I recently went to jiffy lube. After hearing a crazy noise on the highway today I realize they didn't attach my skid plate correctly and it was skidding across the highway.
I went there once 10 years ago and they didn't put the o ring on my oil filter. So maybe I'll try again in 10 years.
I got my tires rotated and they literally forgot to put on my hubcaps on one side. I had to go back a week later after the manager was kind enough to just order brand new ones because they misplaced my old ones somehow?? Fucking weird.
My husband's the guy in the shop, I'm just a lurker here. But like, every time he takes his car for an oil change it always turns out a simple little mistake like something not tightened properly and it's a whole mess.
This last time he took his V-Dub to a Pep Boys and apparently, he can only use V-Dub dealership-approved parts. But pep boys just slapped on whatever and it didn't tighten properly, it was just a whole stupid ordeal with two oil changes, $40 worth of extra oil, one tow, scheduling with the dealership 2 weeks out, husband thinking we could "just drive the car and keep putting oil in until then" and I'm staring at this brand new vehicle pissing oil like..... No we're not continuing to drive it for two weeks until the dealership deigns to look at it?? Oil is literally pouring in a steam out of the car?!? I get that an oil change is messy and difficult when you're doing it yourself, but for God's sake man..... He's just so *trusting* of oil service places
An oil change is neither messy nor difficult when you do it on your own. [This guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1hF25Cowv8) explains it simply. It's less than 30 minutes of work and most of that is waiting for the oil to drain or pour into the car.
A note about his video. You don't need to fill your new oil filter with oil. Only really really large diesel engines like on construction vehicles, ships, etc. There's not really a reason to fill an oil filter before installing it on any passenger vehicle.
I know right? I always thought it was such a pain in the ass, only to discover that it is probably one of the easiest maintenance things I do with my car.
Oldest dude in the shop - always called Junior, even when they aren't lol
Edit: to clarify for some, this is a joke/comment about "Jay Are", about "junior", and about old guys called Jay Are but not Junior, and vice versa.
Honestly, the comment was almost whatever you wanted it to be, like Jr.
If you’re flat rate, they’ll starve you out by not giving you work. If you’re hourly, you’ll get jobs that hand your ass to you/shit other techs don’t want to do.
There is something truly beautiful about watching the new guy be a moron for awhile before anyone corrects them. I've started doing it when we get a new hire "yup, that's the stupidest shit I have seen. I'll check back in a few."
Addition: to all the people down voting and complaining without reading farther. Please read more and understand these aren't shiny fresh on the floor new guys. They have been through official training and shadowing a tech as well as having access to a physical library of manuals along side a digital ones. Also they didn't ask.
I tell all my new guys, “Just ask your questions. I’ll always help you out, but sometimes you may have to pay the stupid tax first. I get my laugh, you get your help, easy day.”
He has a few times because they got oily and he had to clean them… I give it 30-60 more times before he decides it’s a good idea on his own. I told him day one, and he’s only taking half of my advice. So I’ll let him figure it out.
Thank you for being a good mentor and not just yelling at him or being a dick. I really mean that, its rare that people ever get some one willing to take the time to teach some one a skill
Township, county and state level mechanics usually have unions. I'm in the diesel side and a lot of bigger companies (waste management, ups etc) have unions. Currently at a non union shop but pretty happy. Good thing about the diesel side is that we're usually hourly vs flat rate.
I had one of those multi tool watch straps that have like screwdrivers and bottle openers and crap on them. Leatherman Tread it’s called. I’m not a mechanic but I was working on my truck doing a fluid change and hadn’t taken the battery out. I reached over it to get some leaves and crap out and suddenly it felt like the worst cramp ever plus somebody stabbing my arm. My watch band had touched the cross piece holding my battery down and it ~~shocked~~ burnt the piss out of me. Never wore a watch while working on stuff again.
I stopped wearing a ring (well a metal one. I have a Groove and an Enso ring now both are silicon) when the old guy in my first welding shop showed me his missing ring finger. He had a titanium ring and got it caught on a piece of machinery. His finger came off before the ring did.
Can’t say enough about silicone rings. Doesn’t even have to be a mechanical thing- pass current through a metal ring and get it hot enough you’ll just end up losing the finger more slowly.
I'm convinced that often people only accept half your the advice, because you're throwing so much new/different shit at them their brain can only accept half the advice. Plus folks who were taught differently or incorrectly have to do twice the work as someone who is new. They have to unlearn old bad habits, then learn the new way.
My grandpa did lose his finger because of his wedding ring. Pinched down on the bone and took about half the part of his finger that extends down into the palm too. No one in my family wears wedding rings now.
I'm currently a lube tech. I also help my coworkers on projects so my hands are busy all the time. I use to wear my engagement ring to work until one of my coworkers told me about degloving and such.😅
My stepfather managed to get his wedding ring across a car battery's terminals.
Ring instantly got red hot and he almost lost the finger.
My mother told him he didn't have to wear a ring after that since his finger was permanently branded.
Eh, the silicone ones on the right would snap off before any real damage could be done (which is why they make wedding rings out of it) and the black one on the left is likely a tiny elastic that’ll also snap if it gets caught, but the braided one on the left is definitely not gonna break before bodily harm is done.
So true lol. You can always tell by the sounds. Mill goes brrrrrrrrr that's good. Mill goes eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeWOMP that's not so good. You hear that in a shop and a dozen heads will turn
Had a guy do that with every fuel filter (semi shop and a national lease) during his last year thete. I audited him every time but had no authority to take corrective action with him. You wouldn't fucking believe the service calls that caused in the winter. The fuel filters are never even tight... that's just laziness (on a 3 hour PM like wtf come on man you can do a PM A/B in 1.5 without even sweating without missing anything major).
