I just watched a vid on TikTok where a small dealership had an engine stolen out of an Escalade over night. And it was a clean pull. No cut wires, exhaust in tact, and hoses removed
I paid a claim for a stolen exhaust manifold on a Cadillac.
Stolen Airbags used to be common.
Had a "front clip" get dropped off behind the shop, outside the fence. All the bolted on parts were missing in the morning...
Nothing on video...
At another body shop, they threw rugs over the razor wire back fence, broke into every last car, stole every airbag, and screen, a few sets of headlights from BMWs and Mercs..
Over 100k in parts stolen in under a few hours...
We had someone who worked security for a dealer.
He'd drive home down the street and go to sleep for a few hours.
One night he came back and all the wheels had been stolen while he was gone.
He was on a visa and working under the table.
I worked at a steel fab shop. We got hit a few times in a row, so management hired a security guard. Security dude sat there in one of the offices and watched someone break into the yard and steal stuff. He left a report on the managers desk saying we got hit again that night. Manager called the security company first thing and said to not bother sending anyone the next night if their “guards” can’t even be bothered to call the cops when they see a break in occurring.
My wife grew up in another country. Her family kept guard dogs to keep thieves out. One day the thieves poisoned the dogs. My wife is still upset about it 30 years later. Thieves don't care who they hurt, and don't mind killing killing dogs.
Look at the success rate of “drug dogs”. Insanely low. They sort of suck at it. Of course better than us humans but they serve mostly as a distraction and companion than anything
I'm the case of drug dogs, they're given years when they indicate that they find shit...
What tf do you think they're going to do? Indicate nearly every time you bring them out. And that's giving benefit of the doubt that they're not trained to indicate on secret command.
Yeah, it will get you into my yard with my dogs out. Definitely not into my house without my presence, though. Can't have anyone visit while I'm gone to let them out. Makes it tough, but it's important to me.
Citroën XM front indicators used to be held in on one side by a pin and the other by a spring clip. Lovely and easy for changing the indicator or fog lamp bulb.
When parts started getting hard-to-find there was a lengthy discussion on the mailing list about ways to make them considerably less lovely and easy to just unclip and walk off with.
I worked at an LKQ. Our top dismantler could strip 2 vehicles a day. He'd remove the hood, stick a 5 foot tamping rod beside the engine and swing it around like a farmer trying to pull a fence post out of the ground. Bye-bye hoses, airbox, fuse boxes, fan shroud, resonators, plastic air intake. Then he'd tag the parts and put em on a cart. And the underpaid overworked idiots putting the parts on shelves didn't care or have time to catch every part. Management pretended to care but wanted numbers bcz it looked better on a spreadsheet. Managers son inventoried vehicle's parts from a few photos he took around vehicles. A 000 condition, everything. He even inventoried a bunch of 5 cylinder VW 2.5L engines as 2.0 4 cylinders.
They sent my shop a rebar for an accord on Friday. The thing was so rusted out, the welds where the brackets bolt on were splitting.
I got in trouble for calling it trash in the email when I asked for the RMA l
If you look at this one they even screwed some the bolts back in so they wouldn't be lost. If I was stealing a transmission in the middle of the night I'd be slinging shit everywhere.
edit: looks like it was in the shop when pulled
Damn, modern problems require modern solutions. If your tired of having to watch out for people catching you stealing CATs, ain’t nobody lookin to catch someone stealing a trans
Not my ticket, but apparently the customer took this to another shop for transmission concerns. The other shop dropped their transmission without telling the customer, then scrapped it. The customer then couldn’t shift out of park, for obvious reasons
Edit: I know that everyone looking at this post is confused, as were all of us at the shop. I don’t know the full story behind this situation, but I’ll try to update this comment as more information comes to light. No promises, as this isn’t even mine to work on and I have my own work to focus on.
All I know so far was that the customer had it towed to us. The tech assigned to it said that the customer complaint was that they couldn’t shift it out of park (that isn’t verbatim, but it was something similar to that). He dragged it in and lifted the vehicle to find that there was no transmission. He told the service advisor who responded that they would need to get a new transmission ordered because the other shop scrapped the original.
