“Hey Mechanic, My Car Sounds Like….” – IOTW Report

“Hey Mechanic, My Car Sounds Like….”

25 Comments on “Hey Mechanic, My Car Sounds Like….”

  1. It has all become pathetic shit. My grandmother could drive any car known to man. Timing on the steering ring, hand crank, column shift, non-synchronized, somewhat synchronized, fully synchronized…

    Oh well. Don’t ask me what I think of you — I might not give the answer that you want me to.

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  2. That ac compressor and alternator that seized up…expensive fix! We had a Buick long ago that had an alternator fail.
    That car must have been starting hard and/ or stalling for a long time. Probably had to have a new battery too.

    I still long after my first car. A 1968 Cougar XR7 with a 302.

    Some of these people must beat on their vehicles.

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  3. I was a kid pumping gas for a summer job. A woman pulls in saying her car is behaving strangely and making a lot of noise. I tell her I’m not a mechanic but I work on my own car and I’ll take a look. I tell her to shut it off.she says, I already did. It’s roaring like a locomotive. I lift the hood and see something I’ve never seen before. Her radiator cap was vibrating so violently it’s a blur. I’m not touching it.

    I direct her to the diner next door for coffee while the car cools down. Turns out she’s got about a cup of coolant left in the radiator. I fill it with water/antifreeze mix and tell her to find a real mechanic.

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  4. Thanks for the laughs.
    It’s unfortunate for some of the car owners that they have serious problems.
    But most could have been avoided if they had gone to the mechanic when the noise started out as a squeak, rattle, thump or vibration, rather than turning up the volume on their radio and continuing to drive.

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  5. When I was a teenager, Roger Miller pulls into the parking lot of the supermarket I worked at. He was driving a brand new Continental Mark whatever, and it was billowing smoke from under the hood. I grabbed a fire extinguisher and ran out there, and had him pop the hood. No fire, just defective hose spraying PS fluid all over the exhaust manifold. He never said so much as “thank you”, but he was pissed, and I don’t blame him. Six grand was a lot of money for a POS back then.

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