Seems that your last two paragraphs explain it: it’s costs the employer less no matter how shitty the work is.

I’ll take four pedals.

I’ve worked for independants, Dodge (now FCA), Mitsubishi, Mazda, Suzuki, and a body shop that did it all.

forced tipping lol. card or exact cash bud.

Nope. The Honda Insight first sold in 99 in Japan had this setup.

We joke, but in the soft & sue happy society we live in these days it’s required. Sadly, I’m sure some idiot will still fuck it up, find a lawyer that’ll go after Chrysler, and a soft judge who rules in the guy’s favor.

Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to The Demon.

Congratulations, Mr. madtube, on COTD! I would like to gift you with a Challenger which this lovely lady will deliver after she feeds and bathes it in the bright light.

This fuckery from insurance companies should be illegal. Sorry, mr. insurance company, you made a bad bet, suck it up. That’s the stochastic nature of probabilistic forecasting.

His what?

What I’d love to see is the people of Topeka band together to solve the problem. Slash her tires, steal her tires, remove her spark plugs, WHATEVER it takes to keep her off the road.

If your car is black.... do it.

Yes!!

Brilliant! Please post more tech stories :)

I’ll bet we could trade war stories all day ... :)

Nice! Many years back we had this crazy older lady with a Contour come in with inoperative A/C on a nice ripe July day. I was working as the service dispatcher at the time and as luck would have it my somewhat high strung tech brother got the job. About ten minutes later he comes back to my desk, throws the repair…

You need to be in the car business to understand how stupid people can be. It’s scary.

I’ve been in the car biz for 25 years and have seen far too much, he ain’t trollin’. Not. One. Bit.

I’ll never forget an incident many years back when I was a writer. I had this woman screaming at me at the top of her lungs using language that would make a longshoreman blush because we wouldn’t replace her lefthand outside mirror under warranty... the lefthand outside mirror she took off backing out of her garage.