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I’m selling off a radio dash install kit that’s specific for Ford, Lincoln, Mazda, Mercury vehicles on Amazon. The description states “FORD LINCOLN MAZDA MERCURY”. I put into the description in capital letters those vehicles are the only ones it will work with. However, once a week or more I’ve been asked if it would fit a Toyota, Pontiac, or Chevy. You ever had people so oblivious to what they own they ask questions that don’t apply to that make, model year? Or say, someone came in with a car they thought was a hybrid, but it only had the internal combustion engine? How can people spend so much money on a car, own it for years, and the only differences they notice about cars is the color? I am not picking on genders. So, any good stories? People say they went all over town looking for taillight fluid? People come in telling you the front tires some how got on the back?
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We mechanics could make a full length movie trilogy and still not have enough time to show all of the stupidity we deal with.
Brokemechanic3000 is right; a book could be written about one shop’s adventures with the “mechanically uninclined” customers. In many cases it would be a boxed set……….
One story (out of a million) involves a Nissan dealer where I worked. A late model Nissan was repossessed and ended up back at our dealership. The sales department sent it back to service with a “Repair A/C to cool” complaint.
When I drove it into the shop I noticed a pinky sized hole in the glove box lid.Getting into it I discovered that someone decided to damage the car before losing it. It looked like a .357 slug made the hole. The bullet went clean through the glove box (and owners manual), through the A/C evaporator, through the firewall, and ruined the right side engine mount when the bullet ricocheted off of it before taking out an A/C hose at the end of its high speed journey.
There was a dent in the strut tower where the bullet hit and fell out underneath the car. Takes all kinds….. :ohmy:Maybe in the descript say, “Will not work with other makes”.
What is scary though is what happens when they decide to buy a wiring kit?
A stereo mounting kit MIGHT be modifiable to work in other cars, maybe. Makes more sense though to just spend the SAME money to get one for a Chevy/Toyota/whatever. Wiring is not so forgiving. maybe they should leave the job to a pro.
What might confuse people is the fact that a very few car parts are interchangeable even among different makes. Or how parts within a parent company are often one and the same (like how Ford Contour and Mercury Mistake, er, Mystique use many of the same parts)
With “tail light fluid”, is it possible someone was thinking “dielectric grease” for the bulb installation? Could happen.
I am assuming life must be really painful for people who have to drive older cars but know nothing about them. I mean a mechanic shop will charge an arm and a leg for even simple work.
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