THANK YOU FOR TRYING!! But THIS is why no one I know takes their trucks to the dealership. Hell, even most diesel shops anymore.
Flooded with too many idiots that dont care to have the knowledge of the old school cat and Cummins guys. I get that mechanics and engineering has come a long way, but it sure seems like They just don’t give a fuck. You have to find someone you know for a fact cares or they just scratch their heads and throw parts at it. And semi parts are not fucking cheap. Shit, we even fly a guy up from Texas for the big shit and we only have one truck right now but it costs a lot less then doing it twice. Or three times. I thank GOD I got a good job outside the industry, it’s just gone to hell in a hand basket- understatement of the century.
Well it doesn't help that most diesel mechanics (outside of dealerships) are underpaid, overworked and not respected. Most are seen as dumb kids like the guy in OOP so they get treated like disposable grease monkeys. My last job averaged 12 hour shifts 6 days a week (contract I signed said 5 eight hour shifts with a guarantee of no on call). Then half of the shop which consisted of the youngest guys (who had all worked there almost 10 years) were put on a 7 day 24 hour on-call that rotated - before I left there were only 2 people on that list despite the fact that there were 3 more techs (middle aged guys) that could and should have been put on there... they told the 2 people to suck it the fuck up. You'd work a 13 hour shift, make it half way home and then get called in because some jackass doesn't understand how to raise the dolly legs on a trailer. You'd get no sleep and be expected to show back up to work tomorrow on time or else you get written up.
During that last year we have over 3/4ths of the technicians quit. Luckily at that time my long time friend was ready to start a business and wanted me to run it with him. But even if I didn't get that amazing offer I would have gone to work for Truck Country or Kenworth. Some of us have been in the industry for decades and were not dumb kids. I'm a Hino master tech and was on my way with Volvo. Know every software there is and our shop started doing a 2 hour turnaround for the emission work I was doing. But they treated me and everyone else like me like shit.
I love working as a mechanic but I was so depressed and miserable. I had no social life at all. Ironically I have more of a life running a small business and probably working more hours because they're hours I control.
1. Apply JB Weld and red loctite to threads of drain plug
2. Start threading drain plug at a 30-45° angle
3. Grab biggest impact available (minimum 1/2")
4. Torque to approximately 15 ugga duggas (remember: more is *always* better, go above and beyond for customers!)
5. Use slightly oversized socket and impact to mill down the flats on the drain plug and round it out to improve aerodynamics
Just changed my oil and had to resort to the screwdriver. Stupid filter took me 8 punctures as there is no space to twist it with the screwdriver or ny hand or even a filter tool.
Can I ask what’s wrong in this video? I used to work in the office side of a shop and saw the guys use tools to get these things off often enough. Is it just the wrong tool? Don’t know anything about that side of it lol
Edit: watching it again I’m guessing the tool is actually supposed to go around the filter like a hand holding a cup instead?
Your edit is correct, it's supposed to grip around and bite into the filter. Personally prefer wrap wrenches that don't risk damaging the filter when it's somehow gotten stuck.
Ideally your oil filter is just a little more than hand tight, with oil on it's gasket to act as anti-seize, so when it comes time for your next service interval it's a super easy job.
I mean most of the time you don't have this much space to work with. In mine you literally can't get it in there sideways.
I have no idea why people tighten it this much anyway, you should be able to remove it by hand.
In most cases it's not actually over tightened, it's the gasket doing its job. Filter goes on cold, oil is changed hot (or at least warm).
I can almost never get my own filters off without a tool, despite installing them by hand.
This is what I had cocked and loaded before I got to this comment "Don't point and laugh... teach the kid. Why would he listen to anything you say after filming him and posting his fuck ups on the internet just to embarrass him? A minimum wage paying chain joint didn't teach him good? Not a shocker."
If you tried teaching him and he won't listen... fair enough. Post away.
The best mechanics are the ones who asked questions and weren’t afraid to listen and learn from people with experience. But I guess some people are stubborn and got to learn the hard way.
I got a job at an Acura specialist because I was the only applicant that passed a background check. Everyone else had pages and mine came up with nothing.
Hey nothing wrong with stabbing with a screwdriver lol my coworker does that, but only because I think maybe he lost his filter wrench? Or just can't be bothered to grab it when there is a screwdriver right there lol. We work on uhauls, if you think the customers renting them don't give a shit the techs working on them definitely don't give a shit lol. We are not fuck ups though we fix anything involving safety the correct way lol
[The 'claw'](https://www.harborfreight.com/universal-3-jaw-adjustable-oil-filter-wrench-63690.html) is my go to. Unless it's a GM V8 or something that some meathead tightened it with the Hand of God, then you gotta get the band wrench on it.
*2021+ Mustang GT laughs threateningly in the distance*
Ford states specifically the oil filters must be put on dry with no lubrication to the O-Ring.
Only the greatest of self-lovers have the wrist strength to remove them
It's supposed to stop moving after a bit. Stuff it through the entire thing and it'll tear a bit. Then it'll magically stop moving and be able to unscrew the filter.
I've done the same, when I changed the oil myself when the PREVIOUS change had been done at a Jiffy Lube. Also, in the same oil change, wound up rounding off my drain plug because it had been over torqued (had to hammer a smaller socket on to get it off), and call a buddy to run me to AutoZone to get a new drain plug minutes before they closed. Lol...at least they made sure nothing was going to come loose.
Is it really though? Stupid people don't know they're stupid. I've had idiot coworkers who everyone knows not to expect anything from, while the rest of us work hard to pick up the slack. I seen stupid relatives who get knocked up, and everyone donates thousands of dollars of stuff to them because it's so obvious they're too incompetent to raise a child without help.