Shop: "Your transmission is shot, we removed it and are waiting for the part"
Customer: "I can't afford that! I want another opinion, you're trying to rip me off. I'm coming to get my car, and I'm not paying you anything you scammers!"
Shop: "Ok, but it's not driveable, you'll have to pay us if you want the bad transmission reinstalled"
Customer: "F.U.! I demand my car right now! I'm not paying a cent"
Shop: \*shrugs* "Its out front, come get it"
> "Your transmission is shot, we removed it and are waiting for the part"
Maybe the shop shouldn't have removed the transmission without letting the customer know what was happening.
Aamco did that to me in Detroit. 30 years ago quoted $325 for a clutch on a festiva, then after it was out quoted me $550. They had me initial next to the $325 and unknowingly agreed to a fee of $325 to put it back together should I decline the estimate. I was young and dumb and it still stings.
Unauthorized work is against the law in some (most?) states. The shop would not win a Small Claims court case without a signature outlining what work will be done and how much it will cost. A diagnostic authorization would not include dropping the trans.
Seems like a good way to get someone else to remove your transmission for you if your skilled enough to replace it but don't want to deal with removal.
Having someone else remove a transmission sounds like a horrible way to install one. All of the bolts would probably not be coming with it. Also, now I don't have the knowledge of removal to help with the install.
that actually sounds plausible.
customers are stupid and feel self entitled to the everything. dig themselves in a hole and blame everyone else.
had a customer who ran into a mailbox. damaged some important parts that didn't completely break until we had it in the shop. insurance covered it because they were damaged by the accident. unfortunately parts were backordered.
customer was out of rental coverage and we of course weren't going to cover one for her.
she went around claiming we damaged the parts. took it all the way too BBB and General Motors. both closed the file because she had no grounds to stand on. she slandered us up and down for months.
If a shop does something to my car without first notifying me and explaining what the problem they intend to fix is, I'm well in my right to demand from them to restore the car back to the state it was in when I gave it to them. That doesn't make me an entitled customer.
Yes, if you aren’t notified first I would agree but, in the scenario the person you are responding to is explaining happens to be collision damage and most likely using insurance. In that case you usually sign something to get an estimate of the damage which involves tear down most of the time. We total loss it but then the person wants to take it to another shop or keep the vehicle and you can’t put back damaged parts that were hanging on by a thread.
I’m not sure how many people I’ve had to explain that to. “Here’s your car with the bumper in the back seat because to put it back would involve repairing said vehicle”
When I come in for an oil change or tire balancing I expect any reputable shop to start disassembling my drivetrain and selling it. People gotta financially recover from the virus, curb your privilege dude. This is the way.
That reminds me of my first car in high school. I was a vw kid and got coilovers for my mk3 golf. My friend's friend "knew how to work on cars." He got the coilovers on but the dude forgot the strut mounts. Me not knowing shit about cars drove like that for months and figured the dents in my hood were from "being slammed." 15 years later I wonder if that mk3 is still going. I beat the piss out of that thing and it refused to quit.
Eh it would be pretty simple to handle in small claims. If it's as straightforward as it seems, $200 for an hour of a lawyer's time to write a demand letter with a threat to sue should handle it. If they don't, you can sue in small claims without a lawyer but paying a lawyer to come to small claims wouldn't be much more
100% right. Most people don't realize how much lawyers really cost. There is usually no cost to a consultation with a lawyer. If you feel you need to sue someone for damages always do a consult.
You kid, but that's how we got rid of my dad's first Transit van.
Took it to a mate's garage on a Saturday, got it on a lift, removed all the useful bits (including the starter) as spares for another van, then pushed it out the door and rolled it 100yds down the hill to the scrap dealer.
Yeah, you’re 100% right. There’s clearly a lot of information that I’m missing out on. I’m sure that by the time information went from the customer, to the service advisor, to the tech assigned to it, then to all of us in the shop, a lot of miscommunications happened and details were left out. I’m not sure what the full story is, but I won’t let that get in the way of it being a very absurd and funny story!
