Mechanic horror story I heard
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Thought I would share as I was gob smacked lol
My friend owns his own garage but years ago he was a spanner at a company in Bromsgrove and as part of the company another spanner was there working on cars.
He explained how the other spanner once was working on a rover V8 and dropped a bolt down the spark plug hole and instead of trying to fish it out with a magnet he just bolted everything back up and started it.
When it started he said you could here the smashing of this bolt and he imediatly rev'd the hell out of it, to this I thought it obviusly went bang!
But no, aparently it all went quiet and the bolt must of just sat in the top of the piston![Surprised](https://passionford.com/forum/images/smilies/bigcry.gif)
I was gob smacked lol well the bloke it no longer in buisness and moved abroad but I can't believe some one would do that![](https://passionford.com/forum/images/smilies/shocked.gif)
thats it lol just thought I'd share
My friend owns his own garage but years ago he was a spanner at a company in Bromsgrove and as part of the company another spanner was there working on cars.
He explained how the other spanner once was working on a rover V8 and dropped a bolt down the spark plug hole and instead of trying to fish it out with a magnet he just bolted everything back up and started it.
When it started he said you could here the smashing of this bolt and he imediatly rev'd the hell out of it, to this I thought it obviusly went bang!
But no, aparently it all went quiet and the bolt must of just sat in the top of the piston
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I was gob smacked lol well the bloke it no longer in buisness and moved abroad but I can't believe some one would do that
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thats it lol just thought I'd share
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My mate did that with his old mans merc he was restoring when we were about 13 and mucking around in the garage he dropped a screw down the hole and never told his old man. Months later it needed a rebuild but his old man just assumed that it must've been fcuked as it was in a fair state when he got it in the first place. turned out a beautiful car in the end though so maybe a blessing Lol.
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I was once workin a vw dealership next too a a school
a touran came in with a funny smell
I found a dead half burnt cat wraped around the steering rack, didn't feel like touching it so I made a noose (sp) and put it around it's neck and pulled it off, I didn't want to trow the stinking thing in the bin so I went to trow it in the bushs outside I mistimed my trow and the end of the rope got caught high in a tree
so dead half burnt half rotting cat hanging by a noose from a tree outside a school...... Lol not good
a touran came in with a funny smell
I found a dead half burnt cat wraped around the steering rack, didn't feel like touching it so I made a noose (sp) and put it around it's neck and pulled it off, I didn't want to trow the stinking thing in the bin so I went to trow it in the bushs outside I mistimed my trow and the end of the rope got caught high in a tree
so dead half burnt half rotting cat hanging by a noose from a tree outside a school...... Lol not good
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I was once workin a vw dealership next too a a school
a touran came in with a funny smell
I found a dead half burnt cat wraped around the steering rack, didn't feel like touching it so I made a noose (sp) and put it around it's neck and pulled it off, I didn't want to trow the stinking thing in the bin so I went to trow it in the bushs outside I mistimed my trow and the end of the rope got caught high in a tree
so dead half burnt half rotting cat hanging by a noose from a tree outside a school...... Lol not good
a touran came in with a funny smell
I found a dead half burnt cat wraped around the steering rack, didn't feel like touching it so I made a noose (sp) and put it around it's neck and pulled it off, I didn't want to trow the stinking thing in the bin so I went to trow it in the bushs outside I mistimed my trow and the end of the rope got caught high in a tree
so dead half burnt half rotting cat hanging by a noose from a tree outside a school...... Lol not good
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a few ive heard are as follows
a porsche went there to be chipped they dropped the ecu on the battery and frazzled it
a renault 5 was being tuned by them they put it on the rolling road and blew it up because they wound the boost out to much and still charged him for it
a lad went down there his exhaust was a bit loose they tightened it and tightened it and snapped the bolts off the block again charged him for it
my mrs used to work there she has quite a few storys from there
a porsche went there to be chipped they dropped the ecu on the battery and frazzled it
a renault 5 was being tuned by them they put it on the rolling road and blew it up because they wound the boost out to much and still charged him for it
a lad went down there his exhaust was a bit loose they tightened it and tightened it and snapped the bolts off the block again charged him for it
my mrs used to work there she has quite a few storys from there
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yea thats true like but ive heard quite a few other storys from there they are only down the road from me but i'd rather go miles to have my car tuned rather than them
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heard of someone dropping a pound coin into someones engine when viewing it. fucked the whole engine. he only wanted it for the shell. rang the guy back after few days and the guy sold it to him for a grand less because the engine mysteriously started to knock!
