The area that our shop is located has been having terrible theft issues. For us, it started when someone broke the back window to steal the front door off of one of our old E36 325i parts donor cars. Whatever, I actually thought it was quite humorous. Fast forward like 3 weeks, I walk around the corner after parking my car and I see this.
So these thieves, came to steal these amazingly high quality Stern wheels off of this E39 525i at…wait for it…6:45am on a Monday morning. As you can see, on one side the jack(s) could no longer handle the weight of the car and just collapsed onto the brake rotors, at which point they got the attention of the CrossFit business next door (they open at 6:30am). The thieves got no wheels, lost 5 oem style death jacks, and we have it all on video (not that that means much). Lazy-ass Crooks, had they not needed their beauty sleep and gotten there even an hour early, our beautiful shop parts car would have been wheel-less and these guys could have been looking fly with these sic-ass chrome wheels (honestly we probably would have given them the wheels for free).
Wow, that’s just impressively stupid and equally hard to believe. I don’t even know what I’d think if I came out to a car like that, much less if I had to receive a call from the shop it was at and have them explain it lol.
Wow, that’s just impressively stupid and equally hard to believe. I don’t even know what I’d think if I came out to a car like that, much less if I had to receive a call from the shop it was at and have them explain it lol.
When I still worked at one of the local dealerships, a moving truck backed into one of the problem cars that I was working on. Did something like $14K worth of body damage. Actually came close to a total loss. A twisted part of me would have preferred that the car was totaled so that I wouldn’t have had to fix it.
How I can emphasize with that. I have a 545i that a transmission shop misaligned the flexplate, which is also provides the reference rpm/crank signal, and all the electronics that require that signal. I have done about everything on that car and it still sounds the same (running on 1-2 cylinders). My service writer even recommended to the customer that he park it in the ghetto with the keys in it for a few days, customer didn’t think it was as good of an idea as we did.
When I still worked at one of the local dealerships, a moving truck backed into one of the problem cars that I was working on. Did something like $14K worth of body damage. Actually came close to a total loss. A twisted part of me would have preferred that the car was totaled so that I wouldn’t have had to fix it.
So basically like how people fuck up installing the crank position sensor with RS4s. Or how some people are unfortunate enough to have the sensor ring welds fail on a B6/7 flywheel which chops off the end of the crank position sensor.
By the way, you don’t even have to leave an early 2001 or older Audi in a bad neighborhood with the keys in it because they can be stolen with a screwdriver. Had a bunch of those cars towed in too.
Usually the customer never likes to hear things like that though. Oh how tech humor is only funny to certain people.
How I can emphasize with that. I have a 545i that a transmission shop misaligned the flexplate, which is also provides the reference rpm/crank signal, and all the electronics that require that signal. I have done about everything on that car and it still sounds the same (running on 1-2 cylinders). My service writer even recommended to the customer that he park it in the ghetto with the keys in it for a few days, customer didn’t think it was as good of an idea as we did.
So basically like how people fuck up installing the crank position sensor with RS4s. Or how some people are unfortunate enough to have the sensor ring welds fail on a B6/7 flywheel which chops off the end of the crank position sensor.
By the way, you don’t even have to leave an early 2001 or older Audi in a bad neighborhood with the keys in it because they can be stolen with a screwdriver. Had a bunch of those cars towed in too.
Usually the customer never likes to hear things like that though. Oh how tech humor is only funny to certain people.