Car Mechanics Are Sharing Pics Of What They Deal With Because People Don’t Believe Them (50 Pics)
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In photo 18, the customer who lost their keys under all those Nitric Oxide gas Cartridges is probably too high to have any idea even where his car is… This stuff is often used by cooks making whip cream… but in this volume, I imagine that this person is hawking it to drug users for huffing (breathing of the gas) to produce the side effects characteristic of psychedelic drugs–getting high…
Photo 25, I am surprised that they did not bring in that bubbled tire when the first bubble appeared.
Photo 40, and I thought the battery installed under the rear seat of my '63 VW was bad…
Photo 42, It’s hard to believe that anyone could drive this for very long before the police received a 9-1-1- call, let along three days…
The prius being uncool is fair, we know dozens of owners who like them. Moms friend took a photo of the driveway when her work friends gathered tor nye brunch. 6 Prius from the 2nd and 3rd gen were in the driveway. Only exception was dads Crv in the garage
Probably the license tabs also but she had two stacks of parking stickers on the rear window of the Mazda in 19yrs on a community College campus where it was really a hunting license.
We had an actual key for the Datsun but the key could slide out without turning the ignition off. As my brother found out driving to school one morning.
The flathead screwdriver was the key to the. Church supplies room. A dime or 78 Vw key also worked. Back before they needed all the different locks on the building.
I had a school friend back in the '60s who had an old late '50s something Ford. He installed a momentary switch up high under his brake pedal attached to his starter solenoid. He would turn on the ignition, but not turn the key far enough to energize the starter, and when the radio came on he would beat on the dash and tune the radio and he would say, 'there it is… " and toe the momentary switch and the engine would start… We were a weird bunch… But as they say, “It was funny…”
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My brothers 86 Jetta wore out the reverse light switch so he put a generic toggle switch on the dash to turn them on. That car had multiple MacGyver quality hacks but it got him up to the ski resort at 5am to start ski patrol. Until dad forced him to take a loan and get a new 2006 Legacy wagon that’s held up perfectly. The 09 Gti is tucked away for winter.
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#47, did the customer ‘bolt’ from the shop? I hope that is the correct number.
I used to have a doggy door, my dog, Charlie, brought in a possum, I went to get the possum, dog saw me, he went over, gently picked up the possum and carried it back out. The possum was playing possum, woke up after Charlie carried it back outside.
Girlfriend’s cat brought in a baby possum, cat’s mother instinct kicked in, was treating it as a kitten. GF caused an animal removal company to remove it. The animal agent said she was going to keep it as a pet. If I came across a baby possum or squirrel, I too would raise it as a pet.
From what I understand, squirrels make TERRIBLE pets
Once they are past the baby stage, they will literally claw and bite your face off at some point
Years ago, I volunteered at a dog rescue and they had an opossum that had been hit by a car and the jaw never healed right so they kept it to care for it… I do not think opossums make good pets because they STINK!!!
Opossums smell quite bad, due to strong musky scents from their scent glands. They mark territory with a foul odor and it can be released when they play dead to deter predators, and there is a stench of their ■■■■■/feces in their living in a space.
But like a cat they are naturally clean animals that groom themselves but that does not get rid of the stench…
You bring one home and the wife will have you sleeping with it in the garage… 
That can be true of any animal, you’ve seen the news about dogs attacking their owners, cats from h e l l … and there are so many more stories and videos on line…
dogs . . . think your typical lab or terrier . . . and cats have been domesticated for a long time
not the same thing as trying to raise a squirrel, possum, etc.
#41: that picture of the u dercarriage of the Tesla clearly shows the jack pint. Anywhere! I had a Tesla tech drive by my home for a warranty job and then had him rotate the tires. He put the jack under the car about equidistant between the front and rear tires, the switched the wheels front to back.
#48: the MEs at work had giant, new tool boxes with all the bells and whistles. Each one cost many thousands of dollars. IIRC this is one of the tool storage units they had.
Snap-on Store"-15-Drawer-Triple-Bank-EPIQ™-Series-Stainless-Steel-Top-Roll-Cab-with-PowerDrawer-(Ultra-Yellow)/KETP843C1PES
My BIL had one. He kept it in a large cage that the squirrel could climb around in. He’d let it out and it would climb all over him. The squirrel p.e.e.d in his shirt pockets, on his pants, his hands… I couldn’t believe that my BIL would keep a pet that would do that. I don’t expect a squirrel to know any better. My BIL is just plain weird. Yes, his wife and children expressed displeasure with the squirrel living in their house.
At least dogs can do their business outside and owners pick up after them as needed
And cats can be trained to use litter boxes . . . we brought in an adult stray cat about a year ago and she very quickly figured out how to use the box
Rodents and bunnies are more of a mess, afaik
Many years ago, I raised rabbits, and they were litter box trained.
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I have had dogs and cats, hamsters and rats. Liked them all. Rats are darn smart.
I’m assuming you put in a LOT more effort than everybody else I knew
I’ve known many people that had rabbits and they ALL made a mess anywhere they went
Good to know 
Well, to be more clear, they used the litter box when they were in their cage. When I let them roam around the house, they left a… pellet…on the floor every five minutes or so.
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Many years ago I had an Alaskan Malamute/Wolf, 125lbs, he was VERY prey driven, he would eat about anything, when we brought him inside, once he chased the Gerbils through the tubes biting the tubes trying it get to them… lol
The cat new to stay up high, but he would break his 3/16" cable to get to any animal that came in the yard, yeah he feed himself wildlife a lot… I was buying 250’ spools at a time, cause he broke the cable(70’ run with a 30’ lead) about once a month… He never ran off to far though, great with people and kids…
Early 90’s my brother found a German shepherd mix puppy after midnight in the restaurant parking lot leaving work. Brought this tiny pup home and he grew to standing 7ft on his back paws.
One night I was home alone and heard scraping on the deck, turned on the light and Trailer had the 75ft chain clipped to his collar dragging it up the stairs. He’d bent the clip at the other end which was wrapped around the corner post of the shed.
Thanked him for being a good boy and fixed the chain until my folks came home. In the am there was a trail through the lawn where he’d gone after a wild rabbit. Called Trailer because he was found at the trails end restaurant and day one he followed our cat everywhere. Faster the cat ran he sped up.
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RE: N2O, At the self service line, somethings require an age verification by an employee, oddly stuff like SeaFoam or superglue requires age verification, yet anybody, of any age, can buy all the canned whipped cream they want. If the can is held with the nozzle pointing up, just N2O comes out.
I learned on a cooking show that canned whipped cream requires N2O, CO2 used as a propellant in many aerosol products does not work for whipped cream.