Funny Story

[blackrosenova40]

So today I had called Checker Auto to see if I could get a hold of a exhaust maifold gasket and a turbocharger gasket set. The guy on the phone said I needed to come in and pay for the parts so he can order them and had mentioned he had a 94 Eclipse Gsx as well. I asked him over the phone if he had the stock turbo and such he said yes. So I drove 20 minutes to the checker I see a black eclipse with no spoiler and it looked pretty rough. So I went in to pay for the parts and asked if I could see under the hood and he said sure. So we went outside and he popped open his hood and to my disbelief there was no freaking turbo. I dont know what other engines Eclipses come with but this was a Sohc engine. At this point this guy was bragging about his cold air intake that he put on his car. Which was actually duct taped!. I couldnt help but laughing and said to the guy, dude this car aint turbocharged. He said nuh uh, I said ya huh!. I pointed out to him where it should be. He said he wanted to see my engine and I showed it to him and pointed to my turbocharger. He started cussing about these guys that he bought the car from a year ago and wanted to get these guys back and was wondering why his car is so slow!!!!!!!


Just thought id share this story, I find it humorous mainly because this guy works at an auto store.

 

[yekrahs]

Just goes to show you sometimes your better off buying stuff from reputable people

 

[SkyLineGtR-R34]

You probably saw the SOHC 4G64 engine in that guy's car.

 

[blackrosenova40]

yeah thats probably what it was , I dont know much about the other engines other than the 4g63

 

[1993eclipseGS]

That's not funny, It's sad actually.

 

[1gcrazy]

How can somebody be so unintouch with their car? The other day my girlfriend asked me if her car was front wheel drive. I shook my head and answered...

 

[turbo98eclipse]

how old was the guy?

 

[nuclearpenguin]

How can somebody be so unintouch with their car? The other day my girlfriend asked me if her car was front wheel drive. I shook my head and answered...

man ive wondered the same thing. my mom even got into an argument with me, assuring me that her chrysler sebring was rwd WTF theres some people i know who cant even recite yr/make/model/engine of their car.

thats pretty crazy about that guy though. i mean come on, something had to tip him off.

 

[1993eclipseGS]

Actually, After reading your post again, You mentioned he worked at an automotive shop... Wow, Even better.

 

[blackrosenova40]

Well hopefully he dont belong to this site, this post would make him feel bad.

He looked to be around his early 20's, he didnt work at an automotive shop, he works at a checker auto. (I dont know how big Checker Auto is, but its an auto parts store if you dont know).

Another quick story, my boss had sold cars for about 20 years, and a gentleman came in and bought a car from him, I forget what kinda car (keep in mind we are both from Minnesota).

So then the next time this gentleman came in he needed new tires all around his car and this gentleman had put chains on his rear tires for more traction in the snow. The sad thing was , HIS CAR WAS FRONT WHEEL DRIVE!!!!

 

[DSMark]

I'm speechless, just speechless......WTF

 

[raverboy]

What can I say, some people just do not have any mechanical concept or common sense what so ever when it comes to cars. Like when you hear about people driving their car 10,000 miles without an oil change, only to find out that they never even knew that it needed to be changed, yet alone knowing that the cars engine contained a liquid substance hahhahahah

 

[trd-2-dsm]

wow how come i can never be around to laugh at these people. darn

 

[phillabaum03]

He never noticed his car was not AWD like he was told? Probably wouldnt buy anything off that dude.

 

[Lenn]

yeah i know what u mean. I work for a Volvo dealer and am a service writer. This guy brought in his 1999 S80 T6 wich bearing in mind is a 2.9L twin turbo inline 6 cylinder. he said that the car is smoking and ticking really badly. we checked his oil and there was nothing on the dipstick. This dude hadnt had his oil changed since he bought it from us 20,000 miles ago!!!!. luckily everything was ok after the oil change but damn, come on people. WAKE UP!!!

 

[95TalonOwner]

WOW, after reading this thread, I cannot stop laughing!

Some people I just don't know about.

 

[2DaTrakNow]

haha well my story isnt too funny, but the guy that i bought my car off of took it into the dealer to get it serviced and all of the fluids changed...well they took the fluids out, and forgot to fill it up...4 hours later after driving it, his engine blew and went back to the dealer. So now the car i have has a motor with only about 6k on it hopefully nothing acts up though..kinda takin a chance!!!

 

[swade]

You probably saw the SOHC 4G64 engine in that guy's car.

if it was a 94, it was the 4g37...

takerEz
wade

 

[blackrosenova40]

He never noticed his car was not AWD like he was told? Probably wouldnt buy anything off that dude.

Actually I was thinking about keeping in touch with him and selling a few things to him myself.

"I do have this Geo Metro looking 3000gt car in my backyard"

 

[sadsm]

In the small town that I work there are a lot of 1G eclipse that are broke down, and just sitting there at the peoples houses. So I went up to several of the houses to talk to them if they wanted to sell them in the hopes of getting a cheap turbo maybe even an AWD. Every singl time I would ask them if the cars had turbos or not, they all told me yes. So when I would check the engine, of course none of them had turbos, and I mean none of them. When I would tell them that it is not, they would tell me that I did not know what I am talking about.

My question is did the dealership tell these people that they had turbos when they originally buy the cars, or do they think that every one is stupid and just not know what to look for in a turbocharged vehicle?

 

[majik2k5]

A local shop around here the redid my cousins turbo crx, also built a full show car 1969 Corvette. The paint job alone on this thing was probably around $10,000. It was completely unreal. Painted all the way down to the inside of the intake scoop for the blower.

The engine he built was all brand new, and priced at almost $23,000 when he was done. It was completely setup to be a drag/show car. The grand total this guy shelled out on this car was somewhere around $60,000. Not including what he paid for the car which was in decent shape to begin with.

The shop was ordered to do the essentials and not start it or prime anything. He was going to do that himself and he wanted the thrill of starting it for the first time.

The guy showed up at the shop, trailered the car, and took it home. Got it off the trailer, ran around and put the key in the ignition and started it and backed it off to the trailer into the street. about 45 seconds after he started it he decides to go around the block and made it close to 15 feet and 20MPH before his motor blew up because he forgot to put fluids in it.

 

[1meanGSX]

the one above is almost not funny, it makes me sick If I had that much money into the car and then had a brain fart and forgot to put fluid in my $23000 motor I think I'd shoot myself. But I have a funny one also. MY cousin use to work at a Jiffy Lube and told me how fast he could change oil and all. So he drained the oil, put the new oil filter on, then started his car and started revving it. Well he poured all the oil in but didnt stick the panplug in so it poured right threw his engine into the container he was using. Needless to say his engine made some nice noises at about 6000 grand and it dont run so hot now.

 

[JayRolla]

Thats funny, people can be so stupid. The other day at a gas station this guy pulls up in a dohc 1g and asks me if my car was dohc. I told him yes awd turbo dohc. He started fighting with me saying they dont make awd, and that his was a turbo also. I asked him why he thought his was turbo and said because of the hump on the hood. I couldnt stop laughing. I showed him my motor and gave him a spin. He was so amazed he said it felt like my car was floating. He was also mad because the guy he bought it from told him it was a Eclipse with the turbo hoood.

 

[WMD]

its one of them new fangled "turbo near the muffler" setups.

 

[paranoidTSi]

Unfortunately with all the technology natural selection isn't doing a very good job at getting rid of some of the retards in this world.