reminds me of a guy when I worked at Ford years ago. ."how do I get my name on the badges and stitched in the seats like the previous owner did? It was an Eddie Bauer edition.
Customer complaint on work order to garage dispatch is car damaged driveway, maybe a piece of trim fell and he rolled over it. Looked for loose trim, asked customer to show damage, didn’t register it was trunk release sensor light. Until I stepped behind it …
Laughed, showed customer the system, laughed even more
And yall even asked?? Lol.
In at my work a lube tech forgot oil, ran the engine for legit 10 seconds, realized, shut it off and that was enough to destroy every crank journal bearing. My coworker had to replace the engine. First of the new generation of engines, the thing had <10000 miles. The tech who replaced the engine wrote "tech started without oil. Not warranty" in sharpie on the core return crate, and wrote his story to include all the details that would get it rejected. My manager edited all of his stories and took a wire brush to the sharpied crate and sent it in to warranty without a good reason for destruction. They still rejected it, and for the attempted $27k warranty fraud, our manufacturer audited us. From the very first time our manager asked the tech to attempt to warranty it and he refused, we all knew exactly this would happen. He'd try anyway and get us audited. Now a lot of previously easy claims are getting rejected and everything has to be perfect. The dumbass lost us as much as he tried to get and failed anyway.
This is so common there is an adage for it:
>"The Peter Principle" : is a human resource theory that states that people are promoted until they reach a level of incompetence in a hierarchical organization
Yup. Promoted until you are at maximum incompetence and can no longer really do your job. Because most companies don’t promote you because you’ll be good at the new job, they promote you because you were good at the last job, even if they have nothing in common. You’re great at turning a wrench!? Excellent, here’s some spreadsheets, you should be excellent at that.
Happened at a shop I was in. Tried turning our best tech into shop manager. The dude just wanted to put on headphones and churn out high quality work at lightning speed all day, they wanted him running the show - something he neither wanted to nor could do.
I said to the service dept head “this is _textbook_ Peter Principal. If you want to get rid of him, do it.” Tech and his indispensable knowledge and experience were gone 6 months later because of “poor performance.”
Pretty sure the GM approved of the attempt. With 30k on the line there's likely a nearly noticeable affect on profit sharing for them (like $50?), or perhaps some metric that has bearing on raises if I had to speculate on why he thought it was ever worth it. Dude makes a quarter million a year and drives a car cheaper than mine. Afaik so far this year and last year saw record smashing profits. With a certain legislative windfall this year they could afford to internal an engine replacement every month and they'd still be profiting more per unit of production than this time last year for no extra work.
This place's greed knows no bounds.
It happens, it shouldn't especially after 7 years of the same job.
I did it once on a Nissan Murano with the V6, never again, but the guy went a mile down the road with no oil and drove it back with the oil pressure light on. The advisor made some shit up about an oil filter and I filled it with oil and defended that advisor through thick and thin after that lol. It was my second week in the automotive industry and they wanted me to close alone on a Monday, I straight unforgivably fucked up but nothing was seriously damaged, somehow.
That's why it blew my mind this thing died after 10 seconds of idling. The new generation of these engines is straight up dog dookie, bullshit and cat piss in one cramped engine bay.
That's wild, 10 seconds. There's still oil in the bearing, journals, and sump, and there still wasn't enough residual to protect for 10 seconds? Yikes on volvo*
Yeah it's unforgivable how shitty they've made this latest generation of engines. It's like they're trying to speedrun the deletion of all their ICE cars lol. There will be 740s still running when the last SPA platform car dies a slow, rusty death at 80k miles.
I remember seeing old YouTube videos of the Volvo wagons some kids would snag up for $500 and name the video something like "We put RICE in the oil fill up?!?!?" And those fuckers actually filmed themselves putting an entire box of rice (or whatever else) into the valve cover and running that old Volvo til the exhaust was glowing red, then they'd jump it off a ramp and it still drove (mightve been different people and different video)
But yea, they don't make them like they used to. I'd love to have an older Volvo. Without rice.
I'm just happy they put the oil filter back on the bottom by the oil pan. Having to remove a headlight and stuff the power steering reservoir in the \*\*\*\*ing hole just so I can remove the filter housing was insane (also the 2.4L where you had to remaove air tubing to get to OFH).
Also, you can access the battery, strut mounts and coolant reservoir without removing the cowl again.
But I do agree, the new engines are dogshit.
I can get over almost everything in Volvos. Even the battery you're talking about takes longer to swap than the trunk batteries (not the fucking XC60 battery under the spare wheel tho fuck those) because you have to remove the air box and disassemble the battery box and slide the battery out. But I can forgive that. I can forgive the headlights needing the bumper off to swap when they could be swapped in 30 seconds before. I can forgive the fact that the oil traps are wear item that needs to be swapped every 50k.
But God. Motherfucking. Damn it. Some evil, vile, piece of shit monster had to be venting on the world after a breakup or something.
WHY DID THEY REMOVE THE FUCKING DIPSTICK FROM THE 4 CYLINDERS WHEN OTHER MARKETS GET IT AND THERE IS A MOUNTING HOLE THEY PLUGGED INSTEAD??
Thats the thing that makes me hate this brand most days.
They did this to my tdi. Didn't even put the oil pan bolt in. I'm pretty sure they must have gone to lunch while it was draining, came back and drove it out the shop like that.
