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I’m sure if we all work on this from our experiences, we could get quite a list…
If you are trying to diagnose a suspension clunk or other sound, on your test drive you will be surrounded by guys on Harleys with straight pipes.
The perfect road to test suspension on will be repaved when you need it most
If you are trying to diagnose something by smell, you will end up behind a car that is running so rich you are surprised fire is not shooting out the tailpipe.
The day after you have spent 20 hours and bought an Autel to diagnose a code, ETCG, ScannerDanner, Eric O, ChrisFix, Humble Mechanic, motoyam82, Briansmobile1 and Scotty Kilmer all post videos on how to diagnose the exact problem you had in 10 minutes with a test light and a spray bottle filled with water.
The part you absolutely need on Sunday afternoon will only be available at one store and be the only one left, and that part will be in a tattered box and looks like it’s been in and out of 10 other vehicles (and it’s probably a Dorman).
The minute you think to yourself “Cool, I fixed it,” the CEL comes back on.
It takes only 50% of the time to do the repair a second time.
When you ask your spouse how long their car has been making that sound, they tell you they just turned up the radio so they didn’t hear it.
The bolt you just broke is OEM only and will take a week to get.
Any more?
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I love it. I just spent a week looking for a part online that has been discontinued. I looked mostly at online auto salvage just to find it less than 2 miles from my house at the local run down pick a part.
Leaving a favorite wrench on the inner fender well of a non-local customer’s car!
Purchasing that “specialty tool” (it’s not cheap and nobody in the shop has one) for a job and not knowing when or if you’ll ever use it again. All you want is at the very least that it’ll pay for itself.
When putting the last bolt in, you strip the threads in the hole.
A mysterious unseen black hole in the garage will swallow nuts, washers, and roll pins never to be seen again.
That strange rattling sound in the door turns out to be your lost tool you have been looking for the last few months.
The more expensive a performance part is, the less likely it will fit.
If someone brings their car in for a “simple” oil change, the oil pan drain hole will be stripped out, and the filter tightened on so tight it needs to be chiseled off.When a vehicle is on the ground, a dropped socket or fastener will roll to the exact center under the vehicle, requiring a jack, flashlight, creeper and a magnet to get it back.
When a vehicle is off the ground, a dropped socket or fastener will disappear into some unknown hidden nook under a wire bundle and behind a bracket that hasn’t seen sunlight since the vehicle was assembled.
[quote=”dtidman” post=180650]I’m sure if we all work on this from our experiences, we could get quite a list…
If you are trying to diagnose a suspension clunk or other sound, on your test drive you will be surrounded by guys on Harleys with straight pipes.
The perfect road to test suspension on will be repaved when you need it most
If you are trying to diagnose something by smell, you will end up behind a car that is running so rich you are surprised fire is not shooting out the tailpipe.
The day after you have spent 20 hours and bought an Autel to diagnose a code, ETCG, ScannerDanner, Eric O, ChrisFix, Humble Mechanic, motoyam82, Briansmobile1 and Scotty Kilmer all post videos on how to diagnose the exact problem you had in 10 minutes with a test light and a spray bottle filled with water.
The part you absolutely need on Sunday afternoon will only be available at one store and be the only one left, and that part will be in a tattered box and looks like it’s been in and out of 10 other vehicles (and it’s probably a Dorman).
The minute you think to yourself “Cool, I fixed it,” the CEL comes back on.
It takes only 50% of the time to do the repair a second time.
When you ask your spouse how long their car has been making that sound, they tell you they just turned up the radio so they didn’t hear it.
The bolt you just broke is OEM only and will take a week to get.
Any more?[/quote]
You seemed to have forgotten my favorite: you order a part no even the dealer carries from over seas that takes a month to arrive and when you receive it, it does not work or fit.If you don’t want to lose dropped tools or fasteners, simply put the nastiest drain pan half full of oil, coolant and god knows what else under where you’re working. Anything that falls will land right in it.
[quote=”college man” post=180703]Another one of Murphy’s laws. Shit goes wrong whether you want it to or not.[/quote]
Also we have the corollary to Murphy’s Law which states “If the event something going wrong would somehow have benefited you, Murphy’s Law dictates that, in that event, nothing will go wrong.
[quote=”Evil-i” post=180685]When a vehicle is on the ground, a dropped socket or fastener will roll to the exact center under the vehicle, requiring a jack, flashlight, creeper and a magnet to get it back.
When a vehicle is off the ground, a dropped socket or fastener will disappear into some unknown hidden nook under a wire bundle and behind a bracket that hasn’t seen sunlight since the vehicle was assembled.[/quote]
Dropped alternator bolt that landed above sub frame in center of vehicle. Here came the jack, flashlight, creeper and magnet. Not to mention my garage floor was full of water due to snow.
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