Mr Brannen

So I goes into Motorworld/Charlie Browns or whatever its called for some oil,asks the bloke if the 15 in 15/40 is the thickness of the oil,he looks at me and says yeah,what cars it for like mate..I say Escort Cosworth, he says yeah theyve got the Zetec lumps in so that`ll be fine...........I just hit the floor laughing my tits of,then said ,nice one pal,thats what I thought.

reisskahn

i dont know if u can blame him or not most yongsters nowadays think an escort cossy is a normal escort with just a big kit on it

mercury grey minter

I bet the one's he,s been in DO have ZETEC lumps.lol.

Mr Brannen

kid looked about 30 tbh Reiss

JTECH James

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i overheard a guy in a motorshop, serving the guy infront of me, he was explaining how a turbo timer is fitted to let the gasses out of the turbohe got upset when i laughed at him

Matt Baxter

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you mean it doesnt

Daveysaff

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And our MD wonder why we're doing shite.

We (Motorworld) had a 'hard parts' training course last month, at least half of our managers thought a glow plug was exactly the same as a spark plug, but for a diesel.
The guy training (and I use that word loosely) also informed us that all cars with ABS need DOT 5.1 brake fluid and tried to argue the toss when I corrected him

JTECH James

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it gets worse...


i asked what keeps the gasses in the turbo then?....

he said....wait for it......the wastegate

:cry :

Oranoco

That's alright some bloke on one of my chatter clips on YouTube posted the noise was the turbo rocking the engine back and forwards!!!!

JTECH James

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pah

dojj

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i think half the peole who work in these shops go there simply to piss everyone else off
and 49% of the others just play along with it

Oranoco

Always good fun asking them to sort you a set of lowering springs for a metro or a radiator cap for a VW Beetle

Benni

What's wrong with lowering springs for a Metro?

Jimmyc

Lol, ive seen that on youtube!
You get some right eejits on there

Next time you go into or call a halfrauds store or similar, find one of the young lads (a newbie) and try asking for a fallopian tube for a Volkswagen Corsa, that gets em in a muddle. As does asking for a manual torque aplicator

tabetha

They're just youngsters trying to earn a crust, instead of doing drugs burglaries, why not educate them instead, I know it should not be that way, but no one ever stops learning.
tabetha

philpy-si

Even if it did have a Zetec, he'd still be wrong!! Zetecs should have 5/30!

Graceland

Hydrolastic suspension Benni - no springs

dojj

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which would be a great point, were it not for the fact that they do seem to be just clueless fuck nugget's standing there to compliment the display furniture

when you go there and ask for what you want and they say "but the computer says this is the one for your car" and you say "there's the one i've removed, how does that look anything like the one you are trying to sell me?" and then they either get all arsey about it and say "well then we can't help you" and walk off or start to give you that puppy dog look that says "please don't get me fired, i've only been working here for 3 minutes"

i went to get some stereo bits, i knew they sold them, i explained exactly what i wanted, i went there with the wires i needed to have joined to show they which end i wanted as a male and which end i wanted as the female, and the guy behind the counter was trying to stop laughing when i told him it was a "male" because it is the bit that goes "inside" the female conector

so i gave up and walked out

i'm sure he's gone round telling all his mates that some bloke asked him to have sex with a radio

dojj

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you've ruined the surprise we were waiting for benni to go to halfords and ask, armed with a video camera to capture the startled look on the parts blokes face, and the look on benni's when someone else explains it to him

Tangodeltasierra3

if yer so clever yourself why did you ask ?

dunketh

Classics.

You try buying parts for a Minor or a Mini then. Most halfords kids have never even heard of a Morris Minor. They usually ask who its made by, refusing to accept 'Morris' were a real company.

The other fun game with minis is asking for a jump start or a new battery. Poor fuckers looking under the bonnet thinking the electrics must run by magic.

And, lastly, if you want to really stun your local Ford Parts Dept... ask them for some XR2 parts. Baring in mind its one of their own cars. The look of puzzlement is a proper joy. Anything older than a mk5 and theyve never heard of it.

JamesH

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15/40 is completely wrong for a Zetec too

ballin

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Exactly what I was going to say, not sure who's dummer, you for asking "if the 15 in 15/40 is the thickness" or him for saying a Cosworth runs a Zetec :S

fish99

I had some of the work shop people in Xtreme Motorsport telling me my Escos was a ringer because it had a blue rocker cover and that it should have had a red one fitted....bless

gingeRS

agreed....they are just doing there job.

you wouldnt ask someone who works in tesco what sort of crop rotation the farmer used when growing these carrots would you????

Stu @ M Developments

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To be fair guys, you cant expect a 17yr old to know what engine is fitted into a car that was taken out of production when he was 5 yrs old.

fish99

Well good point, but the lad who said it to me was about 25+ and this was about 8 years ago...

Turbocabbie

runs this stuff as suspension


http://www.mgf.ultimatemg.com/group2...n/hydragas.htm

BIG WULL

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Its never a stupid question if you dont know the answer.
Educate and they will know for next time.......













Nat!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rip the pish at the first opertunity
Stupid fookers would prob forget by tomorrow anyway

S1

Metro's are Hydrogas, its the Mini's and Austin 1100/1300's that use Hydrolastic.