My Car is Making a “Clanky” noise
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I worked at a Buick GMC dealer for 13 years back in the 80's. It happened quite often. I could write a book.
diymirage
HP@idle > hondaHP@redline
helped a buddy once with a little stickshift that wouldnt go into gear any more
ANY gear
turned out the girl that owned it kept coins in the ashtray, i guess she kept a ton of em in there
one by one they had fallen down into the area around the shifter untill it just couldnt move anymore
ANY gear
turned out the girl that owned it kept coins in the ashtray, i guess she kept a ton of em in there
one by one they had fallen down into the area around the shifter untill it just couldnt move anymore
diymirage
HP@idle > hondaHP@redline
had that happen in my bronco once
it started to wobble a bit
i was in the process of puling over when the driver side rear wheel decided to hook a sharp left
I should have said through the 80's Good catch.
Blind Squirrel
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Try having your kid put a dime in you cigarette lighter socket and see what happens to your electronics. Can you imagine how hard it was to diagnose that one. Didn't completely short the system and really screwed with the electronic speed-o-meter and dash functions. Brand new mopar too.
We had a gal with a Electra 225 back in the day and one of the kids put a penny in the rear door light socket. Same deal as yours, it would blow the accessory fuse and we couldn't get it to act up. We put a circuit breaker in place of the fuse and it would reset itself. We finally found it when we had to get in the door because the power window quit working. Pull the panel and out pops the penny.
Unconventional
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Friend o' mine worked at the Caddy dealer in the old homeland. He took all the underdash stuff cuz the flat rate hours were very profitable for him. Caddy comes in with the clanky noise. 3 different service people testing and listening to locate it, finally they hand it off to Jimmy the interior guy out of desperation. A few hours later Jimmy presents the issue to the service manager. Seems a comic working at the factory had taken a coke bottle of the glass variety and a string and hung it inside the passenger side door. Inside the bottle was a note "HaHa! How long did it take you to find this? HaHa!". Of course the service manager gave the customer some song and dance routine about calling the factory with the VIN number and having the comic disciplined. 
Riiiiight. 
Riiiiight.
We had a customer come in with a nasty odor in her car. We thought there might be a dead mouse in the heater box. Take out the blower motor and cage for a look see. Nope all good in there. It smelled dead for sure but seemed to go away when the blower was on. Guess what we found in the trunk? A rotten pound package of hamburger in the trunk down at the quarter panel. Mo Fo that was some nasty stuff!!!!!!
The gal had gone to the butcher shop a week earlier for some meat and one fell out of the basket.
The gal had gone to the butcher shop a week earlier for some meat and one fell out of the basket.
JDMopar
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Dang....I bet you said Buick AND Ralph that day!
Heard about that like 20 years ago.Friend o' mine worked at the Caddy dealer in the old homeland. He took all the underdash stuff cuz the flat rate hours were very profitable for him. Caddy comes in with the clanky noise. 3 different service people testing and listening to locate it, finally they hand it off to Jimmy the interior guy out of desperation. A few hours later Jimmy presents the issue to the service manager. Seems a comic working at the factory had taken a coke bottle of the glass variety and a string and hung it inside the passenger side door. Inside the bottle was a note "HaHa! How long did it take you to find this? HaHa!". Of course the service manager gave the customer some song and dance routine about calling the factory with the VIN number and having the comic disciplined.
My kid slid a cd into the door along side the glass. Took a while before it finally jammed in there and stopped rolling back and forth.
a friend had an overheating issue on tue. She was downtown in the city,and was in full panic mode. Wednesday she opens hood and finds both fans unplugged. She bought it new.
a friend had an overheating issue on tue. She was downtown in the city,and was in full panic mode. Wednesday she opens hood and finds both fans unplugged. She bought it new.
I worked at a GM Dealership and did a PDI and on the roadtest heard a rattle in one of the doors. Took the panel off and found an am/fm cassette shoved in the door. The car only had a an am radio in it. Probably it was a car being built for an employee of GM. and it was watched going down the line. So I put the radio under my bench and sent it on it's way
oldmodlover
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Old friend of mine told me this one.
Used to have an old gal stop by the garage where he worked and have her wheel covers rotated so that they all were " aligned " squarely when she stopped.
Couldn't get it through her head about how one wheel turns faster through a turn / curve or whatever.
They just jacked up the car and rotated the tires so all 4 were the same and she was happy.
Did it every week for several years.
True story.
Used to have an old gal stop by the garage where he worked and have her wheel covers rotated so that they all were " aligned " squarely when she stopped.
Couldn't get it through her head about how one wheel turns faster through a turn / curve or whatever.
They just jacked up the car and rotated the tires so all 4 were the same and she was happy.
Did it every week for several years.
True story.
We had a customer that had spilled milk in her car somehow ( leaking container maybe ) . But didnt realize it and went on vacation . Damn near totaled the car ! We had to remove entire interior ! Dash , headliner , all panels, sound deadener ....
We had a car come into the bodyshop. The owner had been fishing and got hit on the way home. Needless to say, the car sat in the towing compound for several days and yes there were fish left inside and by the way it was summertime. You can imagine the stink.
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