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I worked at Land Rover for 15 years, one of my m8's was on V8 build, they had an engine back from North America that had seized. When they stripped it down, in the sump they found a ham sandwich in a plastic lunch bag blocking the oil pick up
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That wouldn't work if he bought the car off me, i'd tell him to get fucked.
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Idiot must of missplaced his lunch
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How did he manage to get a pound coin into it?
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I was once workin a vw dealership next too a a school
a touran came in with a funny smell
I found a dead half burnt cat wraped around the steering rack, didn't feel like touching it so I made a noose (sp) and put it around it's neck and pulled it off, I didn't want to trow the stinking thing in the bin so I went to trow it in the bushs outside I mistimed my trow and the end of the rope got caught high in a tree
so dead half burnt half rotting cat hanging by a noose from a tree outside a school...... Lol not good
a touran came in with a funny smell
I found a dead half burnt cat wraped around the steering rack, didn't feel like touching it so I made a noose (sp) and put it around it's neck and pulled it off, I didn't want to trow the stinking thing in the bin so I went to trow it in the bushs outside I mistimed my trow and the end of the rope got caught high in a tree
so dead half burnt half rotting cat hanging by a noose from a tree outside a school...... Lol not good
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firstly, if your viewing a car how the fuck do you get to put a pound coin in the engine,
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and who would leave a ham sandwich in a bag in the bottom of the sump
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The V8's were built in Solihull, thats why I said when they had it back, i.e back to Solihull to inspect why it had seized. Not that difficult to understand.
As to why it was there in the first place, the guys who worked on the production line used to sit next to the line on their breaks. Easy enough to put your sarnies resting on a half built engine.
As to why it was there in the first place, the guys who worked on the production line used to sit next to the line on their breaks. Easy enough to put your sarnies resting on a half built engine.
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i used to work at a bodyshop and a rs turbo i arranged on a forum came in to be resprayed ,cut a long story short the boss didnt paint it on time and when he did it was rushed and had overspray and runs on it etc ,owner as i would be was not amused and i said to boss that it was out of order and he told me he didnt care as he had his money and the blame would be put on me ,i told him to get fooked and was told where the door was if i didnt like it .
i think it got done another two times and still wasnt right as bodyshop owner wasnt perepared to lose any money on the deal but had to i think due to owner going to trading standards or something
i since found out that it wasnt the first time he had done this and probably still is as he shat on his suppliers etc ,went bankrupt or something but has another unit probably doing the same again to new unsuspecting customers
i think it got done another two times and still wasnt right as bodyshop owner wasnt perepared to lose any money on the deal but had to i think due to owner going to trading standards or something
i since found out that it wasnt the first time he had done this and probably still is as he shat on his suppliers etc ,went bankrupt or something but has another unit probably doing the same again to new unsuspecting customers
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a garage in arbroath got a subaru or evo cant remember which,they took plugs out put bolts in and turned it over for some reason,but mean while had managed to drop a bolt in to a cylinder,fooked the engine,never heard the final out come but owner was not happy
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Here's 1 for you guys that actually happened to me with my car..
As I had too many work commitments back in 2007 I didn't have the time to play with my car much and was recommended to a guy in Somerset, I had a rebuilt 3000miler engine to go in and needed sum1 to fit it, well let's just say, I drove it 11 miles back home and just as I got home, I went to turn around and park on the drive when suddenly on full lock I heard a big clunk and crunch noise, scraped along the floor..
