The Mechanically Declined.....

[bgott]

Have you ever wondered what alcohol does to a brake system? It sure isn't pretty (or cheap).

Actually, brake fluid is alcohol based. You use alcohol to flush oil out of the brake system. I imagine that if she ran it a long time there might be abnormal wear from lack of lubrication. The biggest problem you would have from running alcohol for brake fluid would be that it would evaporate quickly if you got the brakes hot, leading to no brakes. Oil in the brake system is what blows it up, if you have to diagnose a braking problem and you lift the lid of the master cylinder reservoir and the seal under the lid is swollen twice it's normal size, flush the system and replace all the rubber parts. Every last one of them, I tried to sneak by once and not replace the pressure differental switch and I didn't get away with it.

 

[GeorgiaHybrid]

Actually, brake fluid is alcohol based. You use alcohol to flush oil out of the brake system. I imagine that if she ran it a long time there might be abnormal wear from lack of lubrication. The biggest problem you would have from running alcohol for brake fluid would be that it would evaporate quickly if you got the brakes hot, leading to no brakes. Oil in the brake system is what blows it up, if you have to diagnose a braking problem and you lift the lid of the master cylinder reservoir and the seal under the lid is swollen twice it's normal size, flush the system and replace all the rubber parts. Every last one of them, I tried to sneak by once and not replace the pressure differental switch and I didn't get away with it.

The big problem is that rubbing alcohol comes in different flavors. Hers was 70% alcohol and 30% WATER. After 4 months the brakes failed and we wound up replacing the master, all 4 wheel cylinders and all of the brake brake lines. This was back in the good old days before stainless brake lines.

 

[IH82BL8]

I'd forgotten this one:

Two years ago my neighbors got all four wheels and tires stolen off their Tahoe overnight. The next morning two guys from a dealership came to replace the wheels and tires. They lifted the rearend with a floorjack and the truck rolls backwards off the jack down the driveway. The hadn't chocked the front tires.

Maybe this is an easy mistake to make, but I guess it made an impression on me because I was home that day to replace the rear diff assy in my car, which I completed successfully and without assistance from anyone. I've never been paid a dime for any mechanical work that I've done, but here are two automotive "professionals" who can't carry out the simplest task.

Oh yeah, I let my neighbors know all that I had seen and heard.

 

[Featherweight]

Lets here of some things we did when we didn't know any better. I was lucky enough to have my dad around to teach me how to work on things. But boy I have done my fair share of stupid things when I was a kid and he wasnt around to guide me lol. Probably one of the funniest was building speaker boxes. One day me and my buddy was trying to build a few and my parents had to run to the store or some place. Well they come out and told us not to be using the saws while they were gone for a few mins. Well on one box, the only thing left to do was to cut the hole for the speaker. I figured I could get it done quickly before they got back and caught me in the act of using the saw. So, I throw the speaker up there, trace a line, drill a hole, and went to town with a jig saw. It looked pretty good. I attempted to lay the speaker up on its new home, and it fell through lol. Yep I traced the line with the speaker grill on the speaker. My buddy still brings that up today and still gets a good laugh out of it. Never mind it was almost 20 years ago, I still kinda get embarrassed by it lol.

Lmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think everyone that has attempted to build a speaker box has done this.... I know i did it a couple of times being in a rush....

 

[adam728]

Lmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think everyone that has attempted to build a speaker box has done this.... I know i did it a couple of times being in a rush....

That's when you cut another ring that has the proper ID, and an OD larger than the first one you cut. Then you can "flush mount" the subwoofer, just as you originally intended. Right?

And no, I've never had that happen to me before.

 

[srmofo]

Ive seen more lugnuts installed backwards then I could ever imagine. Tapered end facing out. I have even seen them installed backwards when it was impossible to get a wrench on them because the taper flared farther out than the hex. Usually installed by themselves,a kind clueless stranger, or "the guy that usually does their auto repairs".

Ive seen 1 tech when I first started at sears years ago, hook battery connections backwards, completely frying the ECU.

And my favorite is this hotrod wannabe kid in a turbo eclipse that comes in with his RF axle welded to the bearing. Well I dont think it got enough penetration to actually stick to the hub face, but he put enough globs of bird **** on there to keep it from ever being able to be removed.

Im sure theres more I just cant think right now

 

[Featherweight]

Ok....i've talked about everyone else....let me talk about my mechanically declined adventures before i got inclined.....

