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[quote=”Kriste58″ post=155816]Personally I think it is good ‘manners’ as a customer to ensure my car is clean inside and out and the trunk emptied before taking it to techs to work on![/quote]
At least within reason. I get that not every trip to the shop is expected, or booked in advance. But it would be nice if you didn’t come in complaining of a rattle with a back end full of junk (at least the car B) ). Or 2 couches, like I had a Ram 2500 show up for an alignment with in the back.
Pitt had the same thing happen to me in iraq.. Went on r &r they used my wrecker for a mission they blew the trans trying to pull a huge t barrier and left there mre’s on the dash to bake for a week.
Honestly I really hate cars that smells. I lose the thrill to work cars with an unpleasant smell, shabby is acceptable but odor is the worse.
“When you see something ugly you can close your eyes or pretend you don’t see anything, but when you smell something bad can you stop breathing so you won’t smell anything?”
I sell cleaning chemicals.
I had to sort out an ambulance that had been used on a racecourse, and exposed to mud and horses. Luckily it hadn’t been used in anger for that meeting.Trouble is mud and horses = lots of fungal spores.
They found this out after a couple of weeks when it had been parked in the back of the station in the cold damp autumn. What have you got for removing mushrooms from the door trims (Yes mushrooms, not mould)
Didn’t ask if they threw them in a breakfast fry up
i have a car at work right now that has rotten food all over and infested with roaches. it’s the fourth bomb that we threw in it and they still crawling everywhere.
[quote=”KATT302MAV” post=157705]i have a car at work right now that has rotten food all over and infested with roaches. it’s the fourth bomb that we threw in it and they still crawling everywhere.[/quote]
You win
:sick: :sick: :sick:Roach bomb or petrol bomb?
I think option #2 may be best
😉[quote=”KATT302MAV” post=157705]i have a car at work right now that has rotten food all over and infested with roaches. it’s the fourth bomb that we threw in it and they still crawling everywhere.[/quote]
There is a point where it’s fair to tell your customer in some polite fashion that you’re not working on their car until they clean that landfill out of it. In this case, I’d say it was fair before you ever sat down in the car. In the interim, I hope you’re billing the customer for every can of bug bomb.
[quote=”LRDisco” post=157753][quote=”KATT302MAV” post=157705]i have a car at work right now that has rotten food all over and infested with roaches. it’s the fourth bomb that we threw in it and they still crawling everywhere.[/quote]
You win
:sick: :sick: :sick:Roach bomb or petrol bomb?
I think option #2 may be best
;)[/quote]this is one of those few times that diesel is appropriate for a passenger car.
I read all of these and they are some great stories… But I think I got the winner. My shop is in a row of businesses and one of them is a granite company. I know the owner well and service many of his vehicles. He came by one Friday before we closed and dropped off his pickup truck for new shocks. I was able to order the shocks for Monday and left the vehicle in the shop for the weekend. When I returned to work on Monday, I walked past the truck and caught a whiff of a very foul odor. I then saw that the garbage can that was next to the truck was not emptied on Friday with some food scraps in it. I then yelled at the employee whose responsibility it was to take out the trash for forgetting to do so. The smell still lingered and it seemed to be getting worse as the hot summer day went by. I walked past the pickup again and decided to peek into the covered bed.. and there I saw what I thought was a large dead dog! I immediately called my neighbor to yell at him. It turns out that he loaned the truck to his brother before bringing it in to me and his brother told him that he forgot to tell him that when he was borrowing the truck, he hit and killed a coyote! So, I ask “why is it in the back of your f—ing truck???” He then explained to me that his brother practices Santaria, which is an offshoot religion very popular in Mexican culture (they are both Mexican). It turns out that he intended to remove the fangs from the Coyote to be made into good luck charms. Needless to say, his brother came with a large garbage bag and removed the victim and cleaned the car before I installed his new shocks. That is a story that I will never forget!
Along these lines, right after I got out of the Army in 1971, there wasn’t anything that could turn my stomach. A few years in the Army will do that to you.
Although it didn’t turn my stomach, a plumber brought in his white van. He was a tobacco chewer and there was a banana shaped brown pile along the body behind and below the drivers window. I guess it had never been washed. I didn’t get sick or anything, but it was REALLY disgusting.
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