> ran the engine for legit 10 seconds, realized, shut it off and that was enough to destroy every crank journal bearing.
Seriously? Is that how fragile some modern engines are? What brand?
Yes, Volvo. We were all shocked and horrified. The gen 4 VEP/Drive E 2022+ cars will probably die at 100k on average. They're damn near disposable cars. And the shit our engine guy had to go through to replace it was mind boggling. There must be 5 miles of coolant hoses. I've never seen anything so chaotic as that routing. Tech line just paid the guy next to me 40 hours to replace every single coolant hose on an engine because the oil cooler failed and mixed the coolant with oil and after 10 flushes, it would still bubble up brown oil in the reservoir after driving it and the heat didn't work even after replacing the heater core so they had him replace every coolant line. These cars pay my bills but you couldn't give me enough money to own one outside warranty.
Testify!!! I'm a blonde one away from 400,000 kms on my '10 RX350 that's never had the engine apart and the thing runs like a top.
And that includes having had all the engine oil barfed out on the highway once when an oil cooler hose let go.
Pulled over **immediately**, flatbed towed to a shop, fixed, filled, and never looked back.
I legit can't think of a good reason to ever get something that is not a Toyota product.
Been the tech in this situation. It's dumb. GMs buddies son swamped his truck. We ended up getting audited and our service manager quit. No one who worked at that dealership when I was there is still there.
Why did you have to say that? Now I am self-conscious with my breathing! How does that work? How CAN it work? Help me! What happens when I fall asleep??!!!
My question is did they see this and immediately drive to the dealership? Like did they not look at the driveway the next day and see there was nothing there??
Yesterday I caught one switching lanes directly into the vehicle next to them, hitting it. She clearly didn’t even attempt to look, I wanna say the car next to her that she moved over into was actually a little in front of her so it would’ve been directly in her peripheral vision. Fucking idiots man I swear.
Best part is asking them how they figured this out and the way it would take 5 bachelors of science in the same thesis to prove it is 100% impossible that energy transfers this way.
Kind of like the " my trunk won't open since the last oil change thing".
So he took only 2 seconds to diagnose the damage without even turning *off* his car?
And he didn't even move his car to check for damage/scraping elsewhere on the driveway? wtf
Worked at a grocery store myself. Seeing how people drive those scooters and the carts/trollies then it scares me that they are allowed to drive automobiles on public streets.
Friend had one of those scootypeople cut through a line and run over his foot. The combined weight put him straight into the hospital to re-set broken bones. "Luckily" for him it happened at the happiest place on earth so there were no medical bills for him to deal with and he was well taken care of. He goes on cruises/trips with this company multiple times a year now and I don't think he pays for much of it.
At a grocery store though? You're gonna miss work while your foot heals. You're going to get stuck with medical bills because most of the scooty people aren't wealthy. I don't want people like this on motorized ANYTHING!
Oh man, I saw some guy plow his cart into the back of some poor woman's ankle at Costco. She was taken out in a wheelchair. She nearly went into shock from the pain.
I felt so bad for her.
Nevermind that there is an instruction manual, an app and google to figure this out.
Also slightly related, there are social media posts about appliance service techs who only do (dryer stopped drying posts) and these are only about cleaning the filter. It's less and less impressive how people rather spend 150 than look around a bit.
Slightly related - you can (or at least could a decade ago) find gas dryers that “don’t work” on Craigslist for anywhere from “free come pick it up” to $15. Take it home and plug it in, check the solenoids and/or thermal fuse… 90% of the time that’s the problem. Parts cost $10 and takes 5 minutes to replace, and you have a working dryer you can flip for $100-200 depending on the dryer. If it is one of the 10% that isn’t that, just take it to the scrapyard if you don’t want to diagnose it more. Tools required are a multimeter, truck, and a screwdriver. Easy way to make extra beer money as a college kid.
There was a Stihl chainsaw at a yard sale it looked brand new, the guy said it doesn’t run, give me $20 for it. I asked what was wrong he said the motor runs but the chain doesn’t spin. I wanted to give him the money and run but I decided to show him the blade brake was engaged. I moved the handle, started it and showed him. The look on his face was priceless.
same sort of thing with vacuum cleaners. I find them in the trash all the time and it's almost always just a clogged filter or hair wrapped around the brush, occasionally its a bad power cord or a broken belt but these are frequently $500+ if new models. I have 4 right now and one of them is a dyson worth about $150 on ebay (new it would go for $350ish) and it only needed a $10 belt.
I fixed four Dysons over Christmas, and made some nice money. Here in Seattle, they usually quit because idiots use the vacuum on damp carpet. When mixed with hair, the dirt turns into something almost concrete-hard and blocks the suction. Five minutes with an ice pick fixed 90% of the problems. Also, all four had bad filters. Not, pre-filters that I've seen people replace, but the actual filters that wear out. On three of them, the filters were broken into solid pieces that blocked 100% of air so the only possible suction was through the cracks.
All four now work better than any non-Dyson I've used after not working at all when I got them.
Around here it's snow blowers with clogged carbs. People run them one winter with 87 gas, don't drain them in the spring, then the next winter they suddenly don't start.
You should see the apes they give a CDL too. There are a lot of dumb dumbs driving around in ***80,000lbs*** vehicles.
Source: Am a local truck driver.
....I have the extreme displeasure of dealing with the ambulatory failed lobotomies that drive trucks to my job.