1. My first time changing brakes....I opened the box and it was 4 brakes pads and some type of blue gel stuff.....I took the blue gel stuff out and looked at it....then looked at the brakes....and asked myself "what the hell is this for?" so i put it on the brake pads(asbestos side) like it was mayonnaise or summin....

2. While talkin on the cell phone....I was about to mount some tires on some new chrome rims....i had to install the valve stems then the tire......as i went to put the air in....i told the person i was talkin to "hold on a minute"....... I put the damn valve stem in backwards.....

 

[Hurricane_Whisperer]

Lets here of some things we did when we didn't know any better. I was lucky enough to have my dad around to teach me how to work on things. But boy I have done my fair share of stupid things when I was a kid and he wasnt around to guide me lol. Probably one of the funniest was building speaker boxes. One day me and my buddy was trying to build a few and my parents had to run to the store or some place. Well they come out and told us not to be using the saws while they were gone for a few mins. Well on one box, the only thing left to do was to cut the hole for the speaker. I figured I could get it done quickly before they got back and caught me in the act of using the saw. So, I throw the speaker up there, trace a line, drill a hole, and went to town with a jig saw. It looked pretty good. I attempted to lay the speaker up on its new home, and it fell through lol. Yep I traced the line with the speaker grill on the speaker. My buddy still brings that up today and still gets a good laugh out of it. Never mind it was almost 20 years ago, I still kinda get embarrassed by it lol.

You shouldn't be. You were engaged in the honorable pursuit of using power tools without supervision. You were trying to finish in a hurry, so you had an excuse for the mistake. You did not get hurt, you just cut in the wrong place because there wasn't time to measure twice. You are therefore exonerated of a craftsmanship error because it wasn't your fault that supervision was required when you clearly had ability.

 

[Hurricane_Whisperer]

I helped a guy at work put a new motor in his Jeep. Just was going to lend a hand deal.

First day we are working on it... 5 mins into it....

So... which way do you go to get bolts loose again??



I ended up doing 99% of the work.

I was working with a guy on some piping that would hold an industrial poison. We were tightening the pipe with pipe wrenches and more than 50% of the time the guy would put the pipe wrench on backwards. He was turning the correct direction to tighten but it seemed that knowing how to use a pipe wrench was to hard. He just put it on and turned and if it came off he would put it on the other side.

 

[Hurricane_Whisperer]

Many years ago we were sitting at the autoparts store and an old man walks in and asks for a can of freon, they sell him one and he goes outside and pops the hood on his car and looks around. Five minutes later he comes back in with the freon and asks for a can opener. The parts guy takes the can of freon and puts it back on the shelf and gives him his money back, and tells him he is to dumb to have freon. end of story

That's a great one. I had a similar problem once. We are all working late trying to ship some rebuilt machinery to a customer. The guys next door had a porta-john company and they were always hiring people that had just got out of prison. We were real busy when one of them comes over and asks one of my guys to borrow a chain. My guy doesn't think and goes to give him one, when I intervene and ask, "Wait. What do you need a chain for?" Guy had got the vacuum truck full of waste stuck in mud up past the axel.

I told him to call a tow truck company or his boss and not to ask to borrow stuff from us.

I then told my guys never to lend them anything. The one who was going to lend the chain didn't seem to understand. I finally had to make the point, "They aren't quallified to use a chain." That guy would have pulled the bumper off the other truck or snapped the chain and injured somebody.

 

[Featherweight]

That's a great one. I had a similar problem once. We are all working late trying to ship some rebuilt machinery to a customer. The guys next door had a porta-john company and they were always hiring people that had just got out of prison. We were real busy when one of them comes over and asks one of my guys to borrow a chain. My guy doesn't think and goes to give him one, when I intervene and ask, "Wait. What do you need a chain for?" Guy had got the vacuum truck full of waste stuck in mud up past the axel.

I told him to call a tow truck company or his boss and not to ask to borrow stuff from us.

I then told my guys never to lend them anything. The one who was going to lend the chain didn't seem to understand. I finally had to make the point, "They aren't quallified to use a chain." That guy would have pulled the bumper off the other truck or snapped the chain and injured somebody.

You were so right.....

