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As the title, what’s the strangest thing you’ve come across in a customer’s vehicle that you’ve worked on? I’ve had plenty of full sets of ladies underwear kicking around in cars i.e. basques with the stockings attached LOL, but the best one had to be a live albino python in the boot! (trunk for you USA techies)
Seen quite a few sex toys etc too :sick: 😆
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I was in a customers car a few months ago and there was a bowl of corn flakes with milk sitting on the passenger seat. Its no wonder there is maggots and other disgusting finds on the other posts.
This will be a heck of a first post, but I might as well let ‘er rip! I was enjoying this thread so much I figured I’d join in.
Brace yourself.
I work at a Chevrolet Dealership in Detroit Michigan. Mind you, we in the shop often joke about our demographic area and how there are very strong stereotypes about the people who live in the area. With that in mind, allow me to continue.
So I jump in this customer’s 2010 Camaro SS. His complaint was an INOP HUD, and “check squealing brakes”. So I test drive it, hear the brakes squealing from the rear, pull it in my bay and get out the tech 2 and start running the codes. While I’m waiting, I examine the work order once again, and then glance over and look in the cup holder and notice the bottom was full of bullets. That kinda disturbed me, but I figured what the heck, maybe he’s just a marksman. Moving on about 30 minutes, I’m looking at fuses and wiring and things and I open the passenger door and see blood all over the seat and running down the side. So I had a mini heart attack that I just touched the inside of a crime scene car and call a co-worker over and then she freaks out too. So I call another technician over. He freaked out even more. He’s like “holy crap man, good thing you’re wearing gloves- I’d refuse to work on that!” – So I call my service manager over, and he told me to just throw a seat cover on it and fix the car.
So moving forward, I dig into the car a little bit more and ended up having to call the customer and ask him some things. Turns out his dog was recently neutered and his incision area had developed a leak and he took the dog to the vet in that car and hadn’t had time to clean the car up. Or so he says.
Either way. I will NEVER forget that car. I was incredibly happy when that car left my stall. I ended up having to call TAC and they told me to replace the HUD unit. Which involved a four hour dashboard removal.
Fun stuff I tells ya!
07 Saturn (MOTHER*&#!*$&!*&#$*&!!) Outlook came in last weekend
118K some odd miles. Complaint is that they’ve been jump-starting it every day for the past several months….
Instead of testing the battery, I opened it up because I (thought) I knew what was going to happen if I tested it.
Well, they put the battery on these things behind the front passenger’s seat in a compartment on the floor…
Let me back up. A woman comes in & asks to have it worked on. I go out to the car with her, and the first thing I have to do is wait for her husband to take the 3 little kids out. Then, halfway into the shop, the stench hit me.
So I get into the battery box, and what do I find? Half a fucking gallon of water! Rusty, stinking, stagnant, mildewey, brown water. I went all over the damned place telling people: “You GOTTA see this shit!”
I told the writer about it so that we could explain it to the customer, and she sends her husband out to look at it with me.
Captain moron wants to know if we can “use a paper towel to soak it up”. I actually performed a facepalm.
I’m sure you all know what happened. The whole car was disgustingly filthy with just broken bits of God knows what. Wrappers, papers, straws, pens, pencils. You name it, it was in there.
I pulled the old battery, shop-vac’d the water out, installed the new one, and recommended a full-blown detail/demoldification.
-See, the lady figured out it was probably one of her kids or their friends who spilled something. They decided not to do anything about it. They thanked us for the battery swap, and went about their day.That car was so damned nasty, I spent 15 minutes on Bing, looking for the number to call C.P.S…. I didn’t. Should have….
[quote=”NullHead” post=64888]This will be a heck of a first post, but I might as well let ‘er rip! I was enjoying this thread so much I figured I’d join in.
Brace yourself.
I work at a Chevrolet Dealership in Detroit Michigan. Mind you, we in the shop often joke about our demographic area and how there are very strong stereotypes about the people who live in the area. With that in mind, allow me to continue.