On further inspection he sum how managed to strip the threads off my brand new engine mount and stripped the threads on all the 17mm bolts holding the gearbox up by the cradle... What's worse is he didn't say a word but actually put 4 pea sized bird shit welds on all 4 corners of my gearbox cradle.. The lot was on the floor
safe to say I always find time to work on my s2 now, no more garages!!
as for the f%#k up a new mount and all bolts changed out for toughened 19mm and all was well again
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As I had too many work commitments back in 2007 I didn't have the time to play with my car much and was recommended to a guy in Somerset, I had a rebuilt 3000miler engine to go in and needed sum1 to fit it, well let's just say, I drove it 11 miles back home and just as I got home, I went to turn around and park on the drive when suddenly on full lock I heard a big clunk and crunch noise, scraped along the floor..
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safe to say I always find time to work on my s2 now, no more garages!!
as for the f%#k up a new mount and all bolts changed out for toughened 19mm and all was well again
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on top gear back in the day, telling horror stories of cars, didnt they say about a new metro having a cigarette packet in the boot that had been spray painted over
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back when i was serving my time, i was in a rover dealership(
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anyhow, had a car back for strange knocking noise intermitantly,
we had it in several times and couldn't find it anywhere,
after months we finaly found the problem,
there was a marble inside the sill, must have been left in when the shell was
being manufactured, some bored factory worker having a laugh,
took us months of searching, couldn't find a thing,
think its funny as fook now but i remember not being amused at the time
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anyhow, had a car back for strange knocking noise intermitantly,
we had it in several times and couldn't find it anywhere,
after months we finaly found the problem,
there was a marble inside the sill, must have been left in when the shell was
being manufactured, some bored factory worker having a laugh,
took us months of searching, couldn't find a thing,
think its funny as fook now but i remember not being amused at the time
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back when i was serving my time, i was in a rover dealership(
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anyhow, had a car back for strange knocking noise intermitantly,
we had it in several times and couldn't find it anywhere,
after months we finaly found the problem,
there was a marble inside the sill, must have been left in when the shell was
being manufactured, some bored factory worker having a laugh,
took us months of searching, couldn't find a thing,
think its funny as fook now but i remember not being amused at the time
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anyhow, had a car back for strange knocking noise intermitantly,
we had it in several times and couldn't find it anywhere,
after months we finaly found the problem,
there was a marble inside the sill, must have been left in when the shell was
being manufactured, some bored factory worker having a laugh,
took us months of searching, couldn't find a thing,
think its funny as fook now but i remember not being amused at the time
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A mate of mine was telling me about a new Land Rover that had the engine stripped due to it being very noisey. They took the head off to find No:1 piston completely missing! Con-rod was in there just flailling around...
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my mate droped a injector seal into a engine b4, he took the sump of and could he fook find it so i tok the piss a put a seal on the crank he was over the moon when he found it he ran to the boss and every think when he come back to earth i told him it was not the 1 he droped, for taking the piss i got to strip the fucking engine b4 the cust came for it but was worth it to see the high and low of is face pmsl
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my mate droped a injector seal into a engine b4, he took the sump of and could he fook find it so i tok the piss a put a seal on the crank he was over the moon when he found it he ran to the boss and every think when he come back to earth i told him it was not the 1 he droped, for taking the piss i got to strip the fucking engine b4 the cust came for it but was worth it to see the high and low of is face pmsl
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i used to work for fiat and alfa years ago and i was working on a alfa 147. The brake lights were stuck on. I was fookin about with the brake light switch and could i fook get the lights to go out. I went back to my tool box and seen a 5 pence coin on top of my box. I got a bit of glue and stuck it to the brake pedal. The brake lights went off and started to work as normal.
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I saw an evo come in from another tuning company once with loads of problems - the thing that scared me the most was the stainless steel ball bearing that had been used to blank the dump valve... I wonder what damage that would have done flying out with 2 bar pressure behind it!