 

[Hurricane_Whisperer]

Actually, brake fluid is alcohol based. You use alcohol to flush oil out of the brake system. I imagine that if she ran it a long time there might be abnormal wear from lack of lubrication. The biggest problem you would have from running alcohol for brake fluid would be that it would evaporate quickly if you got the brakes hot, leading to no brakes. Oil in the brake system is what blows it up, if you have to diagnose a braking problem and you lift the lid of the master cylinder reservoir and the seal under the lid is swollen twice it's normal size, flush the system and replace all the rubber parts. Every last one of them, I tried to sneak by once and not replace the pressure differental switch and I didn't get away with it.

DOT 3 and 4 brake fluids are not alcohol based. They are mostly glycol or glycol ether based.

 

[Featherweight]

Once i was taught by a girl how to hook up a trailer properly.....all these years and trailers i've owned i've been hookin them up improperly....did u all know that when hookin up a trailer you suppos to run the chain through the holes on the bumper/receiver and hook the chain back onto the links....not the bumper/receiver.......

 

[ZRX61]

You shouldn't be. You were engaged in the honorable pursuit of using power tools without supervision. You were trying to finish in a hurry, so you had an excuse for the mistake. You did not get hurt, you just cut in the wrong place because there wasn't time to measure twice. You are therefore exonerated of a craftsmanship error because it wasn't your fault that supervision was required when you clearly had ability.

Just kinda reading between the lines here... you've made the same mistake haven't you?

 

[Tom2]

I've done my share of dumb stuff (as I'm sure we all have), so I try to not be too hard on others who make mistakes.

I left the oil fill cap off of a car before. Wife drove the vehicle to work for a week. No problems, luckily.

Checked the oil the next weekend and saw the cap was gone! Luckily it had just fell and stuck between the ****** cooler lines.

Luckily it didn't blow any oil out. Must have had a good baffle in place.

That's probably the worst one I've done. Lots of little stupid stuff here and there. Right now I'm rebuilding forks on a bike, and pressed a bushing in place too soon. So I had to pry it back out That was challenging to say the least.

 

[yamaharacing21]

well i've done lots since i'm still learning ha...

but one time my cousin was saying how one of her blinkers on her car was out, so my dad and I saw it as a time to have fun...so we told her that she was low on ''blinker fluid'' so she went in to autozone and asked for ''blinker fluid'' haha they laughed in her face

 

[IH82BL8]

I left the oil fill cap off of a car before.

I've lost track of the number of times I've done that--at least three, I'm sure, and once with the lid from the master cylinder.

 

[Hurricane_Whisperer]

Just kinda reading between the lines here... you've made the same mistake haven't you?

No. Not at all. My mistake was far worse. I wasn't under any time constraint. I was 19 and I had just bought some Jensen speakers for my 1981 Camaro. I discovered that there was no way they would fit unless I trimmed away some of the sheet metal with some aviator snips. Luckily I had some aviator snips so I started working. This was difficult to do because there wasn't much room back there.

Then something occured to me. I didn't have to trim the other side. I can't remember why anymore, but I think it had something to do with the way they were mounted, (top side or bottom)

 

[ebstein]

being still drunk one morning, we started building something at my sisters place...a buddy of mine asked me to get the extention cord.......a got the cord, and proceeded to ask him "which end do you want".....(*******)

 

[Rockaholic555]

I've done the oil filler cap thing before.

Back in highschool there was a guy with some model Cadillac...can't remember which one. Anyways I was installing new brake lines and he kept honking the horn randomly. Finally I decided I'd just unplug the thing and when he went to honk again he started wondering why it broke. I told him to ask the instructor for some horn lubricant because he had probably dried it out from honking so much.

Same class, day one. Instructor wasn't the brightest guy. He brings in his van to show the class how to properly use a lift on a car. He's raising the car as he's explaining stuff and crushed all the HVAC ducting above his van. Priceless.

 

[vj6pac]

I was at a mates place one day and he was fitting a new diff to his car and asks me if i can help bleed the brakes, now let me just add here that i had consumed a rather large amount of beer by this time, so i jump in and start pumping, you know the routine pump, pump, pump, hold and so on, well after about half an hour and still not getting any pressure we where starting to think something is wrong here, when another mate walks up has a look at the situation, looks at me pumping away, looks at my mate under the rear of the car and says are you guys Turing to bled the brakes or the clutch, doh i had been pumping the clutch the whole time.

