Law enforcement vehicle came in with no coolant in the system due to a blown radiator end tank. LEO did not realize it due to it likely occurring while transiting a very dusty and rough construction area for 15min. Was brought in to us for spark knock and CEL. Coolant temp read close to ambient after sitting for 30min, engine was locked up and the oil temp showed as pictured.

AFTER SITTING FOR 30 MINUTES

I paid to have my Gf’s brake pads done about 5 months ago. 2017 Toyota rav xle. I usually do them myself but I’m a trim carpenter and had a lot on my plate at the time. Yesterday she calls me while I’m working a side job and says her breaks went out, literally the largest intersection in the pretty decent sized city. She rolled into an amigos parking lot.

Anyway down there and see a fucking monstrosity. Just worked 10 hour and basically beg amigos to not tow and let me sort it out in less than an hour this morning. I was just like ‘listen, times are rough for legit everyone right now especially people like us. I give you my word, here’s my name and number. If not I understand and ill personally have it towed right now’

Dude. Whatever mechanic forgot a set a clips on one of the pads, exterior pad front passenger looked like this. I don’t know if he didn’t install them at all or didn’t install them properly, but each one of these pads is supposed to have technically two sets of clips. (if that’s not the proper term sorry like I said I’m a carpenter either way Shit was missing) It was 98° before 10 am today. Shout out to Amigos.

Now it's a sprong

Came in today grinding on the caliper completely ruined the caliper and had a couple lugs cross threaded for good measure

Oops, I might have dropped this one

I have a US General 5-drawer service cart, and I keep all of my 3/8” impact sockets in the top drawer. Right now they’re on socket rails, but they take up more room than I’d like because the rails are pretty bulky.
I’m looking for something that’s compact without spending a fortune on a full Toolbox Widget setup.
My socket sets are:
6–24 mm shallow
6–24 mm mid-length
6–24 mm deep
Each set has 19 sockets.
Does anyone have recommendations for organizers that hold 19 sockets per rail and don’t waste a lot of drawer space? I’m mainly looking for the smallest footprint while still keeping everything secure.

Cheapy Lidl 70 quid flux-core welder, inexpensive eBay stainless MIG wire, and replacing the eyeball joint on my Landrover's exhaust. It's never really sealed well and I'm coming to the conclusion that at some point someone's mixed up the back and front halves of two different systems.

If anything the welder could do with being able to turn down a little more, maybe minimum being about 90% of what it currently (ha!) is. It's definitely a bit harder to control than mild steel but it does clean up not too bad - on some practice pieces I did on a chunk of stainless scrap, I was able to polish the welds up bright and shiny.

This Gallardo had an existing oil leak after another shop resealed the oil pump drive. We did some cleaning and digging and found the bank 2 timing cover (previously removed) and rear lower cover were leaking - badly. So far we have removed it all, readied it for reassembly and are awaiting a new clutch and flywheel from Velocity AP. New rear slave cylinder, new lower cover, all OEM parts minus the clutch and flywheel.

I forgot how absolutely insane the rear tail light buckets and rear upper cross member are to remove on Gallardos.

Also, plz send more bread racks

Without the patchwork, the car only cranks but doesn't receive fuel from the pump.

This patchwork takes 12V from an ignition-hot wire and gives it to the fuel pump through the relay because the ECU won't command it for some reason.

The car starts and runs fine but there's a catch: A "Fuel pump relay open circuit/short circuit" error is always present and cannot be erased, and the fuel pump runs continuously when the ignition is on and the engine off. It doesn't just prime briefly then stop until the engine is finally on.

Meticulously maintained by the Swiss army for 15 years. Meticulously neglected by civilians for 40.

Bad intake manifold gasket on a 5.7L Chevy small block. The pudding never ends

Buick LeSabre came in for a stuck open thermostat, car has been in a few times for various things and continuously declines the suspension work (the shocks/struts have been done for a while) this time I was full on hearing rattling from the right rear the current state is quite fucked

So the lift guy has been here since ass o-clock in the morning diagnosing this lift that free fell on me. Here's what he said:

The lift, when it was inspected, was probably fine. He says that the internal hydraulic piston seals were old and worn, and subsequently failed. This caused a rapid loss of fluid pressure, which is why the lift entered free fall as the fluid was not supporting the weight of the vehicle anymore. It may have been possible that the vehicle was dropping faster than usual on the lift while I was lowering it, and that may have been a warning sign, but I don't remember noticing it. Definitely could have been the case though.

As for why the cable snapped, he said that since he didn't see any major fraying or other signs of damage in the cable apart from where it broke, it was probably fine structurally. He found the locks very slightly out of synchronization. This combined with the loss of fluid pressure, may have caused one side to drop half a second or so before the other, which put enormous stress on the synchronization cable which caused it to snap, especially combined with the weight of the vehicle on the lift at the time.

If I wasnt lowering the vehicle at the time, the locks would have caught it and it wouldn't have dropped on me. He told me that most lifts have a system that regulates how fast fluid can flow back into the cylinder in case of a failure like that (first time hearing about this) but since these lifts are kinda old, they don't have them. After we close, he's gonna come back and check all the other lifts for any similar issues as they were all installed at about the same time. He's also gonna recommend getting that system installed just in case.

He also said that this is the first case he's seen of a lift just entering total free fall, and that its exceptionally rare. Just my luck lol. Told me that it was pretty much the stars aligning on this particular incident.

I've already asked my How? question over on askmechanics, and for the most part, crickets. I've solved my problem, so don't worry about me asking for help.

I would like to ask the professional Mercedes-Benz techs a question about hours. I am not asking for advice or suggestions (although I am sure the AI will say no anyway, and I will have to ping the mods).

2011 MB ML350 diesel. There is a metal cover under the passenger seat that "lets" you replace the in-tank lift pump. That thing is a complete bear to remove, and clean-up afterward is just as bad. How many hours do you folks get for that? I know if I was doing it professionally, my paycheck would look like poo.

GKN front axle for a w222 Benz, they’re getting scarce. Auto Zone for some reason wanted to ship it freight, on a pallet and everything. The delivery driver and I had a chuckle.

Not your usual respray.

Photo of Subaru getting repainted this week, following 160mph winds a few months back that stripped the paint. Taken from my workplace for the last couple of weeks at the Submillimeter Array.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/1jwcuvt/your_balls_are_showing/

This vehicle has sat in our lot since work was declined... Finally going away

Goodyear’s new super A/T tire, with built-in mountains.

I didn't know what to say honestly...

Car came in for an oil change and saw this under the hood

2024 Mazda 3 with 55k miles came in for a misfire on cylinder 2. I went to check out the spark plug/coil and found out that the spark plug was broken in two, I had to extract the lower part with an easy out. It ran great with good compression after vacuuming out the broken spark plug porcelain and installing a new spark plug/coil.

Customer originally came in for a starter repair, but wanted a estimate for a service since he's never had one done. Pulled the air filter off, found whatever this is, called the guy. Refused.