Thread: Rip off of the week

GM - Generally Munted
KIA - Killed it Again
Ford - Too many to list here, it's Xmas eve!!!

I've had fun with a couple of different vehicles lately, had several high faluting mechanic types look me straight in the eye and tell me complete bullshit. Trying the old "reach up the tailpipe and clean the spark plug tips on your diesel engine Sir" bullshit... I just usually start spinning the bullshit back to them and see how long it will go before they give up digging, usually I found this was what happened when for whatever reason I wasn't available and my wife went in (who is actually pretty good with mechanical stuff, I trained her up to do oil and basic servicing on the Cummins 6BTA engines and other marine gear so she was self sufficient with the basic stuff). She's called bullshit on a few mechanics in her time, usually to their embarrassment. It's a fairly recent thing for them to be trying it on me though, I guess they are getting used to people who know f-all being the usual run of customer. I'm still finding it amusing at the moment, but it's going to get on my tits shortly if it keeps on, I'm currently rating myself as better at rebuilding modern cars than most of the people who are getting paid to do it as I keep having to fix what they damn well can't and end up giving back to me with a shrug and going "I don't know". Frustrating...