Or how about the time i was helping a mate fire up the 318 in his charger for the first time, we where all ready to hit the key when i said "have you got some petrol so i can pour some down the carby" he gets the fuel and i pour some into the lid of the container and then priced to tip it into the radiator.

I'm sure i have made more blunders over the years but thats all i can think of.


cheers chook...

 

[Brad54]

I delivered some furniture today for a customer. I told him we'd have to take his front door off to get the stuff in. He proceeded to start unscrewing the hinge plates from the jamb. I had to show him that you could simply tap the pins out. D'oh!!

Good Lord... How do men get to be old enough to own a home and not know that?!
My 13 year old son was acting up last year, so I took his bedroom door away for a week.
The day he was allowed to have it back, I was working late. When I got home, the door was out of the basement and back on its hinge pins.

-Brad

 

[IH82BL8]

Same class, day one. Instructor wasn't the brightest guy. He brings in his van to show the class how to properly use a lift on a car. He's raising the car as he's explaining stuff and crushed all the HVAC ducting above his van. Priceless.

I'd blame the architect for that one.

 

[tcianci]

A woman I used to work with, (nice person, PHD actually) came to my office one day because the battery in her remote lock key fob had died and she couldn't get into the car. So, I calmly said we could go have a look at it. I walked out to the car and opened the door with the key...

 

[mustangmccance]

A woman I used to work with, (nice person, PHD actually) came to my office one day because the battery in her remote lock key fob had died and she couldn't get into the car. So, I calmly said we could go have a look at it. I walked out to the car and opened the door with the key...

if that is true and not just a dumb blonde joke I think that is about the funniest thing I have heard in ages. about fell off my chair.

I have done too many dumb things to count over the years. mostly because I got in too much of a hurry and didn't double check. like this past weekend putting in the new french door for the wife. I carefully measured the trim, marked it. figured out the 45 degree angle properly took it over to my miter saw carefully cut it at the mark took it back and it was about a foot short. apparently there was another mark on this piece of trim that looked like the mark I made. of course it was 6 oclock on a sunday and she was due to be home soon and I wanted it done so I just spliced it together temporarily and put it on with screws so I can change it when I get time. it looks okay from a little distance but feel stupid.

probably my worst bonehead maneuver was when I asked my 14 year old son to help me swap the dana 44 axle into my old jeep. he is a very timid individual and does not like working on cars much so it is a challenge to get him to help. anyway I was in a hurry as always so I left the leaf springs attached and just pulled the old axle out on my jack easily. trying to put the bigger dana 44 in however the brake mounting plate did not want to fit between the leaf spring and the frame so I kicked it. you guessed it I knocked the jeap off the jackstands. fortunately both my son and I were out of the way and no-one was hurt but it scared the pee out of both of us. needless to say this has not produced a huge increase in his interest in automotive repair. but I am trying to redeem myself with him. we are going to be building a 5.0 engine soon. I am going to have him do most of it. should be fun.

 

[Killer95Stang]

2- I girl I knew who since moved away-I did most of the work to her car.
She noticed she picked up a nail and went to a local gas station that actually still has garage bays for service work to have it repaired. She called me almost crying saying that the young pimpleface broke her rim trying to take the tire off and it still wasn't off the car. I said wait I'll be right there.
Her car had plastic hubcaps with, what looked like, lugnuts. Kid put an impact on the hubcap and busted up the plastic that was the hubcap.

I had that same thing happen to my new F150 at the local well known tire shop. The monkey taking off the wheels put the impact on the fake lugnut and twisted it to hell. He then tried to hide the evidence and told the manager it came in that way. I left entirely pissed and just dropped a dime to the owner of the establishment and got the check for the $80.00 wheel cap a few days later. I was so pissed I didn't get tires from them for 2 years.

 

[Shadowdog500]

A woman I used to work with, (nice person, PHD actually) came to my office one day because the battery in her remote lock key fob had died and she couldn't get into the car. So, I calmly said we could go have a look at it. I walked out to the car and opened the door with the key...

This is not a joke. Stuff like this does happen now, and will probably happen more in the future. I had the same experience with a young driver. The kid never had to put a key in the door ever because all cars have remotes now, so didn't think to use the key when the remote batteries went dead. I wonder how many young drivers even realize that you can use the key in the door.

Years ago my brother tried to put oil in his car, and put a quart of oil in his trans, with a trans funnel.

