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Old 14-05-2024, 06:11 PM   #1
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Missed opportunity to chase around work colleagues with said find

Its interesting what you find in customers cars, some people have no shame with how they present their cars to workshops.
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So they charged $65 to remove said dildo, then didnt do anything else.?
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So they charged $65 to remove said dildo, then didnt do anything else.?
They didn't even touch said dildo - they just saw it, refused to touch it and then charged $65 for their findings

I would have grabbed it, put it in the cup holders, and then very professionally shown customer saying I found it jammed up under the seat rails, preventing the seat mechanism from working.

Well after chasing work colleagues around the workshop with it and taking photos of it for Instagram.
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That’s the diagnostic fee, they allegedly didn’t touch the causative element.

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…I would have grabbed it, put it in the cup holders, and then very professionally shown customer saying I found it jammed up under the seat rails, preventing the seat mechanism from working.
One of the potential alternative deployments of a Chiko Handy Holder, no?
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As much as I want this to be true - note the mileage.

Us drivers of bigger cars get all sorts of inadequacy innuendo sent our way, but yeah, small car drivers...
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Where is this mechanic, I want to use them, $65 an hour in 2019. Here in Canberra average price is $160 an hour.
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€65 plus 13,5% VAT.

Although your $160 sounds generous to the workshop.
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'what's the problem?'
'my car has a dong'
'don't you mean a ding?'
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So they charged $65 to remove said dildo, then didnt do anything else.?
I would have done the same. I mean, if someone left such a thing in a vehicle, then expected someone else to remove it because of their own stupidity, then I think charging for such a thing would be justifiable. Nuisance charge is what its called.

Yeah, I'm no fun at all, but how disgusting.
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I would have done the same. I mean, if someone left such a thing in a vehicle, then expected someone else to remove it because of their own stupidity, then I think charging for such a thing would be justifiable. Nuisance charge is what its called.

Yeah, I'm no fun at all, but how disgusting.
Its a bit gross, I wouldn't expect any of my crew to touch that stuff, I'm up for having a laugh with it but I wouldn't make or expect anyone else touch it. Justified on the charge I reckon and handing the car back, I reckon customer would be mortified

Before cars go into workshop, its awfully nice if we're not digging through your car full of personal artifacts to fix things or find stuff, particularly boot is a good one.

I've seen some weird and wonderful stuff in customers cars, probably most notable thing was a rifle - which I imagine is a big no-no for people with firearms licences.

We had an incident with female underwear, that one of the guys ended up putting on his head in the middle of the workshop

They called a meeting and management cracked the shits over it big time because customers could see into the workshop and we've got one of the lads with customers underwear over his face.

By the end of it, got to the point where we couldn't even have Zoo magazines in our lunch room (who remembers those?).

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Where is this mechanic, I want to use them, $65 an hour in 2019. Here in Canberra average price is $160 an hour.
The guy doing the work is probably on $30/hour, the rest is covering overheads, rent is a killer on workshops - $160/hour is pretty fair I reckon, with commercial leases you're also responsible for all the landlords outgoings too like rates and all sorts of stuff.

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