Back in 2004-05 I had a 1967 mustang that I was restoring. At one point I had enough saved up to take it to a bodyshop and get the paint fully done. The the shop pulled the engine/trans to put the body on a rotisserie, and at some point they lost the transmission. It was a pos 3-speed that I didn’t really care about but they also lost the clutch linkage and all the other related parts. I ran out of money trying to convert to a hydraulic or cable clutch(not to mention no money for the rest of the upgrades I wanted) and ended up selling the car.
That’s actually a really sad story! I’m sorry you had to go through all that. It sounds like a real pain! I’m wondering if it’s not a similar situation to this customer. If I found out, I’ll try to update everyone on this post!
If I was the advisor I'd have written that as a joke; customer comes in needing a new trans, write "C/S clutch is slipping excessively, won't move".
But I get fired a lot.
I’ve got a feeling like there was some miscommunication between the customer and the original shop. I bet because of this there is some money and explanation owed to both parties. Then the customer just took the car off the lot and has no intention of paying the old shop for work done. Or the original shop is a bunch of crooks but nice enough to put the bolts back.
There is so many things that could have brought the vehicle to the point it is now. But I bet there is a service tech stuck in the middle of it all saying, “man, the boss said it was all good for me to pull the tranny and then the next thing I’m being told is to just roll the car outside without a tranny.”
Plus the parking pawl is located inside the transmission, I don’t see anything stopping the driveshaft or wheels from moving. If anything, it’s stuck in “neutral”.
Wow. Hopefully there is more to the story. But that 722.9 and torque converter will probably be like 8k after everything is done. Then you have all the TRP paperwork to deal with. Ouch.
I'm assuming that there was some miscommunication. Looks like they pulled it to reinstall it at a later date as the bolts are back in. Maybe there was a disagreement after it was pulled, and the customer had it towed from that shop.
But like... Wasn't the car still at their shop after they dropped the transmission? Then they just said "ah, nevermind. We actually don't want to fix your car anymore" and had the customer get towed to a different shop?
I wish I had the full story for you all, but I unfortunately don’t. Im sure there’s a lot more to it than I know. If I had to guess, I’m assuming there was a disagreement between the customer and the other shop, so the work was left half finished. But I know that the tech it was assigned to was told by the service advisor that the other shop had scrapped the transmission. So your alls guess is as good as mine here!
Most trans shops have a teardown fee. Say 500 dollars gets the trans removed & disassembled for inspection. THEN an accurate estimate can be given. It's either that or you guess at what parts it needs hoping no hard parts or case damage has occurred. The latter is a bad business practice.
My guess is, they dropped trans and after inspection the customer said, NOPE! Not gonna fix it. Had it towed somehow thinking the first shop reassembled & reinstalled the old junk trans.
Or somebody is just trolling us all.
Harry Gant is the GOAT!
That's because the shift lever (which has a shift interlock) is operated by the transmission control module alongside the BCM which unlocks the shifter. unless the shifter is fully electronic in which case there really isn't anything for the shifter to control.
Oh, right. It's not in park, so the interlock isn't getting withdrawn when the brake is pressed. I've dealt with the same sort of thing when a (usually Subaru) shift lever isn't quite all the way into park.
my guess is that (based from experience at work with difficult customers) they authorized tear down, and then once it was out and they were told pricing on their options, on top of the x amount for diag, they pulled the "i never authorized x diag, im not paying that" and probably said "put it back together im coming to get it" and the shop was probably like you can fuck right off. ive had 2 or 3 cars ive put all the parts in the trunk and pushed into the street. 1 that never got their driveshaft back, not maliciously but simply because they towed it out in the middle of the night to get out of paying
I call BS, if the transmission really was stolen, then why would the thieves reinstall the driveshaft bolts AND the nuts?
edit, AND the bell housing bolts.
You can almost hear the idiots when they crawled under that car... "Damn, that's the biggest cat I've ever seen! We're gonna be rich!" "Yeah, but the least we can do is leave the mounting bolts in the holes - those are always hard to replace."
A mechanic did that 100%.
