Meeting people as a mechanic.

[Cooter]

I don rubber gloves before I even get in a vehicle for a road test.

I'm not mr. OCD clean guy or anything, but it skeeves me the fuck out to put my hands on a funk cheese coated steering wheel, shift lever, door handle, etc.

I usually have some amount of bullshit clutter on the passenger floor board or dash board, but the percentage of diesel truck owners who apparently walk around with funky hands is WAY too high...

[Forever_frost]

You'd have lost it on my brother's truck. I refused to sit in it because it had half eaten cans of food in the back, candy melted, 1/4 full bottles of Dr. Pepper, cigarette butts and ashes and his in dash DVD player was smeared with grease from cars and tacos.

It was crap.

[LaserSVT]

About 3 years ago I sold a Lincoln LS to this really rude black lady. When she bought it I told her the heater valve was stuck so the car wont have heat and its about $500 to fix. This was in August so she didn't care. Sure enough she comes back in December complaining there is no heat and I better fix it or else. Or else what I asked? I went in the office, grabbed the bill of sale and showed her where I had her sign and initial that the heater did not work. This bitch crossed her arms spun around 180* and proceeded to cuss me out with her back to me. I told her to hop back in her car, smoke the other half of the blunt in the ash tray and calm the fuck down. She shut up right away. I told her if she bought the part I would install it for free. That apparently wasn't good enough. Hell, it was a $2000 car with no dents or leather rips and cold AC. WTF did she expect? NM, I know the answer. Everyone thinks when you buy a used car it should be just like a new one.

Ive had customers ask me to find them very specific used cars before and were adamant about weird things. They actually believed me when I said I will call the used car factory and where would they like their door dings at.

[4king]

Suprisingly I don't have many customers who use their cars as their weed storage, but I do have cars that people just seem to use as their trash cans and ash trays. I put on glove before I go out and plug in a code reader, I just don't understand how people can get into a car with an inch of grime on every dash surface with radio buttons smeared off from greasy fingers and drive them every day

[CexMashean]

If it was that skunky strong, then it might have been worth your time.

[Baron Von Crowder]

Did you dig around? There was probably some in there!

judging by the smell of it, it wasnt worth my time, especially since I dont care for smoking it.

[Chili]

We sold a car to a really nice retired guy, and he came back and bought one for his grand daughter. He called Sunday to ask if we could go pick it up and fix it, the wheel was laying sideways and she couldnt drive it. We sent a wrecker monday for it.

When the wrecker got there, the lower ball joint was busted, and the wheel was now two pieces, cv axle was trashed, etc. There was yellow reflective paint chips around that side bottom of the car, so she ran over a curb or something.

We fixed it, but anrytime we opened the door of the car, my whole shop stuck from the nasty weed smell in the car. I've smelled cars that smelled like weed before, but this was 10x worse than any of them.

Did you dig around? There was probably some in there!

[Baron Von Crowder]

never met her.

[Tremor14]

No shit, sounds like my kinda chick!

[ELVIS]

We sold a car to a really nice retired guy, and he came back and bought one for his grand daughter. He called Sunday to ask if we could go pick it up and fix it, the wheel was laying sideways and she couldnt drive it. We sent a wrecker monday for it.

When the wrecker got there, the lower ball joint was busted, and the wheel was now two pieces, cv axle was trashed, etc. There was yellow reflective paint chips around that side bottom of the car, so she ran over a curb or something.

We fixed it, but anrytime we opened the door of the car, my whole shop stuck from the nasty weed smell in the car. I've smelled cars that smelled like weed before, but this was 10x worse than any of them.

pics of grand daughter??

god bless.

[Baron Von Crowder]

We sold a car to a really nice retired guy, and he came back and bought one for his grand daughter. He called Sunday to ask if we could go pick it up and fix it, the wheel was laying sideways and she couldnt drive it. We sent a wrecker monday for it.

When the wrecker got there, the lower ball joint was busted, and the wheel was now two pieces, cv axle was trashed, etc. There was yellow reflective paint chips around that side bottom of the car, so she ran over a curb or something.

We fixed it, but anrytime we opened the door of the car, my whole shop stuck from the nasty weed smell in the car. I've smelled cars that smelled like weed before, but this was 10x worse than any of them.

[4king]

I have a customer who thinks it is OK to return me his used factory parts as my damaged parts. He is a piece of crap and admitted to doing 6 months in jail for animal torture, first I'm not sure why he brought that up. Second I was telling him no on a return of a brake line that exploded that was covered in rust on a truck he bought two months ago. Wtf!

[jammeejamm]

on the 07s and up, look in front of the passenger airbag towards the windshield. that is where it first cracks. and then some time later the center over the radio will split as well. the cracks are for the most part front to rear, not side to side.

the suv dashes are not as consistent as far as the exact placement of cracks, but from first hand experience all the truck dashes crack eventually.

and an accident is what the customers always blame it on. i just laugh when the insurance buys it. it reminds me of the previous models' clusters going out, because that is what they did for no reason. and customers would always blame the accident. those were more notorious so insurance companies would not always pay.

[kdventura73]

Other than replacing the whole dash,I recommend Dash caps(www.americandashcaps.com) and glue it to whats left. I tell anyone that needs any dash work on Dodge Rams and J-body(Cavaliers) whats going to happen and I am not liable but like most have said they are already broken to a million pieces. I have seen a couple of 07 and up cracked dashes by the windshield. To fix the Grand Prix,Grand am and Malibu peeling problem remove the windshield and have the glass guy urethane the pad back to the dash.

[JC316]

I have a regular customer with an 01 grand prix that has a dash that is literally rolling itself away from the windshield. She uses literally a dozen door stoppers to keep it under eye line against the winshield.

Oh yeah, the grand prix folds up like a dead spiders legs. Cavalier gets so brittle that you can poke your finger through.