153 Of The Most Ridiculous Things Car Mechanics Have Seen On The Job

If you’re counting everything down to the smallest screw, a single car has about 30,000 parts. That’s way too many for us average folk to maintain. This means that over time, bad things happen, and we need to take our metal horsies to the mechanic to fix them.

But the state of some of our cars… Due to money shortage, ignorance, or neglect, we DIY or pretend we don’t see a problem when it’s clear that a professional has to take care of it. So when the inevitable occurs and we pull up to their place begging for help, the poor fellas know they’re stuck with it for good.

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There’s even a subreddit for such situations. r/JustRolledIntoTheShop is a community that collects “those absolutely stupid things” that we bring, roll, or toss into their businesses and car mechanics are pretty popular there. Continue scrolling and you’ll understand why.

#1 Hood Opens. Hood Is Layed Down Immediately. Tech Exclaims “Oh Hell No.”

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#2 Rental Car Came Back Like This “Had A Plane To Catch”

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#3 C/S She Hears A Flapping Noise Coming From The Driver’s Side.

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#4 Customer Refused All 4 Tires On A Rainy Day, She Also Had To Sign A Waiver Before Releasing The Car

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#5 Customer States Temperature Gauge Is Reading Full Tank.

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#6 Customer Failed To Mention The Fact That His Dog Was In The Vehicle, Scared The Hell Outta Me.

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#7 Accerlator Gets Stuck To Floor. Pull On String To Unstick.

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#8 Guy Drove In Like This. Another Reason Why We Are Essential.

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#9 Private Security Tahoe With 1” Bulletproof Glass. The Rest Of The Vehicle Is Just As Heavily Armored.

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#10 A Girl Who Works At Sonic Just Paid Her 1k Repair Bill With Mostly 1’s And 5’s. Mad Resolve.

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#11 Just In For An Inspection & Was Greeted With This…

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#12 A Sweet Old Lady Asked Me To Apply Her 2018 License Plate Decal Today As She Couldn’t Kneel Down To Do It Herself Anymore.

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#13 Customer Has Been Coming Since 200k Miles, Said He’d Get To 1 Million. I’ve Been Waiting For That Day For Years, Today He Casually Rolled Up And Asked To Plug His Tire, Needless To Say Best Tire Plug Ever.

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#14 Just Hopped Into The Shop

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#15 7 Months Since The Last Post About This Car… He Finally Did It. Our Customer Bought This Civic New In 06 And It Has Only Been Serviced At Our Dealership. Original Motor And Transmission.

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#16 Customer States Rear End Impact. Requests That We Don’t Total The Vehicle And That It Is Repaired To Like New Condition For 1500 Or Less…..

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#17 Says Didn’t Have A Spare, Drove For 3 Days! I Found The Spare In The Trunk Complete With Jack!

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#18 Well That’s A First

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#19 I Replaced A Battery Last Week In A Customers Car And She Is Trying To Claim The Battery Is Causing Weird Things To Happen To Her Car Now. This Morning, She Said The Red Line Was Never There Before The Battery Was Replaced And Wants A Refund. Lord Help Me.

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#20 In Case You’ve Ever Wondered That The Undercarriage Of A Tesla Looked Like

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#21 Customer Was Wondering Why When He Started His Car This Morning, It Sounded Different. He Didn’t Understand It When I Told Him He Had Been Robbed.

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#22 I Work At A Rental Company And The Police Brought This Back…

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#23 The First And Probably Last Time I Will Ever See One Of These. Jaguar Xj220 With Only 3k On The Odometer.

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#24 86 Yota. 211k Miles. In Mint Condition.

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#25 Which Car Has The Worst Battery Location?

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#26 Coworker Left A Couple Shop Rags In The Engine Valley When Doing Intake Gaskets. Now He Gets To Replace The Engine.

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#27 Regular Customer In For His Monthly Oil Change (6000+ Miles Every Month)

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#28 Lexus In To Pick Up Some Brake Pads. (Today)

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#29 Surprised It Didn’t Explode Into The Shop

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#30 Just Rolled Into The Shop, Literally

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#31 A Forest Of Black Ice.

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#32 Actual Work Order At Our Shop From One Of Our Technicians

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#33 2017 Maserati Owner Refused To Buy New Rear Tyres And Insists On Driving It Away

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#34 Customer States “I Played Edm Once And Now My Car Won’t Stop Pretending It’s At A Rave”

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#35 I Dont Condone Stealing… But Man I Want To

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#36 Jesus Has The Wheel, The Saints Have The Tach. And Speedometer.

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#37 Customer Kept Adding Air Because The Tpms Light Would Not Turn Off…

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#38 Nobody Told Me My Tesla Model S Power Windows Also Have Ludicrous Mode

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#39 I Think My Boss May Be Compensating For Something With His New Toolbox

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#40 When A Customer Gets Flood Damage In Their 2013 Bmw And The Insurance Company Agreed To Pay 10 Grand To Replace The Entire Body Harness. (All Seats, Carpets, Dash And Cage Came Out. As Did The Headliner, Headlights And Everything In The Trunk.) This Was A 57 Hour Job.

