Average folks doing car stuff...

[Ace-Garageguy]

 

[StevenGuthmiller]

I'm sorry, but that last one can't be real, can it?

 

 

Steve

[espo]

And I used to be one of those that thought annual vehicle inspections was as overreaction. Along with an owner competence test they seem like something to be considered. 

[johnyrotten]

Scary, funny video. We share the road with these people. The brake repair one's always get me. "Just rolled in" channel on YouTube is another one.

[Bill Eh?]

Last clip in video... Hey come back here, this is your fault!

[bobss396]

We have a local who flips horrendous cars. One of his gems was in a friend's shop to be inspected. The RF rotor was down to just the hub portion. The actual disc part was gone.

The caliper was still in place, but had a piece of wood instead of brake pads in it.

[Earl Marischal]

Average day in your shop @Ace-Garageguy? 

steve 😆

[1972coronet]

Just when I think that I'm not the sharpest bulb in the tackle box , I see these fine examples. 

[Tim W. SoCal]

  When I worked at the Hot Rod Shop, we had a customer bring in a '66 Shelby GT350 that he'd bought on-line from a flipper in the southeast (we're on the Lower Left Coast). In the seller's pictures, the car looked REALLY nice and the buyer paid handsomely for it, but when it arrived at his driveway, they couldn't get the driver's door open to unload it from the transport. The transport driver said he had to crawl through the window when he loaded it. They ended up bringing it to us without unloading it. Ends up that the undercarriage was so rusted out that the front subframe had collapsed and the body was also sagging in the middle. When the buyer contacted the seller about the POOR condition of the car, the seller's response was "I just buy 'em and sell 'em, I don't look underneath 'em!" and showed the buyer absolutely no sympathy or goodwill. The car is in such bad shape that it needs to be rebodied and the buyer doesn't have the funds for the repairs. In another nightmare, a local customer inherited a nicely restored '55 Chevy Cameo from his Dad in Oregon. He found the least expensive transport company he could and hired them to deliver it to him here in California. The trip was SUPPOSED to take 4-5 days. After a week-and-a-half, the transport company "owner" admitted that the truck had been damaged and he had it delivered to a body shop without the owner's knowledge or consent. The transporter was a 1-ton flatbed with a gooseneck trailer in which the ramps went over the truck cab. The driver loaded the Cameo up front and didn't tie it down correctly. During the trip, the driver ran into a situation where he had to slam on his brakes and the Cameo rolled off the front of the trailer, landing on its frame about 3 feet behind the front wheels. The Cameo's owner, after much fighting, had the Cameo delivered to us. To make matters worse, he transport company had let their liability insurance lapse and refused to cover the damages they caused.

Edited January 7 by Tim W. SoCal

[OneTrickPony]

Back in the early 70s, I was in HS and had a part time job at a local repair shop. There was a used car lot in the area that had a reputation for selling junk but the cars always looked nice. One day a guy came in with a Chevy Nova he had just bought from them with a 6 cylinder engine. It was missing real bad and the salesman had told him it just needed a tune up. The boss checked it out and it had zero compression on one cylinder. The customer oked pulling the head. When we got it off, there was no piston or rod in the hole. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

2 minutes ago, OneTrickPony said:

...When we got it off, there was no piston or rod in the hole. 

Yup, a tune up'll fix 'er right up.