I've been in the trade for 32 years so there have been a few! So who has done worse Meaty-brain perhaps? It's not how you get in the shit it's how you get out of it that counts. So if you have been in the trade for 32 years, you were setting fire to MK2 escorts, with their fixed jet carb-a-tooters, batterys with flat terminals, negative switched reverse lights and fuse boxes you don't touch while i was on the drawing board!
Come on lads own up views and only 2 other cock ups? This story dates back to a cold winter ish, HUGH carpark the window cleaner guy basicaly comes in at night to lick the windows, when everybody is in bed and that is all he does nothing else, nothing less. Don't know if he got paid for that night or not. About 4 months later owner calls me car on motorway clang clang clang and stops, gets it back to workshop, I pull of the head and guess what, there is the missing washer holding one of the inlet valves open And last year here in Tenerife I had a Ren megane 2.
One time after I had just returned from holiday, jetlagged I changed a c. Just remebered a couple more, remember these have happen when i was younger, so much younger than today, so it's not that i'm not forth coming, just can't remember 1 Think posh motor, expensive, non starter, side of road, excuse me mr fat person with the large arse, could you help push this car into this conveinent laybay, grunt push heave, park, thank mate, oh he's gone already, later one looks down to see ARSE SHAPED DINK, in back panel.
Few years back now early Nineties when I was an apprentice Saturday morning still pissed from the night before no driving licence. Customer comes in with one of those old rover s the square concerto one for an MOT. Its an auto got the job of reversing it back on to brake tester. All I can say is drivers door open on a 4 post ramp with pedal on floor hello wing good bye door customer standing watching don't know how I kept my job though weekend was spent at scrapy.
Not me but when I worked for Mitsubishi we had a tiled floor great for wheel spins in the wet was showing off to the aprentice with a galant one day. Later that day we ran out of work so across to honda for some more work from them picture this foreman on the pan apprentice drives in to workshop at 10mph gets the boot down dry floor straight through the toilet wall. Best bit was out to car lot for a new front end for a red Accord customer never knew. It was when i first started out so 20 years ago i was doing an oil change got distracted and forgot to put the oil back in then started the car and raced the motor up cause the oil gauge was not going up.