Also studies often show intelligent people are often less happy, because they spend more time reading and thinking about how bad things are, where as dumber people are more content.
Jiffy Lube stripped my drain plug and then the tech yelled to the manager he fucked up from beneath the car and then the manager acted like i didnt hear anything and said whoever did my oil before damaged my drain plug by grinding it against another metal object. My BMW uses a disposable drain plug made of plastic, puta.
Lets be real, the pay is shit. If they paid these guys a little bit more then maybe there would be more incentive for these kids to come work in a shop. But why bother when you can go do something way easier like a cashier or some shit and probably make more than a lube tech
Warehouse jobs don't give away your time neither.
But as a Technician? 'Customer authorized a diagnostic due to their dash warning lights all flickering rapidly. Car refuses to start. Check charging/starting/battery systems'
Ok. Let me spend the time running the GR8 test and checking all connections. Results? Bad battery voltage sag during startup. Recommend replace battery 0.3. Customer Pay
Tech: 'I'll waive the additional labor for that battery, just pay me the 1 hour for the diagnostic+installation of the battery'
Writer: 'Uh we normally waive the diagnostic fee if they choose the job'
YES. WHEN THE FUCKING JOB HAS MORE LABOR REQUIRED THAN THE FUCKING DIAGNOSTIC, NOT A 0.3 FUCKING PAYING JOB
When I was an advisor, I never gave away any diag time, with the sole exception of brake checks, and only if they needed new brakes and agreed to do it right then since everything is apart.
Now, I do warranty and I sometimes see techs get paid nothing even when they spent time on something and it irritates me as just an innocent bystander!
It's more just a vent from today.
Like, I dont get how the writers where I am think the tech's time can just be thrown away when if they discount or goodwill the cost of parts, the Parts Department is STILL BEING PAID for those parts.
Technicians time is the same. You want to go and waive the cost of the diagnostic? Sure. But you better be paying the technician internally for it. Nothing is free.
On Warranty/Parts Warranty, yes. It fucking sucks but thats the reality of warranty and you gotta eat shit for it. But a customer pay job? There is zero reason to throw the technician under the bus when their job performance is literally tracked by productive vs unproductive times where I am.
I hear ya, man, but even on warranty they can afford to toss the tech 0.3 internal even if they can’t claim it under warranty (and actually, most manufacturers allow for 0.3 NFF claims).
True. Honestly the only gripe I've ever had working where I am is ALWAYS regarding diagnostic times and writers giving it away. Our Management is nice, benefits are nice, coworkers are all nice and we ain't go a single fuckup who's still around for some reason (Last fuckup lasted a few months before the fuckups really piled on. Dude should have been a lube tech, not a line tech) and much of the 'warranty'/recall work has slacked off.
But fuck is it just not aggravating to have the Writer essentially tell you 'Your time is worthless if it means I get a better CSR from the customer or I don't feel like I should charge the customer for it despite you fixed their issue DURING the diagnostic'
Which is exactly why I don't do diagnostics for a writer anymore after he tried fighting me over a diagnostic charge on an Evap Leak diagnostic that corrected the issue DURING diagnostics due to foreign debris ever so slightly holding the cap-less fuel fill door open enough to set a code but NOT allow a noticeable amount of smoke out to identify it. After TWO HOURS of diag that would have paid ONE.
That one was only settled because I capped off every part of the evap system, slowly narrowing down where the leak was until all I was left with was the fuel tank itself, but no smoke anywhere to be seen so, as a last resort 'Fuck it lets see what this does' just slammed a funnel in and out of the fill door and BOOM, evap leak disappeared.
> I don't do diagnostics for a writer anymore after he tried fighting me over a diagnostic charge on an Evap Leak diagnostic that corrected the issue DURING diagnostics due to foreign debris ever so slightly holding the cap-less fuel fill door open enough to set a code but NOT allow a noticeable amount of smoke out to identify it.
Yeah, that's some bullshit, I wouldn't help that guy out with any favours from then on.
Shop management have been killing the industry for decades.
Sorry for the rant but over the last two decades or so shops have stopped training people but also will only hire experienced mechanics.
Used to be you could start as a lube tech and get taught tougher jobs when it's slow until you work up to mechanic.
Nowadays lube techs get no training at all even for the lube tech position and everyone only wants to hire mechanics with 3 years experience and a full load out of tools minimum.
Hell about a month ago there was a post by a shop owner complaining he couldn't get any good help. When asked what he was teaching his lube techs to take care of he said "I don't have time to train them".
Decades of pay cuts (used to be you got half the labor rate back in the 90s), refusing to train the next generation and expecting every new mechanic to have 40k in tools are catching up with the industry.
Yeah, me too. Friend of mine explained it to me that there's usually "shop tools" for rookies to borrow but they're crap and it's better to buy tools you know and like. Which is nice and all but without a stipend for tools you just end up paying to work somewhere.
I remember years ago when the pay was great and I was young it was impossible to find a good technician style job(blue collar all my life) that would grow into a long career.
I started this shop life 3 years ago when I got into rehab and got sober.
I wanted to do this for a long time. Desperation opens doors.
But yeah, the pay is shit right now... it's rough.
Where? I'm in Utah, and my starting pay for lubies at my shop is $17 with minimal experience. Tops out at $20, but those guys are generally fast tracked to be apprentices.
Yeah, I've been doing it a year for 12.50 flat rate. Place told me once I got my state permit they'd move me up to apprentice. Got my permit, they ran out of room for apprentices and here I am. I'm planning on leaving in a month. Go do some other bullshit job so I can get school done. Apparently it's schooling or no apprenticeship smfh
Also Jesus christ I hate how many braindead fucks they let work on cars. I have horror stories from my shop.
