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Tony Walker
08-02-2011, 22:47
Customer today with a 53 corsa 1.2 bottom end has chewed itself, knocking lots.
The car has 5 litres of oil in it.......... why has the bottom end gone? Answers on a postcard....


:cool: It made me laugh :eek:

Kris M
08-02-2011, 22:49
The 5 ltrs of oil were brand new in the container in the boot and he`d been "meaning" to top up for months ? :D

Bigfoot
08-02-2011, 22:50
Did it have enough space to put 5 litres in there :confused:

Tony Walker
08-02-2011, 22:51
The 5 ltrs of oil were brand new in the container in the boot and he`d been "meaning" to top up for months ? :D


Lol yeah didnt think it'd be sussed that quick well done :D

kial
08-02-2011, 22:51
haha just as bad as a customer i had today, drained sump on a 1.1 saxo to find litrially 1/4 of a litre of oil in it.. lady then tells us she must have been topping up the wrong hole.......:scared:

lol

Tony Walker
08-02-2011, 22:52
Makes me chuckle even more that the engine was knocking yet they still drove it to us without putting oil in????????????????????????????

Tony Walker
08-02-2011, 22:53
lol wrong hole. we had someone trying to top up the dipstick once, as thats where the oil is??????? lol

kial
08-02-2011, 22:55
hahaha thats a new one !!

Tony Walker
08-02-2011, 22:55
Ive also learnt never to tell people to "put SOME oil in it" because regardless of the level they usually just buy some and put it in. lol

J$£5GTT
08-02-2011, 22:58
haha just as bad as a customer i had today, drained sump on a 1.1 saxo to find litrially 1/4 of a litre of oil in it.. lady then tells us she must have been topping up the wrong hole.......:scared:

lol

i'll give her wrong hole....:wasntme::laugh:

Tony Walker
08-02-2011, 23:00
lol so busy filling that hole that she forgot to top the oil.

kial
08-02-2011, 23:01
i'll give her wrong hole....:wasntme::laugh:


put a quick shift in for the lads ayyy ! lol

car.crash
08-02-2011, 23:11
My friend once told me she had topped her oil up yet the light wouldn't go off. Turns out she put about an egg cup full in through the dipstick hole.

J$£5GTT
08-02-2011, 23:26
ive heard..an you 'here' a lot that an mot tester failed a car for a very rotten floor....
the car was back in a week later....:D..the chap had only gone away an fixed chicken wire to the underside of floor then gone over it with a nice mix of mortar!!! :laugh::dearme:

Tony Walker
08-02-2011, 23:37
We had a taxi in the other week, for a few bits and bobs, we turned him away about 6 months before because we couldnt do the welding needed. i put the ramp leg on the sill and ...... pretty sure u can geuss where thats going, or where the ramp leg ended up going lol. i rang him and told him we couldnt do the work on it because of the sills, his answer was.... "well it passed the mot" shocking. Complete disregard for the safety of his passengers.

rat1
09-02-2011, 00:33
had a lorry come in last week, on the merc truck it tells you on the dash if the oils low and how much it needs,the driver said it said to put in 1litre of oil so he did tryed again still said needs 1 litre of oil, 4litres later thought he'd come in to get us to have a look,but on the way over he had to use the screen washer 2 or 3 times then found he couldn't see out the windscreen :scratch::scratch:

philg
09-02-2011, 08:43
Not mechanical, but here goes, my stupidest customer ever.


Guy pulled round, yes mate? "i will have a £2.50 car wash", so took his money got his change on returning to his car i said, "mind you had better close your sunroof", he replies "ah its Ok its stuck like that" :laugh:

I honestly could not get my words out

phil

The new Bill J
09-02-2011, 12:05
:laugh: I love threads like this.

The best one at my work (Postie), was during a foot of snow a couple of years back. Customer rings up, fuming, demanding to speak to a manager:

"I've had no post for 2 days"

"Sorry Sir, but due to the snow we've been unable to complete deliveries...bla bla bla bla..... However, if you're local, and near the office, you can pop in with some ID, and collect any mail for you that's already been sorted."

"I can't come down to the delivery office. There's a foot of snow outside, and I can't get out the end of my road"

:scratch: :laugh:

Sparkie
09-02-2011, 12:44
i used to work in mcdonalds many years ago....
a middle ages woman came in, looked at the menu and then asked if we did fish and chips......

more recently...
as gsf ebay dept sits next to me, one of them aint the smartest. - ebay customer phones up with a problem, gsf girl asks "do you have internet connection?".....

Rob1980
09-02-2011, 13:00
i used to work in mcdonalds many years ago....
a middle ages woman came in, looked at the menu and then asked if we did fish and chips......

more recently...
as gsf ebay dept sits next to me, one of them aint the smartest. - ebay customer phones up with a problem, gsf girl asks "do you have internet connection?".....

Ah yes, good old Mcdonalds! Most staff but I will admit not all are like this:-

"Hello can I help you"
"Yes please, can I have a medium big mac meal with a coke"
"Is that a large meal sir?"
"No, a medium please"
"What drink would you like"
"COKE!!!!"

Honestly this happens to me quite a lot. The art of listening and remembering is lost on the youth of today I think. I know the till asks if its a large or medium after you have selected a big mac meal and then asks what drink but surely its not hard to remember I have said ""Can I have a medium big mac meal with a coke" when these auto prompts come up!?!

philg
09-02-2011, 13:46
I could wright a book honest.


Customers trying to go though the wash with a bike on the roof.

Customers asking should i hoover or wash my car first.

Its a conveyor wash so brakes off car in neutral, the amount of times people put the hand brakes on, or drive an automatic and don't know where neutral is, im screaming N N N Nuuuuuu.

