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Same here. And they woill reject the service is the car is THAT filthy or charge a fee to have it cleaned prior to any diagnostics or service.

The trouble is I now work at Kia, our customers assume everything will be covered by the warranty, add to that we have sackless writers who are afraid to get diag time or tell a customer they need to leave the car for repairs, today we had 49 cars so far, only 4 have left the car here for work everyone else was told it is ok to wait for the repairs. there are only 4 techs here and when you have 5 waiters each, waiter #5 oil change may sit for 3+ hours before getting done, that pisses the customers off because they were told they could just wait for it.
 
The trouble is I now work at Kia, our customers assume everything will be covered by the warranty, add to that we have sackless writers who are afraid to get diag time or tell a customer they need to leave the car for repairs, today we had 49 cars so far, only 4 have left the car here for work everyone else was told it is ok to wait for the repairs. there are only 4 techs here and when you have 5 waiters each, waiter #5 oil change may sit for 3+ hours before getting done, that pisses the customers off because they were told they could just wait for it.

I ALWAYS assume, when it comes to car service, that just because I "can" wait it doesn't mean I should.

Heck, I drop my truck off for the quick change oil shop. Waiting even an hour with kids is murder.
 
No doubt.

I'm of the opinion that a good mechanic is indispensable, particularly one you know you can trust. I've been using the same shop for at least the last 10 years.
 
When driving this sweet machine, if they get hungry, they could just grab a handful of the tasty bits off the floor!

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I will offer up a crisp twenty dollar bill to anyone who is willing to lick the e-brake handle!

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When driving this sweet machine, if they get hungry, they could just grab a handful of the tasty bits off the floor!

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I will offer up a crisp twenty dollar bill to anyone who is willing to lick the e-brake handle!

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I know kids aren't exacty clean, I mean they have no concept of ownership yet, but WTF is wrong with the parents that own that thing?

I'm sure they have a half hour here and there, clean your effing car!
 
I install car stereos and ignition interlocks in WA. I get cars with real moss for carpet and mushrooms growing out of the floor. The food pieces mix in really well with all of the water on the carpets too.
 
But to add something to this thread,

I work for an auto dismantler for several years.
even near the end of my time there I was still amazed at the condition of peoples cars.

Over the Road Truckers are the worst though. I tore down a Freightliner one time that the owner of it had really lived in it, so much in fact that he had a single burner propane stove in it. this thing was covered in the greasy mess from cooking. every surface felt like the inside of a grill hood. It had the smell of old fryer oil on the inside.
 
I don't know about you but I would pretty pissed if I took my car to a mechanic and found out later that he took pictures of the inside of my car and posted them on the net.
 
I don't know about you but I would pretty pissed if I took my car to a mechanic and found out later that he took pictures of the inside of my car and posted them on the net.

Really? Then clean your car I guess? No one posts pics unless its really sad (gross) or really awesome (sweet car, or, awesome bedazzle job)

You probably need to keep your hair clean, butt crack in, superman outfit at home when you go to Walmart , or you may just end up on www.peopleofwalmart.com

The world is a dangerous place, my friend. A dangerous place.
 
the car with the nasty shifter and cereal on the floor, I had to get under the dash to replace the brake switch. it was so discusting, I understand not having a like-new interior, but come on! at least clean up a bit! or God forbid try a vacuum! when there are bugs crawling around where you put your baby seat that goes too far! if these folks dont worry about cleaning up their car before subjecting me to it, then I dont think they would mind letting the world see it too. These customers have appointments so its not like there was an unexpected issue that they didnt have time to clean it up before bringing it in, and they come in with more filth than last time, its not like it was a sudden mess like the kiddo having a fit on the way there this is ground in dont give a crap filth. I have been a mechanic since 1991 and the vast majority of people take some pride in their car be it a mercedes or a kia, one customer has 219k on her rio, it looks like its new, a little wear on the edge of the seat is all, the one with the nasty floor and shifter from earlier? that one has 34k on it, and the paint is faded, looks like it has never been washed or waxed, windows so filmed over that you cant hardly see through them. I understand a kid will throw food around from his child seat, but to never clean it up? thats appalling.
 
I used to write repair estimates for insurance companies. It was my job to go out to the wrecked vehicle, inspect it and write up the repairs.

Things I found in cars:
-Weed. Not just roaches. Bags of it.
-Assorted drug paraphernalia
-Guns
-Ammo
-Porn (some of it was homemade)
-Condoms (some used)
-A tooth (knocked out during the wreck)
-Brains and skull pieces (fatal head to head collision)
-Money. Folding money. I counted it all, called the insurance company offered to drop it off at their office. It was over $100. The chic who owned the car said she just threw her "change" in the "little thingy there".
-Lots of blood (human, deer and horse)
-Open beer and liquor bottles

Granted, you don't really get a chance to clean out your car before getting into a wreck and sometimes not real quick after but, there were some rolling garbage cans out there. Some rolling ashtrays too. Look, I used to smoke. I know you don't always keep the ashtray empty but, when you've moved to using the center console, it's time to dump out some butts.
 