So I jump in this customer’s 2010 Camaro SS. His complaint was an INOP HUD, and “check squealing brakes”. So I test drive it, hear the brakes squealing from the rear, pull it in my bay and get out the tech 2 and start running the codes. While I’m waiting, I examine the work order once again, and then glance over and look in the cup holder and notice the bottom was full of bullets. That kinda disturbed me, but I figured what the heck, maybe he’s just a marksman. Moving on about 30 minutes, I’m looking at fuses and wiring and things and I open the passenger door and see blood all over the seat and running down the side. So I had a mini heart attack that I just touched the inside of a crime scene car and call a co-worker over and then she freaks out too. So I call another technician over. He freaked out even more. He’s like “holy crap man, good thing you’re wearing gloves- I’d refuse to work on that!” – So I call my service manager over, and he told me to just throw a seat cover on it and fix the car.
So moving forward, I dig into the car a little bit more and ended up having to call the customer and ask him some things. Turns out his dog was recently neutered and his incision area had developed a leak and he took the dog to the vet in that car and hadn’t had time to clean the car up. Or so he says.
Either way. I will NEVER forget that car. I was incredibly happy when that car left my stall. I ended up having to call TAC and they told me to replace the HUD unit. Which involved a four hour dashboard removal.
Fun stuff I tells ya![/quote]
Dude… :ohmy: I think you just won the innerwebz 😆
Found a hand gun, panties, and weed. But the worst was a solo cup full of piss that grandpa was saving in his Deville.
So I have found the usual searching for lug keys….living where I do its not at all uncommon to find fire arms and ammo. We usually just shuffle around it and dont give it a second thought. Truck beds are usually covered in blood during last few months of the year…vehicles come in like that all the time no one bats an eye. Even at the school when people pull in vehicles with guns, no one even says anything.
But condoms, magazines, toys, KKK gear. Literally white robes and that pointy hat and a the whole get up in the back of a bus….
My top favorite was a new toyota tacoma…like 600 miles. Car went to the dealership twice for a noise during accel and decel. They had no idea what the problem was. Car came to the school as a last ditch attempt. Made a zip noise when you gassed it…zipped when you slowed down and stopped….All speeds….Finally our toyota master tech too the torch and cut the back end of the frame…toyota tacoma pickup rolls out. Not even joking. It was put in at the factory….
[quote=”meleemaker” post=84918]So I have found the usual searching for lug keys….living where I do its not at all uncommon to find fire arms and ammo. We usually just shuffle around it and dont give it a second thought. Truck beds are usually covered in blood during last few months of the year…vehicles come in like that all the time no one bats an eye. Even at the school when people pull in vehicles with guns, no one even says anything.
But condoms, magazines, toys, KKK gear. Literally white robes and that pointy hat and a the whole get up in the back of a bus….
My top favorite was a new toyota tacoma…like 600 miles. Car went to the dealership twice for a noise during accel and decel. They had no idea what the problem was. Car came to the school as a last ditch attempt. Made a zip noise when you gassed it…zipped when you slowed down and stopped….All speeds….Finally our toyota master tech too the torch and cut the back end of the frame…toyota tacoma pickup rolls out. Not even joking. It was put in at the factory….[/quote]
Are you talking about a little toy car inside the frame?
[quote=”meleemaker” post=84918]My top favorite was a new toyota tacoma…like 600 miles. Car went to the dealership twice for a noise during accel and decel. They had no idea what the problem was. Car came to the school as a last ditch attempt. Made a zip noise when you gassed it…zipped when you slowed down and stopped….All speeds….Finally our toyota master tech too the torch and cut the back end of the frame…toyota tacoma pickup rolls out. Not even joking. It was put in at the factory….[/quote]
I wonder if that will be on next year’s Toyota MDT test…. :woohoo:
-Karl
A guy working in the bay next to me was doing a bunk heater core on a freightliner one time. He opened the side box to remove the HVAC assembly. He found a deflated blow up doll in a card board box. Wierdo truck drivers!
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