Stories To Make You Shake Your Head

[Mekanik]

I used to work with a guy that had the dash of an Explorer out of a vehicle and on his workbench looking for a open wire.

/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/hahaha.gif The only thing wrong with the truck is that it was missing a fuse. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/tomato.gif

[ChristopherH]

There must be something going around that is affecting our managers and causing them to take on these other shop diagnosed jobs. The diesel tech across the shop from me just worked on one of these. Customer came in from an independent diesel performance shop with a 7.3 that runs rough--said shop diagnosed this as a faulty high pressure oil pump because of the P1211 in the PCM memory. (I wish I had a dime for every time I saw that code back in the 7.3 days) She was passing through with a big horse trailer on and needed service right away--they couldn't do it soon enough so they sent her to us. She walked in the door adamant that the HPOP was bad and had already bought the part over the parts counter. Well, management decided to take it in and perform the prescribed repair. Evidently, the "other" shop didn't bother with a cylinder contribution test and missed the #7 misfire. After a very irate customer (who was mad at us!) an unnecessarily replaced HPOP, and a new #7 injector the truck was finally fixed. I say diag them first the way you diag every vehicle YOU work on no matter what.