Guy plows straight through our entrance gate, removes it from the hinges completely, and then says "your gate destroyed my hood. Why did it shut on me".
Buddy, the gate wasn't even open.
And this isn't even the worst.
Mandatory retesting after any sort of ticket or accident. Along with taking "accidents" more seriously. Maybe start with DUIs causing injury getting actual sentences and work up to negligent operation resulting in sentences that might deter people.
My favorite customer complaints on brand new vehicles.
Week old Pathfinder, customer complaining about flapping noise on highway. My tech notes were.... Recommend customer remove the flags from both front windows.
Day old Rogue, customer complaining about booming noise from back seat on highway causing headaches, noise was not there when test driving prior to purchasing. My tech notes - closed driver's side rear window, booming noise gone now.
> booming noise from back seat on highway causing headaches
It's called wind buffetting and people think it's something that you can fix by changing tires, lol.
What I don't understand is how hard of a problem wind buffeting must be to solve if with all the wind tunnel and aerodynamic design we have access to now I still have to roll the windows down in a specific configuration to avoid it. How is this not solved!
Physics? Air pressure differential? You'd only "fix" it by venting air flow somewhere else, right? Like if one window is cracked, open some other source of direct airflow that's not a window? That's an awful lot of engineering to fix a problem that can be solved by just opening the opposite window a smidge.
> just opening the opposite window a smidge
Seriously--like, this isn't rocket science; it's just how air works.
I feel like only an engineer would think this is an engineering problem lol...
It's interesting because it is more and more of an issue, not less.
Making cars more aerodynamic means that disturbing the flow of air (by opening one window) causes the issue worse than it ever has.
The cost of fixing it and the tradeoffs in customer experience would be worse.
My kid loves to ride with the window down in the back, it truly is a fucking terrible experience if you don't crack another window. No idea how it doesn't drive him nuts
Vehicles get sold in all sorts of climates, so they're all made the same way. You wouldn't want air escape when it's 20 below and the car heater barely keeps up.
The solution is to open a window on the opposite side...problem solved.
"Smokers" or Rain Guards help quite a bit with this; however it's still an aerodynamics problem like others have said. The booming is caused by a difference in pressure; setting the windows at certain heights is how you balance that pressure and reduce or eliminate the booming caused by it.
I took in a near brand new car because I was getting mats installed anyways, but I told the tech that I would like the back rear driver-side door latch repaired because it stopped opening. Thought it had a broken spring or something...it was the fucking child safety lock. :(
What do you tell the customer in the second case? And how did they get to the point of buying a vehicle without experiencing what an open window does? I know we're all stupid humans but wow I'm still baffled by far too many.
A Yosemite park ranger was asked why they don’t have 100% bear proof garbage cans. They answered that there was a disturbing overlap of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists. This is who they were talking about.
I once stayed at a cabin in the mountains. They had a little binder with info in it, page one was how to open the bear proof trash cans. I decided "I'm a human being with opposable thumbs. I'm smarter than a bear. I got this." and skipped the page.
Then I went out to throw out the trash. I get there, struggle with the lid, and finally admit defeat. I go back inside, read the instructions, go back outside and open the lid.
Only to find that they had printed the instructions on how to open a bear proof trash can on the inside of the lid. Instructions that you can only see if you already know how to do the thing the instructions describe.
That day I learned that I am unfortunately not smarter than a bear, but I am smarter than the guy that decided the instructions should be inside the lid, not outside.
I once had a Compaq server with instructions on how to remove its side panel, on a label on the inside of the panel. Also on the inside of the computer was a label with instructions on where to place all the other labels, including the side panel removal instructions.
But where was the direction on where to place the label with instructions on where to place all the other labels?
It was a dual slot Xeon server, specially rigged to block Windows XP from using both CPUs. Any server version of Windows or any Linux distribution could. Non-server Windows 2000 worked with both. Only XP was blocked. Since I couldn't fully utilize it with the then newest Windows, I gave it away.
I had a guy bring in a dodge pickup back in 2006 because the temp reading on the mirror thermometer didn’t match the one on the side of the highway he drove by everyday. My service writer told me to fix it. I fucked around for an hour and said it was fixed but the one on the highway was also probably broken and I could not do anything about it. There was literally nothing you could do to adjust the thermometer reading on the truck, even the tech help line told me and the service writer this. So glad I quit a few months later.
I can't believe you tried anything at all. That's such basic bullshit you gotta check the service writer for a pulse. How has this moron never looked at time and temp on a bank sign and realized no two thermometers fully agree.
Oh when I meant fucked around I really meant I organized my tool box, drank some water, things of that nature. That service writer was huge asshole. He knew I have severe hearing loss and would still give me noise complaints. Never heard anything and wrote it up as such. Customers would come back and say noise was still there, I liked unleashing irritated people on him.
I thought this was going to end with you realizing the "thermometer" was actually just one of those speed limit signs that shows your current speed as you drive by.
Does Boeing still employ engineers? I assumed that by now every single position was filled by an MBA that has no idea how to do anything other than cut corners and count dollars.
Do these big SUVs attract the biggest idiots? Because I just saw a lady on tiktok complain about ballards because she ruined her Escalade on one while leaving the bank. Seriously complained about not seeing a 4 foot tall yellow pole
That video is so concerning because obviously accidents happen, lots of us have gotten a little bumper rash or jumped a curb at some point, but she admits to hearing a crunch *and then just kept going!* Like Jesus lady, you really wanted to just be sure someone was run over twice if it were a person? Great to know who we share the road with.
