Gloves Are Tools, Right?

[2ndGearRubber]

When I was working, you never got in a customer's car with dirty hands. Before driving it on a test drive, before getting back in it after working on it, you cleaned up, especially your hands. Even the fleet shop I worked at demanded fender covers, seat covers, floor mat covers, and clean hands. In fact, we used the blue paper towels you see by the pumps at gas stations for customers to use, to wipe off steering wheels, door handles, etc., as the last thing you did before the customer got the car back.

Other rules included not changing the seat position, not adjusting the mirror, and leaving the damned radio tuned to the customer's preference. You did not mess with the customer's car in any detectable way.

Yeah. I'm not getting paralyzed in a wreck from sombodies 5'2 seating position, or driving with the seat so reclined my head is behind the b pillar. I'll adjust your rearview too if I need to, so I can avoid wrecking your car.

Your ****** music or news turned up to 100 dB? Thats going off too. LOL


You gotta keep the car clean. For quick jobs that's the value of gloves. I can do an inspection and oil change, write the stickers,and never need to have washed my hands.

 

[dchawk81]

Yeah. I'm not getting paralyzed in a wreck from sombodies 5'2 seating position, or driving with the seat so reclined my head is behind the b pillar. I'll adjust your rearview too if I need to, so I can avoid wrecking your car.

Your ****** music or news turned up to 100 dB? Thats going off too. LOL


You gotta keep the car clean. For quick jobs that's the value of gloves. I can do an inspection and oil change, write the stickers,and never need to have washed my hands.

Why are you joyriding in my car? I know it's epic but...

 

[isb cornbinder]

My employer supplied gloves. The company ordered **-Large for me. One day when the work orders were being handed out, the foreman asked us to be on best behavior. The company was hosting a bunch of management persons from the Orient. When I saw the delegation enter the shop, I stretched a nitril glove over my shaved head and added a short plastic tube to the side. I put my bump-cap back on. When the delegation stopped to see what I was doing, I took my bump cap off and inflated the glove by blowing into the tube. The nitril fingers on the glove stood up like the comb on a rooster. This got a big laugh from the guests. I was asked to "do it again" several times while the guests posed for pictures. As the group wondered away, I did my best rooster crowing imitation.
I do not have a picture of this.

 

[2ndGearRubber]

Why are you joyriding in my car? I know it's epic but...

LOL the people who always want to whine about that have some 20yo shitbox.

My favorite is when something gets dropped off for a noise complaint, but I can hear the song they're listen to inside the car from 50ft away with their windows up. There's no way they can actually hear those sway bar links with the music that loud.

 

[dchawk81]

LOL the people who always want to whine about that have some 20yo shitbox.

My favorite is when something gets dropped off for a noise complaint, but I can hear the song they're listen to inside the car from 50ft away with their windows up. There's no way they can actually hear those sway bar links with the music that loud.

I'm sorry. You're implying that they never turn the radio off or down?

If I have my radio up it just means I was enjoying the most recent song or wanted to drown out the stupid noise until it got fixed. It doesn't mean I never heard it, or that I shouldn't fix it.

 

[dnschmidt]

When I was working, you never got in a customer's car with dirty hands. Before driving it on a test drive, before getting back in it after working on it, you cleaned up, especially your hands. Even the fleet shop I worked at demanded fender covers, seat covers, floor mat covers, and clean hands. In fact, we used the blue paper towels you see by the pumps at gas stations for customers to use, to wipe off steering wheels, door handles, etc., as the last thing you did before the customer got the car back.

Other rules included not changing the seat position, not adjusting the mirror, and leaving the damned radio tuned to the customer's preference. You did not mess with the customer's car in any detectable way.

Well I'm 6'2" and the average Hispanic mechanic here in Phoenix is about 5'4" and is unlikely able to reach the pedals of my car if they don't move the seat up so I'm a little liberal about this.

 

[2ndGearRubber]

I'm sorry. You're implying that they never turn the radio off or down?

If I have my radio up it just means I was enjoying the most recent song or wanted to drown out the stupid noise until it got fixed. It doesn't mean I never heard it, or that I shouldn't fix it.

Just a joke. Should've tossed an "LOL" at the end apparently.


Trust me, I don't want to drive anything more than I have to. Yes, I will go WOT in a turbo car after disturbing the charge pipes to confirm I make target boost and there aren't any loose connections. No, I don't care or get joy from WOT in a buick encore. I just want to do what is required to fix, and confirm the fix, of the car. I really don't care about whatever you bring me. I've driven lots of cars and it's mostly blase now.

Had a corvette with a trans issue recently. Well, a trans issue after I fixed the blown out hydraulics. Customer thought it was good enough, but I can promise I double-clutched into second at maybe 3k to see if it was gonna grind if I did the syncros job. He figured I was ham ******* it through the "skip shift" 1-4 shift. I disagreed, and said to baby the 1-2 shift. Pretty sure you can't force your way through the 1-4 shift even if you wanted to, but I digress.

Well I'm 6'2" and the average Hispanic mechanic here in Phoenix is about 5'4" and is unlikely able to reach the pedals of my car if they don't move the seat up so I'm a little liberal about this.

I got in a car today, well I tried, where I didn't fit vertically. Even with my neck bent to the side, the distance between my *** and my skull was greater than the difference between their seat and headliner. Some people think there's some illumnati conspiracy to mess with their radio stations or their lumbar support. I literally don't care, I just want their ****** music/talk radio turned down and to fit in the car. If I get in the car and the radio blows me out, IDGAF if I change the station while swatting at the radio turned up 100%.

I had to move a seat forward recently to reach the clutch pedal in something. I'm 6'2, no idea how the dude drove it. Toes on the pedal?

 

[ThePostman]

Girls don't like dirty fingernails and grease. I usually wear a 5mil glove as an inner all day, and a 7mil on top when I'm wrenching. I can strip those 7s off and reuse if they are not beat up and have clean gloves, in theory, to go do some sort of test drive or activity that requires cleanliness. There was an older guy who was a body tech at the church we went to when I was young, his hands were permanently stained, I was not going to be him. Plus, how much of the stuff we touch is a carcinogen? Nitrile gloves have saved me from blood too, more than I can count, because it snags, tire radials come to mind. 7mil HFs for the win.

 

[ThePostman]

And yes, you're radio is immediately turned off ASAP and Bluetooth that sometimes kicks in on a test drive. And why must you put the ebrake on with an automatic, parked on level ground, and wonder why it doesn't work anymore, after you forgot about it that many times?

 

[Mikeske]

And yes, you're radio is immediately turned off ASAP and Bluetooth that sometimes kicks in on a test drive. And why must you put the ebrake on with an automatic, parked on level ground, and wonder why it doesn't work anymore, after you forgot about it that many times?

My Chevy Equinox from 2018 releases the e-brake when I shift into D and tap the gas pedal twice. Tap once and release then tap the 2nd time and go. The e-brake automatic releases. I learned that one when I forgot to release it on a hill after I had shifted into D and was trying to go. It released right as I glanced at the gauges and the park brake light went out.