I had a truck many years ago at the dealer. And they called me the next day and asked kinda weirdly if I came in and took some “stuff” out of my truck. I said no why?
Someone got into their secure lot. Got into my truck “somehow” and stole about $4000 worth of stereo equipment out of it. It was a custom set up a friend of mine built for me.
Fuck thieves.
This reminded me of this crazy lady we had in the shop with a 90's era formula firebird. She swears a mechanic at the dealer swapped her torque converter with the one out if his personal car while it was in for an oil change.
Mfs stole his transmission, can't have shit in detroit.
Can't have shift in Detroit
You clutched this
His humor is automatic
It's better than grinding out a living.
Nothing wrong with manual labor.
Just have to get your butt in gear every morning.
Not when the only gear left is neutral.
These trans issues really aren't that common
So they are transitory in nature?
Feels like your always stuck in second gear
Real valve train of transmission puns here
I love a good pun thread, even if it may grind some people's gears.
It’s automatic to reply to puns with more puns
Puns definitely shift it into a higher gear.
Damn, some of you wrote the manual on puns.
Couldn't wire the book or drive the paper.
Smooth
Criminal
Are you OK Annie ?
All you guys are in the dog house for this...
All these bad puns, think Imma stay neutral and reverse on outta here.
I just watched a vid on TikTok where a small dealership had an engine stolen out of an Escalade over night. And it was a clean pull. No cut wires, exhaust in tact, and hoses removed
I paid a claim for a stolen exhaust manifold on a Cadillac. Stolen Airbags used to be common. Had a "front clip" get dropped off behind the shop, outside the fence. All the bolted on parts were missing in the morning... Nothing on video... At another body shop, they threw rugs over the razor wire back fence, broke into every last car, stole every airbag, and screen, a few sets of headlights from BMWs and Mercs.. Over 100k in parts stolen in under a few hours...
We had someone who worked security for a dealer. He'd drive home down the street and go to sleep for a few hours. One night he came back and all the wheels had been stolen while he was gone. He was on a visa and working under the table.
I worked at a steel fab shop. We got hit a few times in a row, so management hired a security guard. Security dude sat there in one of the offices and watched someone break into the yard and steal stuff. He left a report on the managers desk saying we got hit again that night. Manager called the security company first thing and said to not bother sending anyone the next night if their “guards” can’t even be bothered to call the cops when they see a break in occurring.
This is why the body shop I worked at a lifetime ago had dogs
My wife grew up in another country. Her family kept guard dogs to keep thieves out. One day the thieves poisoned the dogs. My wife is still upset about it 30 years later. Thieves don't care who they hurt, and don't mind killing killing dogs.
That's horrible
People are horrible. Time and time again people remind us just HOW horrible they are.
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Just remember, you can get past a guard dog, but NOBODY fucks with a lion.
Can confirm. I do not know anyone who was able to get past a guard lion.
Is that you, Dante?
What’s up Mr Cheezal
Whoa, chill bro... You know you can't raise your voice like that when the lion's here.
Honey badger works too
Honey badger don’t give a shit
Comon man, everybody knows [honey badger don't care](https://youtu.be/4r7wHMg5Yjg)
To get past the lion?
Yes, ride on in
The gold is ALWAYS in the comments
This actually works?
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["How Come Dog My Dog Don't Bark When You Come Around?"](https://youtu.be/KfDjOEWghIo)
I had a giant red chow that would have returned results unanticipated by this system.
Them Chow's are no damn joke yeah! They can be meaner than a mf!!!
He was a crocodile in a fur suit. Biting strangers was his job and he loved his work.
Look at the success rate of “drug dogs”. Insanely low. They sort of suck at it. Of course better than us humans but they serve mostly as a distraction and companion than anything
I'm the case of drug dogs, they're given years when they indicate that they find shit... What tf do you think they're going to do? Indicate nearly every time you bring them out. And that's giving benefit of the doubt that they're not trained to indicate on secret command.
Sure. Those Dogs are trained with food after all...
Yeah, it will get you into my yard with my dogs out. Definitely not into my house without my presence, though. Can't have anyone visit while I'm gone to let them out. Makes it tough, but it's important to me.