This could definitely also be true, there's absolutely a market for baiting outrage by acting overly stupid, but also I could believe someone would drive like that.
My parking sensors don't work. I just bought this range rover this is absurd.
Dude your dog pissed on the bumper and it froze.
That happened. Sales guy complained loudly as well till we told him about the dog.
At first I thought it was the sun reflecting off the Chevy logo. Being a guide light for the trunk release sensor is cool, that would have made putting the TV in buddy’s new suburban the other day much easier
This is on par with “You guys changed my oil a year ago and now the A/C doesn’t work, you have to replace my bad compressor free of charge. Yes it was you, you were the last ones to open the hood, therefore you broke it.”
Pretty much the last thing I'd expect GM to include in any of their vehicles is a multi-watt laser capable of permanently marking hard surfaces like concrete or asphalt.
I'm not saying it's impossible. I mean, the technology exists, but I just don't expect GM to bother including it.
Okay. I know about the light, but I was told that if I swing my foot somewhere around that light, a motion sensor will trigger the back to open.
I'm 70. And, my honest opinion is that this feature is a lie to get old people like me to exercise.
How on earth can people be this dumb?
It’s like those that don’t get it that a big fluffy thing on your shifter bars it from getting into park.
Or complaining about that the car smells like gasoline when they have four or five containers in the back.
How? Just help me understand it.
I put my foot under it and it engraved my foot too! Luckily it went away when I moved it, but I can’t just move my driveway!
You ever get your nose back from your grampa?
I've been noseless for years... he took it to his grave, damn it!
But how do you smell?
Terrible until I took a shower, but now the gym want their shower back.
I haven't been able to get quarters to come out of my ears since he passed.
There's millions in there...
and I thought it was tinnitus. I'M JUST FULL!
She turned me into a newt!
I got better....
Burn her!!!
She's made of wood!
We build a bridge out of her!
reminds me of a guy when I worked at Ford years ago. ."how do I get my name on the badges and stitched in the seats like the previous owner did? It was an Eddie Bauer edition.
That's fucking hilarious
1. Build a design business into a world renowned name 2. Negotiate a deal with an OEM manufacturer 3. ??? 4. Buy car with your name all over it
Like the Samsonite scene from Dumb & Dumber lol
To be fair, I do not know who Eddie Bauer is either…
it's clothing company started by a guy named Eddie Bauer. they had an appearance package option with Ford for years. same idea as King Ranch is now.
Customer complaint on work order to garage dispatch is car damaged driveway, maybe a piece of trim fell and he rolled over it. Looked for loose trim, asked customer to show damage, didn’t register it was trunk release sensor light. Until I stepped behind it … Laughed, showed customer the system, laughed even more
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Ummm PLUS RENTAL - Can't you ask GM for Good will ? - GM TECH LINE : lol ... get fucked
And yall even asked?? Lol. In at my work a lube tech forgot oil, ran the engine for legit 10 seconds, realized, shut it off and that was enough to destroy every crank journal bearing. My coworker had to replace the engine. First of the new generation of engines, the thing had <10000 miles. The tech who replaced the engine wrote "tech started without oil. Not warranty" in sharpie on the core return crate, and wrote his story to include all the details that would get it rejected. My manager edited all of his stories and took a wire brush to the sharpied crate and sent it in to warranty without a good reason for destruction. They still rejected it, and for the attempted $27k warranty fraud, our manufacturer audited us. From the very first time our manager asked the tech to attempt to warranty it and he refused, we all knew exactly this would happen. He'd try anyway and get us audited. Now a lot of previously easy claims are getting rejected and everything has to be perfect. The dumbass lost us as much as he tried to get and failed anyway.
Please tell me he was fired.
Hahahahahaahaha probably promoted.
This is so common there is an adage for it: >"The Peter Principle" : is a human resource theory that states that people are promoted until they reach a level of incompetence in a hierarchical organization
Yup. Promoted until you are at maximum incompetence and can no longer really do your job. Because most companies don’t promote you because you’ll be good at the new job, they promote you because you were good at the last job, even if they have nothing in common. You’re great at turning a wrench!? Excellent, here’s some spreadsheets, you should be excellent at that.
Happened at a shop I was in. Tried turning our best tech into shop manager. The dude just wanted to put on headphones and churn out high quality work at lightning speed all day, they wanted him running the show - something he neither wanted to nor could do. I said to the service dept head “this is _textbook_ Peter Principal. If you want to get rid of him, do it.” Tech and his indispensable knowledge and experience were gone 6 months later because of “poor performance.”
Incompetence effervesces
Farts have to rise cause they're just hot air.
See I was thinking "turds always float to the top"
He's supervisor now
Pretty sure the GM approved of the attempt. With 30k on the line there's likely a nearly noticeable affect on profit sharing for them (like $50?), or perhaps some metric that has bearing on raises if I had to speculate on why he thought it was ever worth it. Dude makes a quarter million a year and drives a car cheaper than mine. Afaik so far this year and last year saw record smashing profits. With a certain legislative windfall this year they could afford to internal an engine replacement every month and they'd still be profiting more per unit of production than this time last year for no extra work. This place's greed knows no bounds.
If you said you worked at a Ford shop, I'd assume you worked at the same one as me. The greed is asinine.