People driving all the way through the wash when i sak them to stop, then complaining after that there wash is no good.

"Hello i want my car cleaned", ok then what sort of valet would you like? "cleaned inside and out". I now always ask quick tidy up or something more thorough?

Can a soft top go through, yeah its fine, i can just lift the horizontal brush over the roof if you would prefer, then they drive away.

I pick up the jet gun to jet their car and they sit there looking at me with their window down.

My brother has a recovery truck and he parks further down the site when in for a cuppa, the amount of people that park behind it thinking its in the que for the wash.

Rainy days we have the shutters down bar about 1ft, with the valet inside the wash working away on it, then you hear a voice from under the shutter "are you open?"

phil

jamie_8
09-02-2011, 19:02
we had a customer in once who had a puncture, they come in and said

"I've got a puncture, but I don't think all the airs come out of it because its only flat at the bottom" :scratch::dearme:

dangerous dave
09-02-2011, 19:12
we had a customer in once who had a puncture, they come in and said

"I've got a puncture, but I don't think all the airs come out of it because its only flat at the bottom" :scratch::dearme:

i like the "can you repair my puncture, i put that get you home spraycan in it to get here"

erm........F*ck off, im not cleaning that sh1t up.. :chuckup:

Matt@CodeRedMotorsports
09-02-2011, 19:25
I had someone ask me "can you repair this....?"



I said, yep, I'll take it out and straighten it out for you....... Oh, and your tyre is U/S by the way....:laugh:

jamie_8
09-02-2011, 19:28
I had someone ask me "can you repair this....?"



I said, yep, I'll take it out and straighten it out for you....... Oh, and your tyre is U/S by the way....:laugh:

get that quite alot, the usual response is "cant you put a tube in it" :dearme:

Matt@CodeRedMotorsports
09-02-2011, 19:30
We had another guy complain that he got a parking ticket while at our Dealership........

I had to sort it out with him, so I said, "Can you show me where the car is please...?"

It didn't take long to find..............:laugh:

philg
09-02-2011, 19:31
We had another guy complain that he got a parking ticket while at our Dealership........

I had to sort it out with him, so I said, "Can you show me where the car is please...?"

It didn't take long to find..............:laugh:


brilliant :D

Matt@CodeRedMotorsports
09-02-2011, 19:34
Has anyone involved with car parts dept. have someone ask for a 710 cap yet????:laugh:

youngscottie
09-02-2011, 20:27
i was called out to a breakdown one night
non start on a man truck

got there and this man mountian of a geordie tells me man trucks are gash
"ive been here 4 hours i want this fcukin sorted"
he wouldnt get out the drivers seat so i reached up turned the key sure enough
nothing happened

went to the van got my power prob and master bar as the cnut was getting agressive walked round the passenger side climbed the steps looked over

dizzy ****er had parked it in gear

howay man knock it oot o gear and it will start nae bother:laugh:

needles to say a groveling appolige was given as he begged me not to tell his boss why the truck wouldnt start

easiest money i ever made

modfather
09-02-2011, 20:35
i was called out to a breakdown one night
non start on a man truck

got there and this man mountian of a geordie tells me man trucks are gash
"ive been here 4 hours i want this fcukin sorted"
he wouldnt get out the drivers seat so i reached up turned the key sure enough
nothing happened

went to the van got my power prob and master bar as the cnut was getting agressive walked round the passenger side climbed the steps looked over

dizzy ****er had parked it in gear

howay man knock it oot o gear and it will start nae bother:laugh:

needles to say a groveling appolige was given as he begged me not to tell his boss why the truck wouldnt start

easiest money i ever made


:laugh::laugh: he must felt like a right cnut :laugh:

raider_gtt
09-02-2011, 22:22
i used to work in a breakers yard had a phone call one morring i picked it up and said the name of the company guy says to me do you sell tyres yes mate we do well i need a round one right they are all round sir then i asked him what model car is it for he replyed a vauxhall i think so i siad right i need what model and size you are after i dont no what model its a vauxhal tho ok what size is it then i think its em em em 175
yes 175 what the rest of it i dont no the car is at work and im at home at the mo so i said i think you best pop down with the wheel you need changeing mate ho thanks for your help bye :dearme::dearme::dearme:

Tony Walker
09-02-2011, 22:24
:) i was servicing a corsa once, went to check the tyre pressures and crapped myself, 75psi........................ thought it was gonna explode, i asked the customer what they set there tyres to, they said it was one of those digital ones it stops when there full. lol

J$£5GTT
09-02-2011, 22:42
:) i was servicing a corsa once, went to check the tyre pressures and crapped myself, 75psi........................ thought it was gonna explode, i asked the customer what they set there tyres to, they said it was one of those digital ones it stops when there full. lol

:dearme:

car.crash
09-02-2011, 22:56
We had a guy bring a rifle in the other week. 1 round in the chamber with the safety off and 3 more in the magazine. When we confronted him on it he claimed it had been in his boot for weeks and he didn't realise it was loaded.

kial
09-02-2011, 22:56
Another one i had, went to undo a set of wheels with an impact gun, fairly decent one with a fair bit of tourque and it wasnt even budging, then i tryed my other impact one from the airline, after holding it there with the button right back for atleast 5 seconds it sligtly budges. i then got a tourqe wrench out to kinda work out what the guy had it set to, in the end roughly worked out he had them torqued up to 350NB!! i couldnt believe it he told me later on when i mentioned it to him he gave then a finaly TIGHTEN before he took it away !! :crap::crap:

philg
10-02-2011, 08:00
:) i was servicing a corsa once, went to check the tyre pressures and crapped myself, 75psi........................ thought it was gonna explode, i asked the customer what they set there tyres to, they said it was one of those digital ones it stops when there full. lol


Thats a good one