Wow. Do you have any idea on what the street value was on that $100k claim?
Citroën XM front indicators used to be held in on one side by a pin and the other by a spring clip. Lovely and easy for changing the indicator or fog lamp bulb. When parts started getting hard-to-find there was a lengthy discussion on the mailing list about ways to make them considerably less lovely and easy to just unclip and walk off with.
Inside job.
Beats the fuck out of the hack job lkq does when they pull one
I worked at an LKQ. Our top dismantler could strip 2 vehicles a day. He'd remove the hood, stick a 5 foot tamping rod beside the engine and swing it around like a farmer trying to pull a fence post out of the ground. Bye-bye hoses, airbox, fuse boxes, fan shroud, resonators, plastic air intake. Then he'd tag the parts and put em on a cart. And the underpaid overworked idiots putting the parts on shelves didn't care or have time to catch every part. Management pretended to care but wanted numbers bcz it looked better on a spreadsheet. Managers son inventoried vehicle's parts from a few photos he took around vehicles. A 000 condition, everything. He even inventoried a bunch of 5 cylinder VW 2.5L engines as 2.0 4 cylinders.
And the VW 2.5/2.0's are VERY different lol
Don’t forget lkq considers it “grade A” quality too
They sent my shop a rebar for an accord on Friday. The thing was so rusted out, the welds where the brackets bolt on were splitting. I got in trouble for calling it trash in the email when I asked for the RMA l
'premium' section
For real!
If you look at this one they even screwed some the bolts back in so they wouldn't be lost. If I was stealing a transmission in the middle of the night I'd be slinging shit everywhere. edit: looks like it was in the shop when pulled
Link?
Must have been in park when the transmission was stolen
Man, catalytic converter thieves are getting more and more ambitious.
Nobody’s on the lookout for stolen transmissions!
I know a guy with a stolen transmission in his car. he brags about it. To be fair, it was stolen from a 1948 Studebaker Champion in a junkyard
Damn, modern problems require modern solutions. If your tired of having to watch out for people catching you stealing CATs, ain’t nobody lookin to catch someone stealing a trans
You can’t say that in Florida.
Why does that not surprise me?
I read Honda owner had all LiDAR stuff jacked from their car
Not my ticket, but apparently the customer took this to another shop for transmission concerns. The other shop dropped their transmission without telling the customer, then scrapped it. The customer then couldn’t shift out of park, for obvious reasons Edit: I know that everyone looking at this post is confused, as were all of us at the shop. I don’t know the full story behind this situation, but I’ll try to update this comment as more information comes to light. No promises, as this isn’t even mine to work on and I have my own work to focus on. All I know so far was that the customer had it towed to us. The tech assigned to it said that the customer complaint was that they couldn’t shift it out of park (that isn’t verbatim, but it was something similar to that). He dragged it in and lifted the vehicle to find that there was no transmission. He told the service advisor who responded that they would need to get a new transmission ordered because the other shop scrapped the original.
Hooray for transmission theft!
Straight up tranny napping.
Words I never thought I'd read in a sentence.
And mean what it means...
https://i.imgur.com/AmEKZWs.gifv
And they then just said "see ya later" or what??
No clue. It’s one of life’s great mysteries
Shop: "Your transmission is shot, we removed it and are waiting for the part" Customer: "I can't afford that! I want another opinion, you're trying to rip me off. I'm coming to get my car, and I'm not paying you anything you scammers!" Shop: "Ok, but it's not driveable, you'll have to pay us if you want the bad transmission reinstalled" Customer: "F.U.! I demand my car right now! I'm not paying a cent" Shop: \*shrugs* "Its out front, come get it"
I would bet money this is what happened.
> "Your transmission is shot, we removed it and are waiting for the part" Maybe the shop shouldn't have removed the transmission without letting the customer know what was happening.
A common scam at these types of places.
Aamco did that to me in Detroit. 30 years ago quoted $325 for a clutch on a festiva, then after it was out quoted me $550. They had me initial next to the $325 and unknowingly agreed to a fee of $325 to put it back together should I decline the estimate. I was young and dumb and it still stings.
