I've lost my marbles!
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MFolks
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I've read of nuts & bolts in rocker panels, making for some odd, and hard to trace sounds.
tatra
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Previous broken Window, just like the balls you find in tires.....
Back after WW2 my uncle worked at the Norwood (Cincinnati) GM assembly plant. He said that they would place all the "options" inside the doors or under the back seat when a fellow worker bought a new car. When the guy got the car home he would pull out all the extras and install them.
Marbles and ball bearings usually found their way in when the workers were upset.
Marbles and ball bearings usually found their way in when the workers were upset.
chrisa7164
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I've found messages written with seam sealer in out of the way places before.
AE2
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A mustang I sold a few years ago has a for sale sign with my number on it inside the door. Weatherstrip was bad and fell thru. I decided I could afford to leave it there.
941designs
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Tatra was making a joke, I do believe...
Somebody shooting out windows with marbles?
BTW, I think you found your marbles, not lost them.
BTW, I think you found your marbles, not lost them.
nicksnothereman
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Those are moon crystals. They amplify your car's chakra and allow it to transcend it's inevitable death and live on forever despite lord xenu. Gotta shine em and put em back or your thetan count will be out of whack and be a magnet for jehovah's witnesses (on bicycles).
bczygan
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Those are moon crystals. They amplify your car's chakra and allow it to transcend it's inevitable death and live on forever despite lord xenu. Gotta shine em and put em back or your thetan count will be out of whack and be a magnet for jehovah's witnesses (on bicycles).
Boy, if I just had a nickel for every time that's happened to me...
58Yeoman
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I found a German candy bar wrapper under the floor mat of the '69 VW Bug that I bought new. It didn't rattle, though...
38Chevy454
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All I find is a dried up mouse or about 1 inch of dirt and leaves.
For the OP, since it is a 95, could be numerous sources where those came from. Not necessarily from assy line. Been nearly 20 years, and little kids do strange things.
For the OP, since it is a 95, could be numerous sources where those came from. Not necessarily from assy line. Been nearly 20 years, and little kids do strange things.
Stevie-Ray
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You'd be as poor as you are now?
M17715
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Yes, I have heard of that happening. Dealer mechanics and factories do it all the time. Every (and I mean EVERY) Corvette is autographed under the floor panel by the guys on the factory assembly line. Usually it is the same guys. I have found things in my door panels that mechanics have left in the bottom/inside of my doors over the years. They want you to bring the car back to work on it again- the oldest trick in the book. (Other than the: I made you look commercial).
vette66bob
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58Yeoman
Was the wrapper in the VW from the Willy Wanka Candy Factory and by chance was it gold?
Was the wrapper in the VW from the Willy Wanka Candy Factory and by chance was it gold?
LS6 Tommy
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A guy that used to work for me bought a new F250. From the day he took delivery it drove like poo on the highway. Steering wheel/front end shook and it had weird vibrations at anything above 40 mph. Dealer rebalanced the tires at least 3 times, checked the alignment, all the normal stuff. He finally talked them into giving him new tires. When they dismounted the right front tire, there were 3 uncrushed Budweiser cans in it...
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JakeKohl
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That's good 'cause I like my beer spun...not stirred.
Mike Miller
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One of the girls at work bought a new car that developed a nasty oder, after a few trips back to the dealer she found a rotten chicken wedged in between the rear seat back and the trunk panel.
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Used to put ball bearings in my buddies hubcaps all the time to mess with them. Grandpa said back in the day they would drill a small hole in peoples sealed beam head lights, fill them with acetylene and tape over the holes. When the unsuspecting driver turned on the lights, BOOM!
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58Yeoman
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Yes...how did you know?
AgFrost
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I have found "Jesus can I get a ride home?" in seam sealer under the back seat of a Crown Vic. We laughed for quite a while!
Keithinsc
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I was at the St Therese plant a few times right near the shutdown, about 2001-02.
Talking with the QC Engineer about the planned closing, he replied that there had been a few 'incidents'
Told me about a Maintanence man the kept losing his walky-talky. One day the final inspection crew kept hearing voices from the front of a car they had pulled off-line. Not constant, but often. After awhile they noticed if one of them keyed their mic, they could hear it from the front wheel.
Yup, pulled the wheel, took the tire off and found one of the missing radios. Maintance man pleaded ignorance and kept his job.
Talking with the QC Engineer about the planned closing, he replied that there had been a few 'incidents'
Told me about a Maintanence man the kept losing his walky-talky. One day the final inspection crew kept hearing voices from the front of a car they had pulled off-line. Not constant, but often. After awhile they noticed if one of them keyed their mic, they could hear it from the front wheel.
Yup, pulled the wheel, took the tire off and found one of the missing radios. Maintance man pleaded ignorance and kept his job.
When I worked at the Kenworth GMC dealer In Fort Wayne we had a GMC Topkick in for a prep on the road test there was a loud rattle in the passenger door. When the door panel was removed we found a beer bottle with a note in it asking how long did it take you to find the rattle?
RVDan
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A travel trailer we sold was in an accident, the tech taking it apart pulled a wall panel and written on the back of it was "if you're reading this something fucked up"
I don't know how marbles would get in the door, I only found spare door lock solenoid in mine.
I don't know how marbles would get in the door, I only found spare door lock solenoid in mine.
mygarageone
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I worked at the Old 's plant in Lansing ,mi. I watched them put nuts and bolts on strings and hang them inside a door , they threw in pop bottle , new papers , you name it they did it.
One time as I Was on the engine line , when ever they knew a police car engine was being built , they would throw small nuts and bolts in the cylinders before the heads were put on and of course nothing happened until they were at the end of the line and fired up the engine. That was in the era of the 60's when they were pushing them out as fast as possible and quality be damed.
That my friends is one of the reasons the American auto industry went down .
I can tell you horror stories about what went on in these plants. All by the. Very workers who lost there jobs and blamed the company.
One time as I Was on the engine line , when ever they knew a police car engine was being built , they would throw small nuts and bolts in the cylinders before the heads were put on and of course nothing happened until they were at the end of the line and fired up the engine. That was in the era of the 60's when they were pushing them out as fast as possible and quality be damed.
That my friends is one of the reasons the American auto industry went down .
I can tell you horror stories about what went on in these plants. All by the. Very workers who lost there jobs and blamed the company.
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swannyone
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Found a nut had been installed on an intake valve stem before being installed in the cylinder head. This was on a new chevy truck in the mid 80's. It made a very strange valvetrain noise.
malibu101
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Wanna pull a simple non-destructive noise prank on a buddy of yours who drives a truck?
If the bed is empty put a hard ball (like a golf or baseball) in the bed.
If the bed is empty put a hard ball (like a golf or baseball) in the bed.
BD1
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All GM employees get a box of marbles on their first day . After you lose ALL your marbles you are one of the guys. 
CheckeredFlag
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My Aunt bought a (new) Ford Explorer a few years ago, she kept complaining of some kind of rattling door from the drivers side, and after several trips to the Dealership- they took the panel off, and there was an old Coke can in there ... (Coca Cola) ...
Obviously someone on the line either dropped it in there, or had it propped up and it dropped in, and no one retrieved it
Obviously someone on the line either dropped it in there, or had it propped up and it dropped in, and no one retrieved it