof, went back to the hole I made and fished more wire out of the hole, connected up the thermostat, screwed it to the wall and said " there you go girls your own personal control. I was the best tech they ever had and never heard a complaint again.

Have done that on several office AC jobs, works a treat

Originally Posted by tomisawesome

i have had a customer complain that ever since we did a full service on his Prado (including diff fluids) the rear wheels skip while turning.... turned out he put the shifter into High range 4wd with rear diff lock engaged, and the light on the dash was off.

also had an Xtrail today that the customer was complaining it wasnt acting normally. took it out of locked 4wd and put it into 2wd, and it was perfectly fine.

i have found that its easier to fix issues like that, and plug in the scan tool and tell the customer that we reset all the parameters in the ECU. that way i dont have to discuss their intelligence, and wether or not they should have a liscence.

I hope you charge them heaps...cos people like that should not have money and a vehicle as well.