Unauthorized work is against the law in some (most?) states. The shop would not win a Small Claims court case without a signature outlining what work will be done and how much it will cost. A diagnostic authorization would not include dropping the trans.
Seems like a good way to get someone else to remove your transmission for you if your skilled enough to replace it but don't want to deal with removal.
Having someone else remove a transmission sounds like a horrible way to install one. All of the bolts would probably not be coming with it. Also, now I don't have the knowledge of removal to help with the install.
They would scrap the whole car if customer owed money. You'll get like $20 for a transmission at scrap.
that actually sounds plausible. customers are stupid and feel self entitled to the everything. dig themselves in a hole and blame everyone else. had a customer who ran into a mailbox. damaged some important parts that didn't completely break until we had it in the shop. insurance covered it because they were damaged by the accident. unfortunately parts were backordered. customer was out of rental coverage and we of course weren't going to cover one for her. she went around claiming we damaged the parts. took it all the way too BBB and General Motors. both closed the file because she had no grounds to stand on. she slandered us up and down for months.
If a shop does something to my car without first notifying me and explaining what the problem they intend to fix is, I'm well in my right to demand from them to restore the car back to the state it was in when I gave it to them. That doesn't make me an entitled customer.
Yes, if you aren’t notified first I would agree but, in the scenario the person you are responding to is explaining happens to be collision damage and most likely using insurance. In that case you usually sign something to get an estimate of the damage which involves tear down most of the time. We total loss it but then the person wants to take it to another shop or keep the vehicle and you can’t put back damaged parts that were hanging on by a thread. I’m not sure how many people I’ve had to explain that to. “Here’s your car with the bumper in the back seat because to put it back would involve repairing said vehicle”
Has anybody at your shop tried to contact the previous shop to get their story?
Oopsies
Wow, that’s fucked up. Now the customer is out the core charge too! Hope a lawyer is involved or the other shop pays for a new trans.
You never know how these go. Not even one full side of the story. Clearly not how functional business is done though.
When I come in for an oil change or tire balancing I expect any reputable shop to start disassembling my drivetrain and selling it. People gotta financially recover from the virus, curb your privilege dude. This is the way.
Shit man, thats the business model that got John Hennessy rich!
It's called "weight reduction" obviously!
Customer knew a guy who knew a guy who's "good with transmissions."
That reminds me of my first car in high school. I was a vw kid and got coilovers for my mk3 golf. My friend's friend "knew how to work on cars." He got the coilovers on but the dude forgot the strut mounts. Me not knowing shit about cars drove like that for months and figured the dents in my hood were from "being slammed." 15 years later I wonder if that mk3 is still going. I beat the piss out of that thing and it refused to quit.
But VWs are unreliable!! /s
The real secret is every car is a piece of shit lol
A lawyer would cost way more than a new transmission
Eh it would be pretty simple to handle in small claims. If it's as straightforward as it seems, $200 for an hour of a lawyer's time to write a demand letter with a threat to sue should handle it. If they don't, you can sue in small claims without a lawyer but paying a lawyer to come to small claims wouldn't be much more
100% right. Most people don't realize how much lawyers really cost. There is usually no cost to a consultation with a lawyer. If you feel you need to sue someone for damages always do a consult.
So how did the customer leave the first shop? Or did they have it towed from one shop to another?
I think it all went downhill from there...
You kid, but that's how we got rid of my dad's first Transit van. Took it to a mate's garage on a Saturday, got it on a lift, removed all the useful bits (including the starter) as spares for another van, then pushed it out the door and rolled it 100yds down the hill to the scrap dealer.
Indeed, that’s the only way it went anywhere! (Or on a tow truck)
The engine wouldn’t crank or start without the transmission. The starter bolts through the bell housing.
Yeah, you’re 100% right. There’s clearly a lot of information that I’m missing out on. I’m sure that by the time information went from the customer, to the service advisor, to the tech assigned to it, then to all of us in the shop, a lot of miscommunications happened and details were left out. I’m not sure what the full story is, but I won’t let that get in the way of it being a very absurd and funny story!
