I worked at a garage were a customers car fell off a wheel free lift and landed on its side. The mechanics dragged it out from between the posts and pushed it back on to its wheels, whereupon it promptly bounced on to its other side!!
Customer got a new car.
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I worked at a main dealer which had a large bodyshop. One day, a Volvo 760 Turbo was recovered in, with a front end smash. It was obviously a borderline repair but as it was quiet at the time & the customer wanted his pride & joy back on the road the estimate was for mostly straightening panels, rather than replacing them, to ensure work could take place.
After the work had been carried out & the new radiator refilled, it was taken for a road test, the car overheated & was carefully driven back to the workshop where a cracked water pump was discovered, however the engine had basically cooked and was not repairable. A new egine was £3,000 plus vat, the insurance company wanted to cut their losses but of course the customer was having none of that, so after about 2 months of wrangling it was agreed that a new engine could be fitted, but the customer had to pay for any ancillary parts required, like gaskets & belts. There were no units available so Volvo pulled a unit off their assembly line which came complete with manifolds, turbo, alternator & clutch!! Result? One very happy customer, one annoyed insurance company & one estimator who quickly learned to look beyond the obvious signs of damage!
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When we had that hurricane in 1987 there was no power for two weeks and we were running what we could off of car batteries.
When the power went back on it was recharge time, one of the chaps on the farm had left his battery on charge all night on fast charge and had cooked it.
He took a small wire and touched across the terminals to see if there was a spark,"no no you do it like this" said Earl and proceded to rub a file across the terminals, there was a loud bang and the top of the battery hit the roof.
Another time we were painting around the farm and one chap was washing his hands in a bucket of petrol, in walks Jeremy and quite a way away struck a match for a fag, the match snapped and shot across the workshop to, well guess where, it was all very exciting.
A friend of mine has a farm near Hook and a young chap was starting up his own workshop on the farm and had offered to do some welding work for him around the petrol tank, deciding to help him to start up he agreed, when he went to collect his car unfortunantly it had burned down with the workshop, whoops.
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Hey Mr Mender Where did this incident with the jag happen?
This was on a now defunct main dealer on Anglesey
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>>... A jag rolled off the ramp and crashed to the ground ... one of those family stories we like to pass on to our children!
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Funny you should mention that:
www.dyna.co.za/cars/Car_-_First_Day.jpg
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