had a van come into work today. guy claims the he changed his spare tire. and now both rear brakes are seized. he thinks that its the abs pump engaging and the calipers are stuck along with the emergency brake (amazing how you can diagnose a problem without even pulling the wheels off)

so car comes in written up as a brake problem for a general mechanic to look at. walk over. change the work order over to a luber since they do tires as well.

long story short he put the spare tire on backwards and destroyed a caliper lol.



another thing. why do they put the lug nut caps and center caps back on when they are using a spare? never understood that!

 

lol if he put the tire on backwards he probably also thought that the lug caps and center cap held on the tire

 

Sorry you made me think of this....
This a no #2'er...got pulled into a DOT inspection...I ended up with a rookie, he told me I failed the inspection and was shut down....We went into the scale house to turn paper work in and have his senior sign of on inspection...Officer kind of laughed and asked me if I had chrome lug nut covers on...I said yea, why? He said his trainee wrote me up for like 50 loose lug nuts...Told me to have a nice day...

 

My mom got a flat on her minivan a while back, probably 10 years ago.

Of course I got volunteered to remove the tire and take it to the tire shop to get patched or replaced.

I preceded to break off 1 fake plastic decorative lugnut off the hubcap.

I haven't had hubcaps on a vehicle since I got my first vehicle, if that's an excuse


phox

 

That's Funny!

 

This is no joke, my dad works at a Tech school and they had our 1/2 ton truck when we had that. Did the same thing, couldn't figure out why the wheel wouldn't turn. I could write a book on the mis-haps that happen there. One day one of them tried patching a tire from the outside, ground the thread down and put the patch on the outside, then couldn't figure out why it wouldn't hold air.

 

We had these two kids in my high school shop class they were like something from deliverance. These two had a really really hack lift on this older ford high boy and one day they were in shop and had it up on the lift and were doing something to the exhaust for what ever reason they did not take the oxyacetylene bottle an air bottles out from under the hoist. They set the lift down on the bottles and broke both regulators lord only knows how or why those bottles did not take off straight though the middle of there truck and kill the whole shop class.

 

All funny, reminds me of one of my favorite movie lines,
"Hey Carl, take a look at this tiller, skeeter can find the problem with it", hhmmm, "ain't got no gas in it".

We towed a tt-unit a couple weeks ago, the driver stated his brakes were hung up, he did not notice the 5000# boulder he ran over and lodged it under the trailer tandems ripping the maxi cans off the axles , he also hit a tree while running over the boulder and tore a nice size hole in the side of the trailer causing it to break in the middle all the while making it 5 miles from the stip club he got all liquored up in.

I'll post some pics.

Tim

 

At the place I used to work at, we had a courier that was, shall we say, touched. He was driving down the road one day with a flat tire, cops pulled him over to tell him, he said, "yea, I know, I'm only a few blocks from work" and kept going (ruined the nice aluminum rim). I took it upon myself to help him change the tire, told him to let me know if he had any questions to let me know (and went back to my desk). Well, the first question was "the jack is too short", and it was, if you're trying use the fender as a jack point. I figured I should stick around to supervise, he tried putting it under the drive shaft and shock mounts, each time I asked him if he thought those were good places. After dropping the spare tire on his crotch (on older Ford rangers the tire swings down on a hinge), they have a tendency to get rusted and stuck in the "up" position (he had to kick it a few times while laying under the vehicle) we finally got the tire changed after 2 long agonizing hours. I could have done it much quicker myself, but I wanted this guy to at least change 1 tire by himself in his lifetime. Super nice kid, but boy, some people are not meant to work on vehicles... I think he works in the mall now...

With some of this stuff, you can't make these stories up!!!