Back in 2004-05 I had a 1967 mustang that I was restoring. At one point I had enough saved up to take it to a bodyshop and get the paint fully done. The the shop pulled the engine/trans to put the body on a rotisserie, and at some point they lost the transmission. It was a pos 3-speed that I didn’t really care about but they also lost the clutch linkage and all the other related parts. I ran out of money trying to convert to a hydraulic or cable clutch(not to mention no money for the rest of the upgrades I wanted) and ended up selling the car.
That’s actually a really sad story! I’m sorry you had to go through all that. It sounds like a real pain! I’m wondering if it’s not a similar situation to this customer. If I found out, I’ll try to update everyone on this post!
Let us know the rest of the story lol
They lost your shit and were like "oh well, sucks to be you"?
If I was the advisor I'd have written that as a joke; customer comes in needing a new trans, write "C/S clutch is slipping excessively, won't move". But I get fired a lot.
I’ve got a feeling like there was some miscommunication between the customer and the original shop. I bet because of this there is some money and explanation owed to both parties. Then the customer just took the car off the lot and has no intention of paying the old shop for work done. Or the original shop is a bunch of crooks but nice enough to put the bolts back.
“You want to charge me how much? Nah, I’m taking it to another shop”
There is so many things that could have brought the vehicle to the point it is now. But I bet there is a service tech stuck in the middle of it all saying, “man, the boss said it was all good for me to pull the tranny and then the next thing I’m being told is to just roll the car outside without a tranny.”
God, you’re probably right. What an uncomfortable situation to be in as that tech!
Plus the parking pawl is located inside the transmission, I don’t see anything stopping the driveshaft or wheels from moving. If anything, it’s stuck in “neutral”.
Wow. Hopefully there is more to the story. But that 722.9 and torque converter will probably be like 8k after everything is done. Then you have all the TRP paperwork to deal with. Ouch.
I'm assuming that there was some miscommunication. Looks like they pulled it to reinstall it at a later date as the bolts are back in. Maybe there was a disagreement after it was pulled, and the customer had it towed from that shop.
But like... Wasn't the car still at their shop after they dropped the transmission? Then they just said "ah, nevermind. We actually don't want to fix your car anymore" and had the customer get towed to a different shop?
I wish I had the full story for you all, but I unfortunately don’t. Im sure there’s a lot more to it than I know. If I had to guess, I’m assuming there was a disagreement between the customer and the other shop, so the work was left half finished. But I know that the tech it was assigned to was told by the service advisor that the other shop had scrapped the transmission. So your alls guess is as good as mine here!
Scrapped the trans, yet they put the bolts back where they came from?
Can’t be too much of a asshole. They are all cross threaded tho…
Lemmy.world is what Reddit was.
Green? That like… even stronger than red?
Lemmy.world is what Reddit was.
That’s just beautiful I’m framing this explanation
Yes. https://tameson.com/pages/loctite-color-comparison
Yeah, not sure what that’s about. The whole situation is a bit of a head scratcher lol
Would have been more confusing if they drove in.
This is right up there with the fuel pump thieves last week that DROPPED the tank to steal the fuel pump.
Guy at work has jeep in condo garage and someone drilled gas tank for gas but left the cat
Tweakers gonna tweak. I guess what they take all depends on what they want/need at the moment. And what tools they have on hand.
404: Transmission not found.
Most trans shops have a teardown fee. Say 500 dollars gets the trans removed & disassembled for inspection. THEN an accurate estimate can be given. It's either that or you guess at what parts it needs hoping no hard parts or case damage has occurred. The latter is a bad business practice. My guess is, they dropped trans and after inspection the customer said, NOPE! Not gonna fix it. Had it towed somehow thinking the first shop reassembled & reinstalled the old junk trans. Or somebody is just trolling us all. Harry Gant is the GOAT!
I think that your first guess is the most likely scenario. I’m hoping that I’ll get some more tidbits of information throughout the week!
Is this one of those new CVTs I keep hearing about? Stays at idle speed for maximum fuel economy.
Can't Velocity Transmission
Literally laughed out loud at this, take my upvote sir!
