You think this is something?
I had a Ford Aerostar Mini Van come in one time with a charging system problem complaint.
No joke, I could smell something so fucking rank I was gagging before I even got the hood opened up on the damn thing when they pulled it in.
Because it was a a van and inside a shop I had to get a drop light underneath the hood to see any damn thing.
What I found made me gag even harder.
About 3 lbs of dry dog food that some fucking varmint like a squirrel had been piling up on top of the engine and then as it got driven it baked that shit, then it putrified and then it got baked again and again.
Half the guys in the shop were gagging as I used a shop vac to try and get it all off the top of the engine just so I could see what the hell was under it all.
Lemme tell ya, that was a very expensive alternator job before I got done.
A fellow mechanic told me about the time a customer was getting his truck towed in for a no-start condition. He was having a really bad day, as his old dog had been losing weight no matter how much food he put out for the old guy.
When the tow truck left, the mechanic went out to take a look and when he open the hood, he knew the issue.
Turns out, the squirrels had been stealing all of the old dog’s food and storing it in the engine compartment. The dog had been starving.
Nowadays the pack rats and mice eat the wiring, because some fuck with a degree decided it was more environmentally friendly to use soy based plastic.
We’ve been going downhill ever since we went into space with a slide rule.
We’ve been going downhill hill ever since the liars at NASA tricked people into believing that they can send people into space with a slide rule.
Why don’t you shave?
So easy even a caveman can do it.
3 days after I bought my current vehicle, I went out to go to the grocery store. Vehicle wouldn’t start. I’m WTF, while not new, it was only 3 years old. Popped the hood and was greeted by a pile of grass and leaves from which were poking the chewed ends of the fuel injector wiring. We have a lot of squirrels in the condo complex where I live.
My next door neighbor also had wires chewed in her vehicle, Different make.
Ins. adjuster told me that the manufacturer used wiring that contained peanut oil in the plastic insulation as a “conditioner” to keep the plastic supple as it aged.
Smooth move exlax.
Don’t worry. According to what they were saying at the last training session I was at, there will be almost no wiring in vehicles by 2027. They are trying to convert all sensors, modules and controllers to communicate by bluetooth and wifi – everything will update automatically.
I see no problems with any of it.
FML
That suggests the owner of this vehicle never bothered to periodically pop the hood to do even simple maintenance like checking the oil or adding engine coolant or windshield washer fluid.
I hope you got your pound of flesh and then some out of whoever brought that vehicle in like that. That kind of stupidity alone ought to carry a hefty fee.
I see stuff occasionally on the Just Rolle In YT channel.
Like JL said, don’t these owners pop the hood occasionally just to see if the oil level is okay??
Idiots all.
Just Rolled In
Stupid keyboard
Igor, so your claim to be a non-drinker is true? My problem is a thumb hitting multiple characters at once. That, and being lazy enough to use the predictive text, despite not being able to see the words clearly, which often leads to ‘oops’ comments appearing.
1) Non-drinker
2) Lousy typist
3) laptop keyboard getting old and cranky
4) PIMF
PIMF is, “Preview Is My Friend”
Had an LMTV (the new Deuce and a Half) come into Camp Arifjan from Iraq… this was when I was on the GMASS program where they’d ship down trashed DotMil Vehicles and repair and refit them to “Like New” for re-issuing to a new unit rotating in…
Anyways
This LMTV stank… like ‘death smell’ and NO ONE wanted to go near it… couldn’t see any blood in the cockpit or the back… it was odd…
One night we got orders to check every. square. inch. of it
Found out there was a Hajji all squished and mashed up into the frame and engine mounts… fucker must have gotten run over and got caught up in there all mashed and squishtulated in and around the transmission… Fucking rank don’t even begin to cover it. I actually felt bad for the Indians who got tasked with prying the stiff out let me tell you…
Worst smell I ever had to deal with was when I was a young paramedic, my partner and I helped the nurses hold down a homeless dude so we could could shave his clothes off. You can’t even imagine how bad it was when we got to his nether regions.
Even with vaseline around your nostrils, it was BAD.
I still feel bad for the bloke. At least he finally got the help he really needed.
And that was a good Haji, dead.
I worked for a VW dealer in 1979. We had a Diesel VW Rabbit come in with the engine locked up. Owner said it ran fine when he parked it in his garage and then went away for two weeks. We pulled the head off and found two cylinders packed solid with bird seed. A mouse had chewed a hole in a bag of bird seed in the owner’s garage, carried it up inside the car’s tailpipe and packed it away for winter in the cylinders. We cleaned it up and put it back together and it ran fine.
when bringing back my old 94 4runner from the dead. the mechanic found a complete mouse nest in the tailpipe and muffler. ended up buying a new system
as the old one was fucked bigtime. but we don’t have the mice problems our neighbors have with them. we feed like 10 feral cats. started with 3 back 6 years ago. started putting food out to keep them around and keep the mice down.
that worked great, but then the kittens started coming ! ended up getting them all caught and cut/fixed/whatever you call it for 13 of them. lost a few along the way
one was the old male and a couple of the young ones. so, now a days a couple of my neighbors want to “borrow a few cats” to clean out the mice.
the lady behind us feeds them as well and she is mouse free as well.
so, 2 bags a month or maybe 40 bucks and I don’t have to hear about mice.
or squirrels or birds. they kill everything. I just have to clean up the bodies they leave around. my one neighbor paid close to 500 bucks to repair the damage squirrels did to his house last year. we don’t have that problem.
and we do check the trucks before starting them to make sure there are no cats under the hood. the wife hates mice and will drive me crazy about them. so to me, 40 bucks a month is worth it.