Chris

 

[TAftw]

my friend's mom dropped her remote and it broke. She started screaming about how she couldn't get into her car, so I went over and unlocked it with the key. lol

 

[keflaman]

I've done plenty of stupid things, but there is one incident that still bothers me years later.

The project was a mid-nineties Cadillac STS with a broken flexplate and the owner was a young Air Force Lieutenant with zero mechanical experience. We were stationed overseas at the time and the shops the LT contacted either wouldn't try the repair or wanted to charge more than the car was worth. He contacted me and offered a generous sum of money with the caveat that he be allowed to help for the learning experience. I was hesitant about the latter, but agreed to take the job.

It turned out to be a challenging, but fun project and he was an eager student with plenty of common sense which made things quite a bit more enjoyable. When he broke off one of the flexplate attaching bolts during installation, I gave him a good ribbing about being the only person I ever knew who could shear a bolt off while using a torque wrench. I removed the broken bolt with no problem while he scrounged up a replacement.

Life was pretty hectic during this little evolution because the base we were stationed at was being closed and life was a flurry of activity. The Lt had orders to Germany and we were heading to Italy. We finished the car in reasonable time and had a few days to drive it before shipping it out to his next duty station.

When we finished up with everything and I presented him the bill, he actually gave me a couple hundred dollars more than the original agreed upon amount. He stated that the additional money was in appreciation for the attention I put into ensuring everything was as good as, or better than, original and both he and his wife were exceptionally happy with my level of professionalism.

A few weeks after the LT and family had left for Germany I was cleaning out my garage in preparation for the movers. My heart stopped when I happened to glance down at a copy of the installation procedures for the flexplate and saw where I had highlighted the torque values...in INCH LBS. I had the most sickening feeling when I realized why the flexplate bolt sheared as I was the one who set the LT up with the foot pound torque wrench.

By that time all the contact info I had for him was no good. A year or two later I did find a Yahoo email address for him which I tried, but I never received a response.

 

[Featherweight]

awwww that was a bummer......all u can do is cross your fingers and hope the force is with him...

 

[scottzilla]

My brother-in-law, Who is actually quite mechanically inclined, decided to adjust the chain on his first motorcycle. He tightened the chain to guitar string tight, and put 50psi in each tire.
Luckily, I stopped over in a nick of time.

 

[GarageEnvy]

I had a neighbor who was always coming up and honking the horn while I was under the hood. One day he says he needs help changing the radiator on his car. Amazed that he knew what a radiator was and completely mystified how he diagnosed the problem I said bring it over and let's check it out. Well it was actually a transmission cooler but he was close. So I said I'll do it but I needed help. There's a chance that this thing could bleed out when I disconnect it. If you see red fluid come out when I disconnect it get in your car and race over to NAPA and get felopian tubing as fast as you can. So naturally I disconnect the lines, red transmission fluid comes out, he yells "**** she's a bleeder". I say quick go to NAPA and get the felopian tubing as fast as you can. We've only got minutes to save her. Ten minutes later I get the call from my buddies at NAPA who are still crying with laughter. The neighbor burst through the door and yells "quick I need some felopian tubing, my car is bleeding out."

And to be fair I'll tell one on myself. When I was 18 I spend a lot of time on Pismo with my blazer. One day I knocked the breather out of the valve cover. Not wanting sand to get in I stuffed a rag in the hole. Drove 2 hours home to Fresno and parked it and 20 minutes later had a fire under the hood. Want to guess the cause?

And finally I'd like to nominate the queen:

 

[Oldmanpants]

that reminds me of when I worked at a bar... often when there was a new bouncer working, the bartender would appear to be in a panic and tell the new bouncer to go downstairs to the night club and get some more steam bags.

The bartender downstairs would tell him they were out down there too so go down the street to the other bar (small town, most of the bartenders know eachother) and they'd lend us some steam bags. Bouncer goes down the street and they tell him that they're out too and to pick them some steam bags up too if he finds some.

there's about 5 different bars and restaurants we'd send bouncers to looking for steam bags and every bartender would keep a straight face and continue the prank

 

[Jeepguy]

heres one,

i was doing a tune up on my buddies Silverado pick up, i had all of the spark plugs changed, and had the new dist. cap and new plugs already hooked up and ready to change out, i went to the bathroom, and when i came back all of the old plugs off of the old cap and the new plugs were in different spots on the cap. i asked him why he did it, and all he said was "uh, oh, um they didnt look right" i just laughed and told him to go away.

