I’ve heard this story secondhand a couple times, and it’s one of my favourites.

Now, I know I shouldn’t have done this. Probably only half qualifies as “revenge”. But.

He joked about a Smart, but thankfully that didn’t happen. I should have clarified; the shoddy dealer work I mentioned was all under the previous owner. Between me and my dad, all our vehicle maintenance is in-house. The engine failure was actually significantly more violent than just a mis-adjusted timing belt.

I own one of said cockstains, an ‘02 2.Slow. First six months of ownership, it ate like six sensors, door lock module stopped working, starter motor died, rfid chip in the key stopped working, rad fan detroyed itself, and it ate a motor (not its fault, the wrong torque spec was used on the motor mounts when changing…