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Colonel Sanders posted:Only if your tires look like this. . . Agreed.. Those had to be some awful tires, and it's a good thing that it happened in the driveway.
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Team140 posted:I once helped a friend remove an O2 sensor from the downpipe on his 2nd gen RX-7. He brought it to me because he couldn't get it loose with a standard wrench. This is just beautiful. Sucks about your socket exploding, but it's pretty amazing. I'm surprised your breaker bar doesn't have a curve in it now. I had to put together about 2 feet worth of breaker bar + cheater pipe on Sunday to break loose a bolt holding a drum brake backing plate to my spindle. The passenger side came out with a 1/2" drive ratchet, but the driver side fought me all the way. I must've hammered on it with a combination of my impact gun and a 3 lb. engineer's hammer for a couple minutes straight and it didn't give a poo poo. Leverage rules all.
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Team140 posted:I once helped a friend remove an O2 sensor from the downpipe on his 2nd gen RX-7. He brought it to me because he couldn't get it loose with a standard wrench. I have only had this happen once (the finger tight O2 sensor) and it was on my oldest fuel injected jeep. It came loose so easily I thought the socket slipped off the sensor. Honestly they come with a crush washer on them, so as long as they're properly antiseized and not overtorqued, they should come out nicely. The problem is when some chucklefuck PO/mechanic thinks they have to be guerrilla-torqued in place and then they rust afterwards. Everything else has been rust seized in place and has fought me every god drat step of the way, and only one of them came out leaving clean enough threads to simply put a new sensor in. The others all required a new bung anyways.
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Jan 7, 2014 21:13
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You just know this guy left his house with precisely enough time to get to work.
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Jan 7, 2014 21:17
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If that happens to me I'd just say gently caress it I'm not going in. That's an omen if I've ever seen one to how bad my day would be.
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Jan 7, 2014 21:33
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Yeah, you might also break down on the way:
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Jan 7, 2014 21:55
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InitialDave posted:Yeah, you might also break down on the way: This would have been better if it showed the somewhat annoyed driver just hoofing it with the "Well.. poo poo. This isn't the best day I've had." look on his face.
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Jan 7, 2014 21:57
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West SAAB Story posted:This would have been better if it showed the somewhat annoyed driver just hoofing it with the "Well.. poo poo. This isn't the best day I've had." look on his face. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESF8wwwyUG0&t=283s
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Jan 7, 2014 22:01
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InitialDave posted:You just know this guy left his house with precisely enough time to get to work. Fortunately he can now just reach into the door and move the linkages himself.
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Jan 8, 2014 00:04
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Hah, good point!
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If that fails, there's another 3* doors to try before you're truly hosed! *ish...probably.
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Jan 8, 2014 00:42
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InitialDave posted:You just know this guy left his house with precisely enough time to get to work. I don't think the guys at Kia really engineered the door to open when the car was encased in ice. Guy probably could have tried to deice it a bit first.
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Jan 8, 2014 01:33
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EightBit posted:I don't think the guys at Kia really engineered the door to open when the car was encased in ice. Guy probably could have tried to deice it a bit first. No, it will definitely open if I just pull...a little...harder oh...
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Jan 8, 2014 02:06
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InitialDave posted:Yeah, you might also break down on the way: Hahah that car just said gently caress it.
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Jan 8, 2014 04:28
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InitialDave posted:You just know this guy left his house with precisely enough time to get to work. Grrr..... drat plastic Kia handles break off if you look at them funny. At one point my Sedona had one door (out of five) that had working handles.
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Chinatown posted:Hahah that car just said gently caress it. I'm pretty sure we just watched a car commit suicide.
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PhotoKirk posted:Grrr..... drat plastic Kia handles break off if you look at them funny. At one point my Sedona had one door (out of five) that had working handles. I've done valet work before with an outdoor lot, and the real bastards are the early 90's or so Toyota products with the super-thin plastic lift handles. Even with no visible ice the drat things will snap in low temperatures. Then again most of the guys I worked with are hamfisted ex-GM union guys.
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Pff, can't hold a candle to VAG in that regard. I was pulling a Beetle into the shop for work one time, went to pull the door closed and the interior handle just cracked off like it was made of rotten pine wood or something, didn't even make the door move.
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Jan 8, 2014 06:25
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Remember early to mid 90s W body coupes? That side handle arrangement would fall apart at a moments notice.
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Fucknag posted:Pff, can't hold a candle to VAG in that regard. I was pulling a Beetle into the shop for work one time, went to pull the door closed and the interior handle just cracked off like it was made of rotten pine wood or something, didn't even make the door move. Everything inside a Mk3 Jetta does this in my experience. My friend had one where all the handles for the doors, the glovebox, the ashtray, and even the little knob to adjust the mirrors had just broken off. The coldest it gets around here is 40F.
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XD-XF Falcons had awful cheap diecast lift up exterior door handles. Most Australians know how to replace those in their sleep.
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You Am I posted:XD-XF Falcons had awful cheap diecast lift up exterior door handles. Most Australians know how to replace those in their sleep. Range Rover Classics have that same kind of handle. Yank, *SNAP*! If I find a Classic in a junk yard the handles are one of the first things I pull off to keep as spares. Along with window switches, window motors, and seat controls.