Ok, been a while since I have had a worthy WTF car, if you puked in your car, would you clean it up or just do nothing, then after it has dried, bring it in to the shop complaining that the power windows dont work correctly? my guess would be the vomit shorted out the switch. I refused to work on this one...

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It smelled horrible even near the car, I wouldnt get in it, they hopped back in it like nothing was up and drove off after I refused to touch it.
 
Some people are just straight up filthy and don't care what anyone thinks. As a cable installer I had to go into some horrible houses (and underneath). Some houses I had to walk very carefully or I would step in a hairball. I've seen dust on peoples TV that was at least 1/4" thick, no kidding. I could go on all day about how much I hated working for people like that. I definitely feel your pain azscoob.
 
One our filthy customers I will refer to as "Fat Bastard".

Now he's not just Fat Bastard for being fat, he's also a bastard.

He will come out with no shirt on, in his dirty, stained gym shorts with enough food in his beard and chest hair to feed the Hati earthquake victims. But that's not what makes him a bastard, or even fat.

He has a handicap sticker, not because he's crippled but because he is fat. He is fully capable of walking, but he refuses. He joked that I should gain wait so I could park up close. Not fully a bastard yet, but squarely in the realm of fat.

He lets his dogs **** on his sidewalk, his front porch and his back porch and then sprays it down into the grass/pavers. Gross but not a bastardly deed.

He decides to have work done, agrees to the price then spends the next month hiding from you. Total bastard. He's even so bastardly that he will open the blinds to look at you and pretend like you where never there. Super Bastard.

I may also start referring him to saucer nipples.
 
I got a story!

I used to work in a Las Vegas strip casino. Probably shouldn't mention the name, but it's huge and green and has lions in it.

Anyway, there was a dude who came in, paid cash (including deposit) for one of the rooms with a balcony (~$900/nt). The first night, housekeeping reported used condoms everywhere and "toys". This was reported only because it took them extra long to clean, not because it was all that suspicious.

After the second night, the room got sealed for the "biohazard condition". Apparently there was poo smeared everywhere. The walls, bed, TVs, carpet, smoke detectors, etc. I am only curious where he got so much poo from.

The guy actually came back and asked me if he could get his deposit back. I just said, "I think we both know that's not going to happen." He smiled and said, "Well, I had a good time."

They don't accept cash deposit on those type of rooms anymore. The room was closed for a week and cleanup was in the price range of $5k. The deposit was only $1k.
 
Poo's NASTY!!!

I have a 2000 ford ranger that's my beater I use to run to depot and the lumber store for my furniture projects that could use a good vac, but it's something I do when it needs to go in, or if I need to work on it!!

Worst I've seen was when I was working construction and had to remodel this old lady's bathroom. Her toilet had a bit of a lean to it I noticed first off. Upon further inspection the floor was so rotted out you could see in the basement and the only thing holding it up was the old 4" cast iron elbow leading to the stack!! I ripped out the whole subfloor and replaced. I had to tile the bathroom too so I was running back and forth from the house to my tile saw outside and she decided to run some errands. At first I was relieved since she was nitpicking my work. Seriously crazy lady, your crapper almost fell in the basement and you're on my ass about some tile haze that I haven't attempted to wash off yet???? My relief quickly disappeared when her crazy dog, that was obviously crapping and pissing all over the house from the smell, decided he didn't want me to come back in the house after cutting some tile. I opened the door and it lunged at me so I stepped back and slammed the door and it got it's neck caught in it so I held on just enough so he couldn't come after me and he finally went inside. I love animals, just check out my avatar, but this little bastard was NASTY. I grabbed my church key for turning off the water at the street and managed not to bash him in the head, just back him off with it so I could get back to work and get the hell out of there!!!
 
It smelled horrible even near the car, I wouldnt get in it, they hopped back in it like nothing was up and drove off after I refused to touch it.

hey azscoob i work at a kenworth dealership all over the road i could probably keep this thread alive for months if i start taking pics. today i had one that the guy had a fridge like we use for kegorators strapped to his passenger seat along with enough crap to fill a 5X5 storage unit it is ridiculous
 
Somewhat related story!!

I worked for the last few years as an EMT in San Diego, both for a retirement community of over 900, as well as a BLS (EMT's only, no medics) ambulance service. For a few months, we were contracted with the VA hospital in La Jolla, so once a week my mornings consisted of driving from north SD county down to La Jolla and stationing at the hospital.

While on the 5 headed to the hospital one morning, my partner and I witness a 2-car accident in the HOV lane to the right. So we naturally pull over, flip the lights on, call it in to CHP, and start surveying the scene. Both drivers and one passenger were fine, but one of the drivers, whose car was buried into the median, would not get out of her car. There was also a particularly familiar smell that EMT's eventually become accustomed to after a while in the field, though my partner and I apparently missed the source until later. We begged, pleaded, and bargained, but eventually had to get the CHP officer that showed up to order this woman to get out of her car.