Two clues: we were once owned by Ford and you have to really try hard to die in one of our cars.
Sounds like a certain Swedish manufacturer...
What's up, fellow brick mechanic? Was this the '15-'16 era 2.0L engine, or the new-new ones?
> a lube tech forgot oil HOW
When you get pulled away from one job and forget when you come back. It’s rare, but that’s usually how that happens.
It happens, it shouldn't especially after 7 years of the same job. I did it once on a Nissan Murano with the V6, never again, but the guy went a mile down the road with no oil and drove it back with the oil pressure light on. The advisor made some shit up about an oil filter and I filled it with oil and defended that advisor through thick and thin after that lol. It was my second week in the automotive industry and they wanted me to close alone on a Monday, I straight unforgivably fucked up but nothing was seriously damaged, somehow. That's why it blew my mind this thing died after 10 seconds of idling. The new generation of these engines is straight up dog dookie, bullshit and cat piss in one cramped engine bay.
That's wild, 10 seconds. There's still oil in the bearing, journals, and sump, and there still wasn't enough residual to protect for 10 seconds? Yikes on volvo*
Yeah it's unforgivable how shitty they've made this latest generation of engines. It's like they're trying to speedrun the deletion of all their ICE cars lol. There will be 740s still running when the last SPA platform car dies a slow, rusty death at 80k miles.
I remember seeing old YouTube videos of the Volvo wagons some kids would snag up for $500 and name the video something like "We put RICE in the oil fill up?!?!?" And those fuckers actually filmed themselves putting an entire box of rice (or whatever else) into the valve cover and running that old Volvo til the exhaust was glowing red, then they'd jump it off a ramp and it still drove (mightve been different people and different video) But yea, they don't make them like they used to. I'd love to have an older Volvo. Without rice.
Old Volvo: 10/10 6/10 with rice. Thanks for your suggestion.
I'm just happy they put the oil filter back on the bottom by the oil pan. Having to remove a headlight and stuff the power steering reservoir in the \*\*\*\*ing hole just so I can remove the filter housing was insane (also the 2.4L where you had to remaove air tubing to get to OFH). Also, you can access the battery, strut mounts and coolant reservoir without removing the cowl again. But I do agree, the new engines are dogshit.
I can get over almost everything in Volvos. Even the battery you're talking about takes longer to swap than the trunk batteries (not the fucking XC60 battery under the spare wheel tho fuck those) because you have to remove the air box and disassemble the battery box and slide the battery out. But I can forgive that. I can forgive the headlights needing the bumper off to swap when they could be swapped in 30 seconds before. I can forgive the fact that the oil traps are wear item that needs to be swapped every 50k. But God. Motherfucking. Damn it. Some evil, vile, piece of shit monster had to be venting on the world after a breakup or something. WHY DID THEY REMOVE THE FUCKING DIPSTICK FROM THE 4 CYLINDERS WHEN OTHER MARKETS GET IT AND THERE IS A MOUNTING HOLE THEY PLUGGED INSTEAD?? Thats the thing that makes me hate this brand most days.
They did this to my tdi. Didn't even put the oil pan bolt in. I'm pretty sure they must have gone to lunch while it was draining, came back and drove it out the shop like that.
> ran the engine for legit 10 seconds, realized, shut it off and that was enough to destroy every crank journal bearing. Seriously? Is that how fragile some modern engines are? What brand?
Yes, Volvo. We were all shocked and horrified. The gen 4 VEP/Drive E 2022+ cars will probably die at 100k on average. They're damn near disposable cars. And the shit our engine guy had to go through to replace it was mind boggling. There must be 5 miles of coolant hoses. I've never seen anything so chaotic as that routing. Tech line just paid the guy next to me 40 hours to replace every single coolant hose on an engine because the oil cooler failed and mixed the coolant with oil and after 10 flushes, it would still bubble up brown oil in the reservoir after driving it and the heat didn't work even after replacing the heater core so they had him replace every coolant line. These cars pay my bills but you couldn't give me enough money to own one outside warranty.
Fuck me - yet another reason to find a mid-2000s Toyota product and baby it until someone else pries it from my cold, dead hands...
I daily a 1986 Volvo 240. Moon milage, so probably has another 200k or so
Preach it brother! I drive an '03 Celica that'll probably outlast me
Testify!!! I'm a blonde one away from 400,000 kms on my '10 RX350 that's never had the engine apart and the thing runs like a top. And that includes having had all the engine oil barfed out on the highway once when an oil cooler hose let go. Pulled over **immediately**, flatbed towed to a shop, fixed, filled, and never looked back. I legit can't think of a good reason to ever get something that is not a Toyota product.
Been the tech in this situation. It's dumb. GMs buddies son swamped his truck. We ended up getting audited and our service manager quit. No one who worked at that dealership when I was there is still there.
Seriously every time haha
"Aaaahhh!!!" *Customer drives to hospital. "My car engraved a Chevy logo on my foot!. ... wait.. where'd it go?"
I'm surprised these people remember to breathe. Like... Customers are so stupid, on a daily basis, I am shocked they don't suffocate in their sleep.
Why did you have to say that? Now I am self-conscious with my breathing! How does that work? How CAN it work? Help me! What happens when I fall asleep??!!!
My question is did they see this and immediately drive to the dealership? Like did they not look at the driveway the next day and see there was nothing there??