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Sudo Echo posted:Everything inside a Mk3 Jetta does this in my experience. My friend had one where all the handles for the doors, the glovebox, the ashtray, and even the little knob to adjust the mirrors had just broken off. The coldest it gets around here is 40F. drat it, don't jinx my '98 Mk 3 TDI!
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Kill-9 posted:Range Rover Classics have that same kind of handle. Yank, *SNAP*! If I find a Classic in a junk yard the handles are one of the first things I pull off to keep as spares. Along with window switches, window motors, and seat controls. Seat switches are the same ones in 80s benzes, break off the power head rest switch. motors don't usually fail, but the rollers do. go to home depot and get the 7/8s drawer repair roller kit and swap em. Disco handles swap on if you liked the blacked out look.
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cursedshitbox posted:Seat switches are the same ones in 80s benzes, break off the power head rest switch. I've had 3 different motors burn out in the past few years. I guess it's to be expected on a truck pushing 25 years old. I really need to replace the seals so less water gets in the doors when it rains. It's always interesting opening a door after a rain and watching the water pour out the drain hole for the next minute. That and the drat sunroof seals. I'm so very close to just sealing that bitch closed. Who am I kidding? You can never keep water out of a Rover.
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Kill-9 posted:Who am I kidding? You can never keep water out of a Rover. I work with a guy who had some kind of Jaguar in his youth that had drain plugs for the floor pans. Not sure if they were OE or retrofitted, but he mentioned he really missed them when he got a Triumph or something and discovered he had two ice skating rinks one frosty morning. Just like with boats stored out of the water, there comes a point where it's easier to just drill a loving hole in the bottom. Especially in the Pacific Northwest.
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A new record was set at our shop today for deferred maintenance. 2001 Volvo V70XC, AWD, turbo. Sticker in the window says "Next service due at 114k miles". Odometer reads 128k. 14k miles past due, running conventional 5w30. Customer states they do not change their own oil. 
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Impressive. I have seen worse. The filter in question was just a mushy pile of media between the two plastic ends.  It had to be scooped out by hand, then the lower plastic plate removed with pliers. Mileage between oil changes was unknown, vehicle was bought used. Vehicle make/model escapes me at the moment. Some model of Land Rover. Not my photo, but it looked like this: 
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DrPain posted:A new record was set at our shop today for deferred maintenance. For the record, a v40 1.9T will do 35K+ without an oil change, and run and drive. Then the turbo will blow its intake-side oil seal due to the return line coking solid, and fffffffff And then it will still run and drive for at least another 5K+, albeit losing power slowly but steadily as the rings disintegrate. Smoked like a motherfucker.
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I posted one of a range rover with questionable service history with a filter about 10 times worse than that.
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DrPain posted:A new record was set at our shop today for deferred maintenance. My first thought was to wonder if the filter was filtering anything or if it just all went through the bypass, but then I noticed the holes...
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DrPain posted:A new record was set at our shop today for deferred maintenance. I used to own that exact car, and I think my personal record was something like 10k, albeit with synthetic, so it's really not that bad. gently caress having to drop the skid plate for every oil change, and double gently caress the lug bolts that were impossible to remove without a flagpole of a breaker bar no matter how much anti-seize you put on them the last time. I did find out that the car will win in a fight with a telephone pole though.
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Splizwarf posted:For the record, a v40 1.9T will do 35K+ without an oil change, and run and drive. Then the turbo will blow its intake-side oil seal due to the return line coking solid, and fffffffff This must be a common thing with v40 owners never changing the oil. I have been behind at least 5 different v40's that were just smoke screening the poo poo out of everyone behind them.
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 I don't really do Reddit, but someone linked me to this album: http://imgur.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop
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Negromancer posted:This must be a common thing with v40 owners never changing the oil. I have been behind at least 5 different v40's that were just smoke screening the poo poo out of everyone behind them. The original target demographic was 20- to 24- year old women with wealthy parents and no interest in cars, and the engine was already prone to sludging (especially around the valvetrain), so yeah. Junkyard engines are always sludged to hell, and I paid almost a grand for a new Volvo turbo after two junkyard ones didn't pan out. 
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This has been posted before, but is still a source of great material. I currently like the 'mandatory alignment check' on the lone wheel.
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The "headliner fix", of course it's a chevy (I recognize that dome light from my Blazer). Also, this one:  
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I haven't browsed that gallery in a long time; there's some good new(?) ones in there, like this: Caption: "Had a stubborn allen head bolt, didn't have any hex bits, so I decided to make one. It didn't quite work..."
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InitialDave posted:You just know this guy left his house with precisely enough time to get to work. OTOH how many people routinely leave the house in the morning with enough time to go around the perimeter of their car door breaking through a layer of ice without loving up the paint (especially if, like most people, you store your deicing equipment in your car)? Like someone else said, if your car has a layer of ice thick enough to prevent the door from opening you should probably just call off. Most managers will understand that you don't control the weather.
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