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#41 Joop

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#42 I Don’t Get Some People

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#43 Little Dude Picked A Bad Spot For Metamorphosis

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#44 “Do Not Put Solvents Down The Sink” Is Evidently Too Complicated For Some Of My Colleagues…

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#45 Had An Interesting Tailgate Come In Today

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#46 Customer Stated He Needed A Punctured Tyre Repaired, Had To Tell Him He Was Screwed

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#47 My Car Is Making A Funny Noise

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#48 Just Remember That No Matter How Bad Your Day Is Today, You Are Not The Guy That Backed Into This Car…at Work… In A Work Truck… Just Minutes Before The Customer Was To Pick The Car Up…for A Photo Shoot.

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#49 The Car Sounds Like A Cartoon.

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#50 Stayed A Little Longer At The Shop To Save This Little Guy From Someone’s Engine Bay

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#51 Told The Customer We’d Have To Remove The Fuel Tank So They Drove It Until The Gas Light Came On Before Binging It In. Customer Of The Year.

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#52 Med School Student Started My Day Off Right

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#53 The Jd Power Awards May Be Bogus After All ?

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#54 Just Rolled Back Into The Shop. Three Months Ago I Left My Clip Pliers Under The Hood Of A Customers Car. This Morning On My First Car They Came Back To Me.

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#55 C/S Lost His Keys… I Wonder Why

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#56 I Used To Complain About German Over Engineering.. I Present The 2018 Honda Clarity Rear Suspension

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#57 A Giant Armored Un Vehicle. I’m 6’3” And I Come Up To The Lower Arm On The Mirror.

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#58 Customer Request: Reflect On Your Life.

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#59 “Just Give Me My Free Oil Change.”

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#60 An Old Coworker Sent Me This. I See Things Haven’t Changed.

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#61 They’ll Wanna Take Selfies With Them

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#62 17mm Ordered, 170mm Delivered.

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#63 The Only Worthwhile Lift Kit Instructions

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#64 Just Rolled Into My Machining Class For A Polishing, It’s Solid Aluminum.

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#65 Walmart Customer Decided The Price For The Oil Change Was Too High, So He Did It Himself In The Parking Lot And Left This.

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#66 Guy Left His Car At Work Too Long

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#67 Our 6’6″ Shop Foreman Just Got A 5’7″ Apprentice.

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#68 Don’t Take A Highlander Rock-Crawling. It’ll Be Expensive.

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#69 Lied To Wife About Getting Oil Changes. 25k Without An Oil Change. They Had A Prepaid Plan…all He Had To Do Was Just Bring It In.

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#70 “The Skidsteer Track Is Making A Funny Noise”

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#71 When The Gas Can Is Towards The End Of Its Life It Sheds Its First Layer Of Skin To Make A New Layer

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#72 This Is Not Ok

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#73 This Ford With 30, Not 30k Just 30 Miles Has A Check Engine Light On

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#74 I’m A 3rd Generation Tech. This Was In My Grandpa’s Tool Box. Glad To See He Had A Good Sense Of Humor.

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#75 Not Sure If This Is The Right Place For This But I Had A Customer Come In Yesterday Who Was 130k Miles Over On His Lease

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#76 Customer States “Interior Smells Like Mold”… The Spare Tire Is Literally Floating.

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#77 Gold Star For You.

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#78 Taste The Rainbow. Radiator Flush On A 20yo Truck.

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#79 Just Rolled In For After Purchase Oil And Fluid Change, 200k Paint Option…

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#80 Guy Bought An Artificial Femur That Had Been Removed From Grandma Before Cremation From A Yard Sale And Used It As His Shifter.

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#81 Just Rolled Away From The Shop.

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#82 Customer States Vibration Above 55 Mph

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#83 2015 Gmc Sierra 1500 Struck By Lightning At The Antenna. Here’s My Repair Totals. Insurance Refused To Total It So They Paid To Replace Nearly Every Module In The Truck At Full Labor Rate.

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#84 How To Fix An Exhaust Rattle For $0.25.

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#85 Just Crawled Out From Under A Broken Lift

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#86 They Told Me Someone Was Dropping Off Their BBQ For Me To Do Brakes And Bearings On. I Thought They Were Joking, They Were Not….

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#87 The Cleanest Example Of The Ugliest Car Ever Made.

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#88 Customer Came In Saying It “Felt Like They Had A Flat Tire”

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#89 Sorry Officer I Didn’t Know How Fast I Was Going.

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#90 Customer Brought This In For “The Boy That Fixed My Tire”. Too Bad He Was Only 19, Lead Tech Took It Off His Hands.

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#91 I Probably Won’t See One Of These Ever Again.

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#92 I Am Pretty Sure I’m Younger Than The Tire.

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#93 Not The Worst I’ve Ever Seen…. But It’s Also A 2018 ?

