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wimmins! share your motor mechanic horror stories...

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  • 13-08-2009 2:01am
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    x in the city
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    :D

    you know the type, you go into a garage and ask for your wipers to be fixed and he gives you a bill for 350e and says the egr valve also needed to go along with a reconditioned alternator....

    well....:)


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    Senna
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    There's a post over in motors about a girl going into a motor factors and asking for a liter of fully sympathetic oil, made me laugh.


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    Novella
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    Not to do with going into a garage but a year or so ago, I was driving along and thought to myself my car felt a bit.... funny. Figured I was just being weird that day so ignored the pull on the steering wheel and kept driving. Was doing a good 80-100kmph on a bendy, back road when suddenly I heard a bang and my car swerved across the road and the front ended up in a ditch.

    I got out, saw black all over the road and on further investigation, noted that my back tyre looked as though someone had taken a knife to it and sliced it the whole way round.

    A nice man stopped to help me and I told him, "Oh, I got a flat tyre". "Yes", he said, "about 50km ago, I'd say. Why did you continue to drive on it?"....

    I couldn't tell him I hadn't actually noticed hahaha :o


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    minidazzler
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    If he knew you had it 50 Km ago, maybe he was following you until you stopped so that he could be a hero?


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    seanybiker
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    minidazzler wrote: »
    If he knew you had it 50 Km ago, maybe he was following you until you stopped so that he could be a hero?
    I think that he was only doing what anybody would do . Nice chap him


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    mukki
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    i know a woman who was charged €700 she dropped it in because the breaks were not working right one frosty morning, her next mechanic said this is normal, ABS was stopping the wheels locking up


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    Ghost Train
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    A nice man stopped to help me and I told him, "Oh, I got a flat tyre". "Yes", he said, "about 50km ago, I'd say. Why did you continue to drive on it?"....
    well if it only went bang at the end it still had air in it I guess, must have deformed though and eventually gave up dramatically, you would have known if it had been flat... right ??


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    John Mason
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    x in the city wrote: »
    :D

    you know the type, you go into a garage and ask for your wipers to be fixed and he gives you a bill for 350e and says the egr valve also needed to go along with a reconditioned alternator....

    well....:)

    :confused::confused: why would you bring your car to a garage to change your wipers?:confused:


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    Wossack
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    For the NCT they specifically say on the letter - please remove the hubcaps before the test. So a friend of mine goes to a mechanic for a pre-NCT and at the end of it she asks him to pop the hubcaps off... 'um, sorry mam, these are alloys..'


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    Corb
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    I always get my Dad to take my car to the garage for me instead. They wouldn't overcharge him, he can spot a bullsh!tter a mile off.


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    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Last year I sent my OH into Consort for a service kit for my Skoda Octavia - and a "DeLorean flux capacitor"... :D

    Ya shudda seen the face on her when she came out!.

    .


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    AnonoBoy
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    Ayleen Large Banister wrote: »
    Last year I sent my OH into Consort for a service kit for my Skoda Octavia - and a "DeLorean flux capacitor"... :D

    Holy ****! What garage can you get those in? :eek:


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    galah
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    could happen to anyone...I brought the car into a garage cause I had this nasty smell of oil inside the car. Couldn't figure it out. (not exhaust fumes, but actual oil).

    Your man in the garage said it was a big problem, he'd have to take the ventilation out, deinstall the heating, the central car column, and other random bits of fancy sounding parts my car allegedly had. Massive job, at least 1000 Euros worth of repairs.

    Until I spotted that the lid for the oil inlet (where you fill in your engine oil) had come off. Screwed it back on, started the engine, smell was gone.
    Crestfallen look on the mechanics face. He almost got away with it.

    (why I didn't think to check the engine myself first, I don't know...)


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    Cuddlesworth
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    Ayleen Large Banister wrote: »
    Last year I sent my OH into Consort for a service kit for my Skoda Octavia - and a "DeLorean flux capacitor"... :D

    Ya shudda seen the face on her when she came out!.

    .

    I would have preferred to see the look on your face when she came out with the "DeLorean Flux Capacitor" and minus 500 quid.


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    DamoDLK
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    Ayleen Large Banister wrote: »
    Last year I sent my OH into Consort for a service kit for my Skoda Octavia - and a "DeLorean flux capacitor"... :D

    Ya shudda seen the face on her when she came out!.

    .

    How the F could you keep a straight face???! -

    right so love thats the oil and filter ya need, oh and yeah don't forget the (heh heh) flux capacitor! (snigger snigger)

    LMAO!!


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    TheZohanS
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    Novella wrote: »
    Not to do with going into a garage but a year or so ago, I was driving along and thought to myself my car felt a bit.... funny. Figured I was just being weird that day so ignored the pull on the steering wheel and kept driving. Was doing a good 80-100kmph on a bendy, back road when suddenly I heard a bang and my car swerved across the road and the front ended up in a ditch.

    I got out, saw black all over the road and on further investigation, noted that my back tyre looked as though someone had taken a knife to it and sliced it the whole way round.

    A nice man stopped to help me and I told him, "Oh, I got a flat tyre". "Yes", he said, "about 50km ago, I'd say. Why did you continue to drive on it?"....

    I couldn't tell him I hadn't actually noticed hahaha :o



    He drives she dies.


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    tech77
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    Ayleen Large Banister wrote: »
    Last year I sent my OH into Consort for a service kit for my Skoda Octavia - and a "DeLorean flux capacitor"... :D

    Ya shudda seen the face on her when she came out!.

    .

    LMAO.


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    ejmaztec
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    DamoDLK wrote: »
    How the F could you keep a straight face???! -

    right so love thats the oil and filter ya need, oh and yeah don't forget the (heh heh) flux capacitor! (snigger snigger)

    LMAO!!

    It's easy to keep a straight face when you've got an OH.:(


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    Novella
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    minidazzler wrote: »
    If he knew you had it 50 Km ago, maybe he was following you until you stopped so that he could be a hero?

    Awh, that would've been kinda sweet!
    Ghost Train wrote: »
    well if it only went bang at the end it still had air in it I guess, must have deformed though and eventually gave up dramatically, you would have known if it had been flat... right ??

    Hmm.... I'd love to say yes but no, I probably wouldn't know even now.


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    ART6
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    Many years ago when we lived in the UK my wife took her car into a local garage for it to be MOT tested. They failed in for a worn steering column bottom bearing and wanted big money to renew it -- steering rack and column out, dash out etc etc.

    I took her car back to them and asked the manager to show me the faulty bearing. "Why?" he asked. "Because this make of car doesn't bloody have one." I snapped. I then pointed out to him that I was the chief engineer of the largest motor works in the county and was also the chief tester for our MOT test service. The expression on his face was priceless:D


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