Turns out the reason she was so hesitant to leave the vehicle was she was so unbelievably snockered, she had projectile vomited on herself and her windshield, causing her view to be blocked. She then swerved directly into the unsuspecting guys driving in the HOV lane. Not only this, but she apparently had kept her cat(s) or dog(s) in her car for an extended period of time, because the back seats were mostly shredded, and there were obvious urine stains all over as well. We still had to give her a full checkup.
 
That also reminds me of this guy from college's dorm room. Now some guys are messy in college, thats fine, but this guy lived 1/2 way down the floor and you could SMELL his room if the door was open from both ends of the hallway. It looked like that the entire year. The smell made you want to vomit, guys would walk by and fog his room with air spray. The couple pictures I took don't really do it much justice though.
it was probably his car you were working on...
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A friend just gave us his old car. It's in decent operating condition and a little bit better than our Subaru we're currently keeping together with duct tape. I filled an entire trash can with garbage just cleaning out the trunk and back seats. I haven't even touched the front seats yet. There's a few dollars in change cemented into the cup holders with what appears to be a mix of spilled coffee and soda. At least it doesn't smell too bad. A little cleaner followed by a few bottles of Febreeze should make it tolerable for short drives...
 
Ok, new game. Must scour parking lots with camera for pictures to upload to this thread!
This could be a very good game.


No doubt.

I'm of the opinion that a good mechanic is indispensable, particularly one you know you can trust. I've been using the same shop for at least the last 10 years.
+1 We started using my step dad's mechanic when my mom married him. Old guy out in the country. Once he died, his son took over and has the same great service and is honest. Gives you recommendations every time about what a dealer would say, what you need to do now vs what can actually wait, and what he would personally do. Never charges unless he can fix it regardless of how long he spends evaluating it. Will tell you if it's easy enough to fix yourself compared to what he'd have to charge. I dread the day we have to find a new mechanic.

I don't know about you but I would pretty pissed if I took my car to a mechanic and found out later that he took pictures of the inside of my car and posted them on the net.
I don't see how it's any different than being on public display everyday while driving it. If it embarrasses you, clean it out.

Imagine the joy of getting your face shredded when the air bag goes off?
The cover does not come hurling towards the face when an airbag deploys. THey generally split in the middle horizontally or vertical, or break away at the top OR bottom.
noob

:p

A friend just gave us his old car. It's in decent operating condition and a little bit better than our Subaru we're currently keeping together with duct tape. I filled an entire trash can with garbage just cleaning out the trunk and back seats. I haven't even touched the front seats yet. There's a few dollars in change cemented into the cup holders with what appears to be a mix of spilled coffee and soda. At least it doesn't smell too bad. A little cleaner followed by a few bottles of Febreeze should make it tolerable for short drives...
I just bought a '93 Ford Escort from a guy at work for $300 for a work commuter. The guy's teenager daughter drove it in highschool. She "cleaned" it before I got it. But I still had to sweep it out and remove the center console and give it a good scrubbing. But I reminded myself what my car looked like when I was 16 :D
 
dude, i have always been anal about how clean my car is. I worked at a body shop for a bit after high school as an apprentice/ flat rate tech and some of the cars that came in were beyond filthy, this one van a goth chick drove looked like it was lived out of and had doll parts glued to stuff, weird.
 
I used to install satellites in peoples homes. i was always amazed at how some people would leave their houses knowing someone was going to be working there. especially the bedrooms when we had to add a tv in there.
dirty clothes, dirty dishes, old rotten food... nasty stuff.

I got sent out to a trailer house once to install a dual system. I needed to get the cable across the (filthy) bedroom so I suggested running it through the back of the closet. The lady said that would be fine, and I asked if she wanted some time to move anything before I began....... of course she said no, go ahead an do it. after kicking the dirty clothes out of my way I opened the closet door..... and a huge pile of porn came tumbling out!! mags, movies, the whole works.

actaully in retrospect, I am amazed at how many times I ran into porn while installing cable.
 
I've been caught off guard sometimes when my car breaks down and I have to go straight to the shop without having time to tidy up.

And yea, I have plenty of filthy A$$ customers...I'm in EMS :p
 
Don't you just love the homeless ones that crap their pants when they see you coming down the road?

Lol, I really like those that are encrusted with unknown underpants goop or better yet those that wait until they're on our stretcher to let it go.

I don't understand how some people can survive in their environments sometimes.
 
I've been caught off guard sometimes when my car breaks down and I have to go straight to the shop without having time to tidy up.

And yea, I have plenty of filthy A$$ customers...I'm in EMS :p

I've heard some stories. You should post a thread with some of yours when you get a chance.
 
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