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#94 “I Kept Adding Air But The Light Wouldnt Turn Off…”

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#95 Dude Just Drove This Thing In On Fire And Parked It Right In Front Of Our Waiting Room Last Week

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#96 Just Gonna Leave This Right Here

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#97 A Kia Rio Came Into The Shop. We Got The Title And Junked It. This Has To Be A Record. $160 In Just Quarters Was Scattered All Over The Floor. I’ve Never Seen So Much Change In A Car. This Doesn’t Even Include The Other Coins.

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#98 C/S Needs An Alignment, It Pulls To The Left.

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#99 Chile Isn’t Known For It’s Tires But I Didn’t Know It Was This Bad

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#100 Ya Think

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#101 16 Years Of Writing Service And It Finally Happened. Gloves In A Glovebox

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#102 New Tire Designed By Mazda.

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#103 Trust Test Level: Leprechaun

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#104 Can’t Worry About A Check Engine Light If You Can’t See It.

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#105 What Was The Customer Complaint Again?

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#106 My Buddy Doesn’t Have A Reddit Account So He Asked Me To Post Some Things He’s Seen For Him. But I Think This Photo Speaks For Itself.

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#107 This Guy Crammed A Bag Of Garlic Cheese Curd Inside The Fuel Filler Door On Top Of The Gas Cap. Either He Though That Would Fix His Evap Leak, Or Lactose Intolerant Vampires Kept Syphoning His Fuel.

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#108 When I Saw This I Told Her It Wasn’t Going To Be Cheep

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#109 This One Had Me Scratching My Head

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#110 An Actual “Key” Supplied By A Customer.

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#111 Air Ride

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#112 Just Pulled This Out Of A Customers Car Between The Grill And Condenser.

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#113 Customer Refused To Tell The First Two Shops Why Evap Core Needed To Be Replaced. Just Said He Needed To Get Out Of Town By Monday…

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#114 Today I Started Possibly One Of The Longest Games Of Tic Tac Toe Ever.

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#115 Self Aware Prius Owner

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#116 The Check Engine Light Was On….

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#117 Just Arrived At The Shop To See This Great Park Job. Blocking 2 Bay Doors And No Keys Dropped Off ?

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#118 Customers Tire That Was Struck By Lightning

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#119 “My Car Handled Very Badly This Winter I Think It’s Broken”

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#120 C/S “Not Here For New Tires, Don’t Try To Sell Me New Tires”

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#121 Customer Came In To Get Their Air Mattress Filled Up. No Repair On A Vehicle. Just Air…

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#122 The Odds Of A Single 4 Leaf Clover Rooting Into A Fender Line..

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#123 There Is A Shortage Of Techs In My City. I Found This Job Posting On An Oil Filter. They Get An ‘A’ For Creativity.

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#124 This Little Girl Helped Me Check Codes In Her Owner’s Car Today. Good Girl

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#125 The Way People “Fix” There Own Cars Just Astonishes Me.

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#126 This Made Me Laugh Way More Than It Should Have.

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#127 Saw An Honesty Test, Thought I’d Post Mine! In The Center Console.

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#128 Hilux Radio Begs Tech For Salvation

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#129 Customer: “Let Me Know When You Are About To Pull My Truck In So I Can Get My Raccoon” And He Sat In The Lobby With A Raccoon Until His Truck Was Done.

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#130 Cw: Is It Leaking? Me: Pretty Sure It Might Be

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#131 Work Never Fails To Disappoint

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#132 Got Into A Customer’s Car And Saw This

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#133 Car Came In For Safety Inspection, It Was Literally Glued Back Together With Fabric Glue……

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#134 I Guess Anything’s An Ash Tray If You’re Gross Enough.

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#135 Bought A Used Ram 1500. Look What Was Holding The Parking Brake.

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#136 New Guy Doesn’t Know I’m A Sticker Ninja

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#137 Customer States: Frog In Headlight. Diagnosis:frog In Headlight

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#138 Most Thoughtful Sh*t Anyone’s Done For Me In Ages Lol

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#139 Unsecured Firearms, C’mon Ya’ll.

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#140 Honesty Test. Not Getting Me Today

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#141 Toyota Tundra With Over 250k Miles On The Og Engine. This Is The Result Of Actually Taking Care Of Your Engine.

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#142 Guy Drove In Like This. I’m Surprised He Made It Into The Parking Space.

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#143 When The Techs Don’t Mind Checking Out Your Vehicle

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#144 Kachow

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#145 Not What I Wanna See Roll Into My Shop These Days

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#146 The “T” In The 2.0 T Is $36 And Sold As An Individual Letter. The Lincoln Nameplate Is $33.

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#147 I Don’t Think So

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#148 Sweet Metallic Chia Pet We Found In A Transmission Pan.

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#149 Lady Said She Had To Get Home And Didn’t Have Time To Stop And Put The Spare Tire On

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#150 This Guy Wrapped His Panorama Glass Sun Roof In Fake Carbon Fiber…

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#151 This Is How We’re Gonna Start Our Day, Huh?

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#152 Customer Got A Lift Kit And New Tires But No Alignment. 1000 Miles Later And They Bring It To Us.

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#153 Napa Pulled A Sneaky On Me. I Was Wondering Why Car Wouldn’t Start After Some Electrical Repairs.

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