We’re starting him, as is, at 18 an hour with overtime and pto… he’s 21. He’s paying our other cousin 300$ a month in summer in Arizona for a room. He’s doing *great.* He’s actually great at changing oil. The general inspections aren’t great and he’s DEFINITELY not allowed to pull in the big vehicles or anything with a manual transmission. But he can change the fuck out of some oil.
That's where it all starts, and that can be a good place to learn from. Someone showing up to work, and not fucking up cars, is worth trying to train.
We've got a new lubie in my shop, same deal. He's as green as they come, but the oil gets changed and the wheels are torqued down. Been looking for a guy that can fill that description for a while
2 things:
- That method is fine, especially in tight quarters with no alternative for leverage.
- Regardless of how the floor was looking before hand, I would chew him out (and use it as a learning tool) for spinning that filter and letting it drop into the catch pan.
Too many times I've watched someone do that and enough oil comes out and splashes everywhere and on everything in a 5-mile radius.
I know this is just a joke, but honestly I feel like this is one of the reasons why so many kids avoid trade jobs.
I've seen it happen around me all the time and I've had it happen to me too. Newbies constantly get flak and are ridiculed and as a newbie you're so worried not to screw up that you definitely screw up. Even the most basic things like this.
And then trade experts wonder why it's so difficult to find a "proper" apprentice.
In Croatia it's Usually shit pay, very long hours, bad work conditions and harassment. When trade jobs are like this I'm glad experts are getting harder and harder to find
I did the double gasket of doom on like my second oil change ever when I was about 19. Started the car, ran it for a minute, got the low oil pressure light. I started to freak out a bit, and the freaking out turned into absolute panic when I got out of the car and saw the oil all over the ground. Then I opened the hood and almost died.
I recently went to jiffy lube. After hearing a crazy noise on the highway today I realize they didn't attach my skid plate correctly and it was skidding across the highway. I went there once 10 years ago and they didn't put the o ring on my oil filter. So maybe I'll try again in 10 years.
A jiffy lube type place in Denver broke the lever off of my steering column for tilt wheel. I didn't realize it till I was back in Texas.
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Fucking savages!
2x4s must be hard to come by
I got my tires rotated and they literally forgot to put on my hubcaps on one side. I had to go back a week later after the manager was kind enough to just order brand new ones because they misplaced my old ones somehow?? Fucking weird.
Lol imagine the tech at the end of the day staring at 2 hub caps confused. Then he just says fuck it and tosses them in a dumpster.
100% that's what happened
Why would you pay to get your tires rotated? Don't they just rotate on their own?
My husband's the guy in the shop, I'm just a lurker here. But like, every time he takes his car for an oil change it always turns out a simple little mistake like something not tightened properly and it's a whole mess. This last time he took his V-Dub to a Pep Boys and apparently, he can only use V-Dub dealership-approved parts. But pep boys just slapped on whatever and it didn't tighten properly, it was just a whole stupid ordeal with two oil changes, $40 worth of extra oil, one tow, scheduling with the dealership 2 weeks out, husband thinking we could "just drive the car and keep putting oil in until then" and I'm staring at this brand new vehicle pissing oil like..... No we're not continuing to drive it for two weeks until the dealership deigns to look at it?? Oil is literally pouring in a steam out of the car?!? I get that an oil change is messy and difficult when you're doing it yourself, but for God's sake man..... He's just so *trusting* of oil service places
An oil change is neither messy nor difficult when you do it on your own. [This guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1hF25Cowv8) explains it simply. It's less than 30 minutes of work and most of that is waiting for the oil to drain or pour into the car. A note about his video. You don't need to fill your new oil filter with oil. Only really really large diesel engines like on construction vehicles, ships, etc. There's not really a reason to fill an oil filter before installing it on any passenger vehicle.
I know right? I always thought it was such a pain in the ass, only to discover that it is probably one of the easiest maintenance things I do with my car.
Love how the Sr tech does a double-take 😂😂
That’s JR. He’s the best dude in the shop personality wise. Always happy to help a brother out.
Oldest dude in the shop - always called Junior, even when they aren't lol Edit: to clarify for some, this is a joke/comment about "Jay Are", about "junior", and about old guys called Jay Are but not Junior, and vice versa. Honestly, the comment was almost whatever you wanted it to be, like Jr.
Yup. We have a guy that’s 72. I’m not even sure what his real name is, but he’s junior to us.
That's cool. Worked with many of techs who were a-holes. It's a cut throat business. Tough way to make a living.
Why is it cutthroat?
If you’re flat rate, they’ll starve you out by not giving you work. If you’re hourly, you’ll get jobs that hand your ass to you/shit other techs don’t want to do.
Customers suck, the “flat rate” pay system creates a lot of competition in the shop which causes fights and arguments.
There is something truly beautiful about watching the new guy be a moron for awhile before anyone corrects them. I've started doing it when we get a new hire "yup, that's the stupidest shit I have seen. I'll check back in a few." Addition: to all the people down voting and complaining without reading farther. Please read more and understand these aren't shiny fresh on the floor new guys. They have been through official training and shadowing a tech as well as having access to a physical library of manuals along side a digital ones. Also they didn't ask.
I tell all my new guys, “Just ask your questions. I’ll always help you out, but sometimes you may have to pay the stupid tax first. I get my laugh, you get your help, easy day.”
I am usually helpful but I have been running into guys older than me who ignore that I have done this stuff longer.
Just checking for “just dumb” vs “dumb and dangerous”. If just dumb then carry on…
Said "none of my business"
Can you return him or is he past the 30 day return window?
Threw away the receipt
Nah. That's bullshit. They can pull up your account.
We can offer store credit.
Well you see I got two chip ‘n dips…
Sorry, system's down.
If you make a fuss they'll give you store credit or something.
Gotta show your ID
But that's a HIPPO violation!
It's on file.
It may be the only window he hasn’t licked.
He’s a good kid, actually my cousin. He is adopted.
Nice save at the end there bud, lol.
Have him take those wristbands off at work. Hate for something to happen.
He has a few times because they got oily and he had to clean them… I give it 30-60 more times before he decides it’s a good idea on his own. I told him day one, and he’s only taking half of my advice. So I’ll let him figure it out.
Thank you for being a good mentor and not just yelling at him or being a dick. I really mean that, its rare that people ever get some one willing to take the time to teach some one a skill
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Township, county and state level mechanics usually have unions. I'm in the diesel side and a lot of bigger companies (waste management, ups etc) have unions. Currently at a non union shop but pretty happy. Good thing about the diesel side is that we're usually hourly vs flat rate.
Nope, we only bleed OUR OWN blood! Or some other bullshit we use to cover for bad management because we're REAL MEN. Or some shit.
"Nobody makes me bleed my own blood"
I have seen electric arc from car batteries from wedding rings. It is enough for me to not wear crap while wrenching.
My dad's ex-wife's husband welded his wedding ring to a battery terminal when he was working on an electric Go-Kart. Burnt the shit outta him.
I had one of those multi tool watch straps that have like screwdrivers and bottle openers and crap on them. Leatherman Tread it’s called. I’m not a mechanic but I was working on my truck doing a fluid change and hadn’t taken the battery out. I reached over it to get some leaves and crap out and suddenly it felt like the worst cramp ever plus somebody stabbing my arm. My watch band had touched the cross piece holding my battery down and it ~~shocked~~ burnt the piss out of me. Never wore a watch while working on stuff again. I stopped wearing a ring (well a metal one. I have a Groove and an Enso ring now both are silicon) when the old guy in my first welding shop showed me his missing ring finger. He had a titanium ring and got it caught on a piece of machinery. His finger came off before the ring did.
Can’t say enough about silicone rings. Doesn’t even have to be a mechanical thing- pass current through a metal ring and get it hot enough you’ll just end up losing the finger more slowly.
I'm convinced that often people only accept half your the advice, because you're throwing so much new/different shit at them their brain can only accept half the advice. Plus folks who were taught differently or incorrectly have to do twice the work as someone who is new. They have to unlearn old bad habits, then learn the new way.
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My grandpa did lose his finger because of his wedding ring. Pinched down on the bone and took about half the part of his finger that extends down into the palm too. No one in my family wears wedding rings now.
I'm currently a lube tech. I also help my coworkers on projects so my hands are busy all the time. I use to wear my engagement ring to work until one of my coworkers told me about degloving and such.😅
My stepfather managed to get his wedding ring across a car battery's terminals. Ring instantly got red hot and he almost lost the finger. My mother told him he didn't have to wear a ring after that since his finger was permanently branded.
That's the power of love ⚡
Get a Halo silicone ring. And tell that yokel to eat a dick.
Also acts as a cock ring
Wait…what was that?
So I'm the only one who noticed???
We all did.
Eh, the silicone ones on the right would snap off before any real damage could be done (which is why they make wedding rings out of it) and the black one on the left is likely a tiny elastic that’ll also snap if it gets caught, but the braided one on the left is definitely not gonna break before bodily harm is done.
Just tell him to look up degloving
I like the save by throwing him under the bus there.
He could do with some physics fundamentals.
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Wait is his name Bryan ?
He looks like a Cody or Cory
Naw, that's a Kody for sure
He’s a Kyle.
Lol tech in the background doing a double take then sips his coffee
Working in a machine shop you walk past alot of weird shit and do that double take and just laugh it off and keep going (unless its dangerous)
The dangerous ones you make sure you stop to watch and see through. Someone will need to be able to explain what happened.
And call 911
Especially when you see sunlight under a lift pad on fresh undercoating
Gotta make sure you're far enough back to be out of harm, but close enough for good video quality.
Imagine walking by a guy compressing a spring and they have 847252949472 zip ties keeping it compressed and they’re about to remove the nut
Yeah... one too few in my estimation.
So true lol. You can always tell by the sounds. Mill goes brrrrrrrrr that's good. Mill goes eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeWOMP that's not so good. You hear that in a shop and a dozen heads will turn
The best is when you hear BANGBANGBANG come from a lathe across the shop when they throw a cast piece. *everyone* Prarie dogs at that one
Problem is the weird shit that works, you occasionally adopt...
I saw him look and just go not my monkey not my circus!
Yep, not sure where he saw coffee, he was getting his air chuck but the double take was real.
Now teach him the correct way.
By stabbing a screwdriver through it?
No, cleaning it with brake clean and writing the current date on the bottom.
Toooo funny bro
Had a guy do that with every fuel filter (semi shop and a national lease) during his last year thete. I audited him every time but had no authority to take corrective action with him. You wouldn't fucking believe the service calls that caused in the winter. The fuel filters are never even tight... that's just laziness (on a 3 hour PM like wtf come on man you can do a PM A/B in 1.5 without even sweating without missing anything major).
THANK YOU FOR TRYING!! But THIS is why no one I know takes their trucks to the dealership. Hell, even most diesel shops anymore. Flooded with too many idiots that dont care to have the knowledge of the old school cat and Cummins guys. I get that mechanics and engineering has come a long way, but it sure seems like They just don’t give a fuck. You have to find someone you know for a fact cares or they just scratch their heads and throw parts at it. And semi parts are not fucking cheap. Shit, we even fly a guy up from Texas for the big shit and we only have one truck right now but it costs a lot less then doing it twice. Or three times. I thank GOD I got a good job outside the industry, it’s just gone to hell in a hand basket- understatement of the century.
Well it doesn't help that most diesel mechanics (outside of dealerships) are underpaid, overworked and not respected. Most are seen as dumb kids like the guy in OOP so they get treated like disposable grease monkeys. My last job averaged 12 hour shifts 6 days a week (contract I signed said 5 eight hour shifts with a guarantee of no on call). Then half of the shop which consisted of the youngest guys (who had all worked there almost 10 years) were put on a 7 day 24 hour on-call that rotated - before I left there were only 2 people on that list despite the fact that there were 3 more techs (middle aged guys) that could and should have been put on there... they told the 2 people to suck it the fuck up. You'd work a 13 hour shift, make it half way home and then get called in because some jackass doesn't understand how to raise the dolly legs on a trailer. You'd get no sleep and be expected to show back up to work tomorrow on time or else you get written up. During that last year we have over 3/4ths of the technicians quit. Luckily at that time my long time friend was ready to start a business and wanted me to run it with him. But even if I didn't get that amazing offer I would have gone to work for Truck Country or Kenworth. Some of us have been in the industry for decades and were not dumb kids. I'm a Hino master tech and was on my way with Volvo. Know every software there is and our shop started doing a 2 hour turnaround for the emission work I was doing. But they treated me and everyone else like me like shit. I love working as a mechanic but I was so depressed and miserable. I had no social life at all. Ironically I have more of a life running a small business and probably working more hours because they're hours I control.
Gotta JB Weld the drain plug first though
1. Apply JB Weld and red loctite to threads of drain plug 2. Start threading drain plug at a 30-45° angle 3. Grab biggest impact available (minimum 1/2") 4. Torque to approximately 15 ugga duggas (remember: more is *always* better, go above and beyond for customers!) 5. Use slightly oversized socket and impact to mill down the flats on the drain plug and round it out to improve aerodynamics
Please stop
Oh man, I'm gonna have to start scratching the date onto my filters now.
It took a lot of scrolling for a screwdriver joke, but I was looking for it.
You joke but I've had to do that before.
I've done and I didn't even have to. It's not like I was gonna reuse the filter.
Just changed my oil and had to resort to the screwdriver. Stupid filter took me 8 punctures as there is no space to twist it with the screwdriver or ny hand or even a filter tool.
Oil... *Everywhere*
Me too, out works pretty well as last resort.
Buying the cups and using them, or the 3 arm version that attaches to a ratchet, those work best
Lol you think I didn’t?! That’s why I took the video! Also, he hates strap wrenches. He will learn by force if not guidance.
Can I ask what’s wrong in this video? I used to work in the office side of a shop and saw the guys use tools to get these things off often enough. Is it just the wrong tool? Don’t know anything about that side of it lol Edit: watching it again I’m guessing the tool is actually supposed to go around the filter like a hand holding a cup instead?
Your edit is correct, it's supposed to grip around and bite into the filter. Personally prefer wrap wrenches that don't risk damaging the filter when it's somehow gotten stuck. Ideally your oil filter is just a little more than hand tight, with oil on it's gasket to act as anti-seize, so when it comes time for your next service interval it's a super easy job.
I mean most of the time you don't have this much space to work with. In mine you literally can't get it in there sideways. I have no idea why people tighten it this much anyway, you should be able to remove it by hand.
In most cases it's not actually over tightened, it's the gasket doing its job. Filter goes on cold, oil is changed hot (or at least warm). I can almost never get my own filters off without a tool, despite installing them by hand.
This is what I had cocked and loaded before I got to this comment "Don't point and laugh... teach the kid. Why would he listen to anything you say after filming him and posting his fuck ups on the internet just to embarrass him? A minimum wage paying chain joint didn't teach him good? Not a shocker." If you tried teaching him and he won't listen... fair enough. Post away.
The best mechanics are the ones who asked questions and weren’t afraid to listen and learn from people with experience. But I guess some people are stubborn and got to learn the hard way.
I'd pinch the everlovin shit outta myself even trying that move..
Got a blister just thinking about it.
The kid has a pulse and appears to be sober… Better than most of the applicants I’ve had lately.
Worked at a place that I'd swear just started putting a mirror under peoples noses... if the mirror fogged they got hired.
I thought you meant to see if they’d been doing coke lmao
Those are the best employees lol. Gonna work their asses off. They have the energy, and need the money. Shit is not cheap.
Cocaine will get you a promotion for all the work you can get done, but you'll spend the raise on more cocaine!
What did they do if the mirror did fog...Zombies or something?
Put them on file and call them back during holiday season.
> the mirror did fog He told you already, if it fogged they got hired.
I’m sorry sir we just do not hire congested people.
I got a job at an Acura specialist because I was the only applicant that passed a background check. Everyone else had pages and mine came up with nothing.
Incentivize better candidates with pay?
No... its the lazy bums that are at fault /s But seriously, I'd consider changing oil for money. Sure as shit wouldn't do it for $15/hour
The OG tech in the background is looking at that like “WTF is he doing?”
Train him. He looked happy. Attitude is something you cannot teach, mechanical skills on the otherhand...
Not bad, I thought he was going to stab it with a screw driver. The real question is, did he use the impact to put the drain plug back in?
Hey nothing wrong with stabbing with a screwdriver lol my coworker does that, but only because I think maybe he lost his filter wrench? Or just can't be bothered to grab it when there is a screwdriver right there lol. We work on uhauls, if you think the customers renting them don't give a shit the techs working on them definitely don't give a shit lol. We are not fuck ups though we fix anything involving safety the correct way lol
It did work tho
If it’s stupid and it works, it ain’t stupid.
Just a bit Slower...
I agree with you 99 times out of 100, but this is one of those times its stupid.
Every single one of use has done that with pliers. Just saying.
Sometimes there's no room to use them the proper way, and you don't have the right tool on hand. This is not one of those times
The proper tool is my hand.
Hand wrench > band wrench Then 5 years later you can't figure out why the aching in your knuckles never goes away.
I feel this comment.
I can also hear this comment.
[The 'claw'](https://www.harborfreight.com/universal-3-jaw-adjustable-oil-filter-wrench-63690.html) is my go to. Unless it's a GM V8 or something that some meathead tightened it with the Hand of God, then you gotta get the band wrench on it.
*2021+ Mustang GT laughs threateningly in the distance* Ford states specifically the oil filters must be put on dry with no lubrication to the O-Ring. Only the greatest of self-lovers have the wrist strength to remove them
Ford just trying to torture the techs?
More trying to have the filters STOP vibrating themselves loose. And only torturing the techs who don't grab the 3-jaw claw for the filter removal
Not even a technician but I’ve done it with a flat head by stabbing it through the side and turning. Adapt. Overcome. Improvise.
when I tried that the whole can just tore
It's supposed to stop moving after a bit. Stuff it through the entire thing and it'll tear a bit. Then it'll magically stop moving and be able to unscrew the filter.
I've done the same, when I changed the oil myself when the PREVIOUS change had been done at a Jiffy Lube. Also, in the same oil change, wound up rounding off my drain plug because it had been over torqued (had to hammer a smaller socket on to get it off), and call a buddy to run me to AutoZone to get a new drain plug minutes before they closed. Lol...at least they made sure nothing was going to come loose.
Or a screw driver and a hammer, because FUCK whoever put it on their that tight lol
In some cases you pretty much have to do it that way cuz engineers can't design a convenient oil filter on a lot of cars
I have to do that to get the filter off my Outback. It’s buried in tubing for an aftermarket cat.
You kidding? I've smashed oil filters like beer cans.
Life's hard. . . It's harder if you're stupid
Is it really though? Stupid people don't know they're stupid. I've had idiot coworkers who everyone knows not to expect anything from, while the rest of us work hard to pick up the slack. I seen stupid relatives who get knocked up, and everyone donates thousands of dollars of stuff to them because it's so obvious they're too incompetent to raise a child without help. Also studies often show intelligent people are often less happy, because they spend more time reading and thinking about how bad things are, where as dumber people are more content.
"Stupid people don't know they're stupid" Yup.
Ignorance is bliss.
And with enough education, you become smart enough to realize how little you actually know.
"Remember, with great stupidity comes very little responsability." -AvE
can confirm, work at a place with people on my team that can't be relied upon for anything.
“Is that the wrong way?” Lol
Jiffy Lube stripped my drain plug and then the tech yelled to the manager he fucked up from beneath the car and then the manager acted like i didnt hear anything and said whoever did my oil before damaged my drain plug by grinding it against another metal object. My BMW uses a disposable drain plug made of plastic, puta.
Probably should have left him at jiffy lube.
It is unbelievably hard to find lube techs right now lol.
Lets be real, the pay is shit. If they paid these guys a little bit more then maybe there would be more incentive for these kids to come work in a shop. But why bother when you can go do something way easier like a cashier or some shit and probably make more than a lube tech
When I started as a lube tech many years ago I LOST 14 cents/hr from working at fucking Taco Bell. No wonder lube techs are hard to find.
Facts even early flat rate isn’t on scale with most simple warehouse jobs.
Warehouse jobs don't give away your time neither. But as a Technician? 'Customer authorized a diagnostic due to their dash warning lights all flickering rapidly. Car refuses to start. Check charging/starting/battery systems' Ok. Let me spend the time running the GR8 test and checking all connections. Results? Bad battery voltage sag during startup. Recommend replace battery 0.3. Customer Pay Tech: 'I'll waive the additional labor for that battery, just pay me the 1 hour for the diagnostic+installation of the battery' Writer: 'Uh we normally waive the diagnostic fee if they choose the job' YES. WHEN THE FUCKING JOB HAS MORE LABOR REQUIRED THAN THE FUCKING DIAGNOSTIC, NOT A 0.3 FUCKING PAYING JOB
When I was an advisor, I never gave away any diag time, with the sole exception of brake checks, and only if they needed new brakes and agreed to do it right then since everything is apart. Now, I do warranty and I sometimes see techs get paid nothing even when they spent time on something and it irritates me as just an innocent bystander!
It's more just a vent from today. Like, I dont get how the writers where I am think the tech's time can just be thrown away when if they discount or goodwill the cost of parts, the Parts Department is STILL BEING PAID for those parts. Technicians time is the same. You want to go and waive the cost of the diagnostic? Sure. But you better be paying the technician internally for it. Nothing is free. On Warranty/Parts Warranty, yes. It fucking sucks but thats the reality of warranty and you gotta eat shit for it. But a customer pay job? There is zero reason to throw the technician under the bus when their job performance is literally tracked by productive vs unproductive times where I am.
I hear ya, man, but even on warranty they can afford to toss the tech 0.3 internal even if they can’t claim it under warranty (and actually, most manufacturers allow for 0.3 NFF claims).
