Meeting people as a mechanic.

[Gasser64]

ask her what a nice wedding ring costs. noooo i can buy a years worth of gasoline for that

Perfect comeback.

VICTORY!

[soap]

Helped out my co. Worker today.
He's an older man in his mid 60's with a bad hip. He asked check out his car because the brakes were making "noise" and The brake pedal would go straight to the floor And wouldn't stop safely. So me and another guy took his car and dropped him off to work.

When we took the wheels off we found out he was on Metal to metal. For God knows how long. Half the rooters were goin! And the caliper pistons shot. Anyway new parts and a few hours later we got him squared away.

[petyweestraw]

Dude I worked at a brake shop for a few years and you'd be surprised how often I'd see stuff like this.

[4king]

You wouldn't be suprised to know that most vehicles at the 200k mileage range ate still on the factory rotors

[soap]

You wouldn't be suprised to know that most vehicles at the 200k mileage range ate still on the factory rotors

My old GT had 110k miles on the factory pads/rotors. Before I replaced em. Still had a little meat on em.

[Nash B.]

Rotors aren't supposed to last 200,000+ miles?

[Wanderer]

Rotors aren't supposed to last 200,000+ miles?

"Needs rotors?!? Nah, just slap some new pads on it and it'll be fine!!"

[Strychnine]

Good God. I have never in my life done a "pad only" brake job. Rotors are so cheap, why would you not replace them while you're in there?

[gearjammer351]

I was picking up a few things from Autozone today and the girl in front of me asked the associate where she could find the blinker fluid. Apparently she was pulled over today for failure to signal and after arguing with the cop (she swore she always uses her blinker) he told her that her car must be low on blinker fluid then and should go get it checked out so this doesn't happen to her again. After laughing hysterically the associate informed her that there was no such thing. She then started arguing with him about that. As she's storming off to go to Oreilly's to buy said blinker fluid she yelled "I guess a brain is not a required part of working here"... Needless to say everyone in the building had a huge laugh. The associate actually called Oreilly's to let them know what was headed their way and asked if someone would please record it for him

I worked at a small shop where we had one person to do all of our admin stuff: bookkeeping, ordering parts and supplies, etc. The boss hires this young girl because she's got admin experience. She was a smart girl and did the job well, but knew nothing about cars. One day, one of the guys filled out a form requesting a flux capacitor for an '82 Delorean, put it in the tray and we waited (we were all in on it by this point). A couple hours later, when she got around to ordering parts, she marched out in the shop with the form, threw it in the garbage and shouted "Fuck y'all!", and went back in her office.

We all had a good chuckle.

[BP]

Good God. I have never in my life done a "pad only" brake job. Rotors are so cheap, why would you not replace them while you're in there?

I agree that they are fairly cheap, now at least. We used to get an extra .5 or so per warranty job for turning rotors until GM issued a bulletin saying it wasn't necessary and stopped paying for it without tons of documentation.

http://www.gmdesolutions.com/equipment/tsb_pdf/brake_warr_bulletin.PDF

[LaserSVT]

People. Argh.

Customer: "Yeah, I will be in Thursday at the latest...... or Friday. yeah Friday by the latest but not any latter than Saturday..... but maybe Monday. Yeah, Monday at the latest. Unless its Tuesday. For sure Tuesday by the latest."
Me: Mmmhmmm.
Customer: "I drove from Hubbard to Bellmead in first gear the other night. I wondered why the RPM was pointing at 7 the whole way."
Me: *shock face*
Customer: "Now the car doesn't run right."
Me: Id imagine.
Customer: "Ya'll can fix it, right?"
Me: *points at 'Cant Fix Stupid' sign*
Customer: "So how much is it?"
Me: Way more than that 92 Maxima is worth.

[shumpertdavid]

In the small town of Whiteboro we don't get a huge array of nationalities aside from the typical Hispanic and various horse people. I just had a Vietnamese guy show up somewhat frantic and asking for car repairs. He said his car was smoking badly and some other stuff I couldn't understand. I caught something about pouring 2 quarts of oil in the motor before leaving the metroplex and heading for somewhere in Oklahoma. Long story short, the car was @ 5 quarts over full, the air filter was saturated in oil from it being pushed through the crank vent tube. The airbox, intake tube, and air silencer where all holding oil. So I drained the excess, cleaned all the intake tract, and replaced the filter.

I just sent Mr. Thong Van Ha happily down the road headed towards Ada, OK.

[Baron Von Crowder]

In the small town of Whiteboro we don't get a huge array of nationalities aside from the typical Hispanic and various horse people. I just had a Vietnamese guy show up somewhat frantic and asking for car repairs. He said his car was smoking badly and some other stuff I couldn't understand. I caught something about pouring 2 quarts of oil in the motor before leaving the metroplex and heading for somewhere in Oklahoma. Long story short, the car was @ 5 quarts over full, the air filter was saturated in oil from it being pushed through the crank vent tube. The airbox, intake tube, and air silencer where all holding oil. So I drained the excess, cleaned all the intake tract, and replaced the filter.

I just sent Mr. Thong Van Ha happily down the road headed towards Ada, OK.

Ecoboost f150?

[Jose]

Ecoboost f150?

Was it bought at Grapevine Ford?

[Tremor14]

What are horse people?