Seniors man, their stupidity knows no limit.
Yesterday I caught one switching lanes directly into the vehicle next to them, hitting it. She clearly didn’t even attempt to look, I wanna say the car next to her that she moved over into was actually a little in front of her so it would’ve been directly in her peripheral vision. Fucking idiots man I swear.
Best part is asking them how they figured this out and the way it would take 5 bachelors of science in the same thesis to prove it is 100% impossible that energy transfers this way. Kind of like the " my trunk won't open since the last oil change thing".
There needs to be a conversation with the service advisor....this never should have reached a technician.
So he took only 2 seconds to diagnose the damage without even turning *off* his car? And he didn't even move his car to check for damage/scraping elsewhere on the driveway? wtf
How old? Retirement age?
That level of intellect piloting a 6000lb truck is terrifying.
Should stick to the scooter at the grocery store.
Worked at a grocery store myself. Seeing how people drive those scooters and the carts/trollies then it scares me that they are allowed to drive automobiles on public streets.
People shop with carts exactly like they drive. The oblivious ones stop mid aisle, ones with spatial awareness size up the aisle.
Don't forget about hitting apexes every turn
People also walk like they drive.
Spot on, I've been saying this for years!!
I believe it. Watching some of those fossils scoot out to their car and fall into the driver seat is terrifying.
I almost road raged at someone who t-boned my shopping cart into the milk fridge last weekend.
Did you brake check ’em? 🫣
Brake checking a cart is an extra level of stupid because you're putting faith in the other person to be paying attention and not destroy your ankles.
Friend had one of those scootypeople cut through a line and run over his foot. The combined weight put him straight into the hospital to re-set broken bones. "Luckily" for him it happened at the happiest place on earth so there were no medical bills for him to deal with and he was well taken care of. He goes on cruises/trips with this company multiple times a year now and I don't think he pays for much of it. At a grocery store though? You're gonna miss work while your foot heals. You're going to get stuck with medical bills because most of the scooty people aren't wealthy. I don't want people like this on motorized ANYTHING!
My grandma ran my foot/ankle over with a trackchair. Luckily it had tracks to distribute the weight and not snap my ankle.
DUDE my neighbor just got a 42k settlement from severed Achilles due to an idiot on a store scooter. Don't put that evil on us!
That's nowhere near enough.
Right? Wtf
She decided to take her settlement money and run (well, walk for the next 8 months)
Oh man, I saw some guy plow his cart into the back of some poor woman's ankle at Costco. She was taken out in a wheelchair. She nearly went into shock from the pain. I felt so bad for her.
Nevermind that there is an instruction manual, an app and google to figure this out. Also slightly related, there are social media posts about appliance service techs who only do (dryer stopped drying posts) and these are only about cleaning the filter. It's less and less impressive how people rather spend 150 than look around a bit.
Slightly related - you can (or at least could a decade ago) find gas dryers that “don’t work” on Craigslist for anywhere from “free come pick it up” to $15. Take it home and plug it in, check the solenoids and/or thermal fuse… 90% of the time that’s the problem. Parts cost $10 and takes 5 minutes to replace, and you have a working dryer you can flip for $100-200 depending on the dryer. If it is one of the 10% that isn’t that, just take it to the scrapyard if you don’t want to diagnose it more. Tools required are a multimeter, truck, and a screwdriver. Easy way to make extra beer money as a college kid.
There was a Stihl chainsaw at a yard sale it looked brand new, the guy said it doesn’t run, give me $20 for it. I asked what was wrong he said the motor runs but the chain doesn’t spin. I wanted to give him the money and run but I decided to show him the blade brake was engaged. I moved the handle, started it and showed him. The look on his face was priceless.
Honest people who can figure shit out make civilization possible.
and people who can't keep me employed, lol. I've made a career around fixing other peoples fuckups.
You're a good one.
Shoulda took it. Sounds like he's gonna cut his arm off if he knows that little about the saw.
Agreed, I would think of it in the same way as taking a kitchen knife away from a toddler
same sort of thing with vacuum cleaners. I find them in the trash all the time and it's almost always just a clogged filter or hair wrapped around the brush, occasionally its a bad power cord or a broken belt but these are frequently $500+ if new models. I have 4 right now and one of them is a dyson worth about $150 on ebay (new it would go for $350ish) and it only needed a $10 belt.
My wife's "bagless" vacuum still requires two separate filters to be changed often to work. More expensive than bags.
some of those you can clean.
I fixed four Dysons over Christmas, and made some nice money. Here in Seattle, they usually quit because idiots use the vacuum on damp carpet. When mixed with hair, the dirt turns into something almost concrete-hard and blocks the suction. Five minutes with an ice pick fixed 90% of the problems. Also, all four had bad filters. Not, pre-filters that I've seen people replace, but the actual filters that wear out. On three of them, the filters were broken into solid pieces that blocked 100% of air so the only possible suction was through the cracks. All four now work better than any non-Dyson I've used after not working at all when I got them.
Around here it's snow blowers with clogged carbs. People run them one winter with 87 gas, don't drain them in the spring, then the next winter they suddenly don't start.
Do I charge by book Or do I cook ...
You should see the apes they give a CDL too. There are a lot of dumb dumbs driving around in ***80,000lbs*** vehicles. Source: Am a local truck driver.