 

[66HertzClone]

I used to work at a mom and pop parts store, a total of more than twelve years there, busy place. Early on a Saturday morning I answer a call from someone looking for an alternator for his Olds Cutlass, look it up, yep we have it in stock. He said he was going to remove it and bring it with him later in the day. Late afternoon rolls around, the door opens and in walks a guy who is just filthy, clothes and all exposed skin everything is just grease and dirt covered. He is carrying an A/C compressor with hoses, and brackets still attached. Flops it down on the counter and said he called this morning for an alternator for his Cutlass.

I swear I did not laugh...................

Next bozo, comes in for a pan gasket for his Turbohydromatic 350 trans, I get the gasket without referring to the book and sent him on his way. A few hours later he returns with a grimy pan and the gasket screaming at me for giving him the wrong part. He included how pissed he was that I didn't even look it up, just grabbed it out of the drawer. I picked the gasket up and flipped it over, what do you know, now all of the bolt holes line up.

Third and my favorite. new pads for a mid 70's full size Ford, the D50 pads fit like 10 years of production. The customer is the father of a high school friend, he returns with the pads saying they are too thick. We went thru the usual questions, C clamp to push piston all the way back, cap off master cylinder, a yes to everything. He finally says he would bet me $50 I had given him the wrong pads. Upon arriving at his house and I find he had not removed the wedge and key but the entire caliper bracket from the spindle, I installed the new pads quickly. Told him to keep the money and tell his son I said hello, he returned to the store often after that, always waited for me to help him.

 

[slip knot]

Had one of our maint guys come into my office a while back. He wanted me to come look at one of our Scagg mowers and see if I could tell why it was cutting at an angle. We go out in the yard and he waves over one of the snot nose kids we get to mow for us. The mower is cutting at a very noticable angle. As the kid pulls up I notice that one of the rear tires is about 1/2 flat. Point this out to our maint guy that the rear tire is low and he asks me, Low on pressure or volume? I think he asked trying to impress the punk on the mower how smart he was. SO I give it a real serious look and determine that because its still on the rim that the pressure is still good but the volume is definately too low. I get the stupid grin look from both our maint guy and the punk on the mower. So I send them over to the truck bay and get the air line out with the double end air chuck we use for truck tires. I point to the one top and say this one is for pressure and the one pointed back at you is for volume. More stupid grins from both. I figure they know I'm BSing them and go back to my office. as I'm sitting down I look out the window and see those two clowns trying to put air in the tire using the volume side of the chuck. I about died laughing. Now whenever anyone comes in with a tire problem the very first question I ask. Is it a volume or pressure issue???

 

[Hemihead2]

I was a junior in high school and my Dad had me remove the radiator from his '52 Olds to have it boiled out. When we got it back, I put it back in while he was at work but forgot about the transmission cooling lines that go into the bottom of the radiator. I figured I could drive the car around to the other side of the house where the hose was without any serious overheating. After filling the radiator back up, I tried to back-up and only got a whirring sound. I waited for my Dad to get back from work to see what he thought the problem might be, and he calmly took me down the trail of ****** fluid I had pumped out driving around the house explaining the error of my ways.
Sometimes learning a lesson the hard way really helps you remember it forever.

 

[Selkirk]

I have a old neighbor that tries real hard but always get himself into trouble.
After having his dog (long hair breed) bark at everything, he decide to put a stop to it. Goes out and buys a anti-bark collar, puts it on the dog and the darn thing does not work. While trying to find out whats wrong with the brand new collar, he put the thing up to his neck and lets out a bark. Yep-knocks the old man to his ****!! Finally figures why they put some extra long probes in the box.

 

[Hurricane_Whisperer]

This is not a joke. Stuff like this does happen now, and will probably happen more in the future. I had the same experience with a young driver. The kid never had to put a key in the door ever because all cars have remotes now, so didn't think to use the key when the remote batteries went dead. I wonder how many young drivers even realize that you can use the key in the door.

Years ago my brother tried to put oil in his car, and put a quart of oil in his trans, with a trans funnel.

Chris

I've heard of people inside cars that couldn't get out because the remote didn't work. Had to call onstar.

 

[keflaman]

I've heard of people inside cars that couldn't get out because the remote didn't work. Had to call onstar.

You mean this?: