30 Times Car Mechanics Shared How Unreal & Crazy Their Job Can Get


30 Times Car Mechanics Shared How Unreal & Crazy Their Job Can Get

Let’s admit it, we get lazy. We love our cars but at times, stretch going to a mechanic for whatever reasons. Life happens. So, when we finally ride down to the service repair and the car mechanic checks out the car, they know that it needs a bit of TLC. And sometimes, a little more than that.

We found a subreddit thread called r/JustRolledIntoTheShop. And just like the name suggests, it’s from car mechanics who are sharing their stories(and pictures) of the cars and how they received them.

1. Stayed a little longer at the shop to save this little guy from someone’s engine bay.

car mechanic cat

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2. I don’t condone stealing… but man I want to!

car mechanic dogs

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3. Hood opens. Hood is layed down immediately. Tech exclaims “Oh HELL NO.”

crazy-car-repair-stories-animal in the hood

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4. Customer has been coming since 200k miles, said he’d get to 1 million. I’ve been waiting for that day for years, today he casually rolled up and asked to plug his tire, needless to say, best tire plug ever.

car mechanic kms

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5. Customer refused all 4 tires on a rainy day, she also had to sign a waiver before releasing the car.

car mechanics repair stories -tire

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6. Customer states temperature gauge is reading full tank.

car mechanic repair stories fuel tank

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7. I replaced a battery last week in a customer’s car and she is trying to claim the battery is causing weird things to happen to her car now. This morning, she said the red line was never there before the battery was replaced and wants a refund. Lord help me.

replaced battery

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8. Private security Tahoe with 1” bulletproof glass. The rest of the vehicle is just as heavily armored.

bulletproof car

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9. The car sounds like a cartoon.

cartoon car mechanic

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10. Just in for an inspection & was greeted with this…

inspection car mechanic

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11. Customer kept adding air because the TPMS light would not turn off…

car mechanic added air

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12. I work at a rental company and the police brought this back…

rental caar bullet holes

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13. Accerlator gets stuck to the floor. Pull-on the string to unstick.

warning pedal

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14. C/S she hears a flapping noise coming from the driver’s side.

flapping noise car mechanic

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15. Surprised it didn’t explode into the shop

tire explode

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16. Just hopped into the shop

hopped car mechanic

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17. Work never fails to disappoint

car mechanic description

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18. When I saw this I told her it wasn’t going to be cheep

nest in the hood

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19. Rental car came back like this “had a plane to catch”

plane to catch

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20. Says didn’t have a spare, drove for 3 days! I found the spare in the trunk complete with jack!

no tire

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