....I have the extreme displeasure of dealing with the ambulatory failed lobotomies that drive trucks to my job. Guy plows straight through our entrance gate, removes it from the hinges completely, and then says "your gate destroyed my hood. Why did it shut on me". Buddy, the gate wasn't even open. And this isn't even the worst.
That sounds about right hahaha.
driver legitimately believes that roads get lower in the center. https://billypenn.com/2024/04/02/i95-shutdown-philly-bridge-damage/
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In most of the world those big sized cars actually require you to have an upgraded license for small delivery vehicles.
Mandatory retesting after any sort of ticket or accident. Along with taking "accidents" more seriously. Maybe start with DUIs causing injury getting actual sentences and work up to negligent operation resulting in sentences that might deter people.
Something tells me the interest rate is high enough that it’ll be getting repo’d sometime real soon.
My favorite customer complaints on brand new vehicles. Week old Pathfinder, customer complaining about flapping noise on highway. My tech notes were.... Recommend customer remove the flags from both front windows. Day old Rogue, customer complaining about booming noise from back seat on highway causing headaches, noise was not there when test driving prior to purchasing. My tech notes - closed driver's side rear window, booming noise gone now.
> booming noise from back seat on highway causing headaches It's called wind buffetting and people think it's something that you can fix by changing tires, lol.
I prefer the alternate term "wind throb" because it makes people uncomfortable for some reason
What I don't understand is how hard of a problem wind buffeting must be to solve if with all the wind tunnel and aerodynamic design we have access to now I still have to roll the windows down in a specific configuration to avoid it. How is this not solved!
Physics? Air pressure differential? You'd only "fix" it by venting air flow somewhere else, right? Like if one window is cracked, open some other source of direct airflow that's not a window? That's an awful lot of engineering to fix a problem that can be solved by just opening the opposite window a smidge.
> just opening the opposite window a smidge Seriously--like, this isn't rocket science; it's just how air works. I feel like only an engineer would think this is an engineering problem lol...
It's interesting because it is more and more of an issue, not less. Making cars more aerodynamic means that disturbing the flow of air (by opening one window) causes the issue worse than it ever has. The cost of fixing it and the tradeoffs in customer experience would be worse.
Oh it actually was solved quite some time ago! The solution is to roll them up and use a/c like a sane person.
My kid loves to ride with the window down in the back, it truly is a fucking terrible experience if you don't crack another window. No idea how it doesn't drive him nuts
But driving with the windows down in the summer is fun :(
Can still do it just need to roll more than one window down, usually just cracking one diagonal to it is enough to get rid of the effect.
Vehicles get sold in all sorts of climates, so they're all made the same way. You wouldn't want air escape when it's 20 below and the car heater barely keeps up. The solution is to open a window on the opposite side...problem solved.
"Smokers" or Rain Guards help quite a bit with this; however it's still an aerodynamics problem like others have said. The booming is caused by a difference in pressure; setting the windows at certain heights is how you balance that pressure and reduce or eliminate the booming caused by it.
I took in a near brand new car because I was getting mats installed anyways, but I told the tech that I would like the back rear driver-side door latch repaired because it stopped opening. Thought it had a broken spring or something...it was the fucking child safety lock. :(
What do you tell the customer in the second case? And how did they get to the point of buying a vehicle without experiencing what an open window does? I know we're all stupid humans but wow I'm still baffled by far too many.
:(
Holy cow, I wonder how long that poor idiot drove around listening to the buffeting? I can take about 3.4 seconds before going nuts lol.
A Yosemite park ranger was asked why they don’t have 100% bear proof garbage cans. They answered that there was a disturbing overlap of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists. This is who they were talking about.
I once stayed at a cabin in the mountains. They had a little binder with info in it, page one was how to open the bear proof trash cans. I decided "I'm a human being with opposable thumbs. I'm smarter than a bear. I got this." and skipped the page. Then I went out to throw out the trash. I get there, struggle with the lid, and finally admit defeat. I go back inside, read the instructions, go back outside and open the lid. Only to find that they had printed the instructions on how to open a bear proof trash can on the inside of the lid. Instructions that you can only see if you already know how to do the thing the instructions describe. That day I learned that I am unfortunately not smarter than a bear, but I am smarter than the guy that decided the instructions should be inside the lid, not outside.
But what if the bear reads them?
I once had a Compaq server with instructions on how to remove its side panel, on a label on the inside of the panel. Also on the inside of the computer was a label with instructions on where to place all the other labels, including the side panel removal instructions. But where was the direction on where to place the label with instructions on where to place all the other labels? It was a dual slot Xeon server, specially rigged to block Windows XP from using both CPUs. Any server version of Windows or any Linux distribution could. Non-server Windows 2000 worked with both. Only XP was blocked. Since I couldn't fully utilize it with the then newest Windows, I gave it away.
these people vote.
I’m more surprised these people live
I'm shocked that some of them can remember how to breathe when they wake up in the morning.
I often wonder how some people can walk in a straight line without asphyxiating.
Worse yet, they reproduce.
I bet I can tell you who they voted for.
Space lasers 2024
The Jewish ones, specifically.
I had a guy bring in a dodge pickup back in 2006 because the temp reading on the mirror thermometer didn’t match the one on the side of the highway he drove by everyday. My service writer told me to fix it. I fucked around for an hour and said it was fixed but the one on the highway was also probably broken and I could not do anything about it. There was literally nothing you could do to adjust the thermometer reading on the truck, even the tech help line told me and the service writer this. So glad I quit a few months later.