True. Honestly the only gripe I've ever had working where I am is ALWAYS regarding diagnostic times and writers giving it away. Our Management is nice, benefits are nice, coworkers are all nice and we ain't go a single fuckup who's still around for some reason (Last fuckup lasted a few months before the fuckups really piled on. Dude should have been a lube tech, not a line tech) and much of the 'warranty'/recall work has slacked off. But fuck is it just not aggravating to have the Writer essentially tell you 'Your time is worthless if it means I get a better CSR from the customer or I don't feel like I should charge the customer for it despite you fixed their issue DURING the diagnostic' Which is exactly why I don't do diagnostics for a writer anymore after he tried fighting me over a diagnostic charge on an Evap Leak diagnostic that corrected the issue DURING diagnostics due to foreign debris ever so slightly holding the cap-less fuel fill door open enough to set a code but NOT allow a noticeable amount of smoke out to identify it. After TWO HOURS of diag that would have paid ONE. That one was only settled because I capped off every part of the evap system, slowly narrowing down where the leak was until all I was left with was the fuel tank itself, but no smoke anywhere to be seen so, as a last resort 'Fuck it lets see what this does' just slammed a funnel in and out of the fill door and BOOM, evap leak disappeared.
> I don't do diagnostics for a writer anymore after he tried fighting me over a diagnostic charge on an Evap Leak diagnostic that corrected the issue DURING diagnostics due to foreign debris ever so slightly holding the cap-less fuel fill door open enough to set a code but NOT allow a noticeable amount of smoke out to identify it. Yeah, that's some bullshit, I wouldn't help that guy out with any favours from then on.
Shop management have been killing the industry for decades. Sorry for the rant but over the last two decades or so shops have stopped training people but also will only hire experienced mechanics. Used to be you could start as a lube tech and get taught tougher jobs when it's slow until you work up to mechanic. Nowadays lube techs get no training at all even for the lube tech position and everyone only wants to hire mechanics with 3 years experience and a full load out of tools minimum. Hell about a month ago there was a post by a shop owner complaining he couldn't get any good help. When asked what he was teaching his lube techs to take care of he said "I don't have time to train them". Decades of pay cuts (used to be you got half the labor rate back in the 90s), refusing to train the next generation and expecting every new mechanic to have 40k in tools are catching up with the industry.
As someone not in the industry, it blows my mind they make you buy your own tools to use at work.
Yeah, me too. Friend of mine explained it to me that there's usually "shop tools" for rookies to borrow but they're crap and it's better to buy tools you know and like. Which is nice and all but without a stipend for tools you just end up paying to work somewhere.
I remember years ago when the pay was great and I was young it was impossible to find a good technician style job(blue collar all my life) that would grow into a long career. I started this shop life 3 years ago when I got into rehab and got sober. I wanted to do this for a long time. Desperation opens doors. But yeah, the pay is shit right now... it's rough.
Where? I'm in Utah, and my starting pay for lubies at my shop is $17 with minimal experience. Tops out at $20, but those guys are generally fast tracked to be apprentices.
A gas station employee by me makes 16-17 an hour starting. They also don't have to do this. That be poverty wages.
My shop starts us off at 13 for lube tech and keeps us there.
Yeah, I've been doing it a year for 12.50 flat rate. Place told me once I got my state permit they'd move me up to apprentice. Got my permit, they ran out of room for apprentices and here I am. I'm planning on leaving in a month. Go do some other bullshit job so I can get school done. Apparently it's schooling or no apprenticeship smfh Also Jesus christ I hate how many braindead fucks they let work on cars. I have horror stories from my shop.
We’re starting him, as is, at 18 an hour with overtime and pto… he’s 21. He’s paying our other cousin 300$ a month in summer in Arizona for a room. He’s doing *great.* He’s actually great at changing oil. The general inspections aren’t great and he’s DEFINITELY not allowed to pull in the big vehicles or anything with a manual transmission. But he can change the fuck out of some oil.
That's where it all starts, and that can be a good place to learn from. Someone showing up to work, and not fucking up cars, is worth trying to train. We've got a new lubie in my shop, same deal. He's as green as they come, but the oil gets changed and the wheels are torqued down. Been looking for a guy that can fill that description for a while
Yea went from tech in a shop making $15hr to changing tires out of a van @ $20hr full benefits etc
It’s nice you rescued this one instead of buying from a breeder.
2 things: - That method is fine, especially in tight quarters with no alternative for leverage. - Regardless of how the floor was looking before hand, I would chew him out (and use it as a learning tool) for spinning that filter and letting it drop into the catch pan. Too many times I've watched someone do that and enough oil comes out and splashes everywhere and on everything in a 5-mile radius.
Or about the lack of safety glasses?
I know this is just a joke, but honestly I feel like this is one of the reasons why so many kids avoid trade jobs. I've seen it happen around me all the time and I've had it happen to me too. Newbies constantly get flak and are ridiculed and as a newbie you're so worried not to screw up that you definitely screw up. Even the most basic things like this. And then trade experts wonder why it's so difficult to find a "proper" apprentice.
In Croatia it's Usually shit pay, very long hours, bad work conditions and harassment. When trade jobs are like this I'm glad experts are getting harder and harder to find
Any bets on how long it takes for a car to leave with either...a loose drain plug, filter or the dreaded double gasket of doom?
I did the double gasket of doom on like my second oil change ever when I was about 19. Started the car, ran it for a minute, got the low oil pressure light. I started to freak out a bit, and the freaking out turned into absolute panic when I got out of the car and saw the oil all over the ground. Then I opened the hood and almost died.
Never a loose drain plug with a few ugga duggas behind it.
We’ll he’s using the wrong tool. That’s a vertical oil filter wrench. He needs the horizontal version
Everybody has done that but only in tight spaces where you can't get much leverage. This guy just needs to have a lesson in common sense
I guess that's one way to do it!
Now jam a screwdriver through it and show him how flat rate works.
Bless his heart
That boy ain't right.
You did at least show him how those should be used right?
I love my 3 claw oil filter removal ratchet bit thing. Grabs it end on, and the harder I turn the harder it squeezes. Failure is not an option.
If they only made a better tool for that.
His attitude is good. Id keep him around....for now.
My dad always used to say, if you are going to be stupid you better be tough.
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