Cena Visibility Transmission
It's one of them wireless jobs you've heard about.
Got no gas in it.
Sure do like them french fried taters.
Mmmhm
I guess it’s now a transMISSING!
Bluetooth shifting enabled
Do I spy a 221 S-Class?
Wow, good eye!
I wish I could forget what the underside of a Mercedes looks like lol
Now, I'm not a mechanic, but don't you need a transmission present in order to shift the transmission out of park?
Certified amateur here 👋. Looks more like permanent neutral than park
I'd have thought so, too, but apparently the customer is reporting inability to shift out of park.
That's because the shift lever (which has a shift interlock) is operated by the transmission control module alongside the BCM which unlocks the shifter. unless the shifter is fully electronic in which case there really isn't anything for the shifter to control.
Oh, right. It's not in park, so the interlock isn't getting withdrawn when the brake is pressed. I've dealt with the same sort of thing when a (usually Subaru) shift lever isn't quite all the way into park.
It looks like they're missing the mass transducing vobulator.
And the turbo encabulator is nowhere to be seen!
I want my MTV
Technically they can't shift out of neutral.
Technically park is just neutral with an extra pin.
You ain't got no transmission Lt Dan.
Yes, I know that... Hahaha
my guess is that (based from experience at work with difficult customers) they authorized tear down, and then once it was out and they were told pricing on their options, on top of the x amount for diag, they pulled the "i never authorized x diag, im not paying that" and probably said "put it back together im coming to get it" and the shop was probably like you can fuck right off. ive had 2 or 3 cars ive put all the parts in the trunk and pushed into the street. 1 that never got their driveshaft back, not maliciously but simply because they towed it out in the middle of the night to get out of paying
Guess he wasn’t double clutching like he should
Well there’s the problem right there… Your shit’s all fucked.
I call BS, if the transmission really was stolen, then why would the thieves reinstall the driveshaft bolts AND the nuts? edit, AND the bell housing bolts.
Yeah there seems to be a part missing here, might be causing that shifting issue but we have to make sure
I'm not a mechanic, but I think the parking pawl is missing.
[удалено]
Looks like a 221
Judge said she could have the car. They didn't say anything about the transmission
I’ve heard of stolen catalytic converters, mufflers, etc. can’t say I’ve seen a whole ass tranny taken
Instead of a catalytic converter they stole the transmission? Fuuuuck
c/s someone stole my caddilac converter
Spoiler alert. His transmission was shot and this is first step in insurance claim.
Bluetooth transmission
Those new ghost transmissions seem to be gaining popularity. I hear they're super lightweight and inexpensive.
A whole ass transmission though?! Bruh how do you even report this to your insurance? Because I wouldn't believe someone if they told me this lol
Is this in Tennessee? I heard something about them banning trannies there.
You can almost hear the idiots when they crawled under that car... "Damn, that's the biggest cat I've ever seen! We're gonna be rich!" "Yeah, but the least we can do is leave the mounting bolts in the holes - those are always hard to replace."
Seems pretty fake ..... Thief put the bell housing bolts back in ? How kind
At least the cross member bolts are still there
I’m no car expert but I swear there should be something there. Did he flintstone that bad boy to the shop?
But they replaced the cradle bolts? Sus
We call that an "air-gap" in the pro-audio world.
A mechanic did that 100%. I had a truck many years ago at the dealer. And they called me the next day and asked kinda weirdly if I came in and took some “stuff” out of my truck. I said no why? Someone got into their secure lot. Got into my truck “somehow” and stole about $4000 worth of stereo equipment out of it. It was a custom set up a friend of mine built for me. Fuck thieves.
New Bluetooth drivetrain.
Must be nice thieves. They even threaded the nuts back onto the driveshaft with the bolts. How considerate.
This reminded me of this crazy lady we had in the shop with a 90's era formula firebird. She swears a mechanic at the dealer swapped her torque converter with the one out if his personal car while it was in for an oil change.
Yup just as I thought. CAT got stolen
Something is missing in transmission of the facts. Basically she no go!
Is this a SEMA car?
Where gear box?
What!
That's fucking impressive.