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How much of a plonker am I?

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spy:
We had a bloke book his car in at work for a loud knocking over 60 mph.  I took it for a road test, sweet as a nut untill spot on 60mph.  Then it sounded like someone on a roof with a hammer!  Grabbed one of the lads to join me for another road test, we both agreed it sounded quite high up.  Got out scratching our heads and noticed the ornamental rugby ball thing on his aerial.  Rang him, asked when he had put it on.  "erm, the day before I noticed the knocking". 

He was embarassed to have brought it in, I was embarassed to have needed help to find the noise!  No charge sir, take that off of there.  :D 

 

Steven:
 :lol: :lol: :lol: These stories are good, keep them coming in guys...

BeJay:

Many moons ago, (you can tell how many by the fact that this happened with a Humber Super Snipe :D) we had a guy come int the garage complaining that the motor just died when he floored it to overtake etc but otherwise would run perfectly OK, anyway after checking the usual plugs points condensor carbs fuel lines coil etc, and not finding anything, and being unable to produce the same effect in the workshop but it still doing it on roadtest someone noticed that as the bonnet was dropped a piece of the sound deadening material fixed to the underside of the bonnet was not pegged properly and was drooping as the bonnet was closed, of course when the motor wasn't being revved hard it wasn't a problem but as soon as you floored the throttle it sucked the material straight onto the end of the air intake effectivly cutting off the air supply. I'm not sure the foreman ever did tell the guy what it actually was in the end 'cos we spent so long on it before anyone noticed what it really was :oops: :oops: :lol:

lee celtic:
I took he wifes vectra for a service at a mates garage years ago when we got it back there was an anoying rattle from the back end it went on for weeks .Every weekend I would walk next to the car while the wife drove slowly and eventually I narowed it down to the nearside rear wheel. So I jacked it up and took off the wheel and checked everything was tight and it was ,put it all back together still rattleing  :evil: :evil: then I desided to strip the suspention bits to see if anything was broke only to find an old core plug had been placed inside the spring and was bouncing around the spring seat :evil: :evil: My MATE had popped it in for a laugh bar-stuward he thought we'd spot it in seconds :roll: :lol: :lol:

muddyjames:
Last year I bent my steering arm and took me ages to remove it and the damper to get a new one on. I was in a rush as I was going away in my caravan the next day.

Next day came and I thought I would check the beerings as I have heard horror stories. Wheel was a bit wobbly so I tightened it up. Towed the caravan the 40minutes to the site with tracking way out. made an interesting tow! Got to the site and put the window down to talk to my mate who had already arrived and heard a clonking noise. only happened under breaking and about 5mph.

I had a look at the props and they were fine. 6 MONTHS later after alot of driving and wondering what the now normal clonking was I found it by pure accident. I was pumping my tyres up and saw a bolt sticking out the hub. 1 bolt has been sheered off in the past and a dummy bolt is pushed in held by silicone. So I kicked it back in. it wouldnt. it turned out to be I hadnt done the hub nuts up tight enough before going to the camp site in the rain. 1 bolt was about 1.5inches out (must have been on last thread) and the others were all loose as well. since then, no clonking. scary story too.

But I have plenty of these stories as I am pants at mechanics but like to have a go.

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