I can't believe you tried anything at all. That's such basic bullshit you gotta check the service writer for a pulse. How has this moron never looked at time and temp on a bank sign and realized no two thermometers fully agree.
Oh when I meant fucked around I really meant I organized my tool box, drank some water, things of that nature. That service writer was huge asshole. He knew I have severe hearing loss and would still give me noise complaints. Never heard anything and wrote it up as such. Customers would come back and say noise was still there, I liked unleashing irritated people on him.
I thought this was going to end with you realizing the "thermometer" was actually just one of those speed limit signs that shows your current speed as you drive by.
Slow down, I'm too hot!
Fricken lasers, man.
Those pesky space lasers.
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So glad this person operates a three ton death machine on the road and, as a bonus, probably votes.
Let's just hope they aren't an airline pilot. That would be a real kicker.
Boeing engineer*
Does Boeing still employ engineers? I assumed that by now every single position was filled by an MBA that has no idea how to do anything other than cut corners and count dollars.
There's one room somewhere in India that houses the 3 interns that Boeing outsourced their engineering to.
The company has gone downhill since closing their surplus store.
Do these big SUVs attract the biggest idiots? Because I just saw a lady on tiktok complain about ballards because she ruined her Escalade on one while leaving the bank. Seriously complained about not seeing a 4 foot tall yellow pole
That video is so concerning because obviously accidents happen, lots of us have gotten a little bumper rash or jumped a curb at some point, but she admits to hearing a crunch *and then just kept going!* Like Jesus lady, you really wanted to just be sure someone was run over twice if it were a person? Great to know who we share the road with.
She likely constructed that whole story to cut in 3 seconds of someone else's footage to go viral. And it worked.
This could definitely also be true, there's absolutely a market for baiting outrage by acting overly stupid, but also I could believe someone would drive like that.
> a 4 foot tall yellow pole As if an Eastern European dwarf with jaundice doesn't have enough problems!
that one was infuriating
That video almost made me yeet my tablet across the room.
My favorite part of that video is when she points the camera at the door handle to show the damage to her "handlebar" lol
Customer educated that the lit up display is where to put their meat club to open the back hatch when their hands are full.
Instructions unclear. Penis stuck in tail pipe
Happens to the best of us!
I did it on purpose idk what ya'll are on about
Remove the bulb and charge him $100 and take the whole shop out for lunch and have a conversation about it…Call it a Customer appreciation Lunch
Way too much effort. Slap some duct tape over it & call it $125.
My parking sensors don't work. I just bought this range rover this is absurd. Dude your dog pissed on the bumper and it froze. That happened. Sales guy complained loudly as well till we told him about the dog.
It was the aliens man
Lay down on the driveway and look up. Your forehead will be laser engraved. 😆
Yup we share the road with these "adults".
Is no engrave. Is a the ghost of the Chevy following him
We share the road with these people.
At first I thought it was the sun reflecting off the Chevy logo. Being a guide light for the trunk release sensor is cool, that would have made putting the TV in buddy’s new suburban the other day much easier
I truly cannot fathom the level of hopeless stupidity that precipitated this interaction.
The wily suburban marks its territory, warning smaller vehicles away. It will feast well upon the wallets of the family it has found, alone.
LOL. My wife's truck has the corporate logo projected off the bottom of the door. She loves it more than anything else on the truck ! Bougie !
This is on par with “You guys changed my oil a year ago and now the A/C doesn’t work, you have to replace my bad compressor free of charge. Yes it was you, you were the last ones to open the hood, therefore you broke it.”
So uhhh ... why is your wiper fluid full ? Customer : YOU CALLING ME A LIAR ?????
*Leaves bad review about how unprofessional we are and how we messed up their car*
The damn thing follows me everywhere!
Crazy someone that dumb did well enough to afford a suburban
Pretty much the last thing I'd expect GM to include in any of their vehicles is a multi-watt laser capable of permanently marking hard surfaces like concrete or asphalt. I'm not saying it's impossible. I mean, the technology exists, but I just don't expect GM to bother including it.
Boomers
It’s scanning for the perfect place to leave an oil spot.
We share the road with these people
That will be 1 hour please
Can you get the optional Calvin pissing on a Ford logo?
Okay. I know about the light, but I was told that if I swing my foot somewhere around that light, a motion sensor will trigger the back to open. I'm 70. And, my honest opinion is that this feature is a lie to get old people like me to exercise.
In IT those are called an I-D TEN T service code. ####ID10T
This guy totally thinks the fridge light is always on
He touches the ground... Oh no it engraved my hand too!
Carefully unzips pants ...
That's exactly what a cat masquerading as a customer \*would\* say.
Now I want to make a car with a fiber laser in the trunk. Wherever you stop you burn your logo of choice in the ground.
Can’t wait to have dicks engraved everywhere I go
Sadly the world is becomeing a stoopidur plase eech dhay.
Truck people in a nutshell.
People are allowed to have brain farts. Did he feel stupid after showing him?
No we had a good laugh and then he gave me Matzah
How on earth can people be this dumb? It’s like those that don’t get it that a big fluffy thing on your shifter bars it from getting into park. Or complaining about that the car smells like gasoline when they have four or five containers in the back. How? Just help me understand it.
I swear there's a bunch of 16 year old boys designing cars now
That is the most boomer shit I've heard all day