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[1000nutsnbolts]

Happy New Year.

[FGN59]

Real nice! My kind of humor. And matches well with your nickname: 1000nutsnbolts  :

[Peter]

Happy New Year.

Good cartoon, very recognizable to me.

^Peter

[Cees Klumper]

It sometimes is the little things indeed. Like when I could not figure out for the life of me a parasitic drain on the battery. Turned out to be a small vanity mirror light (2W?) in the passenger sunblind, that stayed on even when the flap covering the mirror was closed, and the sunblind was flipped up (microswitch that was supposed to turn off the light was broken). Glad I did not disassemble the entire car for that one. It's like human health care - getting the diagnosis right is oftentimes the trickiest part.

[ja17]

Are you paying attention to this thread Alex D. ? 

[sandcrab59]

Another fun piece.
Back in the fifties, it was a good trick to pull off the hubcap and place one or two small rocks inside.
They would roll around and make noise at slow speeds and at fast speeds centrivical force would hold them in place and
the noise would go away.

Another one. Someone I knew at the Lincoln production line back in the fifties, told me this story.
He would place small nuts in the hubcaps with a note.
Hope it cost you a small fortune to find this noise, you *******.
Tom

[MikeSimon]

It reminds me of the "true" story I posted in a different thread quite a while ago:

Here is a Daimler Benz story that was told in the 70s:

In the late 50s, a well-to-do or prominent person bought a Mercedes 300 W186, nicknamed "Adenauer" after the first chancellor of the federal republic of Germany after WWII.
The customer took delivery and after a few days returned to the dealership with the complaint of a mysterious rattle and cluck in the car.
Service checked the car out and did not find anything.
The customer left but came back after a few days with the same complaint.
This scenario repeated itself several times until Daimler Benz decided to buy the car back and provide the customer with a replacement.
The rattle and clunk car was shipped to Untertürkheim to factory service, where they started to thoroughly inspect and subsequently disassembling the vehicle.
When it was down to the bare frame and nothing was found, they cut the frame apart and - behold - inside one of the frame tubes they found an empty beer bottle that one of the assembly workers slipped in there before it was welded...
 
Not sure if any other of our German members ever heard this and can add something to it??

[sandcrab59]

Thats good,Similar to my Lincoln story.
Except that the rest of the note stated you rich bas****.
Tom M

[JN]

Great story !

JN

[Duncan200]

We used to put cable (zip) ties on driveshafts of FWD’s or a coathanger on a tailshaft uni.

Only on our fellow mechanics cars though, never a customers😜.

Doug