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

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Originally Posted by Yak

My wife used to work in an automotive parts dept. A guy comes in looking for brake pads... but he doesn't know for what brand of vehicle (yes, he owned it!). My wife starts listing off manufacturers - nothing. So she asked if it is domestic or import... definitely import. OK, she starts with more import brands - he says it starts with an 'N'. Nissan?, no. WTF? the guy is getting ****ed because she won't give him any old brake pads and angrily tells her "it's yellow!"... like that's helpful! Finally she goes out to the parking lot (minus 20, and a foot of snow) to look at the car. Sure enough, yellow Lada Niva. She tells him that you can't get parts for it, they are disposable vehicles, like a Bic lighter. whenever we get frustrated with each other now, we just yell "it's yellow!" and that breaks the mood.

Originally Posted by kick

Guy brings in a 1999 Suzuki 1400 Intruder, that he bought new, with 2200 (really) miles on it for carb cleaning. I test rode the bike :thumbdown: and noticed it shifted really hard. I mentioned this to him when he came to pick it up today and asked what kind of oil he had in the bike. He said "Yeah, it's been like that since new and I've never changed the oil." I thought he joking. He wasn't.

He said the oil was never changed because the dealer he bought it from in 1999 closed it's doors. I went to the auction at that dealership when they closed shop in 2004 so that was 5 years later.... anyway, I told him he didn't need to go to a Suzuki dealer to get the oil changed and I got a blank stare. He did buy some oil and a filter though.

I don't suppose I have to tell you guys how much air was in the tires, do I?

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.

Originally Posted by tomisawesome

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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.

Love it!

thank god...... for a while I thought i was the only one having to deal with cretins like that.....

Originally Posted by Sprint

thank god...... for a while I thought i was the only one having to deal with cretins like that.....

I was looking for your thread to append these - but I couldn't remember who posted the stories.

Had a bloke drive into our service station one day (back when we used to check the oil and tyres), as I was about to check his tyre pressure I asked "how much air do you want in your tyres", "don't know" he said, "just fill them up", no wucking furries.

Another time I was putting a quart of oil in this Mercedes and the driver who was standing next to me, looked over my shoulder into the oil filler hole in the rocker cover, where you could see the oil pooled up waiting to drain into the sump and he said quite earnestly, "that should do it's full now".

This one about an apprentice mechanic who was doing some driveway service, I noticed he was laying flat on the ground while putting some air in a customer's tyre, I asked why he was laying down, he came back with " the tyre valve is at the bottom of the tyre", Regards